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Little Big Planet 3 Signature Series Strategy Guide
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Contents

  • Welcome Back to LittleBigPlanet
    • The Important Stuff
    • Meet the Heroic Team
  • Adventure: Prologue
    • Introduction
    • Needlepoint Peaks
    • Newtons Airship
    • Stitchem Manor
    • Tinpot Towers
  • Adventure: Manglewood
    • Manglewood Swamp
    • High Stakes Heist
    • Deep Space Drive-In
    • Shake, Rattle, and Roll
    • Crumbling Crypts
    • Lights, Camera, Traction!
    • Challenge Room: Twos Company
    • Challenge Room: Race to the Stars
    • Challenge Room: Back in the Saddle
    • Contraption Challenge: The Wheel Deal
    • Challenge Room: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
  • Adventure: The Ziggurat
    • Ziggurat Grand Hall
    • Furry Soles, Hot Coals
    • Flip-Flopped Folios
    • Go Loco
    • Tutu Tango
    • On the Link of Disaster
    • Challenge Room: No Drain, No Gain
    • Challenge Room: Here, There, and Everywhere
    • Challenge Room: Bear with Us
  • Adventure: Bunkum Lagoon
    • Bunkum Lagoon
    • Belly of the Beast
    • Masque Makers Tower
    • Cloud Caravan
    • The Great Escape
    • Even Bosses Wear Hats Sometimes
    • Challenge Room: Battle of the Airwaves
    • Contraption Challenge: Joust in Time
  • Welcome to the Popit Academy
    • Your Very First Term
    • Popit Cursor
    • Stamping Materials
    • Danger Tools
    • Corner Editing
    • Bounce Pads
    • Bolts
    • Connectors
  • A Second Term at Popit Academy
    • Introduction
    • Advanced Connectors
    • Tags and Sensors
    • Physics Tweaker
    • Material Tweaker
    • Emitters
    • Velociporters and Teleporters
    • Sackbots
    • Graduation
  • Create: What's New And Shiny
    • Ever Upgrading!
    • Some Basics
    • Sensors
    • Logic
    • Movers
    • Object Tweakers
    • Getting Around
    • Spawning and Ending
    • Points and Prizes
    • Rails
    • Adventuring
    • Creature Tweakers
    • Dynamic Thermometer
    • Power-ups/Special Power-ups
    • Creature Sensors
    • Animators
    • Go Forth and Make!
  • Create Tools Quick Reference: The Tools Bag
    • Introduction
    • Tools
    • Gadgets
    • Gameplay
    • Creatures and Characters
    • Music
  • Trophies & Pins
    • Trophies
    • Pins
  • Credits
    • Strategy Guide Credits

Little Big Planet 3 Signature Series Strategy Guide › Welcome to the Popit Academy

Bounce Pads

Bounce Pads are one of the silliest and most exciting things you can place in your level, simply because they’re the bounciest. And you’d be surprised at how handy a bouncy object can be when you’re trying to reach a high place.

Bouncy, Bouncy

To place a Bounce Pad in your level, select it from your Tools bag. You can spin it or adjust its size with the right stick or touch pad, or move it with the left stick. Press to plant it in its place.

But wait! It’s important to modify Bounce Pads so they’re exactly bouncy enough to get the job done. Maybe you require more movement to bounce high enough to reach where you want to go, or perhaps you would prefer to avoid an up-high obstacle. You can also change their properties so they plop down on the ground, or float wherever you place them. How’s that for a neato trick?

To adjust these things, press to go straight into the Tweak menu. You can do this before you press to place the Bounce Pad or after you select a Bounce Pad with the Popit Cursor.

When you first begin this lesson, move your little adventurer all the way to the left and jump off the slanted Bounce Pad there. Press to really take off, aiming for the Origami Rose Sticker Prize Bubble.

That was fun, but now it’s time to get down to the business of learning. Use the Bounce Pads as you follow Larry Da Vinci to get a feel for them. As soon as you pass through the Popit Powerup at the top of the first platforming area, head straight back to where you came from, and use your Popit Cursor. With it, select the Bounce Pad and adjust its Movement Height so your sack person can jump higher—all with the goal of reaching that Prize Bubble for the Mechanical Pencil Sharpener Object.

Next, you can use your Popit Cursor to select the Bounce Pad ahead, and press to tweak it. Adjust the Movement with the left stick or right stick to give it more oomph. When you’re done, press to set your changes, and then have your sack person bounce on it to the platform above.

First, ensure that you make the Bounce Pad bouncy enough to launch your sack person to the Prize Bubble way, way up in the air—almost out of sight. This is for the Acrylic Tube (Cross Junction) Object. Then, head to the lower platform on the right, and pop those Prize Bubbles for the Cabbage Stencil Sticker and Dust Particles Sticker at the top.

In the next area, maximize the bounciness of the Bounce Pad to reach the White Radial Fade Outwards Sticker Prize Bubble, and then jump over the obstacle to the right.

As you proceed along the platforms, continue adjusting Bounce Pads. Keep an eye out for the Prize Bubble with the Red Pencil Decoration—your sack person must jump over the Bounce Pad to reach it.

Creating Your Own Bounce Pads

Now it’s time to start making your own Bounce Pads and placing them in the level so your sack person can get a move on. You already know a little about that. Select the Bounce Pad from your Tools bag and place it where you want, and then press to configure its properties (like how high your sack person can bounce on it).

Use your Bounce Pads to proceed up to higher platforms. Make sure you pop the Prize Bubble for the Diamond Pattern Sticker as you go.

You can do more than just change the bounciness of your Bounce Pads—you can also adjust their physics. Press while you’re creating one, and choose the Static option if you want your Bounce Pad to float wherever you stick it, without any regard for gravity at all.

In the next section, make sure you adjust the movement so your sack person can bounce onto the mesh and grab hold with . Move through the Prize Bubbles for the Acrylic Tube (T-Junction) Object and Mushroom Light Decoration.

On the platform above, head to the right to pick up the somewhat hidden Prize Bubble’s Small Bracken Leaf Sticker.

Helping Sackbots to the Other Side

The next section involves your sack person coming to the aid of Sackbots that are impaling themselves on spikes and whatnot; it’s really quite a mess. Move along the platforms, and place Bounce Pads along the way for the Sackbots to help them get from one side to the other.

When you’re finished helping the Sackbots in the first portion, collect your reward of the Kilt & Sporran Sticker.

Carry on helping the Sackbots in the same way. See how useful Bounce Pads can be?

Fixing Bounces

If you make a mistake with your Bounce Pad, use your Popit Cursor to select the pad, and then move it around or press to start tweaking its properties. Not everything in life is fixable, but this certainly is!

Once you’re done with this section, your sack person can burst the Prize Bubble for the Freckles Sticker, and then happily dive down the tube to collect the Plastic Ball Object at the bottom.

In the next room, place a Bounce Pad to help the Sackbots reach the red button, which releases the Prize Bubbles to the left of them. Pop them to receive the Leaves Sticker and Green Branch Sticker.

Finally, don’t miss the Surprised Eye Sticker hidden between platforms toward the end of the last room. Jump down to pop the Prize Bubble; a Bounce Pad launches your sack person directly back up to safety.

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