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[[Image:Pptnew.gif|frame|right|Screenshot of the PinkPT homepage viewed with Internet Explorer on February 2006]]
[[Image:PPT_July_2_2009.png|thumb|300px|Screenshot of the Pink Poogle Toy homepage viewed with Firefox on Thursday, 2 July 2009]]
'''PinkPT''' (formally ''Pink Poogle Toy'' and ''PPT'' for short) is a [[Neopets]] help site which began in February 2001. Maintainted by Yukio, PinkPT is considered by many to be one of the better Neopets help sites. New content is added many times per week, and it hosts a multi-topic forum where Neopets users and other can have fun reguardless of appearance, skin colour, race, religion and origin.


Besides being a Neopets help website, it has expanded into a community which has branched out to include many different topics, containing sub-sites dedicated to other topics, like [[Wikipedia:Harry Potter|Harry Potter]] and [[Wikipedia:Subeta|Subeta]], The PPT Empire shows little sign of slowing down. PinkPT has also expanded into the online gaming world itself. A new section of the site, [[Kaimon]], a game unlike any other text-based RPG online, is being developed.
'''Pink Poogle Toy''' (formerly ''PinkPT'' and ''PPT'') is a [[Neopets]] fansite which was founded by [[#Kym Huynh|Kym Huynh]] and Alicia in February 2001.
 
Now maintained by [[#Kym Huynh|Kym Huynh]] and run by international volunteer staff, Pink Poogle Toy was once considered by many to be one of the better Neopets help sites and is the largest on the Internet comprising of news, editorials, Neopets cheats, solutions and articles.
 
It hosts a still active multi-topic forum where Neopets users come together to interact and share their ideas. Pink Poogle Toy used to have it's own podcast called "''The Pink Poogle Toy Show''" and was the home of the first Neopets band "''The Pink Poogle Toys''".
 
Nowdays, most features have been removed and the blog now daily posts automated news. [[Neodex]] still remains an active component of PinkTP, just one of the few remaining features left over from the site.
 
===Kym Huynh===
Kym Huynh, born in July 6, 1984, of Adelaide, South Australia founded Pink Poogle Toy in 2001 at the age of 17. He studied law and commerce at the University of Melbourne and graduated 30th Oct 2008.
 
===Corporate Relationships===
Pink Poogle Toy maintained a friendly relations with the Neopets staff, particularly Adam Powell, Donna Williams (who both had accounts on the PPT Forum) and the friendly Neopets programmer, Mr. Insane.
 
Members of the Pink Poogle Toy community were often given previews of new developments at Neopets and their opinions on how the game can be improved are at times implemented on the Neopets website itself. (The implementation of the [[Wikipedia:Captcha|captcha]] system in the officially Neopian shops is just one example although it was later removed.)
 
There had also been friendly banter between both sites with the Pink Poogle Toy's description on Neopets changed to "This lovely pink poogle moans about banner ads and frozen accounts when you squeeze it! :P." This pokes fun at the popular Neopets fansite Pink Poogle Toy, which has a reputation for its users expressing their displeasure about these aspects of the game on its forum.


==History==
==History==
===Year 2001===
===Year 2001===
[[Image:Pinkpt-Layout-2.jpg|frame|right|Screenshot of PinkPT's first layout]]
[[Image:Pinkpt-Layout-2.jpg|thumb|Screenshot of Pink Poogle Toy's first layout.]]
Started in February of 2001 by '''Yukio''' and '''Alicia''' {a young woman he knew over the internet}, the fan site started with a meager 2 visitors per day and displayed answers to a small fraction of the Neopets games (notably [[Poogle Solitaire]] and [[Cliffhanger]]). As the content grew with each day, word went around and over 200 hits per day were being recorded by the end of February.
Started in February of 2001 by '''Kym''' and '''Alicia''' {a young woman he knew over the Internet}, the fansite started with a meager two visitors per day and displayed answers to a small fraction of the Neopets games (notably [[Poogle Solitaire]] and [[Cliffhanger]]). As the content grew each day, word went around and over 200 hits per day were being recorded by the end of February.


Alicia then created the [[Wikipedia:Oekaki|oekaki]], an online art board. Created on the servers of [http://www.unixdaemons.com unixdaemons], the oekaki quickly became a popular feature on the site and grew into an online community with at least 2,000 pieces of artwork being created every day. Due to the popularity, Sako's oekaki was created alongside PPT Oekaki, to compliment to extremely talented artists that were emerging from the oekaki. Unfortunately, the oekaki grew to the extent that no host could host it anymore as it was consuming a large amount of bandwidth (mainly due to the fact that the oekaki was image driven), nor could the owner of PinkPT afford it. Sadly, the oekaki was never re-created after unixdaemons emailed Yukio telling him that they can no longer host PPT's oekaki due to its "insane amount of generated traffic".
Alicia then created the [[Wikipedia:Oekaki|oekaki]], an online art board. Created on the servers of [http://www.unixdaemons.com unixdaemons], the oekaki quickly became a popular feature on the site and grew into an online community with at least 2,000 pieces of artwork being created every day. Due to the popularity, Sako's oekaki was created alongside the Pink Poogle Toy Oekaki, to compliment extremely talented artists that were emerging from the oekaki.


In March 2001, one month after opening, PPT was reaching visitors of up to 2000. It was also during this month Alicia decided to leave. She had her reasons of course, her life was busy as everyone's is, and that was a blow to me as she was the person that pushed me further, to help people. I couldn't of done so much without her behind and supporting me. 2 months down the track, she returned though and everything was once again set in motion :) Unfortunately, a further two months proved Alicia could not juggle her daily life with PPT so she resigned turning entire control of the website over to Yukio which was once considered by many to be PinkPT's worst move.
Unfortunately, the oekaki grew so much that no host could host it any more as it was consuming a large amount of bandwidth nor could Kym afford it. Despite its closure for an extended period of time due to its "insane amount of generated traffic", the Pink Poogle Toy oekaki is now online again at Pink Poogle Toy's own servers.


Near the end of April 2001, PPT was receiving 25,000 page views a day. In August, a representative from ''Peel Networks'' <!-- NEED SOURCE PLEASE --> approached PPT with a deal: In exchange for hosting on servers, PPT would advertise their US based magazine company. The offer was instantly approved as PPT was beginning to experience host troubles with hosts such as [http://www.virtualave.net Virtualave], [http://www.hypermart.net Hypermart] and [[Wikipedia:GeoCities|GeoCities]].
In March 2001, one month after opening, Pink Poogle Toy was reaching visitors of up to 2,000. It was also during this month Alicia decided to leave. She returned briefly two months later. Unfortunately, a further two months proved Alicia could not juggle her daily life with Pink Poogle Toy so she resigned; turning entire control of the website over to Kym.


In September 2001, a new deep blue coloured layout created by '''Ben Williams''' from [http://www.hologramdesigns.com Hologram FX] was implemented, in an attempt to make it look professional and create organization for the site much sought after as the content volume had grown to over 100 pages. By the end of 2001 PinkPT was receiving an average of 8,000 unique visitors per day.
Near the end of April 2001, Pink Poogle Toy was receiving 25,000 page views a day. In August, a representative from ''Peel Networks'' <!-- NEED SOURCE PLEASE --> approached Pink Poogle Toy with a deal: In exchange for hosting and network membership, Pink Poogle Toy would advertise their US based magazine company. The offer was approved as Pink Poogle Toy had begun to experience host troubles with hosts such as [http://www.virtualave.net Virtualave], [http://www.hypermart.net Hypermart] and [[Wikipedia:GeoCities|GeoCities]].
 
In September 2001, a new deep blue colored layout created by '''Ben Williams''' from [http://www.hologramdesigns.com Hologram FX] was implemented in an attempt to make Pink Poogle Toy look professional and create organization for the site much sought after as the content volume had grown to over 100 pages. By the end of 2001 Pink Poogle Toy was receiving an average of 8,000 unique visitors per day.


===Year 2002===
===Year 2002===
[[Image:Pinkpt-Layout-3.jpg|frame|right|Screenshot of PinkPT's second layout]]
[[Image:Pinkpt-Layout-3.jpg|thumb|Screenshot of Pink Poogle Toy's second layout]]
In January 2002, Ben Williams of [http://www.hologramdesigns.com Hologram FX] the world once again redesigned the PinkPT with a sky blue layout, said to be the epitome of the playful, cheery, mischievous and fun atmosphere the site.
In January 2002, Ben Williams of [http://www.hologramdesigns.com Hologram FX] once again redesigned Pink Poogle Toy with a sky blue layout. It aimed to encapsulate the qualities of playfulness, cheekiness, mischievousness and fun.
 
Early February 2002, marking Pink Poogle Toy's first birthday, '''Mike''' joined, quickly learning the ins and outs of of [[Wikipedia:PHP|PHP]] and [[Wikipedia:MySQL|MySQL]] to create the [[In-Depth Battlepedia]], providing in-depth information and statistics to all [[Battledome]] related aspects on Neopets. In-Depth Battlepedia became an instant hit, quickly growing into a large site itself.
 
<!-- need confirmation on date -->The forum opened up to the general public and became an instant success with over 600 sign-ups in one week. '''Bob''' quickly picked up administration of the forums, proving himself to be a good role model with a strong vocabulary, all the while guiding Kym through many problems of the forums.


Early February 2002, marking PPT's first birthday, '''Mike''' joined, quickly learning the ins and outs of of [[Wikipedia:PHP|PHP]] and [[Wikipedia:MySQL|MySQL]] to create [[In-Depth Battlepedia]], providing in depth information and statistics to all [[Battledome]] related aspects on Neopets. In-Depth Battlepedia became an instant hit, quickly growing into a large site itself.
Supporting Bob in helping run the forum smoothly was the friendly '''Michelle''', who once sent in a sign saying "PPT rox my sox!", '''Janie''', a model with two children, '''ChromeFox''', a quasi-celebrity for her run-ins with the infamous [[Mari Jhane]], and many other skillful Moderators. Forum hosting became a problem when sign ups increased, as the first host, [http://www.powweb.com PowWeb], was forced to cancel Pink Poogle Toy's account from using too much bandwidth.


<!-- need confirmation on date -->The site forums opened up to the general public and became an instant success with over 600 signups in one week. '''Bob''' quickly picked up administration of the forums, proving himself to be a good role model with a strong vocabulary, all the while guiding Yukio through many problems of the forums. Supporting Bob in helping run the forums smoothly were the friendly '''Michelle''', who once sent in a sign saying "PPT rox my sox!", '''Janie''', a model with two children, '''ChromeFox''', a quasi-celebrity for her run-ins with the infamous [[Mari Jhane]], and many other skillful mods. Forum hosting became a problem when sign ups increased, as the first host, [http://www.powweb.com PowWeb], was forced to cancel PPT's account from using too much bandwidth.
To solve this problem, Pink Poogle Toy was approached by an Administrator at [[Wikipedia:YaBB|YaBB]] with an offer to host Pink Poogle Toy's forums under the consideration it would change to the MySQL version. However, the host was unable to handle Pink Poogle Toy's visitor load, and the account was frozen after one day.


To solve this problem, PPT was approached by an admin at [[Wikipedia:YaBB|YaBB]] with an offer to host PPT's forums under the consideration it would change to the MySQL version. However, the host was unable to handle PPT's visitor load, and the account was frozen after one day. PPT then found a host called [http://www.aplus.net Aplus]. However all the membership information was inadvertently lost. Deciding to start fresh, the MySQL version of YaBB was once again used but due to false information about "unlimited system resources" claimed by Aplus, PPT forums were constantly down, unable to accommodate the growing fan base and visitor load. Once again reverting back to YaBB CGI in the hope that the forum problems would be solved, the forum once again went down after one week.
Pink Poogle Toy then found a host called [http://www.aplus.net Aplus]. During the transfer, however, all the membership information was inadvertently lost. Deciding to start fresh, the MySQL version of YaBB was once again used but due to false information about "unlimited system resources" claimed by Aplus, Pink Poogle Toy forums were constantly down, unable to accommodate the growing fan base and visitor load. Once again reverting back to YaBB CGI in the hope that the forum problems would be solved, the forum once again went down after one week.


With the implementation of the news feature generously installed by '''NeoFan''' who worked with ''Neo-Net'' <!-- Outside links to what this is? -->, updating became a simple task with a little click on a button. The PinkPT team was also joined by three charming ladies with wit to match, '''Amanda''', '''Sarah''' and '''Silver'''.
With the implementation of the news feature installed by '''NeoFan''' who worked with ''Neo-Net'' <!-- Outside links to what this is? -->, updating became a simple task with a little click on a button. The Pink Poogle Toy team was also joined by three charming ladies with wit to match, '''Amanda''', '''Sarah''' and '''Silver''' who worked on the news team to update Pink Poogle Toy with regular Neopets news.


With the tremendous growth in emails the site was receiving, '''robot_blumaroo''' offered to take care of all Neopet related questions. He stayed with PPT for approximately three months before opting out. The help link was then redirected to the forum help boards.
With the tremendous growth in emails the site was receiving, '''robot_blumaroo''' offered to take care of all Neopet related questions. He stayed with Pink Poogle Toy for approximately three months before opting out. The help link was then redirected to the forum help boards.


