Hey Howdy Hey Tappers!
The nerds have invaded Springfield! Ok just one nerd, and he’s not all that bad. And only in Springfield can Professor Frink, with the help of Homer, open up a black hole that transports doppelgangers, robots and Stephen Hawking (!) to our pocket sized Springfields! So time to crack open those hologram wallets, because there’s a store full of multiverse theme premium items to spend our donuts on!
Of course with that limited-time label it can be tempting to buy everything that looks as awesome as this because it’ll be gone soon. But don’t sweat it! That’s where we come in to tell you what’s worth those donuts and what you might want to hold off on.
Wondering if you should add Big Digi-Ben to your Springfield? Well before you hit that confirm button let’s break down the pros and cons of adding this countdown clock to your Springfield…
Building/Decoration: Big Digi-Ben
Donut Price: 115 Donuts
Earns:$55,5xp/1hr
Size: 5×5
Conform-O-Meter: Vanity +400
Leaves stores September 15th
Pros:
-Looks neat, and constantly counts down to when it’s ready to be tapped
-Plays sound when tapped
-Every hour you can tap it and it will clear all robots in your town
Cons:
-Way over priced for what it is/does.
-Really no need for this since the PolyVac clears all the Robots/4hrs
Final Thought:
Premium:
So the only reason to purchase this one is because you like it, or have some affection towards Big Ben. Otherwise this serves no practical purpose in your Springfield and you really should save your donuts for something better down the line.
Freemium:
Stay away from this one. It’s not worth the 115 donuts. Way over priced, and not necessary. Complete and total freemium pass. You’re better off spending the donuts to get the LadyBot. So Fremium players, pass on this one.
Of course in the end it’s your decision, we can only tell you what we would or wouldn’t do. And I can tell you I’m passing on this one. Just doesn’t do anything for me…sorry Big Ben lovers. Of course whatever you decide just remember this is limited time and will be leaving our games very soon. So if you’re thinking about grabbing it, do it very soon before it’s gone for good!
What are your thoughts on Big Digi Ben? Have you purchased it? Where have you placed it in your Springfield? Sound off in the comments below, you know we love hearing from you!
Anyone know if the Big Digi Ben will remain in the game store after the event for future purchase or it will disappear forever?
That one expires in a little more than 13 hours…so if you really want it. GET IT NOW…
What would really be nice is a 24 hr countdown to show when I can visit my neighbor’s towns again.
For 100 maaaybe i would be tempted but its a pass for me, casino with the tower is fine for me.
Im trying to save some sprinkles as ea is constantly dishing out some good buys and im trying to save some sprinkles, wint….. Black friday is comming.
I just caved and bought this. I decided that, combined with a few of those retro townhouses and some other stuff, I could maybe put together some kind of college campus. Also, I was intrigued by the idea of this clock having the real time after the event is over (although I know that’s not definite)….I don’t know why — I’m surrounded by clocks in my bedroom and can check them on at least two different devices — but it felt like it would be really cool to have that link to the real world in my fictional one.
I hope I don’t come to regret spending all those donuts!
I love London, so I bought it. ‘Nuff said. 😉
I love Big Ben and have many pics I took and memories, so passing on this way too expensive. We still have act 3 coming so will hang on to my pink sprinkles.
Got it because I like the look of it, & have plans for a design in my town. Did not get for any other reason. There are so many buildings coming this way now & many I have to put in storage do not want to get anything that is useless in the long run.
I bought it because I log in often and hate searching for the robots! Now that I have it, I find I am gathering currency a lot quicker and spending a lot less time.
