Update From Alissa: Sorry guys I was out at a baby appointment this afternoon, which took a few hrs. So I haven’t had a chance to go through this at all yet. Going through it now and will take a look and have some images/details/answers for you soon! 🙂
Hey there Hoppereenos!
We had a feeling it was too quiet around here. Well EA didn’t want to disappoint, so they dumped an IN APP MARKET UPDATE into our silly lil games.
So far, it is in iOS App Market. Will keep an eye out for Android and Amazon. All Markets live now!
Looks like it is going to be some Soccer Fun!
THIS EVENT WILL END JULY 21ST 2015
Back with more details and a rundown in just a bit!
Lisa automatically started to kick it off with the Dialog in my game.
A LOT MORE DETAILS COMING, Please bare with us as both of us are at appointments trying to get all the details compiled for you.
(Bunny’s Favorite Image, makes me Giggle!!)
For the Soccer Mini Event, you will be going through a pretty simple Questline. Meet My Trophy Life. There will be a few parts to this before the Main Items will kick off.
- Part 1 (Instant/Lisa): Lisa & Homer Watch Soccer, Simpsons House, 45 secs.
- Part 2 (Homer): Place the Grass Field and Stadium Entrance.
Grass Field: FREE, 12×12 base
Stadium Entrance: FREE, 3×5 base
- Part 3 (Homer): Homer Pander to Sponsors,Stadium Entrance, 3 mins
- Part 4 (Lisa): Homer Invent More Rules (x4), Stadium Entrance, 6 secs. At this point, you will Unlock the NEW Character Skin for Homer, Referee Homer & the NEW Character Skin for Lisa, Soccer Lisa. They will be part of the “Sporty Simpsons” Character Group.
- Homer again Triggered the next part, which immediately gave me ANOTHER Character Skin,
Pin Pal Apu: FREE, put directly into Inventory.
The Soccer Event will now be in full swing. You will see a lot of New Icons and a lot of New items now added into the game.
The New Questline will now be triggered into your game as well, Balls of Glory.
ENDING IN LESS THAN 10 DAYS
Character/Skins
Balance Beam w/Gymnast Lisa Skin: 75 Donuts, an item back from the past (Whacking Day), 7×3 base
Building
Sportacus: 85 Donuts, $260 & 26XP every 10hrs, 9×6 base, 6sec Build Time, Comes with mini questline. Task for Willie: Buy Sports Equipement, 8hrs, 8 Amateur Bucks & 105XP (one time use for questline).
Decoration
Boxing Ring: 30 Donuts (you can buy more than one). 0.50% Bonus, 6×6 base
ENDING IN 28 DAYS
Character/Skins
Football Neslon: (Unlocks after Balls of Glory 2) 85 Donuts, Skin for Nelson to play Tap Ball.
Decorations
Tennis Court: 50 Donuts, 2.25% Bonus, 4×6 base
More Returning Items
Oscar’s Obstacles Truck- 45 Donuts
Blocko Store- 30 Donuts
EVENT ICONS
Styrofoam Game Finger: Here is where you will see a running total of the Items you collect from Fans to be able to earn and create Event items. Tapping on the ? next to it will take you to the Event Menu Trophy. The Personal Prizes will be listed here.
Mit w/Soccer Ball: You will notice this appear in the Lower Right of the game with an ! on it. Tapping on this will also take you to the Event Menu.
EVENT MENU POP UP
The Event Menu is where you will find a lot of details and game play basics for the Event. It is the Soccer Ball in Mit Icon that gets it to pop up.
Trophy: This is where all your Personal Prizes will be located.
ACT ONE PRIZES
Prize 1: Homertron, 1900 Foam Fingers
Prize 2: Obstacle Tires, 5600 Foam Fingers
Prize 3: Baseball Jasper, 11300 Foam Fingers
Prize 4: Obstacle Wall, 15100 Foam Fingers
Prize 5: Softball Mr. Burns, 19500 Foam Fingers
(Yes Sandra, Calendar coming 😛 )
You will have less than 10 days to earn all of these items.
