Announcement! & Animal Jam Plants In Real Life!

 Hey jammers! Popcorn here, and welcome back to a new post! 

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In this post: 

Shop Shoutout - Take a look at one of the shops in Jamaa!

Important TMR Announcement! - Stay tuned for this *very* important TMR announcement :)

Animal Jam Plants In Real Life - Journey with me through some of the Jamaa lands to find some plants in-game that are actually in real life!
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Let's get right into the post!

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To start off this Thursday's post, here's...

This week:

The Wild Explorers Tent!

Basic Info

Description: The Wild Explorers Tent is a tent-like building in Coral Canyons where you can ask Cami questions and print science experiments

Location: The highest "canyon" in Coral Canyons; to the right of the stone bridge

First Released: June 2016

Fun Facts: 

• There's a caged phantom that sits in the corner of the tent
• On one of the pintables, there's a recipe for making your own ice cream!
• When the tent was first introduced, it did not have a sign on the entrance

Images: 

Onto the big announcement...

Alright jammers. I've got some very exciting news...

TMR will continue! 

Why, you may ask? Why the sudden change of mind? 

Well, it's because Tkaranto has decided to help! Tkaranto, the author of The Animal Jam Bubble, has agreed to help keep TMR up and running!

Basically, instead of me doing an issue every month, me and Tkaranto will switch. I will be doing February's Issue and March's Issue will be written by Tkaranto! Huge thanks to them for working to keep TMR alive!

I am currently working on Feb.'s Issue, so you should expect it (for real) by the 27-28th!

Finally, last topic!

Have you ever wandered through Jamaa, admiring the nature and plants in Sarepia Forest and Coral Canyons and turning on some ambient nature music? 

WELL I HAVE, DON'T JUDGE. 

And I found out that Google Lens + some extra research actually make a great pair for a post! Here are some of my discoveries:

The first plant I wanted to try was this one. I thought the little tentacle-like leaves of the plant were fascinating :)

Apparently, this plant is either an agave (a-gaa-vay) plant or a close relative to it. It likes warm and dry environments, and is mostly found in hot regions of Mexico and the Southwestern United States! I'm honestly a big fan of this plant! 

The next plant I found while browsing Sarepia Forest. It was a little patch of leaves hidden behind a couple of trees. I highly suspected it was a fern from the way the leaves were shaped and the texture was on the outline of them. 

Sure enough, it was a fern (did not specify the type of fern, though :l) Ferns can live in a wide variety of environments, from remote elevations, to dry desert plains. This is a pretty neat plant, to be honest! 

The next plant was one I found in the Lost Temple of Zios! It looked like a patch of long, tall grass and I was curious what it would come up as. 

Well, according to Google Lens, it's a type of Wheatgrass! Surprisingly, it's not only just some wild grass. There are organic Wheatgrass powders, too, which are packed with nutrients and vitamins! Whadaya know? A plant that can be wild and edible :P

The final plant I investigated in today was a little patch of yellow flowers (ignore the horrific amount of space between the pictures and text; layout probs) I had no clue what kind they were, so into Google they went! 

Whoa. Get ready for this one. According to Google, we are looking at Oenothera pilosella, an ornamental garden plant that is native to the United States and Canada! I'm not sure Google's one hundred percent correct; it could just be a random yellow flower that AJ just added for decoration xD But I think it's the closest real species :)

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Aaaaandd that will wrap up today's post!

Thanks for reading and happy jamming!

AJC vs. AJ - What's the Difference?

 Hey jammers! Popcorn here, and welcome to a new post! 

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In this post:

AJC vs. AJ - What's the Difference? - In today's post, I wanted to try to compare and contrast AJC and AJ(PW) Although it's also a game by WildWorks, it does look quite different. Let's go take a look!
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Animal Jam Classic 

Ah, the OG Animal Jam Classic. The game that started it all. Animal Jam Classic is a 2D-ish game made by WildWorks in 2010. It can be played on PC but because of a recent change, browser (via flash) is no longer available. The game originated in 2010, and then was released the beta stage which ended in September of 2010. The game is extremely successful, with more then 300 million registered accounts in the past 10 ½ years.

But, with all that being said, why is Animal Jam supposedly better?