In April 2002, PPT was reaching visitors of up to 8,000 a day.
In April 2002, Pink Poogle Toy was reaching visitors of up to 8,000 a day.


In July 2002, PPT was introduced to '''Sam'''. Skilled in many programming languages, he quickly became one of the team, sharing ideas, creating extra features and in many regards co-webmasters the entire site itself. His uncanny ability to fully grasp any concept explored and create left the entire team astounded with his deftness, precision and timely responses to any emergency.
In July 2002, Pink Poogle Toy was introduced to '''Sam'''. Skilled in many programming languages, he quickly became one of the team, sharing ideas, creating extra features and in many regards co-webmaster the entire site itself. His uncanny ability to fully grasp any concept explored and create left the entire team astounded with his deftness, precision and timely responses to any emergency.


In September 2002, '''NeLLa''' joined PPT as a guide writer, chosen over 200 applicants in the first 24 hours of the notice being posted. With guides such as [[Swarm]] and [[Evil Fuzzles from Beyond the Stars]], her writing skills possessed a jovial quality, which was a major factor in deciding the final application.
In September 2002, '''NeLLa''' joined Pink Poogle Toy as a guide writer, chosen over 200 applicants in the first 24 hours of the notice being posted. With guides such as [[Swarm]] and [[Evil Fuzzles from Beyond the Stars]], her writing skills possessed a jovial quality, which was a major factor in deciding the final application.


Also in this month, '''Harry''' joined PPT to head the [[NeoDaq]], a department providing information related to the [[Stock Market]] in Neopets. During this time, PPT's new host Aplus was experiencing trouble's with handling In-Depth Battlepedia and forum. Because of constant down time and numerous forum restarts, Yukio approached '''Ted''' from '''SimGateway''' <!-- Outside links to what this is? --> and bought hosting from [http://www.doublehost.net DoubleHost].
Also in this month, '''Harry''' joined Pink Poogle Toy to head the [[NeoDaq]], a department providing information related to the [[Stock Market]] in Neopets. During this time, Pink Poogle Toy's new host Aplus was experiencing troubles with handling In-Depth Battlepedia and forum. Because of constant down time and numerous forum restarts, Kym approached '''Ted''' from '''SimGateway''' <!-- Outside links to what this is? --> and bought hosting from [http://www.doublehost.net DoubleHost].


===Year 2003===
===Year 2003===
The third year approached and with it many milestones. Everyone consolidated within the "PPT Empire" had their own individual story to tell, and while the year had many achievements, there was also a fair share of disturbances. There was great times of joy and friendship, and even times when friendships were tried and tested, some with favorable outcomes and some not so good, watching the backs of various members leave.
The third year approached and with it many milestones. Everyone consolidated within the "Pink Poogle Toy Empire" had their own individual story to tell, and while the year had many achievements, there was also a fair share of disturbances. There was great times of joy and friendship, and even times when friendships were tried and tested, some with favorable outcomes and some not so good, watching the backs of various members leave.


Once again many issues took place on the forums. A total revamp of the administration system at PPT occurred, with the administrators '''Janie''' and '''Bob''' leading the crew of Global Moderators and Moderators into a period of bug fixing. Unfortunately, an issue involving '''ChromeFox''' saw her demoted to a normal member, and a furious uproar took place within the Forums over the facts and points of "the case". In two months ChromeFox was came back into the PPT forum Crew as a moderator, and once again Forum life continuing as usual.
Once again many issues took place on the forum. A total revamp of the administration system at Pink Poogle Toy occurred, with the administrators '''Janie''' and '''Bob''' leading the crew of Global Moderators and Moderators into a period of bug fixing. Unfortunately, an issue involving '''ChromeFox''' saw her demoted to a normal member, and a furious uproar took place within the forum over the facts and points of "the case". In two months ChromeFox came back into the Pink Poogle Toy forum crew as a Moderator, and once again forum life continuing as usual.


Nearing the end of January, '''Bob''', the first employed forum admin for PPT (aka 'man-with-big-stick'), resigned. Although many were taken by surprise, the forum crew saw it coming. Bob had achieved his goals of a forum admin, changing the little forum it was into one of the largest, safest and most friendly forum in relation to Neopets. Many thanks and well wishes were given, and it is believed Bob had carved his name into the minds and hearts of the PPT members, whose legacy still remains.
Nearing the end of January, '''Bob''', the first employed forum Administrator for Pink Poogle Toy (aka 'man-with-big-stick'), resigned. Although many were taken by surprise, the forum crew saw it coming. Bob had achieved his goals as forum Administrator, changing the little forum it was into one of the largest, safest and most friendly forum for Neopets. Many thanks and well wishes were given, and it is believed Bob had carved his name into the minds and hearts of the Pink Poogle Toy members, whose legacy still remains.


After much deliberation, Bob handed his reigns over to '''Big Jim''' (British like Bob). Handling the affairs of the forum alongside the now longest running admin at PPT, Janie, the duo have paved and strengthened the way Bob and Janie started with the help out the global moderators, moderators and members. As of April 4 2003, the forum line up was as follows...
After much deliberation, Bob handed his reigns over to '''Big Jim''' (British like Bob). Handling the affairs of the forum alongside the now longest running Administrator at Pink Poogle Toy, Janie, the duo have paved and strengthened the way Bob and Janie started with the help out the Global Moderators, Moderators and members. As of April 4 2003, the forum line up was as follows:


*'''Forum Administrators'''  
*'''Forum Administrators'''  
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**Winnerliu
**Winnerliu


The year also began a string of Forum competitions, and fads such as "lets-all-post-wav-files-of-our-voices" to "let's-make-silly-movies-of-each-other". The first ever large-scale forum competition began late 2002 and was dubbed the "PPTBIES". Modeled after the ''logies'' <!-- what is that? -->, the forum members old and new stepped up to claim awards. The winners were as follows...
The year also began a string of forum competitions, and fads such as "lets-all-post-wav-files-of-our-voices" to "let's-make-silly-movies-of-each-other". The first ever large-scale forum competition began late 2002 and was dubbed the "PPTbies". Modeled after the real life [[Wikipedia:Logie Award|Logie Awards]], the forum members old and new stepped up to claim awards. The winners were as follows:


*'''Most Valuable Person''' - Shoyru_Lover
*'''Most Valuable Person''' - Shoyru_Lover
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*'''JailBird''' - MichelleTheGoth
*'''JailBird''' - MichelleTheGoth


Now considered an annual event, it led to other creations such as '''PPT Survivor''' (which still is in progression), '''Mina's MMAC''' (Mina's Monthly Art Contest) and '''Hunter Lupe's PPT Staff Sacrificers''', which saw all male PPT members voted out first.
Now considered an annual event, it led to other creations such as '''PPT Survivor''' (which still is in progression), '''Mina's MMAC''' (Mina's Monthly Art Contest) and '''Hunter Lupe's PPT Staff Sacrificers''', which saw all male Pink Poogle Toy members voted out first.


Early 2003 saw Hunter Lupe heading the new department at PPT called the [[In-Depth NeoQuest]] Guide. Growing very quickly, it is now one of the largest detailed [[NeoQuest]] sites on the internet, which contain complete walkthroughs and maps of the entire game. This department was created in anticipation of NeoQuest 2, which many people believe will take a long time before the actual game is released.
Early 2003 saw Hunter Lupe heading the new department at Pink Poogle Toy called the [[In-Depth NeoQuest]] Guide. Growing very quickly, it is now one of the largest detailed [[NeoQuest]] sites on the Internet, which contain complete walkthroughs and maps of the entire game. This department was also created in anticipation of NeoQuest 2.


March 2003 saw the Work Shop department open at PPT. Encompassing tutorials on how to make models of various Neopets aspects; the idea quickly took on and received overwhelming support and good responses from the Neopets community. It is still currently being established and built.
March 2003 saw the Work Shop open at PPT. Encompassing tutorials on how to make models of various Neopets aspects, the idea quickly took on and received overwhelming support and good responses from the Neopets community.


[[Image:Pinkpt-Layout-1.gif|frame|right|Screenshot of PinkPT's third layout]]
[[Image:Pinkpt-Layout-1.gif|thumb|Screenshot of Pink Poogle Toy's third layout]]
During March 2003, the design of PinkPT was changed again. Opting the generic "blue" look all other sites seemed to now possess, PPT redesigned it's layout into a bold red, this time with the logo of the PPT Crew drawn by '''Mina''' as it's welcoming image. Once again designed by Hologram FX, the new layout expressed a cleaner and professional version of PPT. During this time, the first ever member to reach 10,000 posts was ChromeFox, A huge accomplishment considering the next biggest poster was behind by a few thousand posts.
During March 2003, the design of Pink Poogle Toy was changed again. Opting out of the generic "blue" look all other sites seemed to now possess, Pink Poogle Toy redesigned its layout into a bold red, this time with the logo of the Pink Poogle Toy staff drawn by '''Mina''' as its welcoming image. Once again designed by Hologram FX, the new layout expressed a cleaner and professional version of Pink Poogle Toy. During this time, the first ever member to reach 10,000 posts was ChromeFox, a huge accomplishment considering the next biggest poster was behind by a few thousand posts.


Alongside all these new changes, came new staff. '''Magenta''', '''Alex''', '''Mermaid Hil''' and '''Swedevil''' joined the News Crew while PPT adopted the talents of '''Mina Kim''' and '''Lina Blade''' as artists. '''Stephy''' soon joined as the graphics artist at PPT, designing banners and buttons for various purposes. What PPT didn't anticipate this time however was the range of talents it was now adopting. It seemed each staff member at PPT had more than one single talent. Magenta, while posting excellent news also was very well versed in graphic design, while Stephy, who was originally founded as a forum moderator was soon found to also be an incredible graphics artist. Hunter Lupe, who was also modding the forums was soon discovered to be a phenomenal scripter and after critically looking at the staff again, PPT soon found that each staff member was directly contributing to more than one aspect at PPT! As a result, the PPT forums started taking on a more otaku-ish path, everyone lapping up the design atmosphere fueled by stephy's creations and Mina's art contests.
Alongside all these new changes, came new staff. '''Magenta''', '''Alex''', '''Mermaid Hil''' and '''Swedevil''' joined the news team while Pink Poogle Toy adopted the talents of '''Mina Kim''' and '''Lina Blade''' as artists. '''Stephy''' soon joined as the graphics artist at Pink Poogle Toy, designing banners and buttons for various purposes. What Pink Poogle Toy didn't anticipate this time however, was the range of talents it was now adopting. It seemed each staff member at Pink Poogle Toy had more than one single talent. Magenta, while posting excellent news also was very well versed in graphic design, while Stephy, who was originally founded as a forum Moderator was soon found to also be an incredible graphics artist. Hunter Lupe, who was also [[Wikipedia:modding|modding]] the forums was soon discovered to be a phenomenal scripter and after critically looking at the staff again, Pink Poogle Toy soon found that each staff member was directly contributing to more than one aspect at Pink Poogle Toy! As a result, the Pink Poogle Toy forums started taking on a more otaku-ish path, everyone lapping up the design atmosphere fueled by Stephy's creations and Mina's art contests.


While these new developments were taking place, more somber issues were occurring outside of PPT. Late 2002 to early 2003 saw what would take place in what is commonly known as the "Fan Site Wars". Many new neopets related fan sites quickly sprang up and due to more than one website's immature attitude towards the entire game and taking the game way too seriously, a series of attacks on other websites, accusations, hackings, slander and libel quickly took place. PPT attempted to stay away from this as much as possible, only standing up for itself when the other website in question made a direct false statement against PPT. After the incident was finally resolved and a tentative 'peace agreement' was made between the other websites, PPT once again distanced itself from those websites for it did not wish to be a party to such events if they should occur again. PPT was created for the fans, and that's the way it will always be. It decided never to take part in any petty politics, which should never take place between fan sites. Just when everyone starting breathing again, another round of rumors began circulating. Many of them unfounded. However this time, the threat came from Neopets itself. Many fan sites found themselves under threat of having their websites removed unless they were in line with the Terms and Conditions set forth under Neopets. PPT went offline for a period of four days coincidently during this time, which started a fresh batch of rumors that PPT was removed which was untrue. However PPT once again opened up after its short down time and put a definite stop to the rumors.
While these new developments were taking place, more somber issues were occurring outside of PPT. Late 2002 to early 2003 saw what would take place in what is commonly known as the "Fan Site Wars". Many new Neopets related fan sites quickly sprang up and a series of attacks on other websites, accusations, hacking, slander and libel quickly took place.