Flag: This will be the area you can PLAY TAPBALL. You will want to go into the Event Menu and tap on the “Flag” Tab. This will take you to “Flanders House” where you can pick your Teams to start playing. In the top Right corner you will see “PICK” across from Single Player, tap on it to begin picking your team. YOU WILL NEED FLANDERS HOUSE PLACED TO ACCESS THE PLAY MODE. More on this below
Soccer Ball, Mit, Ticket Stubs: This is the Amateur Shop aka the Craftables. You will see the usual breakdown of what amount of each Event Currency you will need for the items inside.
Act One Craftables
Obesotade 4-pack: 400 Ticket Stubs/Amateur Bucks (you will be required to get one for Balls of Glory Part 2)
Obesotade 6-pack: 600 Ticket Stubs/Amateur Bucks
Obesotade 12-pack: 1200 Ticket Stubs/Amateur Bucks
Stadium Fence: 325 Ticket Stubs/Amateur Bucks
Single Bleachers (when you win Daily Training Day#2 Challenge): 900 Amateur Bucks
UPDATE: Patch 6/24 Added Football Uprights: 750 Amateur Bucks
Scoreboard: This will be your Career Stats aka how many Wins, Losses, and Ties you have had while playing Tapball.
Stop Watch: These are your Daily Training Challenges. This will not Trigger until around Meet My Trophy Life Part 6. See the more detailed info on this below and more to come.
Clip Board: This is where you can LEVEL UP your Players Stars to get better results at Tap Ball.This will not trigger until Meet My Trophy Life Part 6. More info below and more to come.
NEW LAND
For those of you begging for more… we got MORE. Don’t just look along the bottom edge of town as usual, but also next to the side. Starting from the Mountains and going down. WOOHOO LAND!!!
Land Cost from Ocean to Land (Left to Right):
$1,500,000
$900,000
$600,000
$400,000
$300,000
$200,000
$200,000
$200,000
$300,000
$400,000
$500,000
$600,000
$700,000
$800,000
$1,000,000
$1,500,000
Point both meet
$2,000,000
Land Cost from Mountain to Grass (Top to Bottom):
$162,000
$149,000
$149,000
$162,000
$176,000
$191,000
$207,000
$224,000
$242,000
$261,000
$281,000
$302,000
$324,000
$347,000
$371,000
$1,000,000
EVENT CURRENCY
Foam Fingers: These will be your main Event Currency used throughout the Soccer Event to be able to unlock your Personal Prizes.
Ticket Stubs/Amateur Bucks: These are used to get items in your Craftables Area as well as Leveling Up Characters
Brain & Nerve Tonic : These are used currently to give your Character a 2 Star Boost to help defeat your opponents in Tap Ball, so save them and use them wisely.
Obesotade: This will help to revive your worn out Players immediately so they can Play Tap Ball right away instead of waiting
PLAY TAP BALL
This will unlock during Balls of Glory Part 1. You will want to go into the Event Menu and tap on the “Flag” Tab. This will take you to “Flanders House” where you can pick your Teams to start playing. In the top Right corner you will see “PICK” across from Single Player, tap on it to begin picking your team. YOU WILL NEED FLANDERS HOUSE PLACED TO ACCESS THE PLAY MODE.
Mine started with Pin Pal Apu, Referee Homer, Soccer Lisa, and Workout Ned. Add as many as you want of the Four, then tap “PLAY” to begin. You will want to select the Characters with the HIGHEST Star Rating to Play as they will have a better chance of defeating your Opponents and winning more Awards. The Order you select them will be how they play out during the competition.
You will be then taken to the Grass Field where you will see your “Teams” Ready to Play Tap Ball. Tap on the Flag to start going and play to Win Items for Prizes.
After completing your first “Tap Ball Game”, Balls of Glory Part 2 will begin and you’ll be instructed about letting Players rest between games and using Obesotade to revie them instantly (Revive a Character takes 4hrs). The players will now be grayed out while they rest in the Play Menu.
In the Playing Field of Tap Ball you will see 3 Icons…
Directional Arrows: Tapping on this will swap out your Character in front with the one behind them. You can use this to put a more equal Character against an Opponent. The amount of times you can do this will be noted on the Icon. Winning will help you earn more “Swap” Chances.
Brain & Nerve Tonic: Tapping on this will instantly Level Up ONCE the current Character in Play at the Front. So use it wisely. The amount of times you can do this will be noted on the Icon. Winning will help you earn more along with other items around the game.
