
Poptropica Counterfeit Island is your 10th island journey in counterfeit island on poptropica the game. It started in early access mode in late December, 2009 and then was publicly available in January. The storyline of Counterfeit Island is that a infamous art crook is actually organizing to take a very important art work from the Counterfeit Island fine art museum. You will need to uncover the plan as well as make an effort to hinder the burglar. The island is very mysterious and anyone could be a suspect as you try to figure out what’s going on. This is a step-by-step walkthrough of the entire quest with all the secrets for Counterfeit Island.
First Steps on the Island
The first thing to do is to use your Poptropica map to journey to Counterfeit Island. You’ll arrive by balloon next to the museum. Your first stop should be Downtown. Begin walking to the right and follow the signs. The first store you’ll see Downtown is a shop called Bobo’s. Walk inside the store. There are many different colors balloons here in the shop. Grab a green balloon and then go back outside.
Now go completely right and go into the Country side zone. A few steps in to this spot you’ll spot a young girl along with a crying youngster. Click on the sobbing boy and you will give him your green balloon. When he tales it fom you, he’ll lift up into the sky. Poor little dude! Oh well, he’s not your problem right now. Head back to the left to go Downtown and then run all the way to the left of that zone and go into Main Street. As soon as you arrive on Main Street, go inside the building named the Web Browser Internet Cafe. Once you’re inside, walk to the right and talk to the bearded guy wearing the hat and camera. He’ll tell you that he lost his tunnel tour tickets and that if you can find them, he’ll give you one. While you’re talking to him, look up at the TV behind you. It’s balloon boy on the news! Now walk outside and run to the right to go Downtown.
Now that you’re here, look around and find the grabage can that is just to the right of the tunnel tour entrance. Click on the garbage can and a screen will appear showing all garbage inside. Move all the garbage pieces away from the middle by clicking and dragging them. Soon, you’ll reveal the lost tickets that are buried inside. Pick up the tickets.
OK, now run cheats for poptropica back to Main Street and enter the Web Browser Internet Cafe again. Go inside and stand next to the man who lost the tickets. Open up your backpack and find the tickets and then click on “Use”. The guy will thank you for finding them and just as he promised, he’ll give one back to you so that you can use it to take the underground tunnel tour.
The next thing to do is to go back Downtown and walk up to the entrance for the underground tour. There’s a woman standing outside wearing a green beret. While you are standing near her, open your backpack and find the ticket. Click on the “Use” button on the ticket Ready to begin the tour? Just click on the gate behind you to get going.
Fortunately the tunnel tour is very easy to follow. At the very bottom of the tunnel, there is a lightbulb hanging down in the center. It’s attached to a long cable. Jump onto the cable and then climb up until you get to the very top. You’ll see a torn piece of paper on top of another cable just to the right. The paper is another piece of the torn picture that you’re trying to collect. Now jump to the right to catch the piece of the torn picture. As you fall over the torn picture, you will pick it up and it will go into your backpack. Now get back on the tour and keep following the main tunnel until you get to a set of stairs that head up to a door. Go up the stairs to leave and finish the tour.
The Secret Guy
Once you finish up the tour, step outside and you’ll spot a strange man wearing sunglasses and an overcoat waiting outside. Listen to his story. He’ll then ask you to go apply for the open security job at the museum. He also wants you to come back here to the Docks and meet him at night. Next, go back up and to the right. You’ll find one more piece of the torn picture. Grab this picture piece. Before leaving this area, run across the docks to the left and jump up to the top of the mast on the fishing boat to find your third piece of the torn picture. Now head back to Main Street and enter the museum.
Inside of the Museum
Speak with the guard who is standing by the door inside the museum and he’ll tell you to go upstairs and talk to the assistant curator. The assistant curator is up the stairs right above the entrance. Go up and talk to him. He’ll tell you that he needs some help with some paintings. They have been placed in the incorrect spots and he needs you to help put them all in the right places. In each wing, you can pick up one painting on the wall (the others won’t move) and take it somewhere else. Follow these instructions to get all the paintings in the right places.
- The painting in the cubism wing goes into the impressionism wing.
- The painting in the impressionism wing goes into the expressionism wing.
- The painting in the expressionism wing goes into the realism wing.
