The Best of Old Club Penguin Myths

From secret puffles that you get by spamming error codes to Rockhopper's hidden hideout, I decided to take a look at some of the wacky theories, hoaxes, myths, and urban legends about Club Penguin that made their ways around the school playgrounds when we were kids.
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Chapters:
Intro: 0:00
Rockhopper Island: 0:55
Rainbow Puffle: 4:22
Card-Jitsu Shadow: 8:58
Tipping the Iceberg: 12:25
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[@switch1e]

Hey, if you guys liked this video, feel free to watch my video about Club Penguin Music Videos people used to make! I'm very proud of it :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmesf6ufe7CekLc

[@Vailskibum]

It really sucked that Club Penguin had to end, but my mind was blown when they finally made tipping the iceberg possible

[@switch1e]

Oh hey Oscar One. It's nice to hear from you again. We should make a Club Penguin comedy video together :P

[@robloxpro947]

oh hey you’re here

[@Shadamyfan-rs8xc]

I'm kinda bummed that I wasn't playing when that happened 😞

[@hankj.wimbleton5452]

I UNDERSTAND.

[@nouki6966]

there's New club penguin wich is really cool, the ice berg can tip and there are parties just like the old club penguin

[@Inactivechannel-r6]

I used to be obsessed with trying to go to Rockhopper island, trying to hack the mascots, and trying to get in that secret underwater room

[@switch1e]

I’m glad I’m not alone. And yeah that underwater room was so cool

[@g59g.r11]

The memories I didn’t know wtf I was even doing ngl

[@youngcav614]

I spent years trying to get to Rockhoppers island

[@savannahpals4540]

I thought you could get in the underwater room ? I remember getting the key to it I thought

[@mathewantony8114]

we did have a party where we went to rockhopper's island tho

[@zach6800]

That tipping the iceberg at the death of Clubpenguin was such a nice touch from the devs, when I heard they were doing it I logged in for the first time in about 7 or 8 years just to be a part of the action. Really good video man.

[@maxstirnersego]

I remember trying to log back into my old account when I heard club penguin was shutting down only to be met with the unfortunate truth that my account was deleted for inactivity. I also remember trying to make a new account, and being heart broken that my old username was taken

[@RickyBaxt3r]

@@maxstirnersego same here man. I played from October 2007 - 2011/2012. I remember trying to log in around 2013/14 for the first time in a year or two, only to find my account had been deleted due to inactivity. That really hurt. As a non member, I'd accumulated quite the wardrobe of free clothes to the point where I'd pass as a member. What I'd do to just go back and experience those days again.

[@haydenmaines5905]

I've got a, personal fan theory / myth with absolutely no evidence to back it up. When I was a child I had a friend who often lied, and he claimed to have an email address to send ideas and suggestions to Club Penguin Developers. I didn't believe him but his mother confirmed it and gave me the address. So I wrote an email (using an email address that no longer exists) with a few ideas, and actually got a response. One of the suggestions I had made was for a storage room or warehouse filled with cardboard boxes and all of the party supplies from past events. Like little Easter Eggs - because that stuff would have to go somewhere after the party, right? I'd say probably within a year of sending that email, the Box Dimension was created - enterable through a portal in a box, filled with cardboard boxes. After a Plant Party, it was filled with plants. I was so excited as a kid that my suggestion wound up making it into the game, even if it was modified slightly.

[@KeWDu]

Not that I want to burst your bubble about the special email or anything but I had sent a good few support emails directly through the CP website about what I wanted to be added to the shop or whatever. I can’t say that I came up with any original ideas for them to add but I did ask for them to bring back certain items to the clothes shop and sure enough the next shop magazine had what I wanted.

