March brings Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass!

Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it's home from work we go. =)

Happy Friday everyone! Hopefully you were/are able to get Mowgli this weekend. I fortunately spent all my coins on the Beast/Belle/B.Anna/S.Elsa lucky time (I got 16 Beasts!!! Just 5 more to go for Skill 6 Beast. Woot!) so don't have very many coins before the next month's event, so seeing as Mowgli won't be one that I'm going to miss, I'll be spending my time in this next week to coin farm for March's exciting new tsums!!

New Alice, Mad Hatters, and Queen of Hearts are coming to International Tsum Tsum in March!! It will be a mash-up between the two movies, Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass:


***Major Tidbit! Get all 4 new tsums if you can during the next two lucky times! They will help you clear the event more easily! Read on to see how. ***

• March 2nd to March 5th: Lucky time for Theatrical Mad Hatter, Wonderland Alice, and Mad Hatter!

Tidbit: Theatrical Mad Hatter and Wonderland Alice are limited time tsums and are only available in the premium box until March 31st, 11:59PM (PST)!! So coin farm as much as you can so that you can at least get these time-limited tsums! 

Tidbit: I highly recommend getting the Theatrical Mad Hatter! Why? Because he is considered one of the top coin farmers when you use him along with 5>4 bonus!! If you're going to use him with 5>4 bonus, I highly recommend using coin bonus too, especially if you can get more than 2500 coins per game with him with 5>4 bonus alone. Plus, his animation is the most amusing to watch I find, as he clears tsums in a line in 3 different directions.

Tidbit: The Mad Hatter is interesting in that at different skill levels, you will have different number of hats according to Tsum Tsum Wiki. At this point, there hasn't been very many videos that I could find with the Mad Hatter at different skill levels so all we can see is 3 hats with Skill 6 Mad Hatter, but according to Tsum Tsum Wiki, at different skill levels, the Mad Hatter can display 2 to 3 hats of various sizes to tap and clear the surrounding tsums. 

Tidbit: Wonderland Alice is completely opposite of regular Alice! Instead of growing bigger in the middle of the screen like regular Alice, Wonderland Alice actually shrinks to tiny Alice for a short period of time! As you clear the tsums around the tiny Alice tsums, the tiny Alice tsums disappear. However, if you don't clear all the tsums surrounding the tiny Alice tsums, they grow back to regular-sized tsums during the game. Watch this video from Seiji of Skill 1 Alice. I've started the link at 45 seconds into the game. At this point, Seiji is about to activate Wonderland Alice's ability, and once he does, keep looking at the left most edge of the game in the video. He clears most of the tiny Alice tsums in the game by clearing their surrounding tsums, but there are a couple that he misses on the left side of the game, and these tiny Alices grows larger to be regular sized tsums after 5 seconds is up! As you skill her up, the time period that Alice stays tiny increases! I do appreciate the artwork and animation that Wonderland Alice has - it's just beautiful!

• March 6th to March 9th: Queen of Hearts Lucky Time!

Tidbit: There isn't very much information about the Queen of Hearts' ability in the Tsum Tsum Wiki; however, after watching Seiji's videos, I find the Queen of Hearts' ability very interesting. Once activated, 5 card soldiers fall on the screen for you to tap. Once you finish tapping on the soldiers, the tsums surrounding the 5 card soldiers collectively clear together! So even at Skill 3, the Queen of Hearts can clear around 28 tsums altogether! The second interesting part about the Queen of Hearts' ability is that even if you activate her skill after clearing a good chunk of your screen, her ability will let tsums fall down during her ability and settle before clearing them! Like the other villains we've received, she looks very promising as a coin farmer at least. 

• March 6th to March 26th: Alice in Wonderland event! Goal of the event is to catch the White Rabbit! It looks like there are 6 cards that you need to clear in the main event. Each card will have a specific number of times you have to catch the White Rabbit to clear it. Each space, you will get a chance to choose a mission from a hand of hards. Once you clear the mission, you will advance through the spaces to get closer to catching the White Rabbit! Once you catch the White Rabbit the number of times that the card asks you to, you clear the card! If you select a Joker card, you get a capsule game! The more capsules you pop, the more spaces you advance to try and catch the White Rabbit!

