October 2018 brings the Nightmare Before Christmas!!

My all-time favorite Halloween movie, The Nightmare Before Christmas, is coming to Tsum Tsum International in October 2018!! Thank you so much to Tsum_luke for finding the leaks!!

Wow, it looks to be a super intensive month in October!!

Tentative Timeline for Oct 2018:

October 1, 2018 to October 4, 2018 - Lucky Time for the Pumpkin King and Oogie Boogie!

• Tidbit: Pumpkin King's ability is just like Maleficent Dragon. Once activated, the iconic Nightmare before Christmas hill illuminates your background and any chains you create during his skill will clear the surrounding tsums!! As you skill him up, the required number to activate his skill goes down (from 24 to 20) and the time his ability stays on gets longer (from 3 seconds to 4.5 seconds)!! 

• Tidbit: Oogie Boogie (also known as just Boogie in Japan tsum version) has a super fun element in his skill! He will clear a random amount of tsums depending on the dice roll! It looks from Seiji's video that the higher the total of the two dice is, the more tsums Boogie will clear! As you skill Boogie up, the required number to activate his skill also goes down (from 18 to 15) and the range of tsums that he clears increases from 5 to 35 at Skill 1, to 15 to 45 tsums at Skill 6!

(SPECULATIVE) October 5, 2018 to October 31, 2018 - Haunted Halloween Event! (sneak preview)

From browsing through the event that happened in Japan last year through the linked sneak preview above, there looks to be 6 cards altogether. Clear missions on each card to go through Tsum Tsum's Haunted House, and on special cards, you get Bat Hat Minnie! After completing 5 cards, you get a silver pin. Complete the bonus card and you get the Gold pin!!

• Tidbit: Bat Hat Minnie's skill is like Surprise Elsa. When activated, bats will appear on your screen and as you tap on the bats, surrounding tsums will be cleared! On Disney Tsum Tsum Wiki, it listed that Bat Hat Minnie can average around 2300 coins per game which makes Bat Hat Minnie a pretty good coin farmer. Do note that it doesn't indicate if this is with the 5>4 boost or if this is strictly without any boosts used. Disney Tsum Tsum Wiki also indicated a strategy to use when Bat Hat Minnie is your MyTsum: pop each bat from bottom to the top, making sure that tsums have fallen behind each bat before tapping on them. Then pop the magic bubbles that were created from the top to the bottom of the screen. By the time you reach the bottom or the 10th bubble, Bat Hat Minnie's skill meter will be recharged and you can reactivate her skill again! Anyhow, Seiji doesn't use this strategy but at least now you know two different types of methods to use Bat Hat Minnie, and hopefully one of the strategies works well with your game play!

October 4, 2018 to October 7, 2018 - FIRST 4-day Pickup Capsule will require you to have 450,000 coins to clear and attain the coveted skill ticket! It will includes:

• Horn Hat Mickey x 2
• Cat Hat Minnie x 2
• Rattle Bones Pluto x 1
• Pumpkin Mickey x 2
• Pumpkin Minnie x 2
• Pumpkin Chip x 3
• Ghost Dale x 3
• Skill Ticket x 1 to use on any tsum of your choice!!

October 8, 2018 to October 11, 2018 - Lucky Time for Frankenstein Goofy, Halloween Sora, and Mummy Donald!

• Tidbit: Frankenstein Goofy's ability when activated will clear a zigzag S-shape line of tsums! Apparently he belongs to the Kingdom Hearts series of tsums!

• Tidbit: Halloween Sora's skill will drop three devil pumpkins onto your screen, and one by one each devil pumpkin will clear a random-made chain of tsums! It's really neat to see its animation! According to Disney Tsum Tsum Wiki, these devil pumpkins are a form of magical bubbles and will trigger the Last Bonus if any devil pumpkins are still on the screen when the game ends! So cool!!

• Tidbit: Mummy Donald will wrap groups of tsums into balls, which in turn are considered Large Tsums that can be connected together with Mummy Donald and cleared as a chain! 

• Tidbit: Using the 5 new Halloween tsums will help you clear the event faster through bonus character points!

October 12, 2018 to October 15, 2018 - Select Box will include:

• Sora 
• Riku
• Jiminy Cricket
• Zurg
• Pete
• Scar
• Maleficent
• Jafar
• Genie
• Beast

Tidbit: There are some really good tsums in this select box!! Scar, Jafar, Genie, and Beast are must have tsums for coin farming, for satisfying the villain component of some missions, and for injecting some random unexpected fun into your games!!

October 18, 2018 to October 21, 2018 - SECOND 4-day Pickup Capsule will require you to have 450,000 coins to clear and attain the coveted skill ticket! It will includes:

• Sally x 5!!!
• Jack Skellington x 5
• Zero x 5
• Skill Ticket x 1 to use on any tsum of your choice!!

• Tidbit: We finally get Sally tsum!!! Sally is a cross burst tsum! Yes, I know, after all this time of waiting for her, I end up not having much to say about her skill...

• Tidbit: Jack Skellington and Zero were once part of the regular premium tsums repertoire. However, about 2 years ago, Tsum Tsum decided to remove these two tsums along with Perry I believe so that there is a higher probability for players to get other new tsums that were coming out each month. Now, these two tsums are considered to be Limited Time tsums that you will not be able to get in the Premium Box, so if you don't have these tsums and you want to collect them all, be sure to at least get 1 of each limited time tsums for your collection!!

October 22, 2018 to October 25, 2018 - Select Box will include:

• Ursula
• Queen of Hearts
• Maleficent Dragon
• Jester Goofy
• Captain Hook
• Cruella De Vil
• Steamboat Pete
• Mike
• Sulley
• Davy Jones

It's amusing they have a Select Box for villains and they stuck in Mike and Sulley from Monsters Inc. 

• Tidbit: These villains are all quite powerful, especially Maleficent Dragon, Ursula, Captain Hook, Cruella De Vil, and Davy Jones. If you don't have Sulley yet, you MUST get him in this