[@haydenmaines5905]

@@KeWDu oh, absolutely! I don't doubt you did! I think it's fantastic that the developers of the game would listen to their players like that and do what they could - it's great for a kids game like that

[@switch1e]

I emailed the support team (I think, it may have been the fanmail) once and asked them to add the Big Screen TV again to the game. Sadly, my wishes were never granted :(

[@KeWDu]

@@haydenmaines5905 yeah it really felt amazing to get real replies from real staff members hearing me out even though I was a kid younger than 10. I’d say it’s probably true that you invented the box dimension, and thank you for that because the music they composed for it happens to be my favorite soundtrack from the whole game.

[@KeWDu]

@@switch1e I do think there was one time I asked for something and didn’t get it but I feel like I may remember getting a reply giving me a reason why they wouldn’t, being that they were trying more variety rather than just going back to old. It also may have drastically changed once Disney bought CP but I didn’t play much longer after that nor send any emails.

[@chippedgoat]

Oh man, this was all a blast from the past, I was super duper into club penguin as a wee rat, and just seeing all these theores again gave me a rush of nostalgia like no other!

[@switch1e]

I’m glad you enjoyed it! :)

[@sayyanlt78]

So I started playing club penguin from summer of 2006 until around 2011. I vividly remember 3 giant reasons why club penguin myths got so popular and basically the source that started the hypetrain. (Warning! This is also a history post on the game back in 2006-2007 from my viewpoint. Its long but i felt like I needed to share it) 1. Pins: Pins came out around 5-6 months before i started playing but i could instantly tell the coolest and most well known players had all the pins that came out earlier in the year. These players werent famous but they could get a party started in any area that they joined. I know that me and thousands of other players initially got addicted to the game because of the urge to collect everything and be cool like them. The devs also got rid of 60-70% of clothes and collectibles after each update back then so you would have to always be playing to keep up. 2. Rockhopper: The day that Rockhopper first came to club penguin was the day when it collectively clicked in our minds of how amazing it is to be a famous penguin (basically being an e-celeb back in 2006). Ill still never forget faking being sick just to celebrate with everyone for 2 days in a row because of his arrival. His arrival also created the first major hints at club penguin myths being developed by players, but it was basically either ignored or super boring since some random kid just made it up to prank people... That was until a few things all happened at the same time. 3. The devs themselves got more players interested in myths by using the club penguin newspaper + youtube + club penguin fame: The thing that really catapulted club penguin myths into being a big mainstream-topic on most servers all came from the club penguin times/the newspaper. Slowly over time players would notice the devs dropping hints in the newspaper to let people know about new features coming to the game to get players excited. This created a large group of players that would constantly spread rumors of hidden information & clickable items buried deep in the newspapers pages. Not only this but players could also submit their own creative jokes & drawings that would be put into the newspaper every week. Well eventually more people would listen to these rumors and read the newspapers all the way to the end and try to find all the hidden information and items. What ended up happening is they would also start noticing the people that got their penguin names put on the last few pages, these players would became instantly semi-famous for a week. This was such a giant deal immediately after halloween 2006 that it nearly became impossible to get your creative work submissions noticed by the the devs. The people that did get their works put on the newspaper got addicted to being semi-famous for a week and started doing everything they could to keep up that feeling for as long as possible, then youtube club penguin videos hit the community. Sometime around the Christmas event of that year, I remember club penguin youtubers instantly becoming massive and well-known by all after they made their own videos. This sparked the craze of making club penguin guides, making club penguin tour videos of events, showing people how to make igloo parties, club penguin music videos, etc~>. This fame was so new and it was 10x crazier then what previously "cool/well known" players dealt with at the start of the year. Basically it got to the point where famous youtuber penguins would enter a medium sized server and then it would instantly become full and no one could enter in the area that they went into. But the biggest videos that became a giant trend around early-mid 2007 was the myth videos. The first people that started doing it were pulling in 50-100k views per video in it's first month of being published which was pretty much impossible for 99% of youtube game videos back then. Due to all of this the club penguin myths instantly became a staple in the game and the devs continued to fan the flames for years even after i stopped playing. So to sum all of this up, the way the game was designed back in 2006 and the culture it created basically jump-started the entire genre of club penguin myths. Im also so glad you made this video because it reminded me of some of the best gaming memories of my entire life. Thank you.