Flag: Tapping on this starts the game against the Two Characters in the Center Circle at the Front. Don’t tap on it until you are sure you don’t want to Level them Up or use some Tonic First.
You can Win, Lose, and Tie. There is also a Coin Toss too. It can go anyway.
FANS THAT EARN STUFF
These are the NPC’s that will wander your game during the Event to help you earn MORE items that will help you out with the Currency Items you will need. Attention will be drawn to the “Fans” in the game in Meet My Trophy Life Part 5. You will be able to locate 15 Fans and tap them.
Guy in Jersey Fan: +10 Foam Fingers
Guy in Cape w/blinking Hat Fan: +10 Foam Fingers
Female w/Foam Finger Fan: +10 Foam Fingers
Female w/Flag Fan: +10 Foam Fingers
Once in a while they will also drop other items, like +1 Brain & Nerve Tonic
SPAWN RATE:
At least ONE every 10 minutes
MAX of 30 in your town at a time
(Possible Bank of 30 MAX)
DAILY TRAINING CHALLENGES
This will not unlock until Meet My Trophy Life Part 6. Meet My Trophy Life Part 7 will ask you to Complete it. These tasks will be similar to those in the past. You will have 24hrs to complete specific Challenges in order to get greater Prizes/Awards. You can finish them AFTER 24hrs are up, but you will lose the 24 Hour Timer Bonus (Like Foam Fingers).
You will know when you Triggered the Daily Training Challenges when you see the Stop Watch Icon pop up in the Top Right Corner of your game. Tapping on it will bring you to the Event Menu where you will now see the Stop Watch as an added Icon and the Daily Challenge Task Requirements.
Task Day#1: Make Apu Sell Tap Ball Merchandise (X2), 2hrs.
Reward: Obesotade 4-Pack.
24hr Time Bonus: 800 Foam Fingers.
We will have a LOT more detailed post on this one coming later.
TEAM MANAGEMENT/LEVEL UP CHARACTERS
This will not unlock until Meet My Trophy Life Part 6. You will have the ability to use your Amateur Bucks to Train your Characters for Tap Ball and Level Up their “Stars”. If you watched while you were playing an opponent, you would have noticed that your Opponent has a certain Star Level under each of their Players. The Higher Stars YOUR Character has competing against theirs, the better chance at a win.
Each Star Level will vary in Amateur Bucks costs. You can Level Up half Levels of Stars too. (If you are antsy, you can use Donuts to Level them up, but that is only if it is worth it to YOU.)
In Bunny’s Game, the Breakdown was as Follows (I used Nelson as an Example)
1/2 Star to 1 Star: 26 Amateur Bucks
1 Star to 1 1/2 Stars: 29 Amateur Bucks
1 1/2 Stars to 2 Stars: 32 Amateur Bucks
2 Stars to 2 1/2 Stars: 62 Amateur Bucks
2 1/2 Stars to 3 Stars: 98 Amateur Bucks
3 Stars to 3 1/2 Stars: 140 Amateur Bucks
3 1/2 Stars to 4 Stars: 188 Amateur Bucks
4 Stars to 4 1/2 Stars: 242 Amateur Bucks
4 1/2 Stars to 5 Stars: 302 Amateur Bucks
At this point, your Character will be at MAX LEVEL
NEIGHBOR TAP BALL
The Neighbor Portion will not trigger in the Event until Balls of Glory Part 4. So you have some time to get to this point.
So just how will the “Neighbor” Games work? Well once you trigger Part 4, you will go into the Flag Icon in the Main Event Pop Up and now see MORE Options to Play a game.
Random Opponent: The Game will randomly select any of your Neighbors to battle against. You will have no idea who it is.
**Neighbor’s Name**: You will see a Neighbors Name listed next. It will show you the potential Star Level of Players you will be up against right under it. (From 1-5 Stars.) Though you will not know just how many of their Characters are at that Level. Could be one. Could be all of them.
So the choice is yours to PICK your Player (just don’t pick your nose, at least not with your tapping finger… ewwwwwww).
If your Players are Fatigued and resting, you will see a Pop Up telling you to “GET MORE” aka Revive them with Obesotade or just “CONTINUE” and go visit your Neighbor anyway.
