Poppers

Poppers is a conjectural name. "Who are you? Can you tell me?" — Eggy, "Lick Your Way to Freedom" The subject of this article or section has never been given an official name stated either in the Battle for Dream Island series, or by Jacknjellify; the current one is unofficial, and was made up.

“	WHY DID YOU LIE TO US, LOSER?	”
	— Fanny, "The Liar Ball You Don't Want"

Poppers
Lightning, Stapy, Ruby, and Pillow all seen playing with the poppers
Type	Rubber Toys
Effects	"Pops" after a few seconds of being inverted
First appearance	"The Liar Ball You Don't Want"
Last appearance	"Category One"

Poppers (also called Boot Toys, Pop-up Poppers, Rubber Half-Balls, Eye Poppers (in real life), or Rubber Domes (as referred to by Cary Huang)) or Popballs (as they are known in real life) are toys that the contestants are seen playing with at the start of "The Liar Ball You Don't Want".

Poppers are rubber domes that can be pressed in and then pop back out. When placed on a flat surface while pressed in, they launch into the air. In "The Liar Ball You Don't Want", they’re shown to be strong enough to launch people as well. Some poppers activate on their own without anyone touching them, such as when Needle put one on Eggy and it snapped shut over her eyes. The same thing happened to Tree, which might explain why he later ended up inside Bottle. Pillow also inserted one into herself, apparently for "research".

According to Fanny, the poppers were invented less than an hour (or 3,600 seconds) before the events of the episode. However, Loser claimed to have played with them before that time.

Coverage

Poppers appear at the start of "The Liar Ball You Don't Want". Many contestants seemed to enjoy playing with them. However, after Loser claimed to have played with poppers before, Fanny pointed out that they had only been invented about an hour earlier. This made her believe that Loser had lied, since it wouldn't have been possible to play with something that didn't exist yet. As a result, the group decided to stop using them. Later in the episode, poppers are used as the Cake at Stake prizes, and they were sprinkled with a grain of sugar by Donut.

In "Questions Answered", Stapy attaches a popper to the fake iance buzzer box in an attempt to sabotage the other team. This backfired, however, as Match caught the footage on Camera and showed it to Donut afterward, causing Free Food to be put up for elimination.

A popper is added to Cloudy's collection by the time of "This Episode Is About Basketball", which can also be seen in subsequent episodes featuring the collection, in "Return of the Rocket Ship", "The Four is Lava", "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?", and "Outbreak At Stake".

One also shows up in the grand cake in "Chapter Complete".

In "Plan Dissolve Adhesive", a yellow popper is included in a collection of items gathered from the Hotel by PDA, used to build a mini-catapult.

In "Category One", a yellow popper is seen in a bush following the aftermath of the storm.

Used by

• Bomby
• Stapy
• Lightning
• Ruby
• Pillow
• Barf Bag
• Nickel
• Needle
• Naily
• Firey Jr.
• Loser
• Fanny
• Donut
• Pin
• Coiny
• Cake
• Firey
• Clock
• Cake
• Eggy
• PDA

Used on

• Lightning
• Eggy x2
• Tree
• Nickel
• Coiny
• Needle
• Pillow
• Bomby

Assets

The poppers use these assets, but they appear in multiple colors.

Popper Up

Popper Up Pressed

Popper Front

Popper Front Pressed

Popper Down Below

Popper Down Below Pressed

Popper Down Above

Popper Down Above Pressed

Popper Back

Popper Back Pressed

Trivia

The obstacle course

• An obstacle course made of poppers appears, ending with Spongy; Needle and Firey Jr. are shown loading the poppers.
• According to Cary Huang, he and Michael had poppers when they were younger, which may have inspired Michael to include them in the episode.
• The laugh at the start of the episode uses the same audio clip from Blocky's Funny Doings International when Blocky laughed after pranking Bubble.
• The poppers are based on real-life toys, sometimes called "eye poppers."
• In real life, poppers are very small, yet in the episode they were large enough to cover the heads of Eggy and Tree.
  • This could be because the characters are objects themselves, making the poppers appear standard in size by comparison.
• A pink popper can be seen in the Grand Cake.
• According to Donut, each popper has a small grain of sugar in its center.

Gallery

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A popper in Cloudy's collection

As the fake iance buzzer

A pink popper in the Grand Cake

A yellow popper in "Category One" next to the pole from the Battle for BFDI intro

Loser's secret stash

Items

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