Tidbit: Clear the event and get 2 Skill Tickets(!!) and the March Hare!! When you complete the Alice in Wonderland event, you will get a maxed out skill 3 March Hare. The March Hare's ability is just like Triton where he clears 3 vertical lines of tsums; however, he isn't as powerful as Triton is. Nonetheless, his whimsical animation is quite entertaining.

Tidbit: All the new tsums coming out during March for Alice in Wonderland will help you clear the event more easily!! How? 

1. There are 5 different cards in the hand that you can select to choose a mission. If you use the tsum that is on the card you drew, e.g. you choose a Mad Hatter card for the mission and you use the Mad Hatter as your MyTsum, you will have an easier time to clear the mission!
2. Instead of hitting the capsule 2x with another tsum during the game, using any one of the four new tsums (Wonderland Alice, Theatrical Mad Hatter, Mad Hatter and Queen of Hearts) will help you clear the capsule with only 1 hit during the joker cards, thereby helping you clear more capsules during the game play and helping you advance further to try and catch the White Rabbit! 

Tidbit: When you draw a Joker card, the White Rabbit will not move after the Joker game!

Tidbit: This event will also have a bonus card to get the Gold pin!! 

• March 10th to March 14th: 5-day Pickup Capsule will include:
• Bumblebee Pooh x 1
• Judy Hopps x 1
• Nick Wilde x 1
• Finnick x 1
• Princess Aurora x 1
• Alice x 2
• Cheshire Cat x 2
• White Rabbit x 2
• Little Oyster x 2
• Clarice x 2

Tidbit: If you want the 3rd skill ticket for March, get all the capsules in the pickup capsule! You will need 450,000 coins to accomplish this feat.

So far these are the confirmed parts of what is happening in March.

It is suspected there will be two more lucky times in the last two weekends of March, one of which may be a Selected Lucky Time for existing tsums, and the other being the last lucky time for the four new Alice in Wonderland tsums. Once I learn more definite details, I will update this post.

March is definitely shaping up to be a very exciting month!

Happy Tsuming! =D

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UPDATE - FEB 28, 2017

Thanks lalga96 for the updated pictures!!

Yes, you saw correctly! There looks to be a Select Lucky time for Maleficent Dragon, Bunny Pooh and Bunny Tigger!! There's no definite date stated, so my guess is that these three tsums will come out between March 17th and March 20th.

Tidbit: I highly suggest saving up coins for Maleficent Dragon as she's a very powerful tsum when skilled up for high scores and coins!!

As more updates get revealed, I will be sure to update this blog.

Note: I just moved and am in the process of getting internet in my new place, so please bare with me as I will be a bit slower to answer questions and comments below than usual. Luckily I found internet for this brief moment so that I can update everyone on the upcoming tsums for the select lucky time in March. Also, Thank You so much to Jian and Benson for being such great contributors in answering some of the questions posed!! Thank you!!

Thank you everyone for reading! Good luck with the lucky times coming up and Happy Tsuming!! =D

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UPDATE - MARCH 7, 2017

First of all, I would love to give a big THANK YOU to Jian Cong Koay (aka JC Ivan) for answering so many people's questions in the last 1 to 2 weeks!! I simply cannot express my immense gratitude for your help in answering other players' questions!! You went up and beyond to helping every question that came through, including your own question!! Sorry I wasn't able to help out - I only got internet in my new place just the other day, and I was amazed when I logged in to see how everyone pitched in to help each other out while I was off the grid. THANK YOU EVERYONE!!! I'm so blessed to have such a helpful community here. You all inspire me to keep going with this blog - Thank you!!!

As Jian has mentioned in the comments below, there are two more lucky times coming our way:

• March 17th to March 20th: Last Lucky Time for Theatrical Mad Hatter, Wonderland Alice, Mad Hatter, and Queen of Hearts.

• March 24th to March 27th: Lucky Time for Maleficent Dragon, Bunny Pooh, and Bunny Tigger.