[@switch1e]

This is an amazing comment, thank you so much for watching and adding to the discussion! :)

[@BevinBevin]

Too long

[@user-co5wj9up2i]

I meannn you can still play on newCP and etc

[@feliciabaxter6423]

@@switch1e hey! i have an idea! how about you make a video about revenge of the island? and also give your opinion about mike x zoey in that video if you decide to make it because i love them(also dawn and B's friendship is the wholesomest thing on the planet)

[@jake78441]

@@switch1e no way you was jawjawjaw3 😮 oh shiet

[@yosh9192]

Even as someone who never really played CP as a kid, I remember these rumors making waves around the internet regardless. It’s definitely cool that in a way Club Penguin kept the spirit of old-school playground rumors alive in that regard, especially in the information age

[@switch1e]

For sure! Thanks for watching :)

[@avaius]

Some of my first memories of the game, some from even before playing it, are about discussing rumours such as the shadow ninja with my friends!

[@cabbageking7519]

That message after u tip the iceberg always gives me chills. Idk. It just hits me in the feels cause I adored this game

[@bashfulwolfo6499]

Club Penguin was one of the games that was a life changer for me growing up, especially when I was very little (I don’t even know how I discovered it, but it was during a time where I really needed positive interactions). I also spent most of my time on KZbin around that age just watching Club Penguin videos and all of the myths always stuck to me. The hype when rainbow and gold puffles were released was insane, I’ll never forget those days

[@celestee2264]

What a great retrospective. The "puffle inflation" problem specially resonated across time with my 10 yo self lol. Great video!

[@switch1e]

Thank you! :D

[@Ninja_4561]

puffle inflation 😳

[@martineriksson03]

yeah, i remember around the time rainbow puffles came out i started to lose interest in them (it could also be because that would be the first party i had the premium membership to) and then with the release of the creatures i didn’t care at all anymore about them

[@villainkaiju]

@@Ninja_4561 NOOO

[@BurntWaddlez]

CP was my favorite game ever. I cried for like 5 straight nights after it shut down.

[@mahmoudharbi3985]

It still exists. Search "new club penguin"

[@victornjensen]

@@mahmoudharbi3985 can you play with the account from the original game?

[@mahmoudharbi3985]

@@victornjensen I dont know. Try it and tell me the result😁

[@questionmarkquestionmarkques]

@@victornjensen no

[@victornjensen]

@@questionmarkquestionmarkques that’s very unfortunate. I’m not going to create a new account, my old one had so many things, and membership with a star.

[@TheSnapback]

Club Penguin started to go downhill in 2014 in my opinion. That's when they really started to run out of ideas and milk past ones. It is sad that it shut down but it was destined for a long time. 2012 was my favorite year for Club Penguin and it will always be the most nostalgic to me. I'll never forget it.

[@switch1e]

I’m a total oldhead, honestly. My favorite year was probably 2009

[@TheSnapback]

@@switch1e Fair! I chose 2012 because of the Halloween Party, Operation Blackout, and Christmas Party. That year really took a step up with its parties with theme, design, items, and exploration. 2009 was much more simple, but that's what makes it more nostalgic.

[@MiniEmber]

@@TheSnapback never forget the frozen party that was brought back twice

[@mahmoudharbi3985]

The game still exists. Search "new club penguin"

[@TheSnapback]

@@mahmoudharbi3985 I am aware of the new versions. I joined CP Online and CP Rewritten after Club Penguin was shut down in March 2017. Sucks that both of those shut down because of copyright. I joined New CP 2 years ago, however it is not as good. Doesn't feel the same, I would only go on it if I am feeling nostalgic. Although there are these copies, Club Penguin will never feel the same again, and that is what I meant.

[@electronstudios1411]

club penguin was a massive part of my childhood and made me who i am today. i'll never forget it ever.

[@Donirexian]

I think my favorite parts of club penguin were the parties. I still remember playing through the medieval party and completing the super cool boss fights with dragons and hydras. The prehistoric party was also super memorable to me since the island's look was changed so much.