In April 2003, forum moderator '''werepup''', fresh from a trip to Spain, joined the main PPT site as the newest webmistress of PPT. Dubbed Elle by the crew, Elle has given PPT the much needed female touch, as PPT was beginning to become too male orientated due to the over abundance of testosterone which was flying around everywhere.
Pink Poogle Toy attempted to stay away from this as much as possible. After the incidents were finally resolved and a tentative 'peace agreement' was made between the other websites, Pink Poogle Toy once again distanced itself from those websites for it did not wish to be a party to such events if they should occur again. Pink Poogle Toy was created for the fans, and that's the way it will always be. It decided never to take part in any petty politics, which should never take place between fansites.


Well there you have it. The third year so far has had many triumphs and tribulations while also its fair share of small problems, which were easily taken care of. I, Yukio, could not have taken PPT this without with the dedication and support of so many people. The forum mods, and GMs, the admins, the separate help of individual people, to list them all here would take forever. However some do stand out in my mind and I would like to take this opportunity to thank certain people. Janie and Bob for always being my "second parents" even though they didn't mean to. Elle for always being there to help out whenever she could. Jim, for spending countless hours talking about nothing with me. Sam, Hunter and Mike, the programming wiz kids with a "all-for-one-and-one-for-all" attitude. The news crew Magenta and Alexa, for being the anchor of the team, and CSK, V3n0m0us, Stephy, MichelleTheGoth, Mina, Lina, Pheny, Charisma, Cheezie and Michelle for just those random fun and crazy talks which seems prevalent among the PPT members. Lastly, Cyanna. While we hardly ever talk, you've always struck me as a very sensible, kind and fair person.
Just when everyone started breathing again, another round of rumors began circulating, while many of them were unfounded. However this time, the threat came from Neopets itself. Many fan sites found themselves under threat of having their websites removed unless they were in line with the Terms and Conditions set forth under Neopets. Pink Poogle Toy went offline for a period of four days coincidentally during this time, which started a fresh batch of rumors that Pink Poogle Toy was removed which was untrue. However, Pink Poogle Toy once again opened up after its short down time and put a definite stop to the rumors.
 
In April 2003, forum Moderator '''werepup''', fresh from a trip to Spain, joined the main Pink Poogle Toy site as the newest Webmistress of Pink Poogle Toy. Dubbed Elle by the crew, Elle has given Pink Poogle Toy the much needed female touch.
 
Well there you have it. The third year so far has had many triumphs and tribulations while also its fair share of small problems, which were easily taken care of. I, Kym, could not have taken PPT this without with the dedication and support of so many people. The forum mods, and GMs, the admins, the separate help of individual people, to list them all here would take forever. However some do stand out in my mind and I would like to take this opportunity to thank certain people: Janie and Bob for always being my "second parents" even though they didn't mean to; Elle for always being there to help out whenever she could; Jim, for spending countless hours talking about nothing with me; Sam, Hunter and Mike, the programming whiz kids with a "all-for-one-and-one-for-all" attitude; the news crew Magenta and Alexa, for being the anchor of the team, and CSK, V3n0m0us, Stephy, MichelleTheGoth, Mina, Lina, Pheny, Charisma, Cheezie and Michelle for just those random fun and crazy talks which seems prevalent among the PPT members. Lastly, Cyanna. While we hardly ever talk, you've always struck me as a very sensible, kind and fair person.


===Year 2004===
===Year 2004===
This is the year known amongst the PPT populace as ''The Great Reset''. The forum databases crashed and everything was lost on April of 2004. Since then, the community has rebuilt itself, and nearly all 10,000 members who were part of the forums before the crash joined again, many under different names.
This is the year known amongst the Pink Poogle Toy populace as ''The Great Reset''. The forum databases crashed and everything was lost on April of 2004. Since then, the community has rebuilt itself, and nearly all 10,000 members who were part of the forums before the crash joined again, many under different names.


===Year 2005===
===Year 2005===
[[Image:Pinkpt.gif|frame|right|Screenshot of the PinkPT homepage viewed with Internet Explorer on November 2005]]
[[Image:Pinkpt.gif|thumb|Screenshot of the Pink Poogle Toy homepage viewed with Internet Explorer on November 2005]]
September 2005 saw the overhaul of PPT. With over 1,400 pages of content, the site re-organized its many scattered links on the front page into self contained categories to make the site user friendly. PPT additionally made a vow to itself to serve the visitors, by getting rid of all the pop up advertising and download prompts that once plagued the site. This was eventually realized in 2005, when PPT moved off the '''wh000t networks'''<!-- need source --> which was run by Yukio's friend at [http://www.worldofbritney.com World of Britney]. Although PPT still contains banner advertisements, the days of intrusive advertising were officially over.
September 2005 saw the overhaul of Pink Poogle Toy. With over 1,400 pages of content, the site re-organized its many scattered links on the front page into self contained categories to make the site user friendly. Pink Poogle Toy additionally made a vow to itself to serve the visitors, by getting rid of all the pop up advertising and download prompts that once plagued the site. This was eventually realized in 2005, when Pink Poogle Toy moved off the '''wh000t networks'''<!-- need source --> which was run by Kym's friend at [http://www.worldofbritney.com World of Britney]. Although Pink Poogle Toy still contains banner advertisements, the days of intrusive advertising were officially over.


With another redesign by Ben Williams of HologramFX, PPT now exuded a confidence in its bright colours. The forums grew to new heights, breaking its record of most users online (since the forum reset) of 149 on September 12, 2005, during the early days of the [[Lost Desert Plot]]. This online record has since been broken, but it became apparent the Neopets users were using PPT as a source of information before it became publicly available, which was totally fine by the PPTers.
With another redesign by Ben Williams of HologramFX, Pink Poogle Toy now exuded a confidence in its bright colours. The forums grew to new heights, breaking its record of most users online (since the forum reset) of 149 on September 12, 2005, during the early days of the [[Lost Desert Plot]]. This online record has since been broken, but it became apparent the Neopets users were using Pink Poogle Toy as a source of information before it became publicly available, which was totally fine by the PPTers.


[[Image:Intro.gif|frame|right|Image Adam Powell created making fun of the PPTers]]
[[Image:Intro.gif|thumb|Image Adam Powell created making fun of the PPTers]]
PPT also saw programmers of [[The Neopets Team]] posting on the forums to interact with Neopets players, even [[Donna Williams]] and [[Adam Powell]]. This would eventuate to Neopets changing the description of the '''Pink Poogle Toy''' on Neopets to "''This lovely pink poogle moans about banner ads and frozen accounts when you squeeze it! :P''". In fact, Adam Powell wrote "Detention for PPTForum!" on an image of the discovered NeoSchools area when members of the PPT Forum announced it before it was announced by Neopets themselves.
Pink Poogle Toy also saw programmers of [[The Neopets Team]] posting on the forums to interact with Neopets players, even [[Donna Williams]] and [[Adam Powell]]. This would eventuate to Neopets changing the description of the '''Pink Poogle Toy''' on Neopets to "''This lovely pink poogle moans about banner ads and frozen accounts when you squeeze it! :P''". In fact, Adam Powell wrote "Detention for PPTForum!" on an image of the discovered NeoSchools area when members of the Pink Poogle Toy Forum announced it before it was announced by Neopets themselves.


2005 also saw PPT open its doors to other Neopets fan sites. With the advent of all the new Neopets fan sites, PPT welcomed them by creating a large link database for everyone to join. The neolinks page <!-- is this defunct? --> listed some of the more prominent websites, but was always open to accept links to and from sites that clearly have shown a lot of effort in them.
2005 also saw Pink Poogle Toy open its doors to other Neopets fan sites. With the advent of all the new Neopets fan sites, Pink Poogle Toy welcomed them by creating a large link database for everyone to join. The Neopets links page listed some of the more prominent websites, but was always open to accept links to and from sites that clearly have shown a lot of effort in them.


In 2005, the PPT top sites, which opened and then closed due to hosting problems, re-opened. It's now the largest Neopets-related topsites in the world and is listed as one of the largest hosted topsites on [http://www.itopsites.com iTopsites].
In 2005, the Pink Poogle Toy Topsites, which opened and then closed due to hosting problems, re-opened. It's now the largest Neopets-related topsite in the world and is listed as one of the largest hosted topsites on [http://www.itopsites.com iTopsites].


The PPT Oekaki flourished to new heights during 2005, making it one of the largest oekakis available. Now on its own dedicated server, the population has once again grew, and on March 3, 2006 had over 20,000 individual pieces of artwork created on it.
The Pink Poogle Toy Oekaki flourished to new heights during 2005, making it one of the largest oekakis available. Now on its own dedicated server, the population has once again grown, and on March 3, 2006 had over 20,000 individual pieces of artwork created on it.


Also in 2005, PPT expanded its Neopets Help Program by posting neopets news, and by adding the NeoDex, Neopets-Layouts Graphics Department and the avatar catlog. <!-- need accurate dates for a lot of these events that happened -->
Also in 2005, Pink Poogle Toy expanded its Neopets help programs by posting Neopets news, and by adding the [[NeoDex:About|Neodex]], Neopets Graphics department and the Avatar Catalog. <!-- need accurate dates for a lot of these events that happened -->


===Year 2006===
===Year 2006===
[[Image:Pptnew.gif|frame|right|Screenshot of the PinkPT homepage viewed with Internet Explorer on February 2006]]
[[Image:Pptnew.gif|thumb|300px|Screenshot of the Pink Poogle Toy homepage viewed with Internet Explorer on February 2006]]
On March 2, 2006, a new website layout was created by Ben of [http://www.hologramdesigns.com HologramFX], replacing the previous layout which started to become cluttered due to the amount of content on the site, solved in the new design which categorized everything into distinguishable areas.
On March 2, 2006, a new website layout was created by Ben of [http://www.hologramdesigns.com HologramFX], replacing the previous layout which started to become cluttered due to the amount of content on the site, solved in the new design which categorized everything into distinguishable areas.


With the redesign of PPT finished, Yukio began to focus on creating a PPT news team for unreleased Neopets news, a comprehensive pre-template layouts section for users to have on their [[User Lookup]], promoting the Avatar Catalog <!-- date created? -->, and promoting the NeoDex and turning it into the most comprehensive place online source for all Neopets information. Eventually, he hoped the NeoDex to also be used by [[The Neopets Team]] for reference purposes for their work in addition to anyone who wanted to learn a little bit more about Neopets. Yukio also saw the potential to turn the entire site into an entertainment network, and eventually leverage the site traffic into other areas of his work.
With the redesign of Pink Poogle Toy finished, Kym began to focus on creating a Pink Poogle Toy news team for unreleased Neopets news, a comprehensive pre-template layouts section for users to have on their [[User Lookup]], promoting the Avatar Catalog <!-- date created? -->, and promoting the NeoDex and turning it into the most comprehensive place online source for all Neopets information. Eventually, he hoped the NeoDex to also be used by [[The Neopets Team]] for reference purposes for their work in addition to anyone who wanted to learn a little bit more about Neopets. Kym also saw the potential to turn the entire site into an entertainment network, and eventually leverage the site traffic into other areas of his work.


During the appearance of the new design the "Write An Article Contest" begun to take full effect <!-- Need a real accuracte date as i'm just going off what previous edit dates of this article have given me -->. Two months after its creation people were sending in many entires to Yukio, who quoted he had over 800 emails in his inbox waiting to be replied to in addition to over 60 contest entires to look at, add to PPT and judge on On March 4, 2006.
During the appearance of the new design the "Write an Article Contest" begun to take full effect <!-- Need a real accurate date as I’m just going off what previous edit dates of this article have given me -->. Two months after its creation people were sending in many entries to Kym, who quoted he had over 800 emails in his inbox waiting to be replied to in addition to over 60 contest entries to look at, add to Pink Poogle Toy and judge on on March 4, 2006.


Another redesign was made yet again by HologramFX on August 13, 2006, making the previous pink colour more purple and reordering the categories the layout again. On August 15, the [ PPT Promenade] opened up for Neopets users to buy from. The PPT Promenade was a "mall" (collection of user [[shop]]s) owned and maintained by users of PinkPT. The '''Your Neopet Dailies''' was also created on ''(need date)'', and contained several quick links, features, and many other things a user would daily do.
Another redesign was made yet again by HologramFX on August 13, 2006, making the previous pink colour purpler and reordering the categories the layout again. On August 15, the ‘’Pink Poogle Toy Promenade’’ opened up for Neopets users to buy from. The Pink Poogle Toy Promenade was a "mall" (collection of user [[shop]]s) owned and maintained by users of Pink Poogle Toy. The '''Your Neopet Dailies''' was also created on ''(need date)'', and contained several quick links, features, and many other things a user would daily do.


===Milestones ===
===Year 2007===
*February 1, 2001: PPT is created.
*May 30, 2004: The day known as "The Great Reset" - which was the day everything on PPT was lost - mainly involving the forum.
*Thursday, June 01, 2006: PPT Breaks the 300 subscribers barrier to its feed including email subscriptions.
*Friday, June 02, 2006: PPT Forum breaks its most online users record - 178 on 02 Jun 2006 03:43 am.


==Departments==
===Year 2008===
===Avatar Catalog===
The Avatar Catalog is a premier source for all the Neopets avatars! Allowing users to register unique accounts, users an kept abreast of which avatars they have and which they do not by saving checklists that will remember what has been marked as "achieved" and has not.