Once in your Neighbors, you will be taken to THEIR Grassy Field. You will see a Flag Icon on it. Tapping on the Flag will pull up your Team Roster. You can also Revive your Characters at this point too.
Select the Characters you want to battle, then “PLAY”. You can do this THREE times, as it is basically your Neighbor Actions. But it will take ALL 3 Actions if you do that and you will not be able to tap any of their Fans. THIS IS ONLY UNTIL YOU UNLOCK THE FANS. Once Fans unlocked (see below), you can have unlimited competitions.
After a Neighbor comes and Plays Tap Ball against YOU, there will be a pop up in your town of the Wins, Ties, Losses totals and YOU will also get a Reward depending on those results.
More coming on this in a separate post.
NEIGHBOR FANS
This triggers right after completion of Balls of Glory Part 4. It will Spark Homer to trigger Fickle Fans. You will be prompted to visit your Neighbors now to Tap on THEIR Fans (like the NPC ones in your town) roaming around.
You will be able to Tap on 3 of them in your Neighbors town to earn Foam Finger, Cash, and XP.
NEIGHBOR HOUSES
You CAN still tap on houses and graffiti your neighbors. With there now being THREE options to choose from to use those Neighbor Taps, use them wisely.
House, Neighbor Fan, or Neighbor Tap Ball.
Still working on the Mechanics to see if there is a MAX Daily Actions like in the past of 90, will update when we confirm.
CHARACTER TASKS
Various characters have tasks that will earn you more Amateur Bucks. Will will cover a complete list in another post, but also know that KBBL has a Amateur Buck Earning task as well, 16hrs.
There are the Basics of the game so far. There is a LOT more to it, but that will require our usually breakdown/more specific posts for you. So keep an eye out, we have about a month of all of this.
What do you think of it so far? Where are YOU in the game? Have you bought any donut items yet? Let us know.
~Bunny
First, HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALISSA!!! Sorry I missed it, hardly on because of summer classes.
Second, can FIT Milhouse play Tap Ball? I sent him to practice, but I can’t find him under players.
Not yet… look at the Daily Training Prizes. He won’t unlock for a bit.
Oh ok. I saw him on the Training Prizes and wondered. Thanks!
I guess it’s a good thing I was to stick to work today – it just took me THREE HOURS to read all of the posts made since last night (and respond to a bunch of them)!
Once again, mad props to the Addicts for what they do here every day….granted, my responses tend to be longer than theirs (because I’m just verbose by nature), but they also are researching stuff, writing articles, keeping up with their real-life job and family (I have no kids to worry about), etc.
(Okay – is it a little weird for a 54-year-old, currently suburban-dwelling white woman with a master’s degree to be saying “mad props”? Lol!!)
only if it’s weird that my response was going to be “word”
LOL! 😀
Actually, I’ve been using that one a lot lately, too. (The first time I used that in an email to my mom, she was so confused…I had to explain it to her.)
no weirder than a 54-year-old white woman projecting her own sports preferences onto a 8-year-old cartoon girl…. 😛
Oh, but I’m really only 10 years old, at heart. And she’s very mature for her age! 😉
First – Never be sorry for keeping an appointment for the health of you and your baby. This is just a silly game and you guys are WAY more important than that.
Second – Thanks for posting this article. I’m quite busy in RL myself (work, not baby-related), so my mind’s all over and I’m finding this event strangely complicated. It may just be me, but it seems more complex than previous events I’ve participated with (over the last year), this site is quite the Godsend in that regards. So again, thanks!
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Help Alissa or bunny, I’ve got apu on 5 day kiwi market and no donuts to turbo tap my way through making his job go faster therefore am I screwed to visit neighbors to play tap ball in there town it says I’m at act 7 however I still not seeing soccer fans in neighbor towns nor forsake I see flags to play games there.please help
Did you try storing the Kwik E Mart to kick him out?
store ALL your kwik e marts in your inventory, and then apu will be stored as well, allowing you to reset his task.
No offense to some of my favorite neighbors who have already way upgraded their players, but why would I ever want to challenge a neighbor with a higher rating to a game? Wouldn’t I just want to pick players who are in a weaker state than I? (I know that sounds kinda mean, but all’s fair in love and TSTO! 😉 )
I was thinking the exact same thing? But you still get something for loosing right?
