Tapped Out Premium Walkthrough: Rex Redux

Hey Howdy Hey Tappers!

Well the 4th of July is now over in Springfield, and I hope you guys managed to get everything you wanted from the update!  And now that it’s over it’s time to look at our 3rd, and final, full dialogue walkthrough for the event.  The Redux of Rex Banner!

Rex Banner was the freemium 4th of July Character during the 2013 Event & returned as a premium character (for 90 donuts) during 2014.  The 2014 questline for Rex (and All-American Apu, if you have him) is basically a repeat of the 2013 quesline, with a few dialogue updates.

Rex’s questline started automatically once 4th of July hit, if you had Rex already or it started after you purchased him and the Nighthawk Diner.  We’ve already brought you the Turbo Tappin’ version of this walkthrough, so now it’s time to catch up on what you missed (if you were tapping quickly) or missed out on (if you didn’t make the purchase) with the full dialogue version!

Now, enough stammering from me….let’s find those illegal fireworks with everyone’s favorite hard-nosed cop!

Rex Banner & Flanders TSTO

The Rocket’s Red Glare Redux Pt. 1
Rex starts

Rex: Citizen’s of Springfield, fear not! No longer will airborne displays of fireworks-related Technicolor splendor haunt your nights!
Lisa: Federal agent Rex Banner!?
Rex: Here to stop the flow of illegal fireworks into Springfield and bring the Bottle Rocket Barons to their knees.
Lisa: Well, that’ll be nice.  They’re kind of a nuisance.
Rex: Nuisance?  You call sporadic incidents of mild to moderate noise pollution a NUISANCE?  They’re the greatest threat to the American way of life since loitering!  And nothing will stop me from ending this scourge!  Unless it is my debilitating addiction to refined sugars!
Make Rex Banner Interrogate Flanders– 8hrs, Earns $695, 175xp..requires Flanders

The Rocket’s Red Glare Redux Pt. 2
Apu starts

Apu: Sales of fireworks are up 3,000%!  This holiday is proving most profitable!
Rex: I’ve traced the fireworks to this Kwik-E-Mart.  Time to see what we can see…
Apu: Great Ganesh! Super-cop Rex Banner is hot on my trail!  I’d better hide the evidence.
Make All American Apu Hide the Fireworks Behind the Malt Liquor- 4hrs, Earns $260, 70xp
Make Rex Banner Stake Out the Kwik-E-Mart- 12hrs, Earns $600, 150xp 

The Rocket’s Red Glare Redux Pt. 3
Rex starts

Rex: Reach for the sky, Nahasapeemapetilon!  I know you’re the gunpowder-drunk mastermind of this fireworks racket! Come clean — you’re the one the call Rocket Rajah.  The Bengal Blaster.  Pyrotechnic ‘Pu.
Apu: I see.  Because of my ethnicity and name, you assume this person must be me.  That, sir, is profiling!
Rex: I’m an old-timey cop.  Profiling is ninety percent of my skill set.  And we call it by it’s proper name: good ol’ red-blooded, American racism.
Make All American Apu Hide the Fireworks Behind the Malt Liquor- 4hrs, Earns $260, 70xp
Make Rex Banner Stake Out the Kwik-E-Mart- 12hrs, Earns $600, 150xp 

The Rocket’s Red Glare Redux Pt. 4
Homer starts

Homer: Release Apu, Rex Banner!  I’ve discovered the true identity of the fireworks smuggler — Ned Flanders!  Arrest him and interrogate him for hours and hours!
Rex: Let’s go boys!
Homer: And… he’s gone.  Woo-hoo!  Come on everybody — the coast is clear!  Let’s buy some boom!
Make Rex Banner Interrogate Flanders– 8hrs, Earns $695, 175xp Requires Flanders
Send Springfield Residents to Buy Fireworks-
x10, 1hr.  Send 10 Springfielders to buy fireworks.  Earns $70, 17xp non-premium and $105, 26xp premium characters.  Here’s a list of who you can’t send:
The kids of Springfield…minus Kearney.  

The Rocket’s Red Glare Redux Pt. 5
Rex starts

Rex: Hands where I can see them, Apu!  I’m taking you in!
Lisa: Wait!  That man is innocent!  I’ve just found an old town law from 1803 which expressly permits “the sale and detonation of pyrotechnic devices for one month following June 4.”
Rex: What’s so special about the Fourth of June?
Lisa: June 4th was King George III of England’s birthday.  Springfield was the only town in the nation that voted 182 times to return to British rule.  We’ve always been America’s cowards.
Rex: Well, at least there’s one thing this town is still good for.
Make Rex Banner Eat a Banana Kaboom- 4hrs, Earns $260, 70xp

Paranod Android Redux
Homer starts

Homer: Rex Banner!  I’ve again discovered a nefarious smuggling ring — far too intricate to detail here — that is headed by our own Ned Flanders!  Arrest Ned Flanders at once!  And interrogate him fro a really, really long time!  But not in a scary, painful, illegal way like the CIA does.  Just, you know, keep him out of my hair while football’s on.
Rex: Will do, patriotic citizen!
Make Rex Banner Interrogate Flanders– 8hrs, Earns $695, 175xp Requires Flanders

The Rocket’s Red Glare Redux Pt. 6
Apu starts

Apu: Now that this awful business with the authorities has blown over, it’s time to restock!
Make Apu Stock Up on Illegal Fireworks– 24hrs, Earns $1,000, 225xp

The Rocket’s Red Glare Redux Pt. 7
Apu starts

Apu: I am happy to announce I am open for business once again!
Homer: Woo-hoo!  I haven’t blown anything up in a couple of hours, this was starting to feel like a Canada Day celebration…
Make Apu Turn a Profit– 12hrs, Earns $600, 150xp 
Send Springfield Residents to Buy Fireworks-
 x10, 1hr.  Send 10 Springfielders to buy fireworks.  Earns $70, 17xp non-premium and $105, 26xp premium characters.  Here’s a list of who you can’t send:
The kids of Springfield…minus Kearney.  

Well my Tapping Friends, what did YOU think of Rex’s questline?  Those Tappers with him from 2013, were you a little bummed they basically made you do the same questline again?  What would you have done differently?  Those Tappers who just purchased him this year, what’d you think?  Were you impressed with him?  Or wished you passed?  Sound off in the comments below, you know we LOVE hearing from you!

9 responses to “Tapped Out Premium Walkthrough: Rex Redux

  1. This was my first donut spend (only had 100) and I thought it seemed good for a building + character….however mine never went through this plot line! Only the inital Interrogate Flanders and that was it.
    My game has been awful at the moment and I have had to reinstall several times (and it still only lasts between 6-36hrs before becoming unplayable again) so I am wondering if this has to do with the glitch?

    • Have you checked to see what kind of memory availability you have on your device to see if maybe clearing off some unused items will help the speed?

  2. Today in my town A that’s not logged into Facebook I noticed I have neighbors!!! I never spent the donuts to get friends to complete that task they just appeared! Finally I can speed up the tasks faster with the help of my friends! Has anyone else noticed this? Love to play all day! Add me!!! Ailene. 🙂

  3. July 4th is over. I think you should have a look at the Simpsons (show) Facebook page. Something is coming!

    • We know….but keep in mind it’s on the SHOW page (run by Fox), not the EA TSTO page. Speculating is fun, but it could also just be something to do with the show. They post random things like that often 🙂

  4. 90 hard earned donuts for a premium character and building is a good deal.

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