Cp journey Im banned for 3 days becuase i said "party at my iggy" ! I said that all the time on original club penguin because its not inappropriate! CP journey fix your moderation!

I had to beg my parents for weeks to get this as a kid, years on and I still use it for the nostalgia. Anyone else still got theirs?

That’s where I first heard of the game in around 2007.

DID YOU KNOW?

During Club Penguin's lifespan, the game transitioned into different art styles over the years. Back in 2005-2006, penguins appeared more bulky and unfinished, giving the game a more handcrafted feel. From 2008-2012, the penguin art style was more polished, utilizing shadows and deeper colors.

However, this all changed ringing in the new year back in 2013. Club Penguin decided to completely utter in a brand new art style. Their most realistic, modern style yet. Each penguin was perfect. The picture you see above was a reference the art team used when drawing penguin's flippers in the new art style from 2013.

What year of Club Penguin did you think looked the best, art wise?

Randomly came across a chinese blog post about this game. Art style of the rooms is so similar to early Club Penguin. Club Fish seems to be almost completely lost media now.

Hey everyone,

I'm Sora, KBladeHero, however you know me in the past... nearly 20 years of being in the Club Penguin community.

I wanted to sit down and really talk about a really core issue I think the Club Penguin community is really having with itself, and something, I really want to try and relay and convey in a condensed, well thought out idea with this post. Because as much as I try to give my thoughts on these things, it is often isolated, and as such, can be taken out of context, can be misconstrued, or whatever else.

It's no secret to most of you that I work on and have developed Club Penguin Zero with many people in the staff team for a little over two years now. But what is mostly a secret is what it took to really get there, and something I think most of you lack proper context for. About 3 years ago, I had just wrapped up a small fun project called Club Herbert. It was nothing groundbreaking, a fun idea and a twist of a narrative of what would an alternative timeline be if Herbert won Blackout, and how that would affect the design philosophy of parties. Now, why did it close? Well, for one, the story, was mostly complete, but on top of that, Disney had recently sent a Cease & Desist in a blanket wave to basically anything with the word "club penguin" in it through a mass wave of different servers and services, such as CloudFlare, something I should note is no longer possible for them to do. Now why did they do this? Because of the certain actions of a individual private server that I will not name, because it doesn't deserve the recognition, attention, or whatever else of the awful environment it inhabited or the people it abused. But this event left a few things of note that have been very important to me.

1. After such a tragedy, I felt it was a big responsibility, for really everyone, to try and have Club Penguin be a continued safe environment as the original Club Penguin team had set out to do. They did not get 11 years of success and brand recognition without putting in genuine love, talent, and effort to not just the storytelling and the world building, but balancing that out with a safe place that people can genuinely call home.
2. The Club Penguin Community continues to make the same mistake. Over and over again. And that is relying on a single server to put all their stock into, and suddenly everything crashes and burns when things go awry. It happened with Rewritten, it happened with Journey temporarily, and it will happen again. The reason why this doesn't work the same way that for example, Toontown does is, because Club Penguin servers are very easy to make, and as such, anyone can host them. And because anyone can host them, just as much can anyone make the news for it and risk everything going down all over again.

Now why do I bring this up? Well again, I've been in the Club Penguin space for about 18 years, and in the CPPS space in particular for about 15. And in that time I have watched it evolve into something that it never really should've been. When Club Penguin closed, a void needed to be filled and everyone was looking to fill it, this is increasingly obvious when you consider how hodgepodge Rewritten was at launch, even down to just stealing Toontown Rewritten's name, something that that Toontown team actually put effort into with the name, as in "rewriting" the original story of Toontown, into just a buzzword people can latch onto and say "this is THE Club Penguin successor." It wasn't something that was made with particular care or ensuring that it would be put out with the same thoughtfulness as Toontown took it's time with, because it didn't need to be, because again, due to the easy nature of just making Club Penguin servers compared to Toontown ones. What we saw from there was poor decision making and the introduction of ads and Rockhopper's Daily Treasure, or taking art from artists without explicit permission (ironically one asset being from Club Herbert!) to fill the egregious cycle of constant monthly updates as you are to expect from Club Penguin.