What Animal Jam Classic offers that Animal Jam doesn't

Major Features 

- A huge part of what makes Animal Jam Classic great is the amount of lands. Animal Jam Classic has 4 different underwater lands, while Animal Jam doesn't thus resulting in AJ also having the inability to make underwater animals

- Animal Jam Classic has a ton of different underwater and land adventures, while Animal Jam doesn't

Minor Features

- Animal Jam Classic uses diamonds as the secondary currency rather than sapphires 

- Animal Jam Classic is PC and browser only

- Animal Jam Classic is 2D

- Animal Jam Classic is older then Animal Jam

Animal Jam 

Animal Jam was first released for in 2014 which later ended in mid 2015. The game was eventually fully released in August 2015 and was available for all countries. It started primarily as a mobile game, but eventually got cross-platformed to PC as well. The game used to be called "Play Wild", but was changed in May 2020 due to increase in popularity. 

What Animal Jam offers that Animal Jam Classic doesn't

Major Features

- Animal Jam has the volcano land, Moku' Ahi, a huge difference between the 2 worlds

- Animal Jam has the Phantom Dimension (which I actually just learned, it is not copyright from Kitten's story) 

- Animal Jam can be played on mobile and PC 

- Animal Jam has packs (groups of jammers that can have their own hideout and special adventures)

- Animal Jam's trading system is different

Minor Features

- Animal Jam uses sapphires as the secondary currency rather than diamonds

- Animal Jam has a daily login reward, as well as the daily spin

- You can buy memberships with sapphires (the in-game currency), unlike Animal Jam Classic where you have to use real money

- You can talk with an NPC in Animal Jam, an arctic wolf named Leilani

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Animal Jam and Animal Jam Classic may be 2 different games, but they are both still equally fun to play. Both of the games are made by WildWorks, and very successful all together. I hope you enjoy playing these games as much as I do!

Thanks for reading and happy jamming!

Movie Monday & TMR Question

 Hey jammers! Popcorn here, and welcome to a new post! 

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In this post: 

RIM - What's the new RIM today? Keep reading to find out!

Movie Monday - I'll shoutout a movie playing in Sarepia Theater! 

Daily News - New page! and questionable announcement
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Let's get right into the post!

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Today's RIM was actually an interesting one! It was...

A Rare Book of Spells!

Some basic info:

• Price: 750 gems
• Members only? Yes
• Location: Jam Mart Clothing, Jamaa Township (it seems like most of the RIM's are here now!)

I like this RIM! It's very unique; I don't think I've seen anything like it before :) 

Overall, I rate it ⭐⭐⭐⭐ out of 5 :)

Next topic!

This is the first edition of the new exclusive, Movie Monday, where we go more in depth with one of the movies playing today! Here's the video if you would like to watch it (I hope it actually plays, I haven't put a video into a post before :P):

Overview: The basic storyline: an orange, "happy" snow leopard finds a blue, "sad" snow leopard and tries to warm him up by taking off the blue snow leopard's winter clothes, and replacing them with summer clothes! 

My Thoughts: I think it's a super cute movie, and the idea overall is really sweet with the whole sharing warmth and happiness :)

Movie Review: ★★★★☆  

Let me know in the comments if you have any "category" ideas for Movie Mondays! ("Movie Review", "My Thoughts", etc.)

Onto... 

AJ Dictionary has arrived - Yep! I FINALLY just finished my own Animal Jam Dictionary which you can find on the left sidebar :) It is filled with Animal Jam terms, phrases, and definitions so feel free to check it out!

TMR continuing question - Yes. So recently, I've been trying to pick up TMR (The Mira Report) again and start to try and continue the previous issue that's supposed to come out this month. Unfortunately, I don't think that will be happening. I've really been trying to get motivated to keep writing it, but every time I sit down, I'll end up getting distracted and reading my favorite bloggers' posts :') 

The point of all that being: I don't think I will be continuing TMR. I never like to quit things, especially on here because I don't want to "lose any readers" and make my readers disappointed. (Or at least that's what I tell myself.) In the end, I just keep putting too much pressure on myself and not really enjoying it anyways. 

I will show you the parts I worked on though xD I did work pretty hard on the few pages I completed XP Here's the link: 
https://www.flipsnack.com/themirareport/the-mira-report-december-2020.html

(Wow, I totally understand why Bepper and Panda stopped their magazine after 2 issues too :P)

Sorry this was such a short post! I hope for more lengthy posts coming out soon! :) 

Thanks for reading and happy jamming!

Fun Items to Collect :)

 Hey jammers! Popcorn here, and welcome to a bonus Saturday post! 