===In-depth Battlepedia===
===Year 2009===
The IDB is the world's most renouned source for Neopets Battledome information.
[[Image:Pink_Poogle_Toy_Screenshot_9_April_2009.png|thumb|300px|Screenshot of the Pink Poogle Toy homepage viewed with Safari on Wednesday, 8 April 2009]]
2009 was a paradigm change for Pink Poogle Toy. With graduation from Law School behind him, Kym sought to turn Pink Poogle Toy from an ad hoc hobby fansite into a working business model. This began with an overhaul of how staff were employed and managed, from the introduction of paid positions at Pink Poogle Toy from late 2008 to enacting procedures and policies to ensure that staff members that worked at Pink Poogle Toy were given continuous feedback and encouraged to developed their own goals and plans for the own portfolios.


===In-depth NeoQuest===
In addition to these policy changes, a business model and corporate structure was created and regular meetings over Skype were enacted with all staff members at Pink Poogle Toy, in particular with Administrators for their various departments. As of April 2009, the changes are still taking place.
THe IDNQ the first complete NeoQuest information site and remains the most comprehensive on the Internet.


===NeoDex===
The following took place in April: (1) A new round of forum Moderators was introduced; (2) The selection of the new oekaki Administrator; (3) The selection of the new NeoDex Administrator; (3) The selection of the new podcast Administrator; (4) The upgrading of the site blog to the P2 interface and the syncing up of blog updates to Pink Poogle Toy's own Twitter account; (5) The implementation of auto links in the news to the NeoDex; (6) The creation of unrated neopets and petpets at NeoPool; (7) The release of 2008's Pink Poogle Toy collage; (8) The opening of the Pink Poogle Toy collage for 2009; (9) An initial revision of the Pink Poogle Toy Constitution; and (10) An overhaul at the oekaki including the introduction of the oekaki blog.
The NeoDex is the online Neopets encyclopedia and is the largest of its kind online.


===NeoPool===
The following took place in May: (1) Nekopan hired to handle the weekly feature posts: (i) Rate-a-Neopets Monday; (ii) Wiki Wednesday; and (iii) Rate-a-Petpet Friday; (2) Negotiations with a graphics artist to start a free userlookup, guild and petpet pages layouts section; (3) The creation of the Altador Cup IV content pages to provide coverage for this year's Altador Cup plot; (4) A podcast Administrator appointed (Ella); (5) Eileen promoted to the new forum Administrator; (6) Third round of forum Moderator sorting to ensure at least two active Moderators per forum board; (7) The navigation on PPT updated with the categorization of submitted guides; (8) Cosmetic fixes to the current layout; (9) New designs at all three PPT oekakis; (10) The re-introduction of weekly themes at the PPT oekakis; (11) New favicons around PPT; (12) All PPTbie prizes sent out from 2008; (13) The creation of the sandbox boards for forum Moderators; (14) An update to the ranking system at the forum; and (15) The forum header graphic updated.
Added May 19, 2006, the Neopool was created to offer Neopians a more rounded visitor experience. Created to fill a void left upon the Closure of Neocolours, the Neopool is the first in its kind to allow users to vote and rank neopet species/colour combinations.


===Trophy Catalog===
The following took place in June: (1) New Adam Powell and Donna Williams interviews added; (2) Main section clean-up; (3) An oekaki Moderator appointment; (4) A news poster appointment; (5) A Co-Webmaster appointment.
Added May 31, 2006, the Trophy Catalog provides visitors with a checklist for all of Neopets' trophies, again a fansite first.


==Other Features==
=== Era of decline ===
===Pink Ink===
PinkPT's newspaper, containing articles, stories and art pertaining to Neopets and other topics. Began in October 31, 2004.


===PPT Podcast===
====2010 - Present====
PPT's very own talk show features hosts from the PPT Forums discussing the latest and most relevant topics to date. Incorporating humor and a little bit of sillyness, the PPT Podcast is widely distributed online via iTunes and all relevant podcatchers.


===Custom Shields===
Despite the numerous years of prosperity, things began to not go so well after 2009. With the attempts to implement a more business-like structure, the site's foundations began to crumble and soon fell to a state nothingness.  
PPT's Custom Shields are created by Mike, a vetern Neopian who ran with [[Ad0]] back in the days of the great Neopian hackers. Proving immensely popular, custom shields are able to be requested by PPT visitors for creation.


==Sub Sites==
Abandoning it's previous Pink and frilly layouts, in [[2010]] PinkTP switched to a new, much more modern layout showcasing various news and guides submitted by various users. With the coming of 2011, however, the news feed itself began to stop all together, with the last news post in [[2011]] [http://web.archive.org/web/20110829005356/http://pinkpt.com/news-updates/500-free-beta-invites-to-mino-monsters/ inviting users to join another pet site].
===Kym's Music===
Kym's Music is a homage to one of PPT's very own artists Kym Huynh (whose website can be accessed at http://www.kymhuynh.com/). Supported by the PPT community at large both in terms of promotion and kudos, Kym Huynh is currently writing a PPT theme song for the community.


===DancePhD===
In mid-2011, the site adopted another layout, one which was grey and less life-full than it's predecessor. From this point on, the blog was filled daily with recycled posts from years before, in some cases [http://pinkpt.com/neopets-events/altador-cup/altador-cup-prizes-2007/ posting guides to the 2007 Altador Cup's Prize Shop], or mentioning events long gone. The automated news was further seen to be true when the comments for daily posts would be from years before, also discussing topics long gone. Many of the sites features also disappeared, now leading to 404-errors and dead links.
Begun in June 15, 2005, '''DancePhD''' is all about dancing, an enjoyable hobby of the webmaster. It aims to be the central hub of all things dance, DancePhD connects the international hiphop/break dance community.


===Planet Subeta===
Today, Pink Poogle Toy remains very much the same, automatically pulling up news from years before and posting it on the front page. Every now and then, a post will appears on the [http://pinkpt.com/forum/index.php forums] from a random passerby or still dedicated staff member, though the days of talks with [[TNT]] staff and long-fun filled conversations long remain in the past. All that remains would be still dedicated PPT fans chatting in the [http://pinkpt.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=3 general neopets] section, with the other sections of the forum seen empty as far as 2009.
A fansite for a Neopets substitute game called Subeta.


===Avada Kedavra===
[[Neodex]] still remains widely popular, with dedicated staff and editors still working hard to archive events, characters, and happenedings in the world of [[Neopia]].
A fansite for the widely popular Harry Potter novels.


===Sailor Moon===
===Milestones ===
Begun in June 15, 2005, '''Sailor Moon''' is a fansite for the popular anime cartoon series [[Wikipedia: Sailor Moon|Sailor Moon]].
*February 1, 2001: Pink Poogle Toy is created.
*May 30, 2004: The day known as "The Great Reset" - which was the day everything on Pink Poogle Toy was lost - mainly involving the forum.
*Thursday, June 01, 2006: Pink Poogle Toy breaks the 300 subscribers barrier to its feed including email subscriptions.
*Friday, June 02, 2006: Pink Poogle Toy Forum breaks its most online users record - 178 on 02 Jun 2006 03:43 am.


===Oekaki School===
==Departments==
Oekaki tutorials for one of the largest oekakis on the Internet, the PPT Oekaki.


===The Laughing Nekos===
===Avatar Catalog (Removed)===
A site created by PPT's designer Ben Williams.


==The Forum Community==
The Avatar Catalog was a source for all the Neopets [[avatar]]s! Allowing users to register unique accounts, users could keep abreast of which avatars they have and which they do not by saving checklists that would remember what has been marked as "achieved" and has not.
One of the more popular areas of PinkPT is the large community hosted on the phpBB forum. Within its walls, PinkPTers (a person who often visit PinkPT) converse about all things Neopets and many other topics. PinkPTers have been described as hard-working, fun-loving insane people, much as PinkPT is meant to be. With the help of the forum, a lot of content, and a great community, PinkPT has developed their own little slice of online culture.


Currently under the eye of the three administrators. Jim, the weird guy, handles the disciplinary side of things. Hunter Lupe handles the technical side of it. Runevalkyrie is more a watchful eye over the staff, as many things have gone wrong in its past.
Unfortunately, it no longer operates.


===The "One Black Meowclops Pen" Experiment===
===In-depth Battlepedia (Dead)===
The OBMP experiment was started by PinkPT user [http://www.pinkpt.com/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4911 jrtman] who was inspired by Kyle MacDonald's very successful [http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com One Red Paperclip] experiment in which Mr. MacDonald started with a single red paperclip and hoped to trade up until he received a house.
''Main Article: [[In-Depth Battlepedia (PPT)]]''


Jrtman created the OBMP experiment to see if he could recreate ORP in the world of Neopets. A small webpage for the experiment was put up on his pet PrinceGrizzly's [http://www.neopets.com/~PrinceGrizzly petpage] explaining the experiment and listing the usernames of every person who contributed to it.
The In-depth Battlepedia was the world's most renowned source for Neopets Battledome information. It unfortunately closed down in 2011 after going bankrupt.


The mission was to start with a single Black Meowclops Pen (worth around 2k Neopoints) and continue to trade for slightly better things until the goal of a complete Secret Laboratory Map set (9 pieces) was reached successfully.
===In-depth NeoQuest===
''Main Article: [[In-Depth NeoQuest]]''


''OBMP is still an on-going experiment and as such jrtman has not yet reached the goal point.''
The In-depth NeoQuest the first complete [[NeoQuest]] information site and remains the most comprehensive on the Internet for both NQI and [[NQII]].


===Memoirs From PPTers===
===NeoDex===
I remember when Hunter was in the chatbox, and he changed the little title about every five minutes. Once, he spelt bizarre wrong, too. Once in the chatbox, somebody was "mysteriously" kicking random people and nobody could figure out which mod was doing it. - Caesara
''Main Article: [[Neodex:About]]''


PI basically started when somebody who I believe is no longer a member suggested starting a paper of sorts for PPT. I offered to help with it, and started a thread in Misc Disc, asking if anybody would be willing to help. It got loads of responses, and millions of suggestions. (I won't go into all the little details of who did what and all that, because the list IS rather long) The first PI staff was created, and all we needed was somewhere to start. At first PI was going to be set up on angelfire, by Lilac, who had offered to do the job, provided she had everything. Then Hunter stepped in and offered to do it for us. (Thank you, Hunter!) So the CP was created, along with the front page, and all that stuff. The original thread in Misc Disc, by then, had been split numerous times and had about 50 pages in total. When the first issue came out, it didn't have much in it and had a few mistakes (on our part), but everybody was happy. (If I haven't mentioned it yet, PI was started mid-August of '03.) By December the staff had changed numerous times, and we were doing quite a bit better. We had our ups and downs (mostly me forgetting to release the issue or being lazy or something else wrong on my part *ahem*). Then we appealed to Jim for a usergroup. After a while of bugging him about it, it was created, and Pudding was set in charge as the mod. After a while Yoshi was added as the co-mod, and then PPT went down. - Caesara
The NeoDex is the online [[Wikipedia:Wiki|wiki]] Neopets encyclopedia and is the largest of its kind online.


:The April Fool's Day joke, where some posts were converted into 1337, and where the moderators were clones. There were also spammish ranks (Beyond Spammy) and the filters ("According to the prophecy...") - Dragonfire and Runevalkyrie
===NeoPool (Removed)===
''Main Article: [[NeoPool]]''


Back when the community first started, members had to vote mods in. Bob asked for people to UN-vote him. A week or so later, he was an admin. - Atamand
Added May 19, 2006, the Neopool was created to offer Neopians a more rounded visitor experience. Created to fill a void left upon the closure of [[Neocolours]], the Neopool is the first in its kind to allow users to vote and rank neopet [[species]]/[[colour]] combinations. It was removed from the site at an unknown time.


:Back in December, when my uncle had a heart attack, I had to sit in the hospital every day waiting for news on him, try and comfort my cousin, but as soon as I got back to my grandmother's house every night, I could get on PPT, and everyone there was friendly, and those that knew about my uncle cared enough to say something in my thread about him. Thanks to PPT, Christmas 2003 turned out to be better than the circumstances would have ever allowed. - Tested
===Trophy Catalog (Removed)===


The day when Steph and Jenn met each other. They were the first PPTers to meet in real life. - Jill
Added May 31, 2006, the Trophy Catalog provided visitors with a checklist for all of Neopets' trophies, a first for any [[fansite]].


I remember when Staribbon posed as a girl and joined the Divas and talked in the Divas Chat before coming out that she was a he. We were all pretty fooled! S/he left shortly after that and was never heard from again. He posed as a girl due to "personality issues" or something of the sorts. This was in 2002. - Jill
It was removed from the site at an unknown date.