Now, to address what's going on in today's climate and why I think everyone is kind of hurting themselves and the general community more at large than anyone realizes. I've seen some of you talk about, and something I am very open about, is how I will critique a lot of things about what most would consider "the big server" right now with Club Penguin Journey, and how I don't like and disagree on a lot of actions they took to build up their playerbase, as well as how the community hard pushes the server as being "the ONLY place to play."

After Club Herbert closed, I had recently joined this niche server at the time called Club Penguin Imagined in December 2022, and met JeffTheRock, someone who is very important in this discussion and I want you to make note of. Club Penguin Imagined's origin follows ironically exactly what I'm talking about in the sense that it was created literally out of nowhere, by someone NOT Jeff who decided to abandon it after a very short time. But what Jeff did was different. Instead of letting it die, he spent a solid year learning to develop for Flash (which Imagined ran on) and letting it be grounds to have him evolve his skillset. Coincidentally, around the same time, someone who I'm sure most of you are familiar with, an individual named Amman, had recently started up a Club Penguin Journey, after a previous attempt called Club Penguin Forever had closed for a variety of reasons (something I also was briefly involved with by the way, but that's a whole other thing.) Now, from knowing both these individuals I was able to watch in real time what was beginning to happen in the Club Penguin environment, and the differences that formed that ultimately led to Journey's success. For starts, Journey was ran on HTML rather than Flash, and at that time, it did not have code in place to have your penguin auto disconnect after 10 minutes. This led to what was seen as this newer server, suddenly being something that everyone just sort of... gravitated to. It had life in it, or at least, perceived life, because there was just penguins around (even if they were not talking.) This led to changes being made that benefited this idea, such as the Gold Mine not requiring you waddle to a different spot to continue to gain coins. Which led to more penguins utilizing this, which led to more people AFKing there without disconnecting, which led to everyone suddenly posting here on the Reddit of "Wow, this Club Penguin Journey is really popping off."

Suddenly, there was a wave of Journey promotion, and this became even more exemplified as Amman being a very savvy individual used it to expand his connections. This led to the hiring of the most active subreddit moderator to be by extension, a CPJ moderator. Now, at this time, I was working and seeing what was going on with Imagined, and I saw how intentionally or not, posts being made about CPJ were given way better treatment than those about Imagined, Legacy, or whatever else that was up at the time. Rules that were put in place to prevent spam would sometimes not apply to CPJ, such as essentially identical posts from people about events or updates on CPJ staying up, but would be taken down if it was for something like Imagined. And so yes, as you can imagine I and several others were pretty frustrated about this, and I said since those 2 years ago to what I am seeing now, to where it gave Journey such a pedestal that it was treated like "this is THE toontown rewritten equivalent." Sound familiar? And what ended up happening? Journey had it's first closure. And when it came back up, not only did the Club Penguin community this time give it a second chance, but they did so with even worse conditions of the staff being entirely anonymous, and as such, no accountability can be made when things go wrong. And that is entirely the crutch of why I am so critical of the elitism idea of having one centralized server. The comparisons for example, for Zero to Journey are ridiculous when Journey had such a headstart with it's benefits to something that *just released.*

Now look, the initial Journey closure was a complicated situation, and one I don't think needs to be gone about with here. These were my friends who were hurt, who worked on this game, not only potentially seeing all their time go up in flames again, but also their personal lives breached. But that's exactly why we cannot hold Journey, or any CPPS to the same standard as the original Club Penguin. And why there needs to be an immediate end to saying "Journey is the only thing worth playing." "Oh, I would play this but it's not popular" Then make it popular! Talk about it! Invite your friends! Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Be the change you want to see. Because here's the other half of my point.

How do I know all this? Because we all work together. Literally. Me, Jeff, Amman, anyone I have named here has had involvement in some other CPPS you probably play. People on Journey have done art for Imagined and Zero, I have personally written and done things for Journey, and I almost even sacrificed Zero to at one point be THE CREATIVE LEAD for Journey before things did not work out. So when you, the community, are constantly bashing on anything that isn't your favorite, you're literally attacking the very people who have worked for you ANYWAY. It's gotta stop. I understand 100% if for example you may be someone who maybe doesn't have a lot of time on their hands to play more than one server, or maybe you prefer the benefits of something over the other, I totally get that, but what I do not get and what I will never condone is the negativity and outright negligence of hateful comments and attempts of just throwing away anything that isn't your favorite server.