[@sashaacovski2789]

Nothing is better than watching sw1che at night time very chill vibe

[@miuzoreyes6547]

When I was a kid playing club penguin, I never had membership, so of course looking up "club penguin free membership" or "club penguin cheats" was something I would do in hopes of experiencing the whole game. I remember finding this website that had a few tips and tricks I already knew like codes you could claim or some hidden stuff, but also in the same article there was an entry saying that your account becomes member if you have 1 million coins or more. Little young me believed it because if it's on the internet, then it must be true, so I grinded the pizza or the coffee bag minigame for hours, and I believe I literally got to 130k before losing interest.

[@martineriksson03]

the halloween version of the iceberg was my all time favorite room (where it’s changed to a giant pumpkin and jack hammering it would take it through different stages until it had become a fully carved jack o lantern)

[@StudioSokki]

My younger brother and I had our og penguins from 2007 right up to the very last day of the game and got the 10 year jackets. It was a wild ride to have seen the game change over the years and was nice when we could hang out on it for the nostalgia. Afterwards we played on CP Rewritten for a bit along with our fiances but alas even that has come to an end. Will always miss ClubPenguin, waddle on

[@Jetstreme]

This was a nostalgia trip. I also didn't know about the card jitsu shadow debacle, kind of crazy how often ninjas were the source of rumors. I loved the initial leadup to the original card jitsu

[@Shadamyfan-rs8xc]

I remember watching the "gotta have a wingman" music vid and being both shocked and hyped at seeing the rainbow puffy at the end of the vid

[@Vivat_Veritas]

I was such a massive Club Penguin fan back in the day and it's really neat to see a great recap of all of the myths and such from my childhood! I don't believe I ever tried any of them, but I'm similarly obsessed with playground rumours and hacks so I'd absolutely recommend this video to anyone else who is. Amazing work!

[@astridmyst]

I LOVED Club Penguin as a kid but stopped playing before most of these rumors. I think the last update I played was the fire Card-Jitsu. I had no idea they expanded on the puffles so much or finally tipped the iceberg! I wish I was there for it. I remember that rumor well and always going over to drill.

[@NiB-Productions]

There was a obscure myth here in Brazil written on a blogpost somewhere in the very late 2000's or early 2010's about that one picture on the shed (that one with the go fishing minigame) that said in that painting (that paiting that looks like half of a penguin) was actually rockhopper's maid trapped in a frame.

[@leo0six]

nunca vi esse mito antes, tu lembra qual era o nome do blog?

[@NiB-Productions]

@@leo0six eu tbm não me lembro, eu era bem novo e como eu era viciado em club penguin, simplesmente digitei "lendas club penguin" no google e fui procurando, isso era em 2014-2015 mais ou menos, a única coisa que eu tenho ctz é que tava em português, por que eu não sabia inglês na época. Se o ngc não foi apagado, talvez ainda seja possível encontrar fazendo a mesma coisa que eu fiz ou só digitando "empregada do rockhopper"

[@leo0six]

@@NiB-Productions de boa, valeu!

[@ArtsyShiny]

The golden puffle myth in the super early days of Club Penguin is what I used to be obsessed with finding 😅

[@Mithrel]

Watching the iceberg tip back then was just so cool. I miss club penguin it was so much fun. I remember logging onto our family computer after school and the dial up screaming at me as it loaded up just to play.

[@comicstripvo6654]

"come for my personality" Me: yes. Also me: plus I'd like to learn about all the stuff I missed out on because I rejected childhood things in a desperate attempt to control my life in chaotic circumstances when I could barely do multiplication

[@switch1e]

I can relate with that rush to grow up, lol

[@FlamingoRadio_]

I love watching these kinds of videos at night, very specific topics will always be fascinating. The music selections were great too, keep up the fantastic work.

