User blog:Green Ninja/April Fools' Canceled (And What This Means for CP...)

Hello, Green Ninja here. I am here to bring you very sad news, though some of you (well, almost all of you) have heard about so far. On March 9, 2013's Spike Saturday, Club Penguin's manager since Billybob's retirement, Spike Hike (AKA Chris Heatherly) confirmed in game that the April Fools' Parties will not return, atleast until next year, though that is highly unlikely. The news shocked all of us penguins, expecially the oldies from 2007 and beyond, who have have been to pretty much every April Fools' Party Club Penguin had ever released up to this year. They have been a Club Penguin tradition, and it will be sad to let it go. I am going to explain to you the reasons why Club Penguin canceled the beloved annual party. This will be a long blog post, but I advise for all of you to read the whole entire thing, to stay informed about this catastrophe that is the cancellation of the April Fools' Parties.

Back at the beginning of March, there were rumors that there would not be an April Fools' Party 2013, due to the fact that the Puffle Party 2013 runs through April Fools' Day. As much as all of us don't want to see the April Fools' Parties go away, they were getting a bit repetitive. 2006-2010 had the same theme, with jokes and funny pranks, mostly involving boxes, which lead to the opening of the Box Dimension in 2009. This was fine, with just one dimension, themed from the April Fools' Parties from previous years, in which boxes transformed into all kinds of jokes. Then, some random Club Penguin employee said "Hey, wouldn't it be fun if we EXPANDED on the Box Dimension?" and another replied "LET'S DO IT! The kids will love it!"

Starting in 2011, Rookie became the mascot, and even more dimensions opened up. These dimensions were silly and fun, capturing the spirit of April Fools' Day, but were they turning away from what the April Fools' Parties were really about? The special pranks and jokes that were seen at the parties, the memories that older penguins hold near and dear to their hearts? The answer, in my humble opinion, is yes, they were. More so that by the April Fools' Party 2012, only three rooms were decorated, with two of which having whoopie cushions on the ground, and the third a huge portal to the Box Dimension, where the rest of the dimensions were accessible from. The dimensions were preventing penguins from actually enjoying the pranks and fun happening in the real world, Club Penguin Island, and not some random places in space. By 2012, you were forced to celebrate in the dimensions, with hardly any real rooms decorated. This upset many penguins. Spike Hike, who has recently earned the title of manager of Club Penguin, after Billybob announced he would retire in October 2012, is partly to blame for the cancellation. He saw how penguins responded to last year's party, and he wanted to have the parties his way now that he was owner.

Still, you would prefer any other party over the monstrosity that is the April Fools' Party 2012, right? Wrong!

In early 2013, around January, both Spike Hike and Polo Field tweeted that the island's most popular party from 2012, the Marvel Super Hero Takeover, would return. This thrilled some penguins, while others raged with fury. You see, some penguins hated the Marvel Super Hero Takeover, for many reasons: it was advertising, unoriginal, boring, not many rooms decorated. Now, to them, after hearing the news in January that the party would return, it was like a zombie was rising back from the dead to attack again. Finally, the Club Penguin Magazine confirmed that the Marvel Super Hero Takeover would occur in April, leaving no chance for an April Fools' party to occur in that month. I mean, it's April Fools' Day, not Any Other Month Fools' Day. But still, after confirmation from Spike Hike that there would not be an April Fools' Party 2013, penguins are beginning to question what is exactly going through the madman Spike Hike's head. Why cancel an original, annual Club Penguin party that has lasted for years, and replace it with a boring, advertising party that only came to light nine months ago? Don't think that next year Club Penguin will go back to normal, either: the April Fools' Parties might never come back. Marvel movies come out in April-May-June time period, except for Thor: The Dark World, which comes in November, and I doubt CP will have two Marvel parties in one year. You better expect it in April 2014, though, as Captain America: The Winter Soldier comes out then, and so does Gaurdians of the Galaxy, as well, so April may now be the main month for MSHTs now. Also, The Avengers 2 comes out in 2015 I think, as well as the seventh Star Wars, so I would expect yet ANOTHER Marvel Super Hero Takeover and maybe a Star Wars Party, as well. Don't get me wrong, the Marvel Super Hero Takeover was an amazing party, at least in my opinion, but Spike Hike took it too far. Things wouldn't have been this way if Billybob hadn't quit the game in February.

Okay, now that was long. I may add tons more stuff later, but this is just my take on the situation. Feel free to comment and leave feedback.