April 2018 brings Disney Storybooks!

UPDATE - April 14, 2018

I hope you're all enjoying the event so far. I only had time to start the event this past week and I found there are a few tidbits that may help you complete the regular missions a little easier:

Tidbit#1: When you get the Treasure box mission, multiple treasure boxes will fall during the game. A maximum of 5 treasure boxes can be obtained each time. I highly recommend using Cruz Ramirez because she clears a good chunk of the tsums on the screen, which helps get the treasure boxes to fall down quicker during the game. If you don't have her at a high skill level, I highly recommend to use some skill tickets on her as I've been able to get all 5 of the Treasure boxes each time I hit this mission and use Cruz.

Tidbit#2: When you need to clear a lot of MyTsums, try using Gaston. Gaston is a bit tricky to use and I would say I'm average to maybe a bit under average when using him. The trick that I've used to clear the most MyTsums with Gaston is to save a few bubbles at the bottom of the screen. Try to activate Gaston as fast as you can (using 5>4 boost helps here) and once activated, pop all the bubbles at the bottom of the screen, so the Gastons can start falling to the top of the tsum pile. Try to clear all the Gastons that have fallen and make a bubble but don't pop it. Once the next batch of Gastons fall, link all of them and hold the link until the screen goes from the red hue to normal game mode and then release your hold of the linked Gastons. It will fill his skill meter again in which case press it as soon as you can even though there looks to be a hole in your screen. Gaston's fire with his musket won't clear many tsums in the horizontal plane but it will fill that giant hole in the screen with Gastons quite quickly. Link all the Gastons as fast as you can and pop the bubble you had made earlier to get more Gastons to fall down as soon as possible. Then link the Gastons and hold until it goes from red to normal screen and release. Meter fills up, activate immediately, and the whole cycle repeats again.

Here I tried to activate Gaston as quickly as I can before other tsums started falling. This maximizes the number of Gaston tsums on my screen. Using the bubbles at the bottom of the screen, I can make the tsums fall faster, so during this red phase, it drops more Gastons before it turns normal. Once it's normal game mode, it drops other tsums which is what I'm trying to avoid. When it turns normal, and if I have many Gastons on the screen, it makes it a lot easier to activate Gaston's skill again.

End result from the strategy described above.

Tidbit#3: There is a mission that says "Use a black Tsum to clear 5 Time Bubbles in total". I played around with a few of my black tsums and the one that worked the best for me was Sorcerer Mickey. I do have a higher skill Sorcerer Mickey but there is still a way that you can create time bubbles, which requires you to clear 9 to 16 tsums. According to Disney Tsum Tsum Wiki for Sorcerer Mickey, the strategy to getting larger burst areas is to time your taps to when the little Mickey silhouette points. The little Mickey silhouette is located on the bottom left corner. Other people have been successful with this mission using Conductor Mickey and Aladdin as well. The different types of Minnies may also help because you can make chains with them so if you make chains of 9 to 16 tsums, you may get a time bubble. If you're going to use Minnie, try to make chains of 9 to 12 for better odds of getting a time bubble!

I managed to get 4 time bubbles each game I played with Sorcerer Mickey for this mission.

Do you have any missions that you had difficulty with? Did you find a tsum that you didn't know could help you clear one of the missions? I did learn from the missions that Happy Rapunzel doesn't count as a burst tsum, so be careful of that.

I hope I can do the difficult card and if I can, I will be back with another update for it!

Happy Tsuming and good luck! =)


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The Leaks have finally been found! Thank you Mayorse (and Loserbait) for all your hard work, especially since the creators of Tsum Tsum decided to encrypt the files this time to try and thwart our leak addiction!!! Your hard work is always appreciated. Thank you!! =)

A calendar summary has been shared about what to expect by andriaia, Thank you!


April looks to be bringing Disney Storybooks to the International game! This is what's coming up around the riverbend:

• April 2 to April 5, 2018 - Lucky Time for Flynn Rider, Happy Rapunzel, and Maximus!

Tidbit: Flynn Rider's ability summons regular Rapunzel, which can be linked together with Flynn to make long chains. When his ability is activated, the animation shows the lantern floating up between Rapunzel and Flynn as in the beautiful boat scene in the movie, and when the lantern pauses in the center, it changes the tsums to Rapunzels! After you link the Rapunzel tsums with Flynn Rider tsums, they disappear into lots of golden hearts. By calling Rapunzel, this likely means that using Flynn's ability also levels up Rapunzel in the background, just as using Birthday Anna (which summons Surprise Elsa) also secretly levels up your Surprise Elsa in the background of the game!

Tidbit: Happy Rapunzel is a time limited tsum and one I think that is worth getting skilled up!! Happy Rapunzel's ability allows you to connect different tsums together just like regular Rapunzel, but after you connect the random tsums, the surrounding tsums gets cleared too! When her ability is activated, a beautiful animation appears: Rapunzel's golden hair frames the top and bottom parts of the screen, and whichever direction of tsums you connect, a beautiful golden sun would emerge and clear the surrounding tsums! This limited time tsum has a funny trick on the iPhones only (from what I could gather from watching the video) where when you swipe across the screen, before you let go, you hit the fan and the tsums will fly and roll around. After you hit the fan a few times to spread the tsums you've highlighted around and then let go of your hold on the screen, it clears a bigger area! This is especially useful for when you have a lower skill level Happy Rapunzel! Though I caution getting too used to this trick in your game play since we don't know when in a future update they would change it to be like on the Androids' version where the fan doesn't work when holding the swipe. Check out Seiji's trick video here to see what I mean! I only linked the video at 2:20 since I wanted to show you the jist but feel free to watch the whole video if you wish! The best way to use Happy Rapunzel is just to swipe diagonally upwards across the screen so that more tsums get a chance to be cleared. One more important thing: the higher you skill up Happy Rapunzel, the less is required to activate her skill!!

