There are 5 “Waves” of returning content starting with the earliest stuff and ending with the most recent.
Dates:
Wave 1: September 26th
Wave 2: October 1st
Wave 3: October 8th
Wave 4: October 15th
Wave 5: October 22nd
Each starts at 15:01 UTC, 4:01 pm BST UK / 11:01 am EDT US
Content:
There’s an awful lot in these, not absolutely everything ever but not far off.
I haven’t had chance to research it all and not much point in just posting a list of the system names.
I will get it done with a post per wave and add links to those dates.
Taps Wave 5 also includes some new content.
I’ll edit this with the new stuff once it’s out and I’ve checked it.
items missing that i wish i had:
-mt splashmore sign
-road tunnel thru mountains
– more highway pcs
Don’t recall a sign, Mount Splashmore in Wave 5
Red, Blue and Yellow Mountain Tunnels in Wave 4
Highway always in the regular store KL section
i just wish the new content included a sign.
appreciate the advice! i must have overlooked all that. so much to go thru!!
I seem to be missing Evee marge and a few others as well.
So I am only missing 4 characters. I have seen people mention 2 of them above. Figured I’d see if I am missing the Goblins somewhere.
Jebediah Springfield
Shelbyville Manhattan
Blue Goblin
Red Goblin
2 Goblins and Itchy+Scratchy bot were from the same event as Conrad + Quinn Hopper – only the latter returned in Wave 3
I know maybe a long shot but anyone know if there is something I have to buy to be able to get the spuckler brood, I thought they would have turned up in the taps but no such luck.
You need to do Brandines’ task to Birth Another Spruckler.
You’ll need to use Donuts to rush though, it’s 90 days per kid and there’s 3 of ’em.
https://tstoaddicts.com/2014/02/06/should-i-spend-donuts-on-brandine/
Thanks for that Graham, now all I’m missing is Jebediah Springfield, but I’m not holding my breath for him 🙂
How do I look up character sets? I want to make sure I’ve collected everything I can. Thanks
Open Inventory then look in the bottom left corner of the game not the Inventory panel for the Golden Homer button for those sets
thanks!
Does anyone know how to get the ruffians I’m missing 2
I’m still missing Rachel Jordan. Looks like a few people are missing various characters- will EA release these at any point?
Probably not but I put in a request to EA for the few am missing
Hi graham/safi can you tell me how many splash screens there is, I count 96 but probably wrong, I also wondered if you have a page on the addics banners past and present, i am working on a project to immorilse the game as a large poster or 2 to display In my home, stats and figures would be a good post.
There’s this lot …
https://tstoaddicts.com/2017/01/25/tsto-splash-screens-and-poll/
There’s also THOH and Xmas from 2022 and probably 11 from when I started writing in 2023 not on there
Yeh!! Seen that, do you have plans on updating that, been sourcing from elsewhere but tsto addicts mean just as much to me as tsto game itself,
It’s probable, but don’t know who’s doing it or when.
Still need to go through those new deccies to see what they do when tapped and research 11 years of returning content !!
Great, splash screens are up to 2022, banners I don’t know although Google has them, would like to get everything from here to complete the circle as I spent more time here than in the game sometimes 😀
The one thing I’m curious about is which buildings or decorations come with quest lines.
The groups with the most quests are from parts 2 and 3
a listing of which items/buildings come with a questline would be good.
I’m missing the Founders and Mirrored Disco Stu… (I’m not the only one, from reading the comments, but wanted to mention it nonetheless)
Yes, those are the same 3 I’m missing. Does anyone know how to get them?
Did anyone find The Car Built for Homer. Unbelievably I Don’t have it
Missing character?
I seem to be missing just one character—Mirror Character, looks like Saturday Night Fever.
Gone through all 5 Taps and I don’t see it being available. Is it a side character?
Yay I can finally get the circus tent
I just need mirror disco stu. Why leave out just one character. Thats just frustrating.
I need him too. Do you think they will release that character before the end. Also, did the release the statue that was the prize if you purchased $99 worth oth donuts?
I’m missing him and the Shelbyville founder.
Mirror disco stu
THAT is what I’m missing.
Same here… and Nibbles.
I got nibbles, I think in batch 5, for 60? donuts
Yup, Wave 5
Hello. Do you have see Weird Al Yankovic in the package ?