- The painting in the realism wing goes into the cubism wing.
Once you have finished returning the paintings to their proper places, head back and talk with the assistant curator. He’ll tell you that you are hired and will take you inside the Forgery Detection Lab to begin your training. Speak to him and then he’ll tell you to select a station to begin your training. Choose the first desk and click on it. You’ll get a special X-Ray device that you can use on the paintings. Use it on each one until you find the canvas with the sketches underneath the paint. The arrows up to allow you to move between the different canvases. Click on the one you think is real.
In the next test, you’ll use a magnifying glass to try and figure out which painting is a fake. Take a peek at the corners of each painting and locate the signatures. One of the signatures is slightly different than all of the others. This one is the forgery.
The third test is a photograph and you need to click on the area that shows it is a fake. Look up on the left side where you seen the moon. Click on the dark part of the moon. The reason you know this is fake is that if it were really a picture of the moon you wouldn’t see any stars here because the moon would block them out.
The next step to to go to the desk on the right, which is where the staff performs chemical analyses of paint samples. In this test, you select a paint sample and then it drops into the beaker. You’ll see a red bar go across the screen. When it reaches a square, it will light up with a color. Click on that color beaker above while the square is lit to add it into the test solution. If you do it correctly and in time, a green check mark will appear over the square. Keep going until all four squares are done correctly. Now do it all over again for the other two paint samples. Once you complete this experiment, your schooling is finished and the assistant curator will offer you a key to the supply room.
Leave the forgery detection lab and walk right and then follow the signs to the statue room and security office. Walk left past all of the statues and follow the sign that directs you to the security office and supply closet. Go left to the end and you’ll arrive at the supply closet door. Inside your backpack you’ll find the key that the assistant curator gave to you. Use it to unlock the door and go inside. In here you’ll see that sixth piece of the torn photo. Now that it’s put together you’ll see it forms a picture of the head of a gargoyle.
Now walk back to the right and go back through the statue room. Follow the sign to the main hall and then exit the museum. Now it is night time outside. Go back to the city docks, which are over to the left. The mysterious guy in the hat and sunglasses will still be standing where you left him. Go back inside the tour through the gate. Walk through the tunnel until you get to the wooden ladder. Climb the ladder and then click on the hatch at the top. The hatch cover will appear on screen and it has a gargoyle face on it. Use the mouse to move all the pieces on the hatch to match the version from the torn picture pieces you collected. You need to get all of the facial features on the hatch gargoyle to exactly match the picture. When you’re done, the hatch will open and you can proceed up through it.
When you get through the hatch you will find youself back in the museum supply closet. Use the key again to unlock the door and then walk out into the hallway. Watch out because the shadow of the security guard will walk by the window to the security office. Wait for her to go by and then run past the window all the way to the statue room door. Enter the statue room and then move to the right slowly and carefully while avoiding the moving laser beams you see there. To avoid being spotted by a laser beam, hide behind either the plants or statues. When you get across the room safely, go outside into the main hall.
Next walk up and left until you get to the spot where the painting of the Scream is hanging. Click on the top of it and you will jump up onto the light hanging above it. All of the sudden the museum alarms will go off and the police will arrive. This doesn’t look good! You’ll be placed in jail and then questioned by the police. The first thing you have to do is undergo a lie detector test. It’s very easy to pass. Next you’ll be invited to speak with the chief inspector back inside the museum office.
On the way back to the museum office, stop inside Bobo’s clown shop, where you’ll find the security guard from the museum. Talk to him and ask him about why he left his post. He’ll turn over his time card to you. After you get it, head to the museum and go up to the security office. When you’re inside the office, head over to the right of the room and click on the large computer. Because you have the time card that the security guard gave you, you’ll know where to look when reviewing the footage. You will see the mysterious guy appear and walk up to the painting. Press the print screen button to get a surveillance video screen print. Next talk to the chief investigator. Her advice will be to show the picture around to the citizens of the island. Leave the museum and head right towards Bobo’s Clown Shop.
After you get to the clown store, use the security camera printout and show it to the mime by the door. The mime knows who it is and she will pantomime music playing. This is a clue that the person you’re trying to find is inside the jazz cafe. Walk a little bit to the right and then go inside the cafe. After you enter the jazz cafe, walk to the right and you’ll spot the guy wearing sunglasses and a trenchcoat. Once you arrive, he’ll run out of the cafe. Go out the door he ran through to start the big chase scene.