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In this post:

AJ Ally - Showcase a jammer/event that positively reflects AJ and it's community!

Eye Glitch - Is the 71 returning? 😮

Fun Items to Collect - Want to start a collection? Here's a fun list of items you can collect!
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Let's get right into the post!

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Today, I found a great AJ Ally while walking around Jamaa! 

Huge shoutout to Baroness Spookypuppy for making Animal Jam a better place :) It's always nice to see jammers do non-stressful, carefree "giveaways" with unwanted items! 

Moving on...

I've also decided to start a new little series: 

Glitch Corner will basically become an archive of all of the glitches I find in Jamaa. This won't be a weekly thing, because I can't promise I'll find glitches every week! But honestly? From the amount I found today, this series should go on for a pretty long time xD

I'll add a page to the sidebar soon! 

Today's glitch was rather a mysterious one... 

While in Crystal Sands, I found a jammer with these eyes. 

Everything else about the jammer was normal, though. The normal distinguishes of the face are clearly shown, and the seal body is normal. But the eyes have a horizontal line through them with shadow-y looks on the top and bottom of them. 

This was a similar glitch from a long time ago, and the item was called "71". It was a magenta glitched "eye" item and made the jammer have no distinguishing features on the eye itself (The pupil, white parts, and other features of the eye would turn completely magenta). The white was replaced with the magenta item. For a result, when a jammer wore it, it would change the color of their eyes to completely magenta. (Picture of item)

Nafaria9 goes more in-depth with this in her page "Extraordinary Items" if you would like to read a little more about it!

Anyways, I asked the jammer "Whoa, what's up with your eyes?" (I was hoping I didn't sound too mean xD) and they respond with, "I do weird stuff, don't mind it". Eesh. I hopped as fast as I could away from that jammer. *Disclaimer: the username I blocked out because they weren't affectively doing something wrong/affecting the game itself. Yes, it could be a hacker. But there was really no reason to report them. (Please don't try and hunt this jammer down either :) 

Welp. Interesting issue of Glitch Corner today X)

Next topic! 

Finally, it's time for the body of this post: Fun Items to Collect!

Now, if you know me well I'm a huge collector of plushies, with my plushie collection dating all the way back to 2015 (when I started). But, if plushies aren't really your thing, check out this list:

AJ Birthday Cakes - Why not collect the whole collection of AJ birthday cakes? Not only are they fun to display, they can be worth a lot, too. If you'd like to see the worth of each, here's an "article" from the Animal Jam Worth Wiki!

Wood Items - These items are one of my favorite sets in Animal Jam. Some of the items in the set are Rare Wood Fence (basically my favorite item in the game), Wooden Step Latter, Wood Lawn Chair, etc. These plus the wood floor in a den are so cool and put a modern spin on a log cabin-ish den! 

Fireworks - Fireworks are great for collections and I'll tell you why: They are super inexpensive, and you can easily buy a couple at one of the daily birthday parties in Animal Jam. Also, they just look really cool if  you put a whole bunch of them together and rapidly click so they all go off at sort of the same time! 

Claw Machines - Not into plushies? That's ok! Claw Machines can be really fun to play regardless, and if you don't want the plushies, go ahead and give them to some buddies! 

Clouds - Now, clouds might sound like a weird item to collect. BUT. I promise they aren't. There are almost 18 variations of clouds you can collect, and all of them together would be so cool! They are also very easy to find, and the Diamond Cloud is currently in the Diamond Shop for 3 diamonds! 

Toys - If you think toys are the same as plushies, LET ME STOP YOU RIGHT THERE because you're wrong :) Toys can be won by playing Phantom Invasion in the arcade! 

Picture from Animal Jam Wiki :)

And that will wrap up this Saturday's post! 

Thanks for reading and happy jamming!

New Blog!

 Hey jammers! Popcorn here, and welcome to a brand new post! Today's post will more be about the Daily Exclusives from the AJD!

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In this post: 

New Blog - Yep! You heard that right! There's a new blog in town made by a fellow jammer!

Black Friyay - I'll showcase some of the clearance and going-out-of-shop items!

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Let's get right into the post! 

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EEEEE jammers! There's a new blog in town, the Animal Jam Bubble, by Tkaranto! I hope you guys go and check out their blog! It can be hard for newer blogs to get views and traffic, and I'm sure that dropping a comment will make their day just that much better :)

They dropped a comment onto Vai's blog, The Animal Jam Novel, and I can tell they're excited to join the Animal Jam blogging community :)

Make sure you check out their blog (the Animal Jam Bubble) soon! 