Oh wow so that’s the Big Digi-Ben??!!! Lol!!! So I was actually tapping the wrong thing during the glitch.. but regardless of that I was still able to earn some.. Just funny cuz I was tapping on a blue building for the glitch.
lol that is kinda funny…
It’s automatic for me then maybe that’s why I noticed when I went to visit some friends. I was so confused why I can’t find any robots in their town but there’s chronos adding up to my event currency. Curious me went straight to this site and read the comments 😉
I didn’t exploit the glitch tho just got enough to lessen the stress to my already raging pregnancy hormones! Still 2 prizes to get Pres Lisa. Thanks for this site for giving us heads up and peace of mind. 🙂
Oh those fun pregnancy hormones…
My eldest sister got some very strange cravings, like ice cream with mustard due to those hormones 🙃
I didn’t have any weird cravings. I just wanted vinegar things..like salt and vinegar chips. But that’s normal for me lol. Towards the end I wanted milkshakes.
Pregnancy hormones are fun for the father too. Who doesn’t like going out at 3am looking for a certain ice cream? Thankfully no pickles…. ecch…
I honestly thought that it’s all just a myth but oh boy..
Well, I wanted the ice cream too. I guess you could say I encouraged it. (Or did you mean pickles? Because I’m sure that’s true.)
I was tapping a floating cuboid, thinking it was the formentioned glitch
Hmmmm…if this does end up showing the time after the event is over, I wonder whether visitors will see the time in their own time zone or in their neighbors’? The latter would be much more interesting!
I really want it to be my neighbor’s time zone, but that’s only as useful as far as people who bought it. Too bad it wasn’t a prize track prize, then everyone would have it.
https://imgur.com/MGzusjr
That looks good Pimp!
does anyone happen to know if the 3 electric cars come with a bonus%? please and thanks.
Mine do, I stored the yellow one & my % dropped by 2, so I think all 3 must be out of inventory to get the bonus.
5% for 80 donuts actually seems like a pretty good deal…not quite as good as the jet engine bike, but much closer to that than most things. I’d get them in a heartbeat, if I could put them on the roads, but I may get them anyway, since 5% multiplied by my bonus multipliers and then by the collider ends up being pretty significant, I think!
I’m 5 donuts away from have x+80 donuts (where x is an even multiple of 100), so, maybe when I earn those 5 donuts, I’ll pull the trigger. (I know how silly it is to want to keep things to nice round numbers, but there does seem to be a common human tendency towards that, so I know I’m not alone, lol!)
Now that I think of it, a jet engine bike would make sense to have in a futuristic part of town, so maybe I’ll pick up another one of those, too. My cash on hand had been slowly dropping, and now I don’t have the occasional 2.5M windfall from the racing cars to bail me out, so uploading my multiplier might be worth it in the long run…
My memory isn’t what it should be, but I didn’t think there was a bonus when I originally bought them, I just wanted more cars lol 😊
There was a bonus, but you could buy the cars separately and I think they were priced relative to their cost. (It’s all in the SIB post.) I wanted more cars, too, but, at the time, my donut budget didn’t permit any purchases and I think we got one red one for free, right?
I don’t remember lol
I think you are righ.
I have the Mr. Powells car on the road, but that was a glitch, which has been repaired. You didn’t put the car on the road, but put the road under the car.
Yup, I did that with my ice cream truck. That baby ain’t never gonna get moved, now! (Too bad they fixed that glitch…there are times I’d like to be able to store the truck to free up Ice Cream Man Homer, but it’s not worth losing its place in the road.)
I have always wondered why some people had the ice cream truck & were able to put it on the street. Now I know 😊
Yeah – wish I understood why they had to fix that glitch to make it no longer possible to put roads under vehicles…wonder what harm doing that does, or how it screws up other coding? Never noticed any problems with it from the one or two vehicles I was able to do that with before they fixed it. I mean, you can’t have a town where every vehicle (except the street sweeper) is permanently parked in parking lot or gas station! (I did manage to make it look like some other vehicles might be on the street, by putting them on pavement behind buildings in a way that you can see the vehicles and a little pavement, but it’s not that obvious that the pavement isn’t really a street.)