I did see a calendar somewhere in Reddit with these dates, but no confirmation pictures from the game itself to confirm the dates for each of the lucky times. If I can find the link to the calendar, I will reference it here. Regardless, keep saving up your coins because the pickup capsule and thus the 3rd skill ticket for the month of March is coming up this Friday to next Tuesday!

Thank you so very much to everyone for helping each other out while I was trying to get my internet to work and Thank you everyone for being such a wonderful, kind, and generous community!! I'm extremely honored in helping you all out where I can. Thank you for inspiring me!!

Happy Tsuming!! =D

Lion King: Rescue the Animals - Tidbits for Regular Event & BONUS DIFFICULT Card

As you may have found out, the event started today! Here are some tidbits that I have found useful during the event. I've split it up between the Regular event which consists of 23 cards, and the Difficult card afterwards for Card #24. (Please bear with me as I wasn't able to properly make my screenshots more visually appealing.)

Regular event:

Tidbit: Many of the missions have more than 1 space available for you to select to rescue the animals from. Some of these spaces are inhabited by hyenas only though.

Tidbit: All of the missions are supposed to be completed in one game. If you aren't able to complete the mission in one game, don't fret, as long as you're close to the goal of the mission, the game will award you a "Good" stamp and some damage (a quarter damage, as seen in the screenshots below) will occur to the hyena. Even if you can't achieve the goal, if you get close enough in several games, you will be able to complete the mission.

Tidbit: Time bubble missions are difficult to pass for me, and if you only can get one per game, it's tough to even get some damage to the hyenas. Remember, you need to get close to the goal of the mission to get some damage to the hyenas, so 1 time bubble out of 5 isn't close enough unfortunately. Some tsums known to help with these time bubble missions are Miss Bunny, Skill 4 Thumper, and Skill 3+ Cinderella. You can also choose any of the chain swiping tsums e.g. Little Oyster, Rapunzel, or tsums that you can create big tsums eg. Sully, Baymax, that you can utilize to create time bubbles. How? Time Bubbles are created with chains between 9 to 16 tsums long.

Tidbit: Although there are some spaces that have hyenas only, if you manage to choose all the squares to complete the area, you can clear the card without having to encounter the hyenas. For example, if the card asks you to rescue 2 animals and you end up choosing two spaces that both have an animal on it, then you would have cleared that card after you rescued the 2nd animal.

Tidbit: Use the Lion King tsums i.e. Simba, Nala, and Scar to get the character bonuses and thus finish the mission faster. Zazu would work too but he won't provide the character bonus that you may need on some of the little bit tougher missions.


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DIFFICULT Card: (in random order) (Sorry, I started this difficult card in the middle before I went back to the first square.)


Mission: Earn 650 EXP in 1 play.

Tidbit: use your strongest scoring tsum for this mission. To complete this mission, you need to attain a score of over 6M. Score, 5>4, time, and bubble bonuses do help in this mission if you haven't been able to break 5M yet.

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Mission: Clear 1,050 Tsum Tsum in 1 play.

Tidbit: Using Scar was very useful, especially if he's at Skill 3. The key to this one is to keep going into fever time so that you can increase the amount of time in the game you have. If need be, use the time bonus to give yourself more time to clear more tsums.

UPDATE - Other tsums that can help pass this mission are Maleficent, Maleficent Dragon, and Birthday Anna as they clear the tsums around the chains drawn in the game, thereby clearing a lot more than most other tsums normally can. 

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Mission: Earn 6,500,000 points in 1 play. 

Tidbit: Use your strongest scoring tsum to try and achieve this mission. Or, if you don't have a high scoring tsum yet, try to use Scar as much as you can in the next few days so you can level him up to at least level 15 or 20, before you try and get a high score with him. Hopefully the character bonus will help you surpass the 6.5M if you don't attain the mission in the first game.

*** Good news: You don't need to reach 6.5M to finish this mission. You only need to get close to 6M to cause some damage to the hyena. It may take a few more games before you can clear the mission altogether, but at least it's consoling that this mission is passable if you are patient enough. ***

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Mission: Enter fever 9 times in 1 play.