It makes sense to upgrade for yourself but then who’s gonna want to challenge you! Confused : /
Yup… you get “stuff” no matter if Win, Lose, or Tie. More if you Win of course. So there is always something. 🙂
That’s a good point, too! I’ve gotten challenged twice, apparently, but I’m thinking that’s because my team looks pretty defenseless, lol! I want to upgrade my players, but then maybe no-one would want to play with me?
Oh, and now that I think about it…I don’t think it said who challenged me, either. I’m hoping that I just missed that info somewhere, because it would be nice to know who’s kicking my butt, lol! (But, seriously, even when you lose you get something for it, so I’m grateful for whichever of my neighbors it was!)
Hi Sandra…it should say who it was that challenged you in the stats box? The very last window as you scroll down with wins and losses. All mine are currently there alot of loss for me lol ; )
Yeah – I was 0-2 this morning when I awoke to find that two neighbors had played me overnight, but at least the game I just played with you ended in a tie! 🙂
lol : D I just saw that ….awesome will be ready for the re-match in an hour!
I can’t speak for your neighbors, but I try to visit friends with less stars to help them earn event currency. You actually get a much better bonus if you challenge someone with 5 stars even if you lose.
So, I’m thinking that, once I can be fairly sure that my neighbors have all progressed fast enough in the event, they’ll want to just tap my fans or pay tap ball and I’ll be able to go back to clearing all of my buildings myself… Does that seem like a fair assumption?
I hate leaving buildings for neighbors to tap, because I’m never sure how many to leave untapped and always feel like I’m not maximizing my returns from them…
During events, I don’t expect to tap on buildings. My feelings won’t be hurt if you’ve cleared all your buildings when I come visit you 🙂
And I agree with your other comment… I don’t see the advantage to challenging higher level tap-ballers. Maybe our fearless leaders will have some insight when they find the time to explain it all to us!
Exactly!
I hate leaving buildings for neighbors to tap, because I’m never sure how many to leave untapped and always feel like I’m not maximizing my returns from them…
Don’t buy the Obesotade, or whatever it’s called…
Not sure if someone has already reported this: If I pick a team to go and play from my list and play them, then the flag pops up to play again. I can tap the flag, then recharge each player for only one donut. That’s way less than buying the Obesotade.
Oops – Assuming you’re willing to use donuts, of course.
I noticed that if you tap on KBBL Radio, the 16hr job, “KBBL Sports” just has a blue “Start” button instead of greens icon, but it has a 350 “ticket stubs” payout, before any interaction with the quest lines of the event.
So sorry. Got it. Thought it was an in game update.
Does anyone have a list of characters that are giving tickets for tasks?
I found that wrestler Grampa has a 12-hour task and Runner Milhouse has one as well (4hs).
Post coming..have to go through it all. But if anyone in the community has a list feel free to share..
Fit Milhouse
Gorgeus Grampa
Homer
Apu
Lisa
Ned Flanders
building: KBL radio
any one else?
Still don’t have the update yet. 10.22 a.m. US
It should have hit, remember it’s App Store. So you have to check your store, if you don’t see it try restarting your phone. But it’s on all devices now, so it should be in your market.
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I haven’t received any foam fingers from tapping fans in neighbors’ Springfields.
Any tips for a fix?
You get 1 per tap…did the quest come up for you to do it?
Thanks for the reply, Alissa 🙂
Yes, the quest to visit the Other Springfield and tap 3 fans came up. I finished it. I don’t remember if I got any foam fingers then. But I visited 10 more neighbors after that, and I didn’t receive any.
I kept count before and after I left my town and the number of foam fingers didn’t change. I just got $$ and XP.
Could be an actions thing. We’ll have to play around with it and see what happens.
Hi Alissa, my neighbors are starting to give me the foam finger now. (How rude 😛 ) And Yay! I’m so happy.
24 hours have now passed since the first neighbor I visited yesterday, so that may be why I’m getting the foam fingers now.
Thanks for your help!
Haven’t tested it yet, but I believe it’s 90 actions, so that could be why 🙂
what is 90 action again?
I am in the same situation just got XP and $ for tapping neighbour fans.
will see if thing change tomorrow.
Thanks
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Does the game give you a message when you’ve cleared your town of fans, like during the Terwillinger event? I think I’ve cleared my town several times but haven’t gotten a message, so I assume not.