Onto Black Friyay!

This Friday, I was surprised to see how many items were going out of stores! I checked the 3 main shops (Diamond Shop, Jam Mart Clothing, and Jam Mart Furniture) and together found about 17 clearance items! Here's the "chart" :)

Diamond Shop

Items (top to bottom, left to right): Diamond Cloud, Black Cat Moon, Black Cat Stepping Stones, Black Cat Spotlight
Days Left (top to bottom, left to right): 10, 3, 1, 2
Prices: See pictures above

Jam Mart Furniture

Items (top to bottom, left to right): Corn Cob Chair, Maple Leaf Pinwheel, Acorn Chair, Fall Shrub, Fall Leaves Rug, Poinsettia
Days Left (top to bottom, left to right): 9, 10, 10, 10, 9, 10
Prices: See above pictures

Jam Mart Clothing *I forgot to X out the non-clearance items, sorry!*

 

Items (top to bottom, left to right): Fall Mohawk, Acorn Hat, Pumpkin Shoes, Fall Crown, Maple Leaf Glasses, Maple Leaf Skirt, Autumn Grass Claw

Days Left (top to bottom, left to right): 9, 10, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8

Prices: See pictures above

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Whoo, that was a lot of clearance items. Sadly, no AJ Ally today :( C'mon people, be more positive pfft xD

Anyways, make sure you check out the Animal Jam Bubble!

Thanks for reading and happy jamming!

Bakery Items??

 Hey jammers! Popcorn here, and welcome to a new post! Before we get into the post, my apologies for skipping the RIM post this week! The day blew by, and I just lost track of time :) Well, here we are!

In this post: 

Shop Shoutout - Showcase a shop in Jamaa!

"Daily" News - (Replacement of "Blog Updates) Give you a hint at what's new and upcoming on the AJD! 

New Items - Take a look at some of the new items in Jamaa!

Let's get right into the post!

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Yay! Today we received a pretty little update, but honestly? I'll take it. It looks like a new bakery set in Jamaa has arrived? Or has it?! 

It seems like a lot of other jammers are asking the same question xD The Jamaa Journal said that it would be located in the Diamond Shop. Where is it, AJ?? I guess we'll see later in the day. 

We also received some things that actually appeared in the Diamond Shop including: the new Deep Freeze armor set,

and some new Model Minitares! I love these new models AJ is adding! It kind of reminds me of the little pet houses. 

Onto...

This week: 

The Chamber of Secrets! (jk, jk, Chamber of Knowledge. Harry Potter, we stan)

Basic Info

Description: The Chamber of Knowledge is a stone building in the Lost Temple of Zios. It holds 3 floors filled with books, candles, and alpha statues throughout the building

Location: The northern part of the Lost Temple of Zios

First Released: Sometime 2010 (during Beta testing)

Fun Facts: 

• The Chamber of Knowledge was originally called The Chamber of Mysteries
• You can take the Online Safety Quiz here, too (Other location in the Conservation Museum) 
• There are 3 floors in the Chamber of Knowledge

Images: 

-Kitten the Kangaroo: Chapter 2 is out now! That's right! Go ahead and sit down while you read about my favorite plushie over in Kitten's blog! Access her post here. 

-New Exclusives! You all know Shop Shoutout, and RIM Monday. But let's welcome to the gang: 

Black Friyay and Movie Monday! 

"Um, who are they?" -Kitten

 

I'm glad you asked, Kitten! Let's take a look! X)

• Black Friyay - Every Friday, I'll post about a couple of items either on clearance or leaving their shop in a couple of days!
  
  
• Movie Monday - Every Monday, we'll take a look into the movie(s) playing that day! 

Stay tuned for these upcoming weekly exclusives!

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And that will wrap up this Thursday's post! 

Thanks for reading and happy jamming!

(new signature!! shoutout to Rainbow000Pegasus for this background on her resources page :')

Rating Famous Jammers' Dens! & Blog Updates

 Hey jammers! Popcorn here, and welcome to a new post! 

In this post: 

Rating Famous Jammers' Dens! - Go to some of the most famous jammers' dens and rate them! (This idea was from nafaria9 and her blog, the Animal Jam Whip! Here's her post) 

AJ Ally - Showcase some of the jammers/events that positively reflect AJ and it's community!

