Upcoming October Lucky Times, Pickup Capsule and Halloween Event!

September 16, 2016

Exciting news!! It was just recently leaked a couple days ago what Halloween tsums are going to come out this October for International version of Tsum Tsum!! In fact, it will most likely come out on Friday, September 30th!! Thus Lucky Time for the 4 new Halloween tsums for the International version of Tsum Tsum will be from Sept 30th to Oct 3rd. Funny enough, the English translated names are a bit different than what was known on the Japanese side for Mickey and Minnie.

The 4 new Halloween tsums coming our way are:

• Horn Hat Mickey / Tricky Mickey
• Cat Hat Minnie / Kitty Minnie
• Pumpkin Chip
• Ghost Dale

Do note that these 4 Halloween tsums are limited editions and are only available until October 31st.

Last but not least, we are most likely going to have the Halloween event that the Japanese version got last year, and one of the prizes is getting Skeleton Pluto! From this picture posted on Reddit, it looks like the event has 20 cards altogether (see bottom left of the screenshots), and from what I read, it sounds like if you use 1 of the 4 Halloween tsums listed above (sorry, Skeleton Pluto doesn't count) you will be able to get extra candy to help you finish the cards and thus the event!

To see what these 5 new Halloween tsums will bring to your game, Seiji has create a wonderful video to showcase all 5 Halloween tsums' skills, and he made it during the Halloween event for the Japanese version of Tsum Tsum so it gives you a sneak peak of what we can expect.

Tidbit: Start saving up lots of coins for the Halloween event! The tsum you really want is Tricky Mickey! Seiji shows what Tricky Mickey can do and I have to say, it's one of the more powerful Mickeys that Tsum Tsum gives to us if not the most powerful one! Why do I believe Tricky Mickey is the most powerful Mickey to date? Because once you activate Tricky Mickey's ability, it generates special bubbles that allows you to move the bubbles to anywhere on the screen to pop!! Note I call them special bubbles, so not to be confused with magical bubbles. 

To show you how powerful Tricky Mickey is compared to the other types of Mickeys in Tsum Tsum, Seiji created a wonderful video to showcase the different Mickeys that the Japanese version already has: Successive Limited Mickeys Comparison. Do note that we have not yet gotten Concert Mickey in the International version of Tsum Tsum. 

Tidbit: Although you can use the special bubbles generated from Tricky Mickey's ability to pop the areas where Tricky Mickey is located at, Tsum Tsum Wikia has noted that it will fill up the skill meter much slower than if you were to create chains to clear the Tricky Mickey tsums. If you watch the Mickeys Comparison video, you will notice that Seiji links the Tricky Mickey tsums to clear them while popping the special bubbles where Tricky Mickey is not located at. As a result, Seiji manages to fill up the skill meter really quickly, thereby enabling him to use Tricky Mickey's ability more frequently.

Hope this update helps! Once I hear or learn more, I will be back to update you again on what is happening in October! 

Oh! Before I go, there is rumbling that the pickup capsule in October may contain Pumpkin Mickey and Pumpkin Minnie, as that was what happened last year for the Japanese version. So if you didn't manage to get them last year, start saving up 450K for the capsule alone.

Hope this helps! I'm really looking forward to the October event and Halloween tsums!!! 

Happy Tsuming! =)

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UPDATE: September 28, 2016

Some images has leaked and it looks like there is an upcoming Lucky Time for Beast, Belle, Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde will happen in October!!

Tidbit: I highly suggest trying to get Beast and/or Belle during the lucky time because both are great coin farmers, especially Beast as you get him to Skill 5+. Countless of experienced Tsum Tsum players vouch by Beast. =)

Furthermore, the leaked images confirms that Pumpkin Mickey and Pumpkin Minnie are going to be in the Pickup Capsule in October! It will also include Maleficent and Pete too if you're interested.

The details for the Halloween event are also in the leaked images so you can get a preview on how to play the game. As said before, try to farm as many coins as you can so you can get one or more of the Halloween tsums coming this Friday so you can utilize their awesome character bonuses for the event!!

Once I find out more details about when these events are happening, I will be in touch!