I’ve yet to see one myself…
Do the premium characters that you can unlock also unlock the character as well? (e.g I saw dedrick tatum with 1 and a half stars. would it unlock his charachter as well? if so, OMG!)
We’re trying to determine that, but I think not. I think it’s just the character for your “team” but not for your town
You may or may not know the answer to this yet, but looking at some of the prizes, they seem to involve premium characters that some of us do not have. Will we be able to utilize the prizes without them? My husband ran into this with one of the skins from the Stonecutters event, and I wondered if this would be the same. Thank you!
P.S. Alissa, I hope everything checked out okay with Baby Tapper. I have two little ones, and you’re in for quite a ride!! 🙂 (The best ride possible, by the way.)
We don’t exactly know how they’ll work yet. My guess is as just a player for your team, you won’t get the character itself. The daily task ones are a little different than the prize noes.
Everything is great with Baby Addict 🙂 Thank you for asking!
when does act 1 end? I know in 8 days. But is that Thurseday or Friday?
Looks like July 3rd
‘but also know that KBBL has a Amateur Buck Earning task as well, 16hrs.’
Hmmm…how far in the event do I need to be for this? Coz right now my radio station doesn’t have this task?
Also it looks like Apu has some new vocalizations…
“If we win this I buy gellato”
For those that have KBBL… the 16-hour sports show gives event currency!
FYI: Looks like the “Daily Bonus” crate for logging in and playing has changed over. Was on crate 4/5 and got 100 foam fingers (Fan item)
Am i the only one who palys the game with the sound off all the time?! I never hear the voices. the other noises are too annoying. I had 18 million saved up and its all gone, and i still dont have all the land, I feel sorry for you non farmers Lol
Nope, I don’t play with sound.
I usually play with sound off.
i often play without hearing the sounds as well, whether that is due to the sound being off or listening to headphones on a separate device. i must say i was surprised by alissa doing the same though.
Not at all. I always forget there is sound.
My make Ned do lunges 4hr task has him just standing completely still in the street. No animation. When you tap on him the pop up shows the task & timer counting down, just no animation.
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Yea it seems it’s like Cecil, someone forgot the action coding.
Now he has on a running outfit, headband, & hand weights & is doing lunges. Did not see any update download so no idea how this happened.
Yet another event that is completely derivative & formulaic of them all since Stone Cutters last June. All I wanted or expected was a 3-4d thing for 4th of July. Now it’s another month of juggling tasks, trying to keep everyone on a tasks no longer than the current daily one, and tapping roaming NPCs in neighbor towns & my own. Why do these all have to be a month long??!!
there was an in-game update, you musta just missed it. and if the results of the tewilligers event poll are any indication, you are in the distinct minority when it comes to not wanting events like this. if you haven’t been happy tapping for over a year now, perhaps this game and what it’s become simply isn’t for you anymore…. just sayin.
I love this update a lot I love the in-game game it’s a great idea!!
I’m enjoying this event so far, just a bit annoying that they release the Blocko Store for 30 donuts when I bought it for 50 at Easter
Help. I put Kang to probe homer. What can I do to free homer ? Thanks
Tap on Kang in move mode, should give you the option to store him. Then store him and it’ll kick them out of the task.
Visited two neighbors towns where Homer was standing in front of the Stadium entrance referring. Tapped on him and heard Lisa’s voice saying “you can’t give me a yellow card!” Apparently she had a game task that puts her right behind her dad with a soccer ball. Pretty funny to have Homer say in Lisa’s sweet voice”I fell in love with the game when I saw Bend It Like Beckham.”
Best dialogue of the event (and possibly ever?) “I’m more out of breath than an atheist trying to disprove the existence of God!” -Flanders
didn’t see this as a random change with the last level, but mutant bunny can now be stored in the inventory!
Nice, I think it’s a change with the event. 🙂
yea! found it by a fluke. tried to move him (still can’t do that) and hit the inventory box instead.
also, visited the friends who have updated (the lists are helpful for that) and only got through 16 before i stopped getting event currency.
YES!!!!!!! I hated that bunny sooooo much after I wasted donuts to purchase it. Only 2 actions and took 5 seconds to perform. Took too long. No offense.
Also he radio station if you play the Sports Program you can earn tickets
Well spotted