Tidbit: When Maximus' ability is activated, you see his animated character carrying a sword and clearing a diagonal line of tsums from the bottom left to the upper right hand corner of your screen. It looks like Seiji advises turning on your gyro and tilting your phone to the 1 o'clock position during game play. It is noticed that his ability doesn't pop bubbles that happens to be in the pathway of the sword swipe. Just like Happy Rapunzel, the higher you skill up Maximus, the less is required to activate his skill! 

• April 6 to April 9, 2018 - 1st Pickup Capsule will have 15 tsums (needs 450,000 coins!) and will include the following tsums:

• Parade Tinkerbell x 2
• MU Mike x 1
• Carl x 1
• Wall-E x 1
• Romance Ariel x 2
• Baymax x 2
• Scuttle x 2
• Abu x 2
• Dumbo x 2
• Skill Ticket x 1 to use on any tsum of your choosing!

Tidbit: For those who are new and who don't have many of the tsums in the first pickup capsule, this may be one that you should spend coins in. Many of these tsums are time limited tsums that don't normally come out in the premium box rotations. For the more mature players, you may do well to skip this first pickup capsule and save the coins for the second pickup capsule.

• [UPDATE on START DATE] April 4 to April 24, 2018 - Disney Storybooks Event! There are 4 storybooks altogether. Each storybook has a different map. You will need to clear the missions on the map to move through the story! During the gameplay, a treasure chest may appear. Hit it with your tsum's ability or pop a bubble next to it to get the treasure chest. At the end of your game, I believe the treasure chest will reveal what item or coins you attained. Clear a mission with a key and it unlocks another book. After completing the 4 storybooks, you get a silver pin! But that's not all. A difficult Extra Book will appear, and if you manage to complete it, you get a Gold pin! Like previous events, when you use the new tsums (Happy Rapunzel, Flynn Rider, Maximus, Pocahontas, and Mulan), you get character bonuses that makes the missions a bit easier to complete. Mission Assist is also available in the event, but this time, it is only available for the difficult Extra Book! I would caution on using the Mission Assists since they do require you to use up 10 rubies before the mission becomes easier. I guess this is their way of getting more revenue from the ruby purchases. If you do purchase rubies, they do have a 20% bonus going on 2x this next month! A good overview of the Disney Storybooks event can be found here: Disney Tsum Tsum Wiki. 

• April 12 to April 15, 2018 - Lucky Time for Pocahontas and Mulan!!

Tidbit: Mulan's ability is to summon Ping, which can be linked together with Mulan to make long chains! (In case you don't know who Ping is, Ping is Mulan pretending to be a young man in order to be able to take her father's place in the army against the Huns. She had done this in order to keep her father from re-entering the army in his old age. If you haven't watched it, you should watch it! It's a bit of a tear-jerker for me... ok back to your regular programming!) When Mulan's ability is activated, the surrounding tsums gets turned into Ping, and as Mulan is skilled up, the number of tsums that get transformed into Ping increases. By Skill 6, most if not all the surrounding tsums get transformed into Ping and you can make some really long chains as a result!

Tidbit: Pocahontas' ability is similar to Bumblebee Pooh's! When activated, she stops time for a short duration and all the chains that you link during this pause would clear as 1 large chain! Her base number is quite high, requiring 25 before you can fully charge her skill meter. Luckily, as you skill her up, her base number decreases down to 20 to activate her skill meter. Her time limit is quite a bit shorter than Bumblebee Pooh's too, starting at 2.5 seconds before moving up to 5 seconds at Skill 6. One thng I do notice while watching Seiji play Pocahontas vs. Bumblebee Pooh is that he seems to clear a lot more with Pocahontas though I'm not sure if it's because his playing style changed over time. In Disney Tsum Tsum Wiki, they did mention that when time stops, Pocahontas is able to connect tsums together that would usually be deemed too far to connect otherwise. I'm not sure if it's true, so please let us know after you try her gameplay if this claim is true!

• April 20 to April 23, 2018 - LAST Lucky Time for Happy Rapunzel, Flynn Rider, Maximus, Pocahontas, and Mulan!

• April 27 to April 30, 2018 - 2nd Pickup Capsule has 20 tsums (you need 600,000 coins!) and will include the following tsums: 

• Happy Rapunzel x 1 !!!
• Cruz Ramirez x 2
• Jet Pack Alien x 2
• Scrooge x 3
• Prince x 2
• Snow White x 2
• Wonderland Alice x 2
• Mad Hatter x 1
• Queen of Hearts x 1
• Mater x 2
• Genie x 2
• Skill Ticket x 1 to use on any tsum of your choosing!

Tidbit: This is a really good pickup capsule to save and spend your coins on because you'll guarantee to get Happy Rapunzel, Scrooge, Queen of Hearts, Cruz Ramirez, Genie and a skill ticket at the end once you clear it! The mentioned tsums are good coin farmers for the average player without too much skill required. Genie is also a great catch because it helps make your missions more fun to complete due to the variations he surprises you with!

It looks to be another fun month ahead of us! Lots of coins required for sure, so keep farming those coins! 

As a side note, I really want to thank everyone for all your encouragement and support!!! I was and still am quite blown away at how many people like reading these blog posts and I'm super grateful that these posts have been useful additions to the leaks and posts on Reddit. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart! Thank you!

Good luck on your Lucky Times, Pickup Capsules, and Disney Storybooks event!!!

Happy Tsuming! =D