[@TaleOfTheToaster]

There are three constants in life, death, taxes, and Kyle celebrating Club Penguin’s legacy

[@lailocas]

i was way too interested about the allegedly witch penguin stuck at the ski lodge mirror and the brown puffle also stuck in the top of the clock, which was a SHOCK seeing it in the catalog and discovering it wasnt just a myth haha

[@GumSkyloard]

Oh, I absolutely loved this. Solid and sweet. Maaybe, just maybe, we could have another Club Penguin video about weird secrets in the game, like the numbered buoys?

[@switch1e]

Yeah maybe! I’m definitely down for making more stuff like this if people like it :)

[@RubyCheetahCub]

I remember encountering a cheat engine for Club Penguin called "Penguin Storm" that could give you're login penguin unlimited coins to use when not using P.S. and various other things

[@switch1e]

oh yeah i got rich off of penguin storm hahahh

[@HelloThere7567]

15:06 That is the most 2000’s thing I have ever seen

[@drumman22]

I remember doing the last party just to tip the iceberg. It was years since I played the game, but I remember the legend and trying to flip the iceberg when I was a kid. The event was a great way for me to finally accomplish and experience one of the things me and my friends would theorize years back.

[@justpotato8119]

I absolutely adore these kinds of videos, mostly because it brings me back to why I enjoyed the game so much, at least more than others. If you got any more stories about club penguin or just your personal experiences then PLEASE make a video about them because I would love to watch that!

[@switch1e]

I'm really glad you enjoyed it!

[@notmitch]

holy moly the phaser thing at 15:01 unlocked a part of my brain that I had completely forgotten. I remember destroying webpages left right and centre with that

[@sydneytheswiftie13]

Buster had me rolling “do you really think someone would do that.. just go on the internet and tell lies” 😂

[@nebrok_1886]

Thanks for the trip around memory lane. I remember the official rainbow puffle had me probably the most hyped I've ever been for a video game as a kid, I was ecstatic. Waddle on!

[@penguins_eth3781]

really high quality video my dude, keep up the good work ! Please make more Club Penguin video essays, or hell, a part two !

[@ARDIZsq]

Some of my best memories come from Club Penguin. There was of course playing the game every day after school and all the different parties, but I remember so much more, and pretty vividly. From the fun parties and cool crossovers with stuff like the Avengers, to the whacky world of Pookies and e-dating, Club Penguin really taught me a lot, for better or for worse. I remember my friend and I arguing about Puffles and what color would get added next, and how overjoyed we were when brown Puffles got added in. I remember going to Toys R Us with my family after my birthday and using my birthday money to buy an Igloo playset and Gary the Gadget Guy figure. I remember always begging my family for the real Cardjitsu cards, and trying to get them to play it with me. The DS EPF games, the Wii game, Game Day, the redesigns of the famous penguins like Cadence, it's all there in my head. The Box Dimension, the dragon's gold horde, desperately trying to get into specific servers on famous penguin visiting days, especially Gary and Sensei, so many fun little events. Club Penguin and I share so many memories, and it's so sad to see what happened to it. I didn't get to play the final party, I hadn't heard about it until after it was over. This stupid little game will always have a special place with me.

[@ikergonzalez4222]

As someone Who started at club penguin barely when I got 6 Years(my brothers and I would sit on my father's PC and play by turns), speaking about 2011. I got on theories when I was 8. And actually, till now I thought the shadow ninja was a urban legend that wasnt even implemented. I remember trying stuff that were just Legends and stuff. But honestly the place where I was mainly was card-jitsu. It was my favorite place by far. I remember first went for fire element. When ice was added I went for It. And I remember how angry I would get by being bad at Water element. It's ironic how my three brothers and I were for each element. My sister mained Ice, my older brother Water and I did fire. Good memories, indeed. I still keep my "villain special" magazine. My brothers and I just got a magazine for each one once. And I Well remember how much I liked Tusk, mostly by design. And got the magazine. I still keep It to this day.