I remember when Fiddly made paradoy raps from Eminem and 50 Cent's songs and became know as "Fiddy Cent". Truly a hilarious experience. - Jill
==Other Features==


:Outkast Fight a long time ago (back when Ven ran the board). It was forty beautiful pages of spammy battling. - Sunnie
===Pink Ink (Removed)===


:The Great Time Warp August 2003. Not only were our post counts destroyed (Sunnie's was cut in half), but all the threads were gone, too! That especially affected the RPers. Poor guys. - Sunnie
'''Pink Ink''' was Pink Poogle Toy's newspaper, once containing articles, stories and art pertaining to Pink Poogle Toy, Neopets and other topics. It began in summer 2003, but the first issues were lost in the reset in 2004. Pink Ink returned on October 31, 2004, but has since been removed and lost again.


The creation of Pink Ink was such a lot of hype. - Lillie
=== Podcast (Discontinued) ===


Oh heck, I remember. There was this one time I was completely and utterly miserable for two weeks or so. I had a minor emotional weeping period, don't know if it was break down or not. I will definitely remember the support of all those who posted to cheer me up and just to tell me that they were there. It was important to me to know that people were just there for me and so I've tried since to be there for other people. I got a surprise webpage from CSK and Charisma who had collected what nice things people had to say about me and put them all in. I'll always be grateful to everyone who was there for me. I have a copy of everything saved onto my hard drive for those down days, because I never want to be so miserable onto other people again. Many people are down and PPT has always proved to be a supportive place for them. - Lillie
Pink Poogle Toy  used to produces a podcast called "The Pink Poogle Toy Show." The first show launched on August 23, 2005. The show featured discussion about the game Neopets but is also featured the latest additions to Neopets from the corporate world and how it affects its users. Show episodes were once released weekly and the podcast was one of the largest Neopets podcasts in existence.


Being made a moderator was fun. I climbed out of bed one day and was attacked by congratulations on AIM. Ooo, now that was a sight, a bleary eyed, tossle haired kid with jaw dropped open when I found out. - Lillie
The show is no longer recorded.


The PPT Gods Dictionary being a mini success at the start of it. That was great simply because it was the first original idea I had ever had on PPT and it was a good one. I've only got the first copy saved, not the new one. *sigh* - Lillie
=== Custom Shields (Removed) ===


PPT Survivor! I loved how it was all girls at the end and the conversations that took place about who was winning and who was losing. The discussion of who to vote for. I clearly recall Chrome saying she would flip a coin for if the last two girls both had a "C" as the beginning letter of their name. - Lillie
Pink Poogle Toy's Custom Shields were initially created by Mike, a veteran Neopian who ran with [[Ad0]] back in the days of the great Neopian hackers. Proving immensely popular, custom shields were once able to be requested by Pink Poogle Toy visitors for creation. The service has since been discontinued.


:Way back during Summer 2002 we were constantly changing servers. After my original registering in mid June, I had to reregister about 5 times. First time was because I forgot my password on my original account because I changed my email and it didn't let me log in once it sent me a new password. But the other 4 times were server changes. Final time was when we settled onto the almost permanent server, which just recently went down. - Lass
==The Forum Community==


:Also, the time warp of last summer. If my memory serves me correctly, it happened in early to mid August. All posts were deleted that were made after July 13th. Post counts were also set back to what they had been on July 13th. It was mass chaos, since no one had any idea what was going on. Looking back on it, I laugh at how all the members were acting. Seeing all these topics spread across the forums stating "Whats going on?!?! My post count was lowered!!" makes me laugh now. - Lass
One of the more popular areas of Pink Poogle Toy is the large community run on a phpBB back-end. Within its walls, PPTers (a person who often visit Pink Poogle Toy) converse about all things Neopets and many other topics. PPTers have been described as hard-working, fun-loving insane people, much as Pink Poogle Toy is meant to be. With the help of the forum, a lot of content, and a great community, Pink Poogle Toy has developed their own little slice of online culture.


:And when Jim made me an admin for 30 seconds when the forums were running incredibly slow. - Lass
===The "One Black Meowclops Pen" experiment (Over)===


:There was also the Dark Angel/Chrome fad. If you supported the Dark Angels you would change your username to "Dark Angel [insert username here]" and if you supported the Chromes you would become "Chrome[insert name here]". - Lass
The One Black Meowclops Pen experiment was started by Pink Poogle Toy user [http://www.pinkpt.com/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4911 jrtman] (Dead link) who was inspired by Kyle MacDonald's very successful [http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com One Red Paperclip] experiment in which he started with a single red paperclip which he traded up until he received a house. Jrtman created the One Black Meowclops Pen experiment to see if he could recreate One Red Paperclip in the world of Neopets.


I remember kicking SL's butt in Yahoo Pool 6-0 does that count? - Pyro Parrot
A small webpage for the experiment was put up on his pet PrinceGrizzly's [http://www.neopets.com/~PrinceGrizzly petpage] explaining the experiment and listing the usernames of every person who contributed to it. The mission was to start with a single ''Black Meowclops Pen'' (worth around 2,000 [[neopoints]] at the time) and continue to trade for slightly better things until the goal of a complete [[Treasure Maps#Secret Laboratory|Secret Laboratory Map]] set (9 pieces) was reached successfully. The experiment was closed on July 16, 2006, due to lack of interest, and the final item, a ''Disco [[Petpet Paint Brush]]'', was donated to the [[Money Tree]].


:I remember halloween back a few years ago on the YaBB forums. It was really cool, and Hunter had some sort of music in his sig that freaked people out. The Dark Angel fad happened around there with another halloween fad. It was really fun. - Koku
==Enemies==
Despite the fact that Pink Poogle Toy has such a wide fan base, it has also ranked up a number of enemies. As the largest Neopets fan site, many runners of other sites claimed that Pink Poogle Toy is a site that encourages a multitude of problems, including spyware, viruses and hardcore pornography. Of course, this is not true.


:I remember Ven/Optimistic Consideration. He was really nice, and deserved to become a Global/Super mod. - Koku
Although the websites sports a number of advertisements, the management makes sure that no illegal content makes its way onto the computer. Not only do other sites have grudges, but many older members of the community also return to antagonize the forums. Still, with over thousands of members, Pink Poogle Toy could be considered the largest fan site for Neopets.


:I remember when Chrome first released the RM2K game. I played it over and over..no matter how small it was. ^_^ - Koku
==Mascots==


I remember Fidd's non-blinking blinkie. "I don't blink like all those CONFORMIST BLINKIES!" - Sapphire Faerie
The most noted celebrity on Pink Poogle Toy is the chicken, Arrow. In the beginning, it started out as an emoticon, but this chicken has been officially raised to the 'mascot' of Pink Poogle Toy. At the top of the forum, one can see the banner. There is a picture of Arrow, painted by the resident artist, the wonderful Yoshi. In various forms, during the holiday seasons, you could once Arrow in such forms as the roast chicken during Thanksgiving, and a Cupid arrow, during St. Valentine's Day


:If someone asked me to name my favorite PPT memory, I'd laugh in their face. PPT has created so many memories for me that it's impossible to pick a favorite. But some of my special ones include becoming Capo in the PPT Mafia. Being Capo means that you've caught one thousand scammers and reported them. Becoming Capo was such a huge accomplishment for me. It made me feel special to be only the second Capo in all of PPT history. The Mafia has always been one of my favorite usergroups because it gave me a reason to work towards something in PPT. I really, really loved being able to leave PPT in the evenings and feel like I had, in a way, made Neopets a little bit of a better place because of the scammers I had caught. Another huge memory I have is starting PPTAAC in February of 2004. PPTAAC stands for 'PPTers Against Animal Cruelty'. It all started as just a 'Boycott Petco' thread, but soon developed to be one of the few clubs on PPT with a good purpose. At first, it surprised me at how many people were interested in our cause. We suddenly had a huge amount of people volunteering to make graphics and work at their local animal shelters. I remember that after mentioning volunteering at the local Humane Society, tons of PPTAAC members posted that they'd checked out their Humane Society and local shelters and a few of them volunteered. It made me kind of proud that I belonged to a forum with such good and caring people. Speaking of good and caring people, I remember numerous times where PPT members cared about me. There was one time recently when I had an ear infection, and just overnight, over 20 people replied and told me to get well soon, and many also suggested things to make the infection go away. I especially remember Twinkle messaging me personally to ask if I was okay. She told me that she had read my thread on the infection and cared enough to personally message and ask if I was okay- and that meant so, so much to me. Another huge memory I got from PPT was becoming a PPT God. For those of you who don't know, a PPT God is a user who achieves one thousand posts. After becoming a PPT God, I quickly joined ASP, one of PPT's random and crazy groups. I loved ASP because it gave me a chance to be as crazy and loud as I wanted to be, and my opinion was always heard when I wanted it to be. ASP's initials stand for 'Avs, Soda, Pudding'. Avs is to stand for Lady Night, who makes avatars and was a founder. Soda stands for the user Soda, another founder. And Pudding stands for Pudding, another founder. ASP was completely secret, which was just another aspect I loved about it. Another memory was the restart of the PPT Gnome Legion. I was, and still am, the Great Gnome Mistress. The Gnomes were supposed to welcome new members, hold giveaways, and just do nice stuff. And now comes one of my fondest memories- being accepted into the Pink Ink. The Pink Ink is PPT's official newspaper, and I was always in awe of the writers. One day, Cae- the newspaper founder- opened up applications. I applied first for Forum Writer, didn't make it, then applied for Entertainment- and got in! I felt so happy for weeks afterward. The Pink Ink board was the best... everyone was so welcoming and encouraging. Even though I only got a chance to write 2 articles before the forums went down, I still loved every minute of being a PI writer. All in all, PPT is a wonderful community that I'm glad to be a part of. Everyone is so nice and encouraging, and always there for you. The only thing I don't like about it is that I didn't join sooner. - Bagel
==Influences==
The Pink Poogle Toy item on Neopets has had its description changed to "This lovely pink poogle moans about banner ads and frozen accounts when you squeeze it! :P", a playful reference to the members of Pink Poogle Toy forums, many of whom frequently complain about various aspects of Neopets.


Theres a lot of memories in PPT, regaurdless of when you joined. They were made everyday and they seem to keep on popping up. From what I've read, we need to write about the memories which we hold dear to ourselves that have happened over the past years. One which stands out is Fe and that elbow licking. I thought it was totally gross when that came up but it turned out to be some awesome fun. Both PPTbies were really awesome to see. The whole "Chrome for Pres" thing still cracks me up. I suppose one of the memories which actually include me that I have is when I found out that someone who I knew online, and someone who I also knew offline were the same person. I had met a fellow PPTer and known him for nearly a year. That PPTers is Ammer and I think I can say that I've made an awesome friend off such an event. I remember being Ill last November and posting a "Cookie" thread cause I wanted to bake. That was the day I got the most awesome cookie recipe ever. Welsh Cookies. Another one would be my birthday. I wont be forgetting coming online and seeing a "Happy Birthday Xil" Thread. That was awesome. Jasujo's birthday was right around then too!! Heck, Anyones birthday should really count as a memory. It's a great feeling coming online and seeing all your friends posting "Happy Birthday" or something to that effect. - Xil
A plushie featuring Arrow exists on Subeta, saying in its description: "Aww, it's a cuddly stuffed version of the PPT mascot!".


I owe PPT more NP then I'm worth. Everyday the first thing I would do was log onto neopets, and open PPT to do my treasure Map quest.(This was years ago). Then, when y'all started putting up the Cliffhanger anwsers, I started doing those too! It hit a point where I was on PPT far more than Neopets and I hadn't even signed up for the Forums at that time. :-P It was at the end of Grade 8 which I got caught on PPT at school, I was sent to my vice principal and had to explain what it was I was doing here. Consquently, PPT became the first School-decided banned website at my elementary school. Smile (That means the School Board didn't make the decision) - Xil
A lesser-known mascot of Pink Poogle Toy is the Oekaki community's mascot, Squishy - a peach-coloured blob sporting a black hat with the initials 'PPT' on its rim. Though it isn't clear exactly who or what Squishy is, this cheery rotund creature has a taste for muffins and has an ever-increasing collection of assorted hats and headwear. Squishy was the winning entry of a mascot contest held on the oekaki back in 2004, and was created by the former oekaki Administrator Gfaerie.


:It was a normal day as any other and I was on PPT reading the current topic which I had just posted. One post caught my attention which asked if I was in a specific english class second period. It happened to be correct and I was very freaked out. I began to search through my head on who in my English class played Neopets. I thought of one person and than decided to go with my gut. After PMing this PPTer and being tortured with this PPTer's mind game I realised it was my friend who I knew in real life named Xil. We weren't really close friends but now we have become closer and I actually can talk to someone about Neopets (In secret). It makes me proud to meet a PPTer and I hope to meet many of you in the near future. If you're anything like Xil, than we'll be great friends. - Ammer
==Pink Poogle Toy's Lost Layout==
[[Image:Pinkpt-Layout-4.gif|thumb|Screenshot of Pink Poogle Toy's fourth layout]]
Pink Poogle Toy had a fourth layout, a pink one that briefly appeared for a few days before being taken down. It made a brief re-appearance during a template switching system Hunter installed but after an unfortunate server reset in which a lot of data was lost, including all the forum files and databases, this template never re-appeared.