Now, if they could let us put vehicles on the roads AND have them travel on them (like the street sweeper), that would be REALLY cool!! (But I guess that could cause a lot of traffic accidents if they didn’t find some clever way to code that…)
Yeah… about the coding for the street sweeper… nevermind, I think Alissa knows I beat that horse to death 😂😂😂😂
They have different percentages: 0,75% for the red, 2% for the yellow and 2,25% for the blue car.
thanks for the info
It gives you fiver percent (drawn from the top of my head)
I had to buy it, maybe because Big Ben has always been a piece of history to me & I also liked the look of the building 😊
picking it up to help me out on some sleep too
I was going to get it because I thought it told the time also? But since i see no mention im going to have to wait for the tele…….. Maybe i can pick up grimes now.. Is grimes leaving after the event?
Grimes will disappear within 18 days from now, but hey, EA might change that that!
he won’t disappear, just won’t be in the Sci Fi store
You’re right 🙂
It will tell the current time after the event is over. 🙂
It will tell time when the event is over.
Thanks guys! Im more inclined to buy it now. I hate when i have to close my game to tell ppl what time it is. Especially during neighbor visits!!
“Does anybody really know what time it is?” 🎶 (Sorry, couldn’t help myself) 😂
If you don’t get it, ask your parents (or even grandparents😂)
My grandparents aren’t alive and my parents probably wont know they are from another planet👽
I can’t vouch for Android… but if you’re on an iPhone, you can view the time by swiping your finger from the top of the screen down to the bottom. That will pull down the Notification Center slider… which includes the standard iOS clock at the top of the screen. Swipe back up to dismiss the slider, and you can continue playing with minimal interruption.
Caveat: if you leave the Notification Center on your screen for too long, it can trigger a game reload, so don’t dilly-dally… but it takes very little time to simply find out what time it is, so it should be a perfectly good solution to your particular complaint.
What time is now?
0911
He will go back to the “regular” store. As long as he is in the event section, anyone can buy him, after that you need to be level 51 or above.
Ok thank you for clarification!
I bought it before I even heard of the glitch…just liked the looks of this one. The glitch (and robot clearing ability) were just a surprise bonus of buying it.
I considered buying it for the future (pun intended) time keeping ability, also before I heard about any, shall we say, benefits. It’s not a bad looking building either.
Being English I had no choice in the matter so I bought it forthwith! Totally agree about the EMP being useless though – how could the coding nerds at EA not realise how utterly, utterly pointless it is with the Polyvac given out for free!? At least make it spawn additional robots or something worthwhile.
It’s not worthless if you go to sleep one or two hours after you’ve played SciFighter. The next morning you’ll end up with the 80 plus 40 from the night before. Otherwise you’d just end up with only the 80 in the morning.
I am not sure but I read somewhere that when the event is ended Big Digi-Ben will show the hour like a clock. Is this right? If yes I will buy it also if I am a freemium player.
Honestly I couldn’t tell you. I think it’ll just countdown..
I’ve seen it rumored on other sites that it will, but like the Addicts here are always saying until it happens in the game no one knows for sure. In my opinion this is one of EA’s problems when listing stuff for us to buy. If they were more clearer about what items do/don’t or will do then people might be more likely to buy things.
Sometimes it’s fun to just go for it with the risk that it doesn’t turn out that way. If my clock ends up just counting down every hour, then that’s still a sort of indication of time moving. Like, I’ve been “grinding” in SH for 23 minutes. Now I know!! lol
Since purchasing this item my poly vac and four of the alternative homers are permanently stuck on 2 and a half hours left till next pay out…is anyone else having issues must also mention that it is part of the questline two so maybe this having issues.
Pass On this one…Halloween is coming…need to save my sprinkles
This item is rediculous. Big Ben is not the tower but the name of the Bell in the tower. For me it’s a frustration topic of people and their nievity, but regarding this game, it does fit and make sense as this show has always been about taking the piss.
Well, it’s not nearly as ridiculous as the idea of collecting chronons, but there you have it…
😂
Do you think there’s a digital bell in that tower?
No its the fact that people are uneducated on what Big Ben actually is. It’s a misconception that its the clock tower when it’s the bell inside. Don’t call something by the wrong name when it’s not right.