[@Jomester]

There used to be a cheat client available (which was taken down pretty quickly iirc) and it let you teleport to any location, even if it wasn't available at the time such as Rockhopper's ship. I remember using it and teleporting to his ship expecting to be taken to Rockhopper island, but was pretty disappointed when I didn't find it. Though I did get very spooked when I saw another player enter the same room as me because I thought it was a developer. Turns out it was another player using the same cheat client as me. We became good friends from that point onwards but eventually he stopped logging in. Good times.

[@MiloMurphysLaw]

4:16 all this time I’ve been misremembering Rockhopper’s Quest and thought that we did go to Rockhopper Island. But apparently we just went to Shipwreck Island

[@petereckmann3896]

About Card-jistu shadow. There was a "glitch" in which several card's border became black with no image. For a long time CP players thought those are assets accidentaly appeared in the game.

[@mason5459]

i remember hitting up old elementary school friends i used to play with to go and tip the iceberg together, making that possible at the end was a good move

[@kendog508]

I knew an unlimited coins glitch and I bought every furniture piece in the catalog 😂 I made my whole igloo wall fireplace tv’s. The way you would do it is with that mini game that was on the island. Some random kid taught me how to do it online, and I never saw a KZbin video of it. Thought I was so special for knowing a glitch that no one knew.. same thing happened with black ops zombies acension map. There was a way to charge your knife and if the crawler was half way up the stairs, you could knife and then end up in a floating glitch and never die. Also a glitch I learned online that I never saw posted

[@melissafletcher7918]

my childhood friend told me webkinz users were sneaking into igloo windows at night and killing puffles. I went to bed every night terrified for my puffles.

[@katlee2000]

Loved every second of this video! Thanks for posting!!

[@f1ntendo]

Fantastic video! Definitely deserves far more views than it currently has. Keep up the great work! And I hope you have a great day!

[@switch1e]

Thank you dude! I appreciate it! :D

[@judeeea]

I remember watching a whole tutorial on how to get the rainbow puffle that was about 14 minutes long, I followed it step by step while playing late at night. There's a clown jump scare right at the end of the vid. I got so frightened I fell off my seat and never played with the light off again.

[@ultralaggerREV1]

I remember when during the era of Card Jitsu fire and water, people made fan made theories if the Card-Jitsu DARK WATER and DARK FIRE (don’t remember the real name)

[@cool_dude74]

Why do you look the guy from Victorious

[@switch1e]

which one

[@cool_dude74]

@@switch1e sinjin

[@switch1e]

idk man that's just how i look

[@cool_dude74]

No The bugs bunny meme

[@Jake-ur2wf]

Your narration is great man, I'm subbing. More Club Penguin please!

[@ehhhhcudddddddd]

I remember getting one of the first Rockhopper backgrounds and I was so excited, I used to have a Club Penguin channel but have since lost the info for it. I wish I could go back just one last time and see all the stuff I had collected over the years.

[@awesomeocelot7475]

You should totally do more club Penguin videos! I used to love club penguin and wish it was still a thing….

[@tr4nce206]

Great video, this game holds a lot of memories.. shame it's gone. I remember going to the telescope all the time waiting for his ship xD. Oml I remember getting my first puffle too. The card jitsu hideout before fire just had such a special feel to it..

[@MrJerhomie]

thanks for this nostalgia rush. club penguin was such a defining game in my childhood and hearing abt all the rumors/myths i used to obsess over back then really makes me reminicise on the good ol' days.

[@switch1e]

Thanks for watching!

[@TheAckeePlant]

Seriously well done video, gave me a good bit of joy hearing about these again 😪😊

[@switch1e]

Thanks for watching!! :)

[@BearKookieKusu]

Honestly Club Penguin will always hold a special place in my heart. You could tell how much love and effort the creators put into the game, especially with all the little details. I remember coming home and being so excited for literally every party that came out.

