The mini-bots and Director D may occasionally "freeze up" on Spy Island. This is a programming problem and if it lasts more than a minute, you must refresh the game. This will set you back a little ways, but should keep all your items.
If the minibots freeze, or don't all come out, you have hit a severe glitch in the Spy Island program. You will have to re-boot Poptropica and enter the BAD hideout all over again. This is a known problem that has never been adddressed. Fortunately, the freeze-up can apprently only happen *once* in the game.
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In "Spy Island" at the end of the game to save the 3rd spy.
Freeze ups are much more common on the end of Spy island. But when it happens, you will have to reboot your browser. It will restart the game from the last point you saved, or the last item you acquired.
Spy island
You combine Game Show Island and Cryptids Island
it about 2 mins
Spy Island is island #6. After Spy Island is Nabooti Island #7
There is nothing you can do if the Mini-bots freeze up. You will probably have to reboot Poptropica and do Spy Island over -- you may get to keep your items. Before you reboot, try this: leave the satellite using the transporter, go back to Main Street, and leave Spy Island. Then come back and return to the satellite using the transporter. This has occasionally de-glitched the island.
Sadly, you have encountered the one major glitch in the Spy Island program. Sometimes, for no apparent reason, either a mini-bot or Director D will "freeze up" and stop attacking you. There is no way to unfreeze the game. You must reboot your browser to Poptropica and re-play the entire "BAD hideout" sequence including the lasers. Fortunately, it has never been known to freeze up for a second time!
You will have to reboot Poptropica and replay the control center again. The freeze-up can affect the minibots or Director D, and is a known glitch for the island.
(see the related question "How do you beat Director D on Spy Island?") For an unknown reason, MANY users report that the game "locks up" on the third mini-bot or on Director D in the control center. This "freeze" has no workaround. You will have to "restart" Poptropica, which will put you back outside the lasers at the hideout. Sorry, but a glitch is a glitch.