Happy Tsuming!! =)

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NOTES AND SPECULATIONS: October 3, 2016

I'm afraid I couldn't find out when the different events are happening for this month. It doesn't look like anyone else has an answer either when I asked. I'm sorry. =(

In light of this lack of information, I will make a few speculations though, guesses based on what has traditionally happened in the past few months:

• Lucky Time for Beast, Belle, Judy Hopps, and Nick Wilde may happen this weekend from October 7th to October 10th.
• Pickup Capsule that includes at least Pete, Maleficent, Pumpkin Mickey and Pumpkin Minnie may happen next weekend, between October 14th to 17th. The duration ranges between 2 days to 4 days. To make sure you don't miss the capsule, keep a close eye on Line: Disney Tsum Tsum official Facebook page which seems to be updated right at midnight of the day the events start. If you haven't liked their official Facebook page, do so now so you can get notifications on whenever the events start! So start saving those coins up for the skill ticket if you are aiming for it! You'll need 450K coins. =)
• Based on what happened last year, the Halloween event looks to have started on Friday, October 9th, 2015. So my speculation is it will start this coming Friday, October 7th, 2016, and will run until Monday, October 31st. At least I hope so!! 

I managed to find Tsum Tsum Hints & Tips' website again!! I couldn't go to their website for a while so maybe it is up and running again! It was my inspiration for this blog since there was so many useful information to help the community on bingos, knowing the tsums, and how to play the different events! Plus, it has beautiful graphics!! Check it out now if you have any questions about different tsum tsums! I don't know if it's updated to recent days' information, but it will give you a great information base on various aspects about the game and its characters at least. Here's the Halloween Event information the website offered last year to start you off!

And the Genie specs I found last year is now up again here: Genie Tsum Info !!

Also, a note was made on Reddit by a fan that the tsums we got through the lucky time this past weekend happened to have the Japanese English names for the tsums e.g. Horn Hat Mickey, instead of the Tricky Mickey that we were led to believe from a leak in mid-September. It was speculated by others and myself that possibly the creators of the game has been keeping up with our blogs/Reddit threads. If so, maybe this lack of information we're finding is for them to keep the game more mysterious going forward. We shall see...

Happy Tsuming and good luck everyone during the Halloween event! I'm going to be lacking WiFi connection in the next few weeks but whenever I can, if you post a question or comment to me, I will try my best to answer it as soon as I have WiFi access. Thank you so much to everyone again for reading my posts!! I'm ecstatic to know that this blog has been able to help many of you out. =)

Thank you!!

=)

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UPDATE: October 4, 2016

New information has emerged today on Reddit! A BIG THANK YOU to the fans for finding this information and for being so kind to share it with the rest of us!!

Summary of Events in chronological order:

• Sept 30 to Oct 3: New Halloween Tsums Lucky Time 
• Oct 7 to Oct 10: Beast, Belle, Judy Hopps, and Nick Wilde Lucky Time
• Oct 11 to Oct 31: Happy Halloween Event!!
• Oct 14 to Oct 17: 4-Day Pick Up Capsule!! This includes 3 Pumpkin Mickeys; 2 Pumpkin Minnies, 1 Pete, 1 Maleficent, 2 Lotso, 2 Randall, 1 Woody, 1 Sulley, 1 Mike, and 1 Princess Aurora
• Oct 21 to Oct 23: New Halloween Tsums Lucky Time
• Oct 28 to Oct 31: New Halloween Tsums Lucky Time

As previously mentioned, I will be lacking WiFi connection in the next few weeks. If I can play the event and give pointers, I will definitely come back and update you as soon as I can. *fingers crossed* that I will have better WiFi connections than I thought and thus can play the event!!

Good luck everyone!! Happy Tsuming!! =)

And Thank You all again for reading. =)

Genie and Aladdin Event and Last Lucky Time

September 8, 2016

As you may be aware, I had been waiting for Genie to be released in the International version of Tsum Tsum for maybe close to a year now. I was most drawn to Genie for two specific reasons:

1. I saw the vast number of skills and abilities he was able to activate during the game through Seiji's amazing video, and 
2. I wanted to get Genie especially in memory and tribute to Robin Williams, who was and still is one of the best comedic geniuses this world has ever seen. God bless his soul. 