Hmm, one thing that comes to mind was Mr. Adam Face (is hot!)'s journey to TNT Headquarters. It was right before the Time Warp, I think. I don't know exactly how long the thread got, but it was over 20 pages I think. The first time he was turned back (because he had [[Asparagus]], I think...?), but he went out again. I'm pretty sure that he came back around the Time Warp but no one knew what happened to him since he hadn't posted, so we were speculating... did TNT hold him hostage? He wrote up a big article, it was in the PPT news, but I don't know if it would still be there. Somewhere in the thread, someone (Magenta?) had a picture of Neopets with "Go Mr. Adam Face!" signs. - Sunshine Jenny
==Trivia==
 
:I remember the PPT Secret Santa thing that Ecliptic and Yoshi organized last December in the Av/Sig Board. Oh, that was bundles of fun. You said what kind of things you wanted in your set, and someone made one for you, but you didn't know who it was. Near Christmas, everyone got their set and had to guess who their Secret Santa was. I remember being Knives' Secret Santa. I was awful at making graphics back then, and I remember him trying to be nice and saying that he liked the set I made him. And Denae/Joelz Butterfly made me this wonderful set that said "X's and O's: Who's side are you on?" It was the cutest thing. I still have that saved somewhere, in fact. - Apricus
 
Before I joined, I "lived" at IDNQ. Strangefire420 mentioned these forums, and one time when I was banned from IDNQ...I think it was the second time (I got banned 4 times I think. Such a naïve friends555 I was.)...I came here. I posted my first message. It was about me being banned from IDNQ and coming here to fill my time. I got a bunch of replies, but I only remember one: "Jump on the banned wagon!" I remember also I said in my post "oh no, hunter's modding". The admins at the time were SL, Jim, and Janie. Bob was "Back to Modding". Hunter was a moddy and Rune was just a member...y. Icey joined and we had a post-count race...he was winning until he stopped at 160...I went on to a post count of around 2k (if you count the posts I made on this new forum.) After a while, I stopped looking for my old IDNQ friends and made some new friends. I don't really remember who my first few friends were, but now I'm pretty comfortable around everyone here, so it doesn't really matter who I am or was closer with. I remember a bunch of old mods that I never really knew. I also remember Venny...and my short obsession with him after I joined Divas...and how I kept threatening to get Faye a tongue-ectomy because he liked her. I remember the Outkasts, and when Venny left, and when Lillie aka Ten Snow took over. I remember trying to get into as many groups as possible...including the not-a-usergroup CCC. I kept hoping Cheese would notice my little "tour guide" newbie-scaring post. It turns out he did remember (after the CCC was disbanded and re-made in Gods months later, I asked him) but he never asked me to join...I was too shy to request it for myself. I remember the time warp. I was typing up a post for the one RP I have ever been in (I knew absolutely nothing about the topic or how to RP...silly little Tymaporer), and suddenly I got this weird error message that I'd never seen before. I clicked the back button and saved my post (it's gone now) and after about a minute, the forums came back. I never noticed the date it said (July 14...it was actually August 5.) I simply went back to post my thing on the RP, and upon noticing that it wasn't there, I posted a topic in SDIS (or Q&A, I can't remember) titled "HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Hehehe...I was so young. I remember creating a second account under the name Venalina (that was when Venny was done being a girl) and Janie caught me after 10 posts...I did it because I was trying to remember what it was like to be a newbie. Seriously, that’s why. I remember around the holidays, everyone changed their names (I was .frostie555 O_o) and Jim was The Jimch. I wrote a song based off Jim’s new name called “You’re a Green One, Mr. Jimch”, and sent it to him. I think he liked it. I remember the second PPTbies. I really wanted to win something, and Bob had just left, so I made a fake screenshot of the admin-only board...it had three topics visible in that part of the “screenshot”. One was by SL, asking why the admin board needed a moderator. One was by Jim, saying that anyone who didn’t vote for me would have their account deleted. And the last one was by Bob, saying that he didn’t vote for me. (I almost got a strike for it.) Needless to say, I wasn’t even a top nominee in any category... I remember that April Fool’s Day stuff. Wibble. XD And there were the mod clones, and I started a line of “member clones”, and then there was...what else? It was so long ago. I remember my first anniversary, and how I posted an essay that I wrote for English class about PPT, and then how my birthday thread got almost no posts because my birthday was three days after my anniversary and everyone was wishing me happy early birthday on my anniversary thread. XP - Tymaporer
 
:I remember back in the days, the Outkasts group was a little more hyper then usual... Then All of a sudden Ven posted a board something to the affect of "I've died.." or maybe something else, my mind is a bit fuzzy... anyway he changed his name to Venomous the Zombie, and eventually it caght on and everyone in the outkasts had changed their name to be something dead... I was Rontu back then, I became Spirit Rontu. This lasted for a month or so until it died out... such good times... - Nunaamr'e
 
OMG! Does anybody remember when Cyanna made the image of the Chia shooting a slorg out of a cannon? Or when Chrome made an April fools post saying she was a boy? - Fiddelysquat
 
:I remember during the PPTBies one year, when Fiddelysquat and ChromeFox were both in the running for "Best Moderator," Fidds made an artificial report about all of the bad stuff Chrome had ever done, complete with a picture from UglyPeople.com of some woman who didn't have a chin. In response, someone completely uninvolved made a paint drawing of Fidds eating cat food. I completely forgot who won the race. -theonlysaneone
 
I remember looking at a thread when I first joined in the end of January 2003 and seeing a post by someone with a picture of a fridge full of beer with a message that said "Hey look, I found a picture of Wataguy's fridge!" And Wataguy's reply of "Hey, if you want a beer just ask, don't go snooping." or something like that, probably funnier then what I put but it was two and a half years ago! I remember Jim's mutant kacheek avatar too. I remember a thread about body mods and coming across a post by Fidds saying she had peircings from head to toes, my eyes were wide and mouth hanging open until I got to the part where she said "just kidding, you gullible little sap." Which of course now we know she really wasn't kidding. Cheeky Tongue She just veeeeery carefully edits them out of all her photos, how else do you explain the stark-raving gorgeousness? Foul play of course! Evil or Very Mad. I remember when Ven and Stephy where *the* PPT couple. All the guys had 'I stalk Stephy' in their sigs and all the girls swooned over Ven's hair. I remember when Fe signed up, she posted and posted and posted and posted. She had every other post in the 'person above you' game for a while. I remember thinking that Igg was a 20something, possibly in college. - Nessa
 
:I remember when we were all Mod clones at April Fools-that was funny. And Rage's "Story with McDonalds toys" and my rip-off that I still have...I think... ~Robin
 
==Enemies==
Despite the fact that PinkPT has such a wide fan base, it has also ranked up a number of enemies. As the largest Neopets fan site, many runners of other sites claimed that PinkPT is a site that encourages a multitude of problems, including spyware, viruses and hardcore pornography. Of course, this is not true. Though the websites sports a number of advertisements, the management makes sure that no illegal content makes its way onto the computer. Not only other site runners have grudges, as many older members of the community come back to antagonize the forums. Still, with over 4,000 members, it could be considered the largest fan site for Neopets.


== Mascot ==
*A former department, Neopets Layouts, offering graphics and templates for Neopians started in ''(need date)'' was merged into Pink Poogle Toy's main site on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 due to quality control issues. It was also used to complement the recently added custom shields section headed by Mike, a friend of Ad0, who is famous in Neopian folklore for hacking Neopets.
The most noted celebrity on PinkPT is the chicken, Arrow. In the beginning, it started out as an Emoticon, but this chicken has been officially raised to the 'mascot' of PPT. At the top of the forum, one can see the banner. There is a picture of Arrow, painted by the resident artist, the wonderful Yoshi. In various forms, during the holiday seasons, one can see Arrow in such forms as the roast chicken during Thanksgiving, and a Cupid arrow, during St. Valentine's Day
Influences
 
The Pink Poogle Toy item on Neopets has had its description changed to "This lovely pink poogle moans about banner ads and frozen accounts when you squeeze it! :P", a playful reference to the members of PPT forums, many of whom frequently complain about various aspects of Neopets.
 
== PinkPT's Lost Layout ==
[[Image:Pinkpt-Layout-4.gif|frame|right|Screenshot of PinkPT's fourth layout]]
PinkPT had a fourth layout, a pink one that briefly appeared for a few days before being taken down. It make a brief re-appearance during a template switching system Hunter installed but after a the unfortunate server reset where a lot of data was lost including all the forum files and databases, this template never re-appeared.
 
==Trivia==
*A former department, Neopets-Layouts, offering graphics and templates for Neopians started in ''(need date)'' was merged into PPT's main site on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 due to quality control issues. It was also used to complement the recently added custom shields section headed by Mike, a friend of Ad0, who is famous in Neopian folklore for hacking Neopets.


==External Links==
==External links==
*[http://www.pinkpt.com PinkPT]
*[http://www.pinkpt.com Pink Poogle Toy]
*[http://www.pinkpt.com/forum PinkPT Forums]
*[http://www.pinkpt.com/forum Pink Poogle Toy Forum]
*[http://www.pinkpt.com/images/ppt-pledge/bottom.gif PPT Pledge]


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Latest revision as of 19:00, 30 January 2014

Screenshot of the Pink Poogle Toy homepage viewed with Firefox on Thursday, 2 July 2009

Pink Poogle Toy (formerly PinkPT and PPT) is a Neopets fansite which was founded by Kym Huynh and Alicia in February 2001.

Now maintained by Kym Huynh and run by international volunteer staff, Pink Poogle Toy was once considered by many to be one of the better Neopets help sites and is the largest on the Internet comprising of news, editorials, Neopets cheats, solutions and articles.

It hosts a still active multi-topic forum where Neopets users come together to interact and share their ideas. Pink Poogle Toy used to have it's own podcast called "The Pink Poogle Toy Show" and was the home of the first Neopets band "The Pink Poogle Toys".

Nowdays, most features have been removed and the blog now daily posts automated news. Neodex still remains an active component of PinkTP, just one of the few remaining features left over from the site.

Kym Huynh

Kym Huynh, born in July 6, 1984, of Adelaide, South Australia founded Pink Poogle Toy in 2001 at the age of 17. He studied law and commerce at the University of Melbourne and graduated 30th Oct 2008.

Corporate Relationships

Pink Poogle Toy maintained a friendly relations with the Neopets staff, particularly Adam Powell, Donna Williams (who both had accounts on the PPT Forum) and the friendly Neopets programmer, Mr. Insane.

Members of the Pink Poogle Toy community were often given previews of new developments at Neopets and their opinions on how the game can be improved are at times implemented on the Neopets website itself. (The implementation of the captcha system in the officially Neopian shops is just one example although it was later removed.)

There had also been friendly banter between both sites with the Pink Poogle Toy's description on Neopets changed to "This lovely pink poogle moans about banner ads and frozen accounts when you squeeze it! :P." This pokes fun at the popular Neopets fansite Pink Poogle Toy, which has a reputation for its users expressing their displeasure about these aspects of the game on its forum.

History

Year 2001

Screenshot of Pink Poogle Toy's first layout.

Started in February of 2001 by Kym and Alicia {a young woman he knew over the Internet}, the fansite started with a meager two visitors per day and displayed answers to a small fraction of the Neopets games (notably Poogle Solitaire and Cliffhanger). As the content grew each day, word went around and over 200 hits per day were being recorded by the end of February.

Alicia then created the oekaki, an online art board. Created on the servers of unixdaemons, the oekaki quickly became a popular feature on the site and grew into an online community with at least 2,000 pieces of artwork being created every day. Due to the popularity, Sako's oekaki was created alongside the Pink Poogle Toy Oekaki, to compliment extremely talented artists that were emerging from the oekaki.

Unfortunately, the oekaki grew so much that no host could host it any more as it was consuming a large amount of bandwidth nor could Kym afford it. Despite its closure for an extended period of time due to its "insane amount of generated traffic", the Pink Poogle Toy oekaki is now online again at Pink Poogle Toy's own servers.

In March 2001, one month after opening, Pink Poogle Toy was reaching visitors of up to 2,000. It was also during this month Alicia decided to leave. She returned briefly two months later. Unfortunately, a further two months proved Alicia could not juggle her daily life with Pink Poogle Toy so she resigned; turning entire control of the website over to Kym.

Near the end of April 2001, Pink Poogle Toy was receiving 25,000 page views a day. In August, a representative from Peel Networks approached Pink Poogle Toy with a deal: In exchange for hosting and network membership, Pink Poogle Toy would advertise their US based magazine company. The offer was approved as Pink Poogle Toy had begun to experience host troubles with hosts such as Virtualave, Hypermart and GeoCities.

In September 2001, a new deep blue colored layout created by Ben Williams from Hologram FX was implemented in an attempt to make Pink Poogle Toy look professional and create organization for the site much sought after as the content volume had grown to over 100 pages. By the end of 2001 Pink Poogle Toy was receiving an average of 8,000 unique visitors per day.