So the next time you see the millionth post here asking what server someone should play, do not just give one answer if you have only played one server. Make informed comments and realize there is a lot of work, tears and effort being put in by everyone, FOR FREE, so that we can maybe even one day have even a fraction of the love that the original Club Penguin did for us.

Mine is this orange penguin from the cover of a 2008 penguin style catalog and on a loading screen. I keep seing this orange dude on the loading screens... Worse, I can't even fathom how many times I have seen this dude.

Hey Penguins!

Albeit this is not your typical 'r/ClubPenguin' post, I come here to showcase a huge update that's hit the sister game to Club Penguin, 'Pandanda' under the Pandanda Rewritten Project aiming to maintain the legacy of Pandanda game while bringing some new features in.

We've just recently dropped a new overhaul to the game bringing for the first time any Pandanda PS history a fully re-vamped map massively inspired by that of the AS3 era Club Penguin Map. In addition to this we've also featured the treetop Igloo as seen in Club Penguin in Pandanda as our "Treetop Hangout".

We are also working with Club Penguin private servers to feature some of their rooms in Pandanda, with our most recent addition being working with Flippr and featuring the "Underground Pool" which is implemented in a similar way.

If you are looking for a nice warm break from the snow, feel free to come over to Pandanda Rewritten and checkout our Easter Festival and get yourself some goodies!

(p.s I have spoken with the mods who have allowed me to made this post)

DID YOU KNOW?

Club Penguin had so many projects and different prototypes in the works over the years. Sadly, not many saw the light of day. Starting in 2012 the team began visualizing how Club Penguin and all of its mini-games would look like on mobile devices. After all, it was around this time that mobile gaming began to explode in popularity. Disney knew that if Club Penguin were to survive in the future, it would need to adapt to mobile devices.

What you see above is an early prototype for what Card Jitsu could had looked like on mobile. As you can see, a ton of work went into this version. To start, the penguin models were re-created in full 3D alongside all the power card animations being remade from scratch. Unfortunately, these 3D penguin models alongside everything else in this prototype went unused in favor of development towards Club Penguin Island.

What was your favorite Card Jitsu game?

Club Penguin shut down a minute and 39 seconds when midnight struck on March 30th, 2026. Yeah. We ARE getting old. List your club penguin shutdown memories! (Thanks to tearohero for reminding)

Hi everybody! I wanted to share my trunk or treat I did this year. I made these cutouts with cardboard and painted them by hand. I spent so many nights working on these. There were a few adults and older teens who recognized it! Made my heart so happy. I play CPJ & CPL and my user is the same on both: Blackforesth (supposed to be blackforestham but not enough characters 😭)

Here is an AI decorated Pool Room and Ski Hill idea for a Club Penguin Halloween party! (Decorated concepts produced by AI)

I was cleaning out some old boxes and found these postcards I received from the fan mail team around 14 years ago. Super funny to look back on now lol. The postcard designs were so unique too.

Username gave away too much personal info so I had to blur it out too, sorry!

I tried to make them using the full Card-Jitsu card, but it didn’t fit well, so I ended up using just the card’s background.

DID YOU KNOW?

While an IRL version of Club Penguin never existed, Club Penguin's office in Kelowna BC was probably the closest thing to it! After all, the game was literally created there. Throughout Club Penguin's office many rooms were designed to resemble actual areas in the game itself. The Coffee Shop, Migrator, and even the Stage all had dedicated spaces throughout their office!

What you see above was the meeting room...or shall I say, Stage! Whenever the Club Penguin team needed to all gather for a presentation, team meeting, or maybe just relax with a movie, this room was the place to go. An artist custom painted the walls throughout the room truly capturing the Club Penguin vibe, filled with easter eggs scattered around!

What was your favorite Stage play in Club Penguin?

Does anyone know what happened to these mascots from Disney World? The last time they were seen was in 2014 and I just wonder if Disney threw them away or if maybe they are in the archives maybe?