Lutari Island is a tropical island on the other side of Neopia that was once populated with Lutaris. Released on June 24, 2006, this remote island was only accessible to users via the Neopets Mobile service, which cost $2.99 per month.
Site Description[]
" A mysterious island floats around the oceans of Neopia. It's never in the same place twice, which makes it quite difficult to track, and all the more intriguing.
The mysterious island of Lutari is currently being pummeled by an unusually large storm! Between the whirlpools, water spouts and lightning it has been advised that no Neopets are allowed to visit its shores. Even the sea life seems to be staying away... "
Places/Features of Interest[]
- Sub Locations
- Bog of Charity - An area that was akin to the Money Tree, Rubbish Dump, and Second-Hand Shoppe.
- Fluorescent Pools - A place where Neopets could be healed, not unlike Faerieland's Healing Springs.
- Lutari Savings Bank - A Lutari Island branch of the National Neopian Bank.
- Survival Academy - A place where users can train their Neopet, akin to the Swashbuckling Academy and Mystery Island Training School, but this time, the Survival Academy accepted feathers from their native Floobix as payment.
- Games
- Blockstravaganza - Akin to Gadgadsgame, the object here was to arrange three blocks of the same colour in a row.
- Coco Roll - Yet another rolling game that involved rolling a coconut down hills. Players were rewarded with an avatar for completing level 5.
- Go Go Lutari! - A rolling game almost akin to Turmac Roll. Unlike Turmac Roll, though, the spinning Lutari in this game was able to jump on tree stumps as well as twice in the air, allowing it to reach higher-reaching items. Go Go Lutari also featured stages, meaning the player could have a break between tries.
- Wheel of Happiness - A wheel that could be spun every 30 minutes for 100 Neopoints.
- An Air Faerie who would sometimes give out special Faerie Quests.
- Other
- Adopt-A-Pet/Pet Central - A section where users could adopt a pet (namely Kacheeks, Kougras, Shoyrus, and most notably, Lutaris, which, at the time, could only be obtained in this manner) and use items from the inventory to care for their on-site pets.
- Island Gossip - New Features for Neopets Mobile.
- Lutari Talisman
- Sync and Quit - Synced the user's items, pet info, and NP from Lutari Island to their Neopets account.
Retirement[]
On June 30th, 2009, Neopets Mobile was discontinued.
A year later, Lutari Island began to be ravaged by a large storm, thus allowing the refugee Lutaris to become available to create on-site from then on.
In the 579th editorial, TNT stated that the island might become accessible to the common Neopets user, but so far, there have been no further official details.
Reception[]
Many users felt that it was unfair to have Lutari Island only available to Neopets Mobile users, similarly to how non-Premium users feel about Neopets Premium. Additionally, the fact that Lutari Island is always located on the map and that Lutaris cannot be abandoned is also seen as irksome.
Trivia[]
- A Lutari Paint Brush exists, but is currently unusable as there are no Neopets that can currently be painted with it.
- The current description of Lutari Island is based around the shutdown of Neopets Mobile.
Gallery[]
The Island
Neopets Mobile
External Links[]
- Lutari Island on Neopets
- Neopets Mobile on Neopets (Old)
- Neopets Mobile Guide