Would’ve been Wave 3 if it was, sidequest prize from Homerpalooza
Well, I finally got the bundle of Halloween facades so I’m calling that a win. My little town went from 100 something characters at the announcement of the apocalypse to now 600 or more? It’s a lot to manage. I’m averaging 200+ quest lines in progress at the start of every release of items.
I’m glad to have a chance to get all these characters and buildings in my town. Sad it won’t be for long but I’ll have fun for now.
I plan to get my quest lines under control then start working on premium buildings that look interesting. I’ve got all my Halloween decor up and Christmas on whatever doesn’t have Halloween options. My town looks like chaos but I love it!
I sent EA a request to have mirrored disco stu and the founders added, doesn’t hurt to ask 😀
Let me know how that goes because that is all I am missing too.
I also don’t have Mirror Mayhem Stu, A Christmas Peril small animal, Springfield Games Lisa, and the 2 Founders. Would appreciate a notice if they become available.
This was the last batch of content to come.
Doubt they’ll add anything now, sorry
Do you guys have confirmation that is the final batch of updates or additions of any and all old contents? There will be nothing else added to it back into the game at all from this point on until sunset date?
Nibbles in the hamster ball is definitely in Taps 5 (I bought him today). Not sure about the squirrel… I already had it.
Thanks, I had to go through twice to find it, so small.
Is there anyway to get the new frontier monorail bridge?
Can’t see them anywhere, sorry 🙁
Would’ve been Wave 4, with those Mountain Tunnels, I think
The New Frontier Monorail Bridge from the previous Northward Bound event is still available. It is in The Store in the Decorations section (maximum of 4).
Are Jebediah Springfield and Shelbyville Manhattan going to be featured? I don’t see them in any of the Taps in regards to returning content. I recall that they were featured in one event (forgot what it was) and the player had to pay real money to get them.
They were in the first-time packs, 132 / 300 Donut buys, that were available if there wasn’t another donut-buy item at the time.
Never got the 300 Ds one, Jebediah IIRC
What happened? I was trying to complete my last category, and I didn’t see Disco Stu anywhere??? Don’t think I missed it…since it would be in taps pt.5 (I think?) but…someone help me?
Looks like that’s one they left out
Missing mirrored disco stu and the founders to compete all, but now got 32 different tasks to do 😃
😢
Does anyone know if little Lisa’s recycling plant is in 1 of these? And if so, which one?
It’s always in store
Open the Categories and tap on the Golden Homer Buddha icon, middle of the top row, then scroll
The final wave had so much new content for me. I think I’ll be able to have everything In every character group. I think the only one missing is oddly, mirrored Disco Stu.
Looks like that’s one they left out
Ditto.
I was hoping that with the taps there would be an option to buy broadwalk tiles
Dusted looked at tap 5 and not there
Maybe it would be something that gets made available later.
I could use donuts to speed up the yellow sub, but I am looking for Springfield heights tiles and you don’t often get those from the submarine
this makes.no sense…if yer taking away all access in a couple months why give us new content? it looks like at.some point there was supposed to be a lard lad theme park event…lard lad land competing with krustyland would’ve been a great event!
Lard Land was last Black Friday
New stuff is at the start …
Lenny’s House, xmas skins for sculptures and a handful of new deccies
I don’t remember the event…course around that to e I was in and out of hospital twice…so I guess that makes sense…
Because getting new skins and characters gives folks new quest lines to do between now and the end. Why not give us a last chance at content we didn’t have? It also allows folks to design their town more before memorializing it at the end with a picture or something.
I thought it was pretty nice of them to do that and to give us four months notice…they could have just pulled the plug and not done those things.
**A Tribute to Springfield: The Last Millstone of Digital Death**
Oh, the sadness, ladies and gentlemen! We have gathered here today to mourn a great loss. Yes, you heard that right, even a virtual city cannot escape the merciless clutches of the corporations. Disney and EA have decided, with the flair of a dimwitted troubadour, to digitally stamp “The Simpsons: Tapped Out.” And not just any death, but a death of Shakespearean proportions, with the archenemies since the dawn of time joining forces to keep us from our beloved Springfield.