Blog Updates - New pages, TMR, and currently-working-on pages :)

Let's get right into the post!

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I thought that we would start off today's post with Rating Famous Jammers' Den! Small disclaimer: Please don't come at me if I'm too harsh xD I'm only judging their current den (because I can't see the others) and I'm sure that a lot of their dens are super epic. Let's start off the list with...

Bepper

Welp. Moving on!

Appari

AAAA so many dens are locked D:

WisteriaMoon

Ooh I like this den! It looked like she used the normal Small House and added tons of decorations xD It kind of looks like a pink garden/birthday party rolled into one. 

Rating: 8/10

Shopking

We can all probably guess why I couldn't show any pictures :l 🔒

Julian2

It looks like Julian2 went for a more... classic den, with a couple of fire pits and pet houses. We also can't forget Julian2's meme of SpinnyBoiz and today, I actually got to meet 2 in real life! Wow, the things you see. Overall, I kind of like the simplicity of this den. 

Rating: 6/10 

Snowyclaw

Snowyclaw's den was actually really cool. It looked like a medieval castle on the inside, but outside was a pretty garden! The lag was insanely bad xD but I liked this den overall!

Rating: 9/10

Chocolate4froggy

Their den was filled with, well you guessed it, masterpieces! What I did like was that they put the little collections of plushies together (the Kit plushies in the bottom picture, and the teddy bears in the first one) 

Rating: 7 and a half/10

Scooter (chocolate4050)

Some may consider Scooter a famous jammer, some may not, but I consider him as one :) (or at least his blog) He is the author of the Animal Jam Sky Blog, for those who didn't know, and I was actually loving his den! The inside was super creative and fun, while the outside had a mysterious, garden, phantom-y feel X) *Also, I wanted to see how long it had been since he last logged on and you know, I was expecting 30+ days like a lot of the famous jammers. But it said 24! Who knows? Will we expect a Scooter return?? 

Rating: 9 and a half/10 

Onto the next topic!

Next, I thought I would share with you some new current blog updates! (I know I seem to do this a lot XP Let me know if it's not interesting and content worthy) 

Anyways, I'm currently working on a lot of new pages (and I completed a new page today!) that I want to share with you! 

In Progress: 

• Animal Jam Dictionary - I like to use abbreviations for Animal Jam when I post, and for new jammers that could be confusing. So I'm currently working on the master list of the places in Jamaa, abbreviations (NM, RIM, etc.), shops, and things like that :) 
  
  
• Minigame Guide - I'm also working on making a minigame guide as well! For each minigame (maybe not every, we'll see how far I get until I lose motivation xd), I'll put basic information like the achievements for the game, tips on how to win/score higher, etc. 
  
  
• New Jammer Starter Guide - I also want to start making a New Jammer Starter Guide; basically a whole page dedicated to Animal Jam how tos and rules and stuff like that. 
  
  
• Diamond Guide update - If you've checked out my Diamond Shop Guide on the sidebar, you'll probably notice it only goes over the main building. I want to expand on this and list how to get diamonds, and what you can buy with diamonds, etc. (Inspired by nafaria9's Diamond Guide)
  
  
• New Header - I'm fidgeting with the header, too. I can't seem to make it bigger than the required size for some reason. You see how the current header looks kind of smushed? I'm trying to figure out how I can make the height and width bigger... (if anyone can help me in the comments, that would be great :) )

New Pages: 

• Plaque Guide - I just finished up a new guide! The plaque guide! I'm very fascinated in the AJ plaques, and I think that's what sparked this motivation. 

Announcements: 

• January TMR Release Date: TMR (The Mira Report) has been set to release on Janurary 30th! I'll post future announcements when the time is closer, but for now let's just hope I finish in time xD
  
  
• Kitten the Kangaroo: Part 2 coming this weekend: Yep! You should expect a new issue today or tomorrow! Stay tuned ;)

Moving on to the last topic...

Today, I actually found a pretty memorable AJ Ally! (Shoutout to Dogo for showing me it!) What da ya know? It's a dance party in Balloosh! It was actually really fun, and it was nice seeing a party in Balloosh for a change! I feel like it's a very underrated land in Jamaa but it's so calming and peaceful :) I really recommend visiting there next when you're in Jamaa! Here are some pictures from the dance party!

And that, lady jammers and gentleman jammers, will wrap up today's post! 

Question for the comments: What's your favorite land in Jamaa? 

Thanks for reading and happy jamming!

~popcorn