Tidbit: Using a tsum that charges up their skill meter quickly and clears a large portion of the screen is a good candidate for this mission, such as Beast or Scar. Adding the time and 5>4 bonuses would give you extra time and additional chances to charge up your MyTsum during this mission, which helps tremendously, especially when using Scar as he gives you character bonuses. So if you can get around 7 to 8 fever times, his character bonus will help you reach the mission goal easily.

UPDATE - Concert Mickey is really good for this mission because when you activate his skill, he stops time for you to pop the note bubbles. The trick is to go into fever time as soon as you can when you start the game, generate enough bubbles during fever time or fill up Concert Mickey's skill meter during fever time, and once you are out of fever time, you pop all the bubbles you generated (ideally 3 to 4 bubbles) or activate Concert Mickey's skill immediately. This trick works only because it will generate extra time for you during the game to go back into fever time, which in itself already adds 5 seconds to your game. 

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Mission: Earn 5,000,000 points in 1 play.

Tidbit: Use your strongest scoring tsum for this one as well.

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Mission: Pop 6 Time Bubbles in 1 play.

Tidbit: Remember, you need to get close to the goal of the mission to get some damage to the hyenas, so 1 time bubble out of 6 isn't close enough unfortunately. For this one, you do need to get as many as 5 time bubbles before the mission will allow you to make some damage to the hyena. As mentioned earlier, some tsums known to help with these time bubble missions are Miss Bunny, Skill 4 Thumper, and Skill 3+ Cinderella. You can also choose any of the chain swiping tsums e.g. Little Oyster, Rapunzel, or tsums that you can create big tsums eg. Sully, Baymax, that you can utilize to create time bubbles. How? Time Bubbles are created with chains between 9 to 16 tsums long.


UPDATE - One of the readers (Thanks Black Clouds) just told me that Skill 3 Conductor Mickey also worked for getting the 6 time bubbles! The reader had used the time and 5>4 bonuses during the game. Give it a try and let us know if this also worked just as well for you! Holly 951 also noted that Goofy hit the sweet spot since he cleared between 10 to 12 tsums, which is an ideal range for time bubbles, thus was able to find a very creative way around not having Marie nor Miss Bunny to complete this mission. Great job! Other tsums noted to help for time bubbles are Alien, especially at Skill 3 (Thanks Chen!), Eeyore (Thanks Ashley!), Pluto (Thanks Michael!), Baymax (Thanks Jeanette!) and Nala, Minnie, and Daisy, all of which calls and can link up with their partners! Great job everyone in finding so many creative alternatives in beating this mission! =D 

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Mission: Pop 30 Magical Bubbles in 1 play.

Tidbit: Marie is great for this one since she needs only 13 to charge up her skill meter.

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Mission: Clear 260 MyTsum in 1 play.

Tidbit: Here I used Scar with 5>4 and time bonuses to try and activate his skill as often as I could, as well as get the game back into fever time as often as possible in order to extend the time of the game.

UPDATE - Thank you themightymango for reminding us that Oswald and Angel are excellent tsums to clear this mission! When their skill is activated, it turns everything to Oswald (in Oswald's skill) or Angel and heart-eyed Stitch (in Angel's skill)!! Give Oswald a try to clearing this mission! You may not need to use boosts for this mission after all.

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Mission: Create a 160 combo. 

Tidbit: Holiday Donald is super useful for this mission.

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Mission: Earn 2,000 coins in 1 play.

Tidbit: I used my coin farmer (Skill 5 Beast) here along with coin and 5>4 bonuses.

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Mission: Activate a skill 12 times in 1 play. 

Tidbit: Thumper is excellent to help you complete this mission.

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Mission: Clear 12 Score Magical Bubbles in 1 play.

Tidbit: Using your coin farmer here is highly recommended. I managed to get this mission easily with my Beast with 5>4 and coin bonuses.

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Overall, the Difficult Bonus card was not as difficult as The Little Mermaid Difficult card. The developers definitely created the Lion King event to allow more people to complete the entire event and get the gold Lion King pin, as long as you have persistence and a wide variety of tsums to use. So keep at it and don't give up! You can definitely achieve the beautiful gold Lion King pin if you want to! You have until Feb 23rd to finish it so plenty of time to try, try, and try again. =)

Happy Tsuming! =D