[@switch1e]

agreed. it was such a special game

[@elraterin6227]

What a nostalgic video, thanks Switchie, you remind me of those sweet memories

[@switch1e]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@lucidstudious750]

I came to club penguin like 2 years before it closed but I still enjoyed TF out of it

[@StelmachsWorld]

Club Penguin lives on in our memories, im glad to see videos where people are actually talking about club penguin and not just memeing it

[@susieboo22]

No, but do y';all remember "Aunt Arctic is The Director"? I'm not sure if the devs saw that theory and were like "yeah, sure" and made it canon, or if it was always planned and we just picked up on foreshadowing, but I will never forget how utterly hyped I was when it was confirmed that all our tinfoil hatting was RIGHT.

[@merlymolina97]

I remember I was OBSESSED with the spy games and the the spy missions lol I don’t even remember what it was called

[@collectwithjmc8909]

Thank you for keeping the CP love alive! We need more people like you

[@johncycal7020]

Everytime i see club penguin my heart hurts thinking about the hours that wont come back, great video was such a fun time watching it!

[@mk-aka-morgan8386]

I miss being a part of the Club Penguin community, I used to play it constantly with random classmates in my elementary school and with my sisters

[@switch1e]

i miss it so much

[@giantsequoia2621]

I never knew of many of the fan theories except for rockhopper island, shadow & the iceberg tipping. 2010 onwards until 2017 I only played because I was in the club penguin armies community, which that is a whole iceberg waiting to happen on its own lol. But this was a great video I learned quite a bit from it!

[@ozthebeeman]

In Israel we had our versions of club penguin and one of my favourite things is that often the rumours were true the creators would hide a lot of stuff making easter egg hunting a massive thing also it seems like they would add atuff based on the rumours which was super cool of them

[@anythingagency8516]

Might as well make a club penguin iceberg video. I'd sure as hell watch that 100 times

[@switch1e]

I think somebody already did

[@sunnecas]

Shadow Jitsu was such a cool concept, I wish that it could've been executed

[@deanZAbean]

I remember going to the local town with my parents and there where some stalls up one selling boxes and boxes of Club Penguin trading card packs, and they where really cheep also! so once every 2 weeks I would get a box of them from my parents and would open them to complete my collection but what I was hoping for was a golden code card, these where 1/25 packs I believe and would instant unlock a piece of the clothing for the card jitsu suits, the fire snow and water ones, I managed to complete all 3 of the sets just with those codes and wish I couls still find my club penguin trading cards as I had a full set of them.

[@switch1e]

that's awesome

[@2Busy9Around]

The card jitsu stuff was definitely a highlight of club penguin

[@thepopmanbrad]

It was so dope you could flip the iceberg I remember spending ages just to get the helmet or whatever it was you got after flipping it but then soon got upset cause of the fact the game then shutdown not long after

[@goblingrease4]

just randomly i was dancing in rockhopper's chair and he appeared - i fully convicted myself this was a way to summon him every time lmao

[@trashpandaRaku]

i just love how both Animal Jam and Club Penguin had both something related to breaking ice or flipping it except Animal Jam dint do anything about that but Club Penguin did, i remember when i finnaly flipped the ice, good times

[@cantin8697]

"the school system made me a really paranoid kid" "i was an anxious kid" ahaha 2meirl4meirl...

[@draculena]

such a cool video ^_^ i loved hearing you talk about club penguin! ur commentary is really subtly funny too, nice work :D

[@switch1e]

Thank you so much for watching!

[@yepmulti]

Banger video. I remember believing most of these when I played Club Penguin. These, along with stuff like Waluigi in SM64DS, and the myriad of hoaxes I believed about Pokemon games are so funny looking back. It's honestly a shame that video game hoaxes can't really spread the same way anymore.

[@cedarsapling18]

great video :) gets my stamp of approval as a casual club penguin historian

[@switch1e]

thank you. i'm glad to have my work approved by others in this field of research ;)

[@Pahiman12]

I remember i was one of those kids that tried to search on youtube for club penguin NPC accounts... truly a blast from the past

[@Jenna_Talia]

I remember seeing a video where someone did a tutorial on how to make your puffles sing, by telling them to "sing" then waiting until they bounce towards the corner, they then cheered and opened MS paint with a picture of a puffle pasted in. They'd click on the corner of the puffle's mouth and start to drag an opaque black circle around mimicking the puffle's mouth moving all while dragostea din tei played in the background and child me believed it.