Year 2002

Screenshot of Pink Poogle Toy's second layout

In January 2002, Ben Williams of Hologram FX once again redesigned Pink Poogle Toy with a sky blue layout. It aimed to encapsulate the qualities of playfulness, cheekiness, mischievousness and fun.

Early February 2002, marking Pink Poogle Toy's first birthday, Mike joined, quickly learning the ins and outs of of PHP and MySQL to create the In-Depth Battlepedia, providing in-depth information and statistics to all Battledome related aspects on Neopets. In-Depth Battlepedia became an instant hit, quickly growing into a large site itself.

The forum opened up to the general public and became an instant success with over 600 sign-ups in one week. Bob quickly picked up administration of the forums, proving himself to be a good role model with a strong vocabulary, all the while guiding Kym through many problems of the forums.

Supporting Bob in helping run the forum smoothly was the friendly Michelle, who once sent in a sign saying "PPT rox my sox!", Janie, a model with two children, ChromeFox, a quasi-celebrity for her run-ins with the infamous Mari Jhane, and many other skillful Moderators. Forum hosting became a problem when sign ups increased, as the first host, PowWeb, was forced to cancel Pink Poogle Toy's account from using too much bandwidth.

To solve this problem, Pink Poogle Toy was approached by an Administrator at YaBB with an offer to host Pink Poogle Toy's forums under the consideration it would change to the MySQL version. However, the host was unable to handle Pink Poogle Toy's visitor load, and the account was frozen after one day.

Pink Poogle Toy then found a host called Aplus. During the transfer, however, all the membership information was inadvertently lost. Deciding to start fresh, the MySQL version of YaBB was once again used but due to false information about "unlimited system resources" claimed by Aplus, Pink Poogle Toy forums were constantly down, unable to accommodate the growing fan base and visitor load. Once again reverting back to YaBB CGI in the hope that the forum problems would be solved, the forum once again went down after one week.

With the implementation of the news feature installed by NeoFan who worked with Neo-Net , updating became a simple task with a little click on a button. The Pink Poogle Toy team was also joined by three charming ladies with wit to match, Amanda, Sarah and Silver who worked on the news team to update Pink Poogle Toy with regular Neopets news.

With the tremendous growth in emails the site was receiving, robot_blumaroo offered to take care of all Neopet related questions. He stayed with Pink Poogle Toy for approximately three months before opting out. The help link was then redirected to the forum help boards.

In April 2002, Pink Poogle Toy was reaching visitors of up to 8,000 a day.

In July 2002, Pink Poogle Toy was introduced to Sam. Skilled in many programming languages, he quickly became one of the team, sharing ideas, creating extra features and in many regards co-webmaster the entire site itself. His uncanny ability to fully grasp any concept explored and create left the entire team astounded with his deftness, precision and timely responses to any emergency.

In September 2002, NeLLa joined Pink Poogle Toy as a guide writer, chosen over 200 applicants in the first 24 hours of the notice being posted. With guides such as Swarm and Evil Fuzzles from Beyond the Stars, her writing skills possessed a jovial quality, which was a major factor in deciding the final application.

Also in this month, Harry joined Pink Poogle Toy to head the NeoDaq, a department providing information related to the Stock Market in Neopets. During this time, Pink Poogle Toy's new host Aplus was experiencing troubles with handling In-Depth Battlepedia and forum. Because of constant down time and numerous forum restarts, Kym approached Ted from SimGateway and bought hosting from DoubleHost.

Year 2003

The third year approached and with it many milestones. Everyone consolidated within the "Pink Poogle Toy Empire" had their own individual story to tell, and while the year had many achievements, there was also a fair share of disturbances. There was great times of joy and friendship, and even times when friendships were tried and tested, some with favorable outcomes and some not so good, watching the backs of various members leave.

Once again many issues took place on the forum. A total revamp of the administration system at Pink Poogle Toy occurred, with the administrators Janie and Bob leading the crew of Global Moderators and Moderators into a period of bug fixing. Unfortunately, an issue involving ChromeFox saw her demoted to a normal member, and a furious uproar took place within the forum over the facts and points of "the case". In two months ChromeFox came back into the Pink Poogle Toy forum crew as a Moderator, and once again forum life continuing as usual.

Nearing the end of January, Bob, the first employed forum Administrator for Pink Poogle Toy (aka 'man-with-big-stick'), resigned. Although many were taken by surprise, the forum crew saw it coming. Bob had achieved his goals as forum Administrator, changing the little forum it was into one of the largest, safest and most friendly forum for Neopets. Many thanks and well wishes were given, and it is believed Bob had carved his name into the minds and hearts of the Pink Poogle Toy members, whose legacy still remains.

After much deliberation, Bob handed his reigns over to Big Jim (British like Bob). Handling the affairs of the forum alongside the now longest running Administrator at Pink Poogle Toy, Janie, the duo have paved and strengthened the way Bob and Janie started with the help out the Global Moderators, Moderators and members. As of April 4 2003, the forum line up was as follows:

  • Forum Administrators
    • Janie
    • Jim
  • Global Moderators
    • CoolKau
    • Fiddelysquat
    • Kagome
    • Michelle_Belly
    • V3n0m0us
  • Moderators
    • Airglo
    • atamand,
    • Bno
    • Charisma
    • CheezieHotti
    • ChromeFox
    • Count Von Roo
    • CragHack
    • CSK
    • Cyanna
    • FaerieGirl
    • Hunter Lupe
    • Infernobanjo
    • Lina Blade
    • MarcoBMG
    • Magax
    • Marching Duck
    • Mina
    • Neko
    • Nshade
    • Platypus
    • Raiden
    • Sam
    • Shy Divine Dragy
    • Stephy
    • Stodder
    • Werepup
    • White_Wolf
    • Winnerliu

The year also began a string of forum competitions, and fads such as "lets-all-post-wav-files-of-our-voices" to "let's-make-silly-movies-of-each-other". The first ever large-scale forum competition began late 2002 and was dubbed the "PPTbies". Modeled after the real life Logie Awards, the forum members old and new stepped up to claim awards. The winners were as follows:

  • Most Valuable Person - Shoyru_Lover
  • Outstanding Contribution - JanieJanie
  • Most Influential - JanieJanie
  • Best Moderator - Chromefox
  • Best Female Member - Fiddleysquat
  • Best Male Member - CoolKau and Bob
  • Click That Topic - MichelleTheGoth
  • Best Newcomer - Hunter Lupe
  • Most Helpful - Cyanna
  • Funniest Member - FiddelySquat
  • Happiest Member - Sonchynne
  • Most Generous - V3n0m0us
  • Best Artist - Stephy
  • Best Avatar - Stephy
  • Good Grammar - Knitting Knut
  • Bad Grammar - Yuvs
  • President - Chromefox
  • JailBird - MichelleTheGoth

Now considered an annual event, it led to other creations such as PPT Survivor (which still is in progression), Mina's MMAC (Mina's Monthly Art Contest) and Hunter Lupe's PPT Staff Sacrificers, which saw all male Pink Poogle Toy members voted out first.

Early 2003 saw Hunter Lupe heading the new department at Pink Poogle Toy called the In-Depth NeoQuest Guide. Growing very quickly, it is now one of the largest detailed NeoQuest sites on the Internet, which contain complete walkthroughs and maps of the entire game. This department was also created in anticipation of NeoQuest 2.

March 2003 saw the Work Shop open at PPT. Encompassing tutorials on how to make models of various Neopets aspects, the idea quickly took on and received overwhelming support and good responses from the Neopets community.

Screenshot of Pink Poogle Toy's third layout

During March 2003, the design of Pink Poogle Toy was changed again. Opting out of the generic "blue" look all other sites seemed to now possess, Pink Poogle Toy redesigned its layout into a bold red, this time with the logo of the Pink Poogle Toy staff drawn by Mina as its welcoming image. Once again designed by Hologram FX, the new layout expressed a cleaner and professional version of Pink Poogle Toy. During this time, the first ever member to reach 10,000 posts was ChromeFox, a huge accomplishment considering the next biggest poster was behind by a few thousand posts.

Alongside all these new changes, came new staff. Magenta, Alex, Mermaid Hil and Swedevil joined the news team while Pink Poogle Toy adopted the talents of Mina Kim and Lina Blade as artists. Stephy soon joined as the graphics artist at Pink Poogle Toy, designing banners and buttons for various purposes. What Pink Poogle Toy didn't anticipate this time however, was the range of talents it was now adopting. It seemed each staff member at Pink Poogle Toy had more than one single talent. Magenta, while posting excellent news also was very well versed in graphic design, while Stephy, who was originally founded as a forum Moderator was soon found to also be an incredible graphics artist. Hunter Lupe, who was also modding the forums was soon discovered to be a phenomenal scripter and after critically looking at the staff again, Pink Poogle Toy soon found that each staff member was directly contributing to more than one aspect at Pink Poogle Toy! As a result, the Pink Poogle Toy forums started taking on a more otaku-ish path, everyone lapping up the design atmosphere fueled by Stephy's creations and Mina's art contests.

While these new developments were taking place, more somber issues were occurring outside of PPT. Late 2002 to early 2003 saw what would take place in what is commonly known as the "Fan Site Wars". Many new Neopets related fan sites quickly sprang up and a series of attacks on other websites, accusations, hacking, slander and libel quickly took place.

Pink Poogle Toy attempted to stay away from this as much as possible. After the incidents were finally resolved and a tentative 'peace agreement' was made between the other websites, Pink Poogle Toy once again distanced itself from those websites for it did not wish to be a party to such events if they should occur again. Pink Poogle Toy was created for the fans, and that's the way it will always be. It decided never to take part in any petty politics, which should never take place between fansites.

Just when everyone started breathing again, another round of rumors began circulating, while many of them were unfounded. However this time, the threat came from Neopets itself. Many fan sites found themselves under threat of having their websites removed unless they were in line with the Terms and Conditions set forth under Neopets. Pink Poogle Toy went offline for a period of four days coincidentally during this time, which started a fresh batch of rumors that Pink Poogle Toy was removed which was untrue. However, Pink Poogle Toy once again opened up after its short down time and put a definite stop to the rumors.

In April 2003, forum Moderator werepup, fresh from a trip to Spain, joined the main Pink Poogle Toy site as the newest Webmistress of Pink Poogle Toy. Dubbed Elle by the crew, Elle has given Pink Poogle Toy the much needed female touch.

Well there you have it. The third year so far has had many triumphs and tribulations while also its fair share of small problems, which were easily taken care of. I, Kym, could not have taken PPT this without with the dedication and support of so many people. The forum mods, and GMs, the admins, the separate help of individual people, to list them all here would take forever. However some do stand out in my mind and I would like to take this opportunity to thank certain people: Janie and Bob for always being my "second parents" even though they didn't mean to; Elle for always being there to help out whenever she could; Jim, for spending countless hours talking about nothing with me; Sam, Hunter and Mike, the programming whiz kids with a "all-for-one-and-one-for-all" attitude; the news crew Magenta and Alexa, for being the anchor of the team, and CSK, V3n0m0us, Stephy, MichelleTheGoth, Mina, Lina, Pheny, Charisma, Cheezie and Michelle for just those random fun and crazy talks which seems prevalent among the PPT members. Lastly, Cyanna. While we hardly ever talk, you've always struck me as a very sensible, kind and fair person.

Year 2004

This is the year known amongst the Pink Poogle Toy populace as The Great Reset. The forum databases crashed and everything was lost on April of 2004. Since then, the community has rebuilt itself, and nearly all 10,000 members who were part of the forums before the crash joined again, many under different names.

Year 2005

Screenshot of the Pink Poogle Toy homepage viewed with Internet Explorer on November 2005

September 2005 saw the overhaul of Pink Poogle Toy. With over 1,400 pages of content, the site re-organized its many scattered links on the front page into self contained categories to make the site user friendly. Pink Poogle Toy additionally made a vow to itself to serve the visitors, by getting rid of all the pop up advertising and download prompts that once plagued the site. This was eventually realized in 2005, when Pink Poogle Toy moved off the wh000t networks which was run by Kym's friend at World of Britney. Although Pink Poogle Toy still contains banner advertisements, the days of intrusive advertising were officially over.

With another redesign by Ben Williams of HologramFX, Pink Poogle Toy now exuded a confidence in its bright colours. The forums grew to new heights, breaking its record of most users online (since the forum reset) of 149 on September 12, 2005, during the early days of the Lost Desert Plot. This online record has since been broken, but it became apparent the Neopets users were using Pink Poogle Toy as a source of information before it became publicly available, which was totally fine by the PPTers.

Image Adam Powell created making fun of the PPTers

Pink Poogle Toy also saw programmers of The Neopets Team posting on the forums to interact with Neopets players, even Donna Williams and Adam Powell. This would eventuate to Neopets changing the description of the Pink Poogle Toy on Neopets to "This lovely pink poogle moans about banner ads and frozen accounts when you squeeze it! :P". In fact, Adam Powell wrote "Detention for PPTForum!" on an image of the discovered NeoSchools area when members of the Pink Poogle Toy Forum announced it before it was announced by Neopets themselves.