And after waiting for a whole year, we finally have Genie!! Genie is known to be similar to Scrump in that he has a chest full of random skills that mimic the abilities other existing tsums have. In total, Genie has a variety of 9 different abilities that occur in random order, so you never know what you'll get next after you activate his skill.

I tried looking for some resources with regards to his repertoire of skills/abilities, especially websites that I checked out a year ago for Genie-specific information. However, the websites I used to look through are no longer available, and thus I was unable to get a nice summary of what abilities Genie gets at each Skill level.

I thought that it would be nice to document my findings here so you can learn about them as well, if you wish. Here is my attempt to summarize Genie's 9 skills based on the information I was able to find:

Skill 1: Genie can perform 4 different skills during the game: (video)

• A clap that clears the tsums horizontally, like Tinkerbell
• A big Genie head pops up in the middle of the screen, like regular Alice
• 2 Genie-Shaped Balloons that float up across the screen, like Christopher Robin
• Turning the last two rows into Genies, just like Little Oyster

For each Skill level that Genie levels up, he gets an additional Skill added to his repertoire of tricks!

Skill 2: + Bubbles, like Miss Bunny

Skill 3: + A big blue snowball falling diagonally from the top left corner, down and across to the bottom right corner of the screen, like Olaf

Skill 4: + Hand wave, just like Mater

Skill 5: + Swim in a loop to clear a circle of tsums, like Ariel

and last but not least,

Skill 6: + A punch in the middle of the screen, just like Pete

I found a great picture that was tweeted last year that showcases a nice summary of the 9 skills that Genie can perform at Skill 6: Summary of Genie's 9 Abilities .

To really appreciate and see all the different skills that Genie can pull out of his bag of tricks, I highly suggest watching Seiji's video.

Tidbit: I understand that for some people, the Aladdin event cards are a bit dry and repetitive. To make it more interesting, I highly recommend using Genie to clear the cards and to defeat Jafar. You'll get funny instances like this:

Furthermore, you'd be faced with instances that make you think on how to get a bubble to attack the large lamp capsules. It ended up being a more strategic game when I switched to using Genie to play the event.

Tidbit: Like I said in my previous post, it is highly recommended to utilize the Chance Times so you can get the gold hearts and therefore the large lamp capsules! It will help you finish the event a lot quicker and less painfully, PLUS I also found out that for the gold hearts, you only need to hit the large capsules Once!! Whereas, for the silver hearts, whenever a large lamp capsule fell, you had to hit it twice before it would clear. So utilize the chance times as best as you can!

Chance time occur between 7 - 8 AM PDT; 6 - 7 PM PDT; and 10 - 11 PM PDT, so check your time zone and see how many hours ahead or behind you are relative to the west coast, in order to fully understand when chance time happens for you.

Tidbit: Be careful after you claim your Magical Time Ticket from your inbox. It will appear whenever the game is programmed to ask if you would like to use 5 rubies to extend your time. I wasn't careful and accidentally claimed it on one of my games during the event.

Tidbit: If you have a good coin collector already in your collection, I do recommend trying to skill up your Genie to Skill 6 as fast as you can so you can fully enjoy all his random abilities during the game. I also suggest this because it looks like he can be a very good coin farmer himself, and I can see him be very useful to use to complete specific missions in past or future Bingo Cards due to his vast skill set.

Tidbit: Last lucky time for Aladdin, Jasmine and Genie is said to be happening on the last weekend of September, from Friday, September 23 to Monday, September 26, 2016. Maybe use this lucky time to either skill up your Jasmine and/or Genie. They both have tremendous advantages when you can get them as close to Skill 6 as possible. Good luck!!

Hope you're having tons of fun with the Aladdin event! I loved the animations involved. =)

Happy Tsuming!!

UPDATE: OCTOBER 3, 2016

I found the site that had the information I was looking for last month! It looks to be back up! If you want to know more, here is a great source to learn more about Genie: Tsum Tsum Hints & Tips!