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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

Popit Cursor

Grabbing Your Bearings

In Create Mode, your Popit Cursor is typically one of the most frequently used tools. That’s because you can use it to select any other materials or anything you have already created and modify them to your liking.

Follow Larry Da Vinci to your very first Popit Powerup and receive your construction hat. When you proceed up the ramp afterward, you can find your first Prize Bubble—a Rough Pink Square Sticker.

Walk on through your next Popit Powerup to learn about using the Popit Cursor.

How to Use Your Popit Cursor

To use your Popit Cursor, press or the touch pad button to open your Popit Menu, and then choose the Popit Cursor. See it over there, on the left? Very good! Now, you can move the cursor around the screen with the left stick and press to attach it to a material.

Things really get interesting now. With the cursor attached to the material, you can spin it or change its size with the right stick or by swiping on the touch pad. You can also move it around with the left stick. Press to configure its properties… depending on what it is, you might adjust its strength, speed, length, or even turn it into a hazardous obstacle by lethalizing it!

Use Your Knowledge

Use the Popit Cursor to interact with the orange areas on the walls. Simply hovering over them with the cursor causes four Prize Bubbles to drop: the Silver Coin Decoration, Crown Bottle Cap Decoration, Screw Head Cap Decoration, and Old Phone Dial Decoration.

Sack Folk Make Mistakes, Too

Follow Larry Da Vinci across the rainbow bridge to learn a lesson about mistakes in Create Mode and how they’re entirely all right to make because of the handy rewind feature.

Rewinding, Pausing, and Playing

Everyone makes mistakes, and you’re bound to make a few yourself when you’re unleashing the grand madness or mad grandness that is your creativity. If you don’t like something that you did or see that it’s not working the way you wanted, press to rewind, and enjoy your free do-over. You can do this as many times as you like. You can also fast forward by pressing , assuming that you have already rewinded.

Now that you know all about rewinding, go ahead and rewind the level to try that section again. Now, you can proceed over the bridge safely to your next Popit Powerup.

When that section is finished rewinding, you may notice that everything is paused, which is a good thing. Press to play again and let the action unfold in real time.

You can also press at any time to pause what’s happening onscreen. You can still access your Popit Menu and all of your tools and goodies during this time. It can be especially helpful if objects are moving too quickly for you to edit them, or maybe if you’re trying to save a few Sackbots that are jumping into danger. When you’re ready to unpause, press again.

A Little Rearranging…

Do you see those Prize Bubbles perched up ahead? Use your Popit Cursor to move the orange triangle and turn it into a platform to that area. Here, you can collect the Beaker Sticker and Paper Cup Decoration.

You’ll do the same thing in the next room, but now, there are more collectibles for your sack person to grab. Make those ramps as big or small as you need them to be, and remember to press V if you have to flip a shape. In this room, you can reach the Prize Bubbles for the Pencil Eraser Decoration and Cheese Wedge Sticker above the doorway on the left and the Thin Charcoal Arrow Sticker and Plastic Cup Object on the right.

Hold It

Beware of the spikes in the next room. If your sack person is used to running headlong into the next area, you might want to start looking where you’re going so they don’t get themselves skewered. Grab the orange shape, resize it, spin it, and move it to create a platform for your sack person. Use the same shape a second time to create a slanting platform to move forward again, leaping to pop the Tin Cup–Red Object Prize Bubble on the way.

Now You See It, Now You Don’t

Proceed down the ramp through your next Popit Powerup. This is where things get really fun: it’s time to play magician and make objects disappear!

Keep the Imagisphere Clean

If you don’t like a material you have placed somewhere, you can select it with your Popit Cursor and press to recycle it. That means deleting it from your level, but don’t worry. In the Imagisphere, everything is reused to stay green and clean. It’ll be out there somewhere, recycled and ready for a new goal in life.

See that big orange rectangle up ahead, the one that’s so rudely blocking your sack person’s path? Select it with your Popit Cursor, and then press to recycle it.

Head onward, little sack thing, and pop the Royal Blue Splat Decoration Prize Bubble. Just before proceeding through the next Popit Powerup, you’ll see two more Prize Bubbles perched on three orange rectangles, quite out of reach for your poor little sack person. Time to get recycling! Select each of the shapes with your Popit Cursor, and press to delete them. Your sack person can now jump to collect the Red Long Gradient Sticker and Blueprint Paper Material Prize Bubbles.

When Life Gives You Ledges…

Now it’s time for a little push and pull. Up ahead, you can use your Popit Cursor to pull out a platform with a Bounce Pad on it. Press when it’s selected to pull it into the foreground, straight out of the wall, so your sack person can step onto it.

Look before You Leap

Before you use that Bounce Pad, try jumping over it onto the platform on the right. Now your sack person can burst the Chalk Dust Sticker Prize Bubble.

Now, return to the Bounce Pad, and launch your sack person up onto the platform above.

To make it onto the platform ahead, select the orange shapes. Press to push one into the wall, or press to pull one out from the wall so that your sack person can use it as a ramp.

But what about that out-of-reach Prize Bubble? It’s impossible to just dry jump to it. Instead, your sack person must climb onto the platform on the right, then pull out both orange objects behind them to create a long runway on which they can gain some momentum. Put your back into it! Your reward is a Rolled Blueprint Decoration.

Follow Larry Da Vinci to the next Popit Powerup. This area becomes a moving platform, but it gets stuck before your sack person can reach the destination. Fortunately, your sack person has all the necessary tools.

Prizes from Above

Before you fix the lift, peek up to your left—do you see the Prize Bubbles hidden up there? They look like they’re ready to gleefully crash down on your sack person’s head in the best of ways, but something is blocking them. Select the shape with your Popit Cursor, and press to recycle it. Now, the Light Blue Splat Decoration and Curled Tape Measure Decoration Prize Bubbles roll directly onto your sack person for automatic popping.

Push the orange squares on either side of the elevator to unstopper the lift (use ). When you reach the top, proceed to the right to collect the somewhat hidden Prize Bubbles for the Corrugated Cardboard Material and Green Radial Fade Inwards Sticker. Now, head left to your next Popit Powerup, popping the Cricket Ball Object Prize Bubble on the way.

Goodies Bag

Is there anything more mouth-watering than a mysterious Goodies bag? Well, you get your very first one here at Popit Academy. This is where you can find all of the materials you can place in the levels you create.

Select your Goodies bag from the Popit Menu. Now, choose a material, and then select a shape for that material. You can place it anywhere you like in the level, spinning and adjusting its size with the right stick or touch pad, moving it around with the left stick, or moving it toward you or away from you with and , respectively.

Using Objects

See that Prize Bubble hanging over the Bounce Pad just out of reach on the left? It’s time to drop the ball, in a good way. Select your new Cricket Ball from the Goodies bag, and place it over the platform on the far left… let the tracing be your guide. The ball drops to lower both platforms, including the one with the Bounce Pad.

Doddle to the platform, and jump onto the Bounce Pad. As your sack person is launched into the air onto the platform above, they can pop the Prize Bubble for the Chalk Line–Dotted Sticker along the way. Once your sack person is on the next level, proceed left through the next Popit Powerup and the Rough Red Square Sticker and Torn Paper Material Prize Bubbles.

Now all you need to do is grab the yellow computer platform with your Popit Cursor and yank it toward your sack person so they can jump on it to finish the level.

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