2005 also saw Pink Poogle Toy open its doors to other Neopets fan sites. With the advent of all the new Neopets fan sites, Pink Poogle Toy welcomed them by creating a large link database for everyone to join. The Neopets links page listed some of the more prominent websites, but was always open to accept links to and from sites that clearly have shown a lot of effort in them.

In 2005, the Pink Poogle Toy Topsites, which opened and then closed due to hosting problems, re-opened. It's now the largest Neopets-related topsite in the world and is listed as one of the largest hosted topsites on iTopsites.

The Pink Poogle Toy Oekaki flourished to new heights during 2005, making it one of the largest oekakis available. Now on its own dedicated server, the population has once again grown, and on March 3, 2006 had over 20,000 individual pieces of artwork created on it.

Also in 2005, Pink Poogle Toy expanded its Neopets help programs by posting Neopets news, and by adding the Neodex, Neopets Graphics department and the Avatar Catalog.

Year 2006

Screenshot of the Pink Poogle Toy homepage viewed with Internet Explorer on February 2006

On March 2, 2006, a new website layout was created by Ben of HologramFX, replacing the previous layout which started to become cluttered due to the amount of content on the site, solved in the new design which categorized everything into distinguishable areas.

With the redesign of Pink Poogle Toy finished, Kym began to focus on creating a Pink Poogle Toy news team for unreleased Neopets news, a comprehensive pre-template layouts section for users to have on their User Lookup, promoting the Avatar Catalog , and promoting the NeoDex and turning it into the most comprehensive place online source for all Neopets information. Eventually, he hoped the NeoDex to also be used by The Neopets Team for reference purposes for their work in addition to anyone who wanted to learn a little bit more about Neopets. Kym also saw the potential to turn the entire site into an entertainment network, and eventually leverage the site traffic into other areas of his work.

During the appearance of the new design the "Write an Article Contest" begun to take full effect . Two months after its creation people were sending in many entries to Kym, who quoted he had over 800 emails in his inbox waiting to be replied to in addition to over 60 contest entries to look at, add to Pink Poogle Toy and judge on on March 4, 2006.

Another redesign was made yet again by HologramFX on August 13, 2006, making the previous pink colour purpler and reordering the categories the layout again. On August 15, the ‘’Pink Poogle Toy Promenade’’ opened up for Neopets users to buy from. The Pink Poogle Toy Promenade was a "mall" (collection of user shops) owned and maintained by users of Pink Poogle Toy. The Your Neopet Dailies was also created on (need date), and contained several quick links, features, and many other things a user would daily do.

Year 2007

Year 2008

Year 2009

Screenshot of the Pink Poogle Toy homepage viewed with Safari on Wednesday, 8 April 2009

2009 was a paradigm change for Pink Poogle Toy. With graduation from Law School behind him, Kym sought to turn Pink Poogle Toy from an ad hoc hobby fansite into a working business model. This began with an overhaul of how staff were employed and managed, from the introduction of paid positions at Pink Poogle Toy from late 2008 to enacting procedures and policies to ensure that staff members that worked at Pink Poogle Toy were given continuous feedback and encouraged to developed their own goals and plans for the own portfolios.

In addition to these policy changes, a business model and corporate structure was created and regular meetings over Skype were enacted with all staff members at Pink Poogle Toy, in particular with Administrators for their various departments. As of April 2009, the changes are still taking place.

The following took place in April: (1) A new round of forum Moderators was introduced; (2) The selection of the new oekaki Administrator; (3) The selection of the new NeoDex Administrator; (3) The selection of the new podcast Administrator; (4) The upgrading of the site blog to the P2 interface and the syncing up of blog updates to Pink Poogle Toy's own Twitter account; (5) The implementation of auto links in the news to the NeoDex; (6) The creation of unrated neopets and petpets at NeoPool; (7) The release of 2008's Pink Poogle Toy collage; (8) The opening of the Pink Poogle Toy collage for 2009; (9) An initial revision of the Pink Poogle Toy Constitution; and (10) An overhaul at the oekaki including the introduction of the oekaki blog.

The following took place in May: (1) Nekopan hired to handle the weekly feature posts: (i) Rate-a-Neopets Monday; (ii) Wiki Wednesday; and (iii) Rate-a-Petpet Friday; (2) Negotiations with a graphics artist to start a free userlookup, guild and petpet pages layouts section; (3) The creation of the Altador Cup IV content pages to provide coverage for this year's Altador Cup plot; (4) A podcast Administrator appointed (Ella); (5) Eileen promoted to the new forum Administrator; (6) Third round of forum Moderator sorting to ensure at least two active Moderators per forum board; (7) The navigation on PPT updated with the categorization of submitted guides; (8) Cosmetic fixes to the current layout; (9) New designs at all three PPT oekakis; (10) The re-introduction of weekly themes at the PPT oekakis; (11) New favicons around PPT; (12) All PPTbie prizes sent out from 2008; (13) The creation of the sandbox boards for forum Moderators; (14) An update to the ranking system at the forum; and (15) The forum header graphic updated.

The following took place in June: (1) New Adam Powell and Donna Williams interviews added; (2) Main section clean-up; (3) An oekaki Moderator appointment; (4) A news poster appointment; (5) A Co-Webmaster appointment.

Era of decline

2010 - Present

Despite the numerous years of prosperity, things began to not go so well after 2009. With the attempts to implement a more business-like structure, the site's foundations began to crumble and soon fell to a state nothingness.

Abandoning it's previous Pink and frilly layouts, in 2010 PinkTP switched to a new, much more modern layout showcasing various news and guides submitted by various users. With the coming of 2011, however, the news feed itself began to stop all together, with the last news post in 2011 inviting users to join another pet site.

In mid-2011, the site adopted another layout, one which was grey and less life-full than it's predecessor. From this point on, the blog was filled daily with recycled posts from years before, in some cases posting guides to the 2007 Altador Cup's Prize Shop, or mentioning events long gone. The automated news was further seen to be true when the comments for daily posts would be from years before, also discussing topics long gone. Many of the sites features also disappeared, now leading to 404-errors and dead links.

Today, Pink Poogle Toy remains very much the same, automatically pulling up news from years before and posting it on the front page. Every now and then, a post will appears on the forums from a random passerby or still dedicated staff member, though the days of talks with TNT staff and long-fun filled conversations long remain in the past. All that remains would be still dedicated PPT fans chatting in the general neopets section, with the other sections of the forum seen empty as far as 2009.

Neodex still remains widely popular, with dedicated staff and editors still working hard to archive events, characters, and happenedings in the world of Neopia.

Milestones

  • February 1, 2001: Pink Poogle Toy is created.
  • May 30, 2004: The day known as "The Great Reset" - which was the day everything on Pink Poogle Toy was lost - mainly involving the forum.
  • Thursday, June 01, 2006: Pink Poogle Toy breaks the 300 subscribers barrier to its feed including email subscriptions.
  • Friday, June 02, 2006: Pink Poogle Toy Forum breaks its most online users record - 178 on 02 Jun 2006 03:43 am.

Departments

Avatar Catalog (Removed)

The Avatar Catalog was a source for all the Neopets avatars! Allowing users to register unique accounts, users could keep abreast of which avatars they have and which they do not by saving checklists that would remember what has been marked as "achieved" and has not.

Unfortunately, it no longer operates.

In-depth Battlepedia (Dead)

Main Article: In-Depth Battlepedia (PPT)

The In-depth Battlepedia was the world's most renowned source for Neopets Battledome information. It unfortunately closed down in 2011 after going bankrupt.

In-depth NeoQuest

Main Article: In-Depth NeoQuest

The In-depth NeoQuest the first complete NeoQuest information site and remains the most comprehensive on the Internet for both NQI and NQII.

NeoDex

Main Article: Neodex:About

The NeoDex is the online wiki Neopets encyclopedia and is the largest of its kind online.

NeoPool (Removed)

Main Article: NeoPool

Added May 19, 2006, the Neopool was created to offer Neopians a more rounded visitor experience. Created to fill a void left upon the closure of Neocolours, the Neopool is the first in its kind to allow users to vote and rank neopet species/colour combinations. It was removed from the site at an unknown time.

Trophy Catalog (Removed)

Added May 31, 2006, the Trophy Catalog provided visitors with a checklist for all of Neopets' trophies, a first for any fansite.

It was removed from the site at an unknown date.

Other Features

Pink Ink (Removed)

Pink Ink was Pink Poogle Toy's newspaper, once containing articles, stories and art pertaining to Pink Poogle Toy, Neopets and other topics. It began in summer 2003, but the first issues were lost in the reset in 2004. Pink Ink returned on October 31, 2004, but has since been removed and lost again.

Podcast (Discontinued)

Pink Poogle Toy used to produces a podcast called "The Pink Poogle Toy Show." The first show launched on August 23, 2005. The show featured discussion about the game Neopets but is also featured the latest additions to Neopets from the corporate world and how it affects its users. Show episodes were once released weekly and the podcast was one of the largest Neopets podcasts in existence.

The show is no longer recorded.

Custom Shields (Removed)

Pink Poogle Toy's Custom Shields were initially created by Mike, a veteran Neopian who ran with Ad0 back in the days of the great Neopian hackers. Proving immensely popular, custom shields were once able to be requested by Pink Poogle Toy visitors for creation. The service has since been discontinued.

The Forum Community

One of the more popular areas of Pink Poogle Toy is the large community run on a phpBB back-end. Within its walls, PPTers (a person who often visit Pink Poogle Toy) converse about all things Neopets and many other topics. PPTers have been described as hard-working, fun-loving insane people, much as Pink Poogle Toy is meant to be. With the help of the forum, a lot of content, and a great community, Pink Poogle Toy has developed their own little slice of online culture.

The "One Black Meowclops Pen" experiment (Over)

The One Black Meowclops Pen experiment was started by Pink Poogle Toy user jrtman (Dead link) who was inspired by Kyle MacDonald's very successful One Red Paperclip experiment in which he started with a single red paperclip which he traded up until he received a house. Jrtman created the One Black Meowclops Pen experiment to see if he could recreate One Red Paperclip in the world of Neopets.

A small webpage for the experiment was put up on his pet PrinceGrizzly's petpage explaining the experiment and listing the usernames of every person who contributed to it. The mission was to start with a single Black Meowclops Pen (worth around 2,000 neopoints at the time) and continue to trade for slightly better things until the goal of a complete Secret Laboratory Map set (9 pieces) was reached successfully. The experiment was closed on July 16, 2006, due to lack of interest, and the final item, a Disco Petpet Paint Brush, was donated to the Money Tree.

Enemies

Despite the fact that Pink Poogle Toy has such a wide fan base, it has also ranked up a number of enemies. As the largest Neopets fan site, many runners of other sites claimed that Pink Poogle Toy is a site that encourages a multitude of problems, including spyware, viruses and hardcore pornography. Of course, this is not true.

Although the websites sports a number of advertisements, the management makes sure that no illegal content makes its way onto the computer. Not only do other sites have grudges, but many older members of the community also return to antagonize the forums. Still, with over thousands of members, Pink Poogle Toy could be considered the largest fan site for Neopets.

Mascots

The most noted celebrity on Pink Poogle Toy is the chicken, Arrow. In the beginning, it started out as an emoticon, but this chicken has been officially raised to the 'mascot' of Pink Poogle Toy. At the top of the forum, one can see the banner. There is a picture of Arrow, painted by the resident artist, the wonderful Yoshi. In various forms, during the holiday seasons, you could once Arrow in such forms as the roast chicken during Thanksgiving, and a Cupid arrow, during St. Valentine's Day

Influences

The Pink Poogle Toy item on Neopets has had its description changed to "This lovely pink poogle moans about banner ads and frozen accounts when you squeeze it! :P", a playful reference to the members of Pink Poogle Toy forums, many of whom frequently complain about various aspects of Neopets.

A plushie featuring Arrow exists on Subeta, saying in its description: "Aww, it's a cuddly stuffed version of the PPT mascot!".

A lesser-known mascot of Pink Poogle Toy is the Oekaki community's mascot, Squishy - a peach-coloured blob sporting a black hat with the initials 'PPT' on its rim. Though it isn't clear exactly who or what Squishy is, this cheery rotund creature has a taste for muffins and has an ever-increasing collection of assorted hats and headwear. Squishy was the winning entry of a mascot contest held on the oekaki back in 2004, and was created by the former oekaki Administrator Gfaerie.

Pink Poogle Toy's Lost Layout

Screenshot of Pink Poogle Toy's fourth layout

Pink Poogle Toy had a fourth layout, a pink one that briefly appeared for a few days before being taken down. It made a brief re-appearance during a template switching system Hunter installed but after an unfortunate server reset in which a lot of data was lost, including all the forum files and databases, this template never re-appeared.

Trivia

  • A former department, Neopets Layouts, offering graphics and templates for Neopians started in (need date) was merged into Pink Poogle Toy's main site on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 due to quality control issues. It was also used to complement the recently added custom shields section headed by Mike, a friend of Ad0, who is famous in Neopian folklore for hacking Neopets.

External links

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