I’ll make this very personal. My father has passed away, and all he had left was his virtual city, where he could hang out with Homer, Marge, and their wannabe narcissistic children. Because if you can’t escape reality, why not spend a few hours with a man so stupid that he even considers a donut an essential nutrient? But no, here comes Disney – who once had a cute little mouse – and EA – who once used microtransactions sparingly – and they say: “No, people, this city must disappear, just like the dreams of our youth.”
I have to mourn, because there are no more donuts to click on, no more missions where my digital friends sit in their virtual living rooms playing games about life in cities. What am I now without my alter ego? I can no longer visit the city, the place where my father fought his daily battle against the dull reality. Where in the evening, with a beer in his hand, completely reconciled to the shortcomings of his life, he scored a virtual homerun while collecting virtual clocks. And now? Now I sit here with my emotions, the only pixel left is that of my sadness.
Oh well, Walt Disney will probably turn over in his cryostat, and John Madden will probably be eagerly watching the game, while he can finally rest in peace. While we, the poor souls, must fight the horrible reality of this digital dystopia! Forget the Winter of Discontent, this is the Summer of Hate, my friends!
So let us gather, not in Springfield, for that is dead and gone, but in the tavern of our sorrow. Cheers to the digital drama, to the darkness of the entertainment industry, and to the heartfelt pain of gamers who are now tapped out of their sorrow. It may be a few more weeks, but the only tap left is that of our sorrow and our anger! Lest it be forgotten: “The Simpsons: Tapped Out” is not dead, it’s just… canceled! Greetings from Ede, Gelderland, the Netherlands
tl;dr
That was unnecessarily mean….what’s wrong with you?
If you had read it (and you had a shred of empathy), you’d have seen that this person is mourning the imminent loss of a town that used to belong to this person’s now deceased dad. Even if that weren’t the case, your comment was gratuitously mean, but, given that, it was extra hurtful.
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Agree why was this allowed? Shallow
They may have glanced and thought it too long, and actually did not read.
Saying that isn’t unreasonable.
They also acknowledged it was perhaps a bit mean, so that should be the end of it.
It’s not relevant to anything this forum was made for, just mean and shouldn’t be here.
as someone who has not played premium (but has a lot of cashflow) this is brilliant, my springfield is now overrun with new characters and quests i never got. really enjoying that part, i am very sad it’s going to end pretty soon though, but for now i’m tapping away 😛
Is Johnny tightlips is any of these ? He’s the last wise guy I need and i can’t find him or Plato’s casino
I wish they would bring back the characters. I started in 2014 and was hoping I could get all the missing ones so I could get to 100 pct!
I don’t think EA will offer the real cash/donut characters, it wouldn’t be fair on the players who paid for them. Everything else should be available
Fair? If you paid cash you got to enjoy them up to now. What other people get shouldn’t matter to you.
But, even before the end, they had a history of eventually making real cash characters available for donuts after a year or two. That’s one of the reasons that, while I have spent real cash on the game occasionally, I’ve rarely ever don’t that to purchase a character.
Oh yes they did, or some at least
They offer most real cash characters.
I’ve enjoyed the returning items would welcome some Springfield Heights building though.
Am at 1.39 billion and would need about a 1000 smaller items to reach the 2 billion max, not going to happen 😕 🤔
Remember that the REV remains if you store SH items, but the bonus for those Condos etc. only applies when placed.
I stored all the stuff I upgraded so far in my smallest town, including those with a bonus.
I went through my storage but don’t have anything that adds to the 1.39 b I have and upgraded everything, Feel am missing something 😕
Buy SH bits and then store ’em
Keeps the REV but reduces clutter in town
I was gonna inquire about mirror mayhem disco Stu but I see that’s already been covered. The 5th drop was a bonus bomb of missing chars. Only Stu left. Even those expensive chars that came with donut purchase are all there. Nice!
I have to say that TSTO is one of the only games I’ve ever played that did NOT slowly convert itself from F2P to P2P (pay to play). I’ve played the DMK game from day 1 and it’s currently in shambles. Just read any 10 comments on their FB group. It’s a shame. Even the Peanuts Snoopy town tale game has gotten difficult but more for bugs and weirdness and not quite P2P yet but I’m not optimistic unfortunately.
Hats off to EA for not ruining this game (besides shutting it down…) and trying to force P2P on the long time players and not shutting down the easy donut farming methods that exist. I appreciate their love for the game and the players.