This is where the scooter ride chase scene begins. You’ll both be riding scooters. You don’t really need to catch him during this part. All you need to do is avoid the different obstacles that appear in the road as you go by. After about a minute of chasing, you’ll both end up at the docks. The mysterious guy will escape in a boat but as he departs he’ll accidentally drop a secret key card that you’ll be able to pick up from the ground.
SPECIAL: when the chase begins, look for Balloon Boy. He will appear up in the sky between the buildings in the background.
And now it’s time to go back to the museum. When you go inside, the assistant creator is there. He’ll give you a package that was delivered with your name on it. Inside the package is a painting of Starry Night along with an X-ray device just like the one you used in your training. Open your backpack and find the painting. Click on the examine button to inspect it. Drag the x-ray device over the painting and you’ll see a secret message from the curator telling you to meet at the Pop Art Museum in Early Poptropica island. Now you get to do something pretty neat. You’re going to temporarily leave Counterfeit Island and go to Early Poptropica for a bit. Go outside the museum and get back into your balloon. Click the balloon to travel and then when the map appears, choose Early Poptropica as your destination.
When you arrive in Early Poptropica, go to the left and enter the Pop Art Museum. You’ll see a woman wearing purple. Talk to her and she will explain a little bit about what is going on and give you a key. Go back outside the museum and get on your balloon again. Now return to Counterfeit Island.
You’ll return to Main Street in Counterfeit Island. When you get there, jump down out of the balloon and walk to the right. Keep going until you get to the Countryside. You’ll find a house belonging to the chief inspector here. Use the key that the Curator gave you to sneak into the house. Head upstairs and you’ll see a painting hanging on the wall. Click on it to remove the canvas and you’ll see that it’s hiding the stolen painting from the museum! Next thing you know, the lights go dark and you are knocked out.
When you awake, you’ll be deep inside an underground hideout. You and the mysterious art thief guy in sunglasses and a trenchcoat are tied up together in a chair and the Black Widow is here. She has captured you! The Black Widow will leave the room and then you and the mysterious guy will talk about how you were both set up by her. The guy asks you to move your chair closer to where he is so that he can free you. Moving the chair can be a little tricky. To do it, click and drag the mouse to the left. Inch by inch, you’ll get a little closer each time. When you get close enough, you both are free from your bonds. The mysterious guy has an idea that you should both go after the Black Widow. Leave the room to your right.
You’ll show up in the next room of the hideout. Run all the way to the left and then jump up on the crates. You need to avoid the guards while you do this. One of the most difficult guards to get past is the one walking on one of the platforms above. Wait until he reaches the end of the left side and then switches direction and starts going to the right. Jump up immediately and follow him a few steps until you see a couch. Jump onto the couch and the springs will propel you to the platform above and to the left. Here you’ll see a special access panel. Use the key card you found when you were chasing the mysterious guy before to open the door. Go through the door to enter Black Widow’s private gallery. Then walk to the left to begin the final confrontation with Black Widow.
The mysterious guy will run and jump onto a platform with a handle. Your task is to raise him up to the top by turning the handle. But once he gets on the panel, the Black Widow starts to destroy all the art she has stolen by hurling it down at you. You need to catch the art to keep it from breaking while continuing to try and turn the handle to raise the platform. This is certainly one of the hardest boss fights in Poptropica. If more than one million dollars of art breaks, you’ll fail and have to start this part over again. But after every four pieces you save, she’ll get really mad and then you have a few seconds to run over to the platform to turn the handle. But watch out because after a few seconds, she’ll throw a bomb towards you. Move away from the bomb before it explodes and then get back to the middle of the room to resume catching falling art. Keep repeating the cycle until you raise the platform all the way to the top.
Once you’re done, the Black Widow will be captured! You’ll appear inside the Internet Cafe and the Curator will be there. She will ask you to meet up with her over at the museum. The curator will show you that the museum has actually been a secret safeguard for some of the world’s most important works of art. She’ll then present you with the medal for completing the Counterfeit Island quest. Well done and congratulations.