Like i said, it’s an annoyance that grinds on me. We all have them
As a freemium player I know that it’s not worth it but as a Londoner I really want it. I’ve got quite a few bonuts saved up so we’ll see but I have a feeling I may pull the trigger in the end.
Bought it mainly because I hoped that this would help my neighbours with the glitch. Doesn’t seem to work any more, though… So that’s money down the drain 🙂
That was very generous of you! 🙂
Well, it only lasted for a couple of hours before they fixed it. Not sure anyone even noticed.
That was half the reason I bought it. Otherwise I might have bought it later on in the event. Otherwise, it wasn’t a rush.
Bought it to help my girlfriend with the bug but I love it! Clears robots every hour and all around looks cool, not to mention I had to buy it because I’m British lol
Didn’t you get the Brittania Casino? It has the Big Ben!
I got it but Big Ben is better!
Diggin’ the countdown display!
I bought it and I think it helped some of my neighbours.
Thanks Sean you helped me! I didn’t fully understand what the glitch was until after it was finished. I only had 2 out of 100 friends that had it! So thanks for adding me!!
I think it was just two friends for everybody. It was the same for me, and I couldn’t even find the clock in their towns. Alas, I bought it after the glitch had been fixed… then I sorta regretted it, but it does look nice next to the monorail central station.
I actually found three friends who had Big Ben. Not that this helps much now… but I also realized that hiding all of the friends between two of my “glitched” Big Ben friends allowed me to churn out Chronons twice as fast, as I was toggling back and forth between those two “glitched” friends.
Well… I dunno; maybe little hints like this one will help players to maximize the value of other future glitches, down the road.
(And for the record: no, I don’t feel even remotely guilty for taking advantage of it. I *might* have felt somewhat guilty, if they hadn’t initially set the bar for Act 2 so blasted high in the first place…)
I did the same thing back and forth between two big bens lol
4 beautiful neighbors for me! Love them.
It’s no use crying about spilt donuts.
Here are some consolation donuts: 🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩
Oh, which means you had no chance to use it? As for me I could not easily find who has it. In the end got to use it a bit from two neighbours.
I used it in your town till it didn’t work anymore, then moved to another town till I got locked out for over 6 hrs. After that it didn’t work anymore for me but that got me ahead enough! I don’t usually have trouble getting everything anyways because I play way too often!! I don’t feel the least bit guilty because in the first act I levelled up by mistake ( because that’s what we usually have to do) looking for robots 3 times and lost precious robot parts!! We’ll call it even!!
Glad it helped. I could not use your town though. I have to thank Rosin and 1 JC towns for making it possible for me.
The penny dropped too late for me 😭😭😭
Just hang in there and persist. I actually can still clear without this glitch.
I ALWAYS have robots roaming about for hours AFTER I kill ’em every four hours. Got tired of thinking they were gone & then hunting them down. So I’m glad that I got Big Digi-Ben. 😃
Well, they spawn frequently, so you very well may have gotten them all…then had fresh spawnings! 😀
Big Ben is already in TSTO, so I’ll pass.
I know right. I kept seeing the Britannia and thinking it was Digi Big Ben.
I’ve tapped the Brittania Casino to get Some chronons. It didn’t work. None of my friends have the BDB, so the the glitch didn’t work for me 😭
It’s OK, looks like an addition to the Britannia casino.
Oooh – that *would* be a good place to put it! Did it work out well there, scale-wise?
You have TWO Big Bens then,….a bit funky/strange.
Oh wait! We now have TWO Simpson houses, that’s strange, even weird!
Oooh this actually helps a lot.
When I go to bed sometimes, it’s only been 3 hours since the last Polyvac and I can’t wait another hour, BUT there are robots everywhere – so I have to spend approx 10mins to clear them all before I go to sleep for about 7-8 hrs.
Now with Big Ben its just one tap and sweet dreams 🙂
That’s why I love it.
You got a healthy number of hours of sleep! Kudos to you.
Good point! I was struggling to understand how this item could be helpful in any way, and you’ve finally helped me to see it!
I’m still not gonna spend the donuts to get it, but at least I can now stop being so perplexed by it. 🙂