[@ImVxpour]

I remember spending hours upon hours trying to find Rockhopper. I would be on tracking sites always trying to find him for the character background. It was such a great feeling finally finding him

[@aarushidhir2301]

God I remember tipping the iceberg. I planned on watching this just for shits and giggles but this has unlocked some visceral memories.

[@Stums14]

I miss staying up late trying to watch every video to unlock club penguin myths.

[@austriaaustria2679]

I was addicted to this game! I still miss my bff in October 2022. Who ever knew Dagobert 2 or Austria and is reading this: The bff I had r still in my heart and I wanna say thnx u for the joy and fun we had together! Unforgettable moments!

[@Jake-ex9pm]

loved seeing the reference to Mimos club penguin blog. used to check this site daily as a kid

[@thepantyraid]

The rumors in games when I was a kid are nostalgia fuel. I remember hunting bigfoot and leather face in GTA:SA, ghost hunting in MW2 and hunting the cougar man in RDR. Never found any of them but I felt like I was really into something 🤣

[@YRWB98]

Man I remember finding Rockhopper once, man nostalgia of chasing this AI around with like 50 people and tracking what world he was on

[@mikehawk7404]

The intro clip with the rockhopper island brought back some long forgotten memories. Great Stuff

[@greenluck10]

I honestly thought the shadow element in Club Penguin was real for the LONGEST time

[@Typi]

In terms of puffles, there was one teased puffle that was never added, despite having several easter-eggs in various medias to it: The Purple Turkish Van Cat Puffle. This puffle was seen in various parties, such as the Paper Sketch Box Dimension, during the Puffle Trouble animation when Herbert's cave was flooded with Puffles, and a few other behind the scenes stuff. I believe it was even featured in a official guide at some point? This was the ORIGINAL "creature" puffle, but was never added into the game. Its unfortunate, since it was such a mysterious puffle. The concept was reused, but I always thought, when I was a kid, that it was a Puffle who's gimmick was magic, where it wouldve been able to turn into various other creatures, but it was never released. I wonder what happened to it... There's a wikipedia article about it, which isn't the most reliable source, but it documented its appearences quite well.

[@goobinator_]

I remember when I was like 9 years old me and friend ran through town telling everyone to come tip the iceberg and we had so many people come and start drilling and I’m not kidding the very next day, the iceberg was broken in half for some event and I was mind blown and thought I did something.

[@abuantor4648]

Man I miss Club Penguin so much. The membership was really stupid though because like 95% of the items in the game were for members but it still has a special place in my heart. I found a fan game recently, New Club Penguin and it's very similar.

[@switch1e]

I'm honestly sympathetic to the membership business model, mostly because there are a lot of questionable ethics to websites that include targeted advertisements to children. Club Penguin was very clear in its intention to not monetize through ads (many of which are often made to confuse and deceive kids) and I think one some level, it's respectable

[@Stelios78910]

thank u so much for the collaboration callback I fistpumped the air, I cheered, I cried

[@mr.rockleson4829]

I think another one of the main reasons card jitsu shadow was a belief was due to a power card that, when played in the original card jitsu, had the user actually equip a shadow ninja outfit that has the same shape as the elemental ninja suits.

[@BladeTheGabite]

I remember being hooked on those mascot trackers back in the day and got fucking jealous when my sister met Gary the Gadget Guy

[@explosify5035]

something I always thought when I was younger was that once disney bought club penguin it immediately got worse. the newspaper was no longer the fun thing to look for which had a ton of minigames like puffle sudoku and such and was reduced to 2 pages.

[@dixieflowers]

This video brought back sooo many memories

[@ryannyeholt6652]

Very well put together video my friend.

[@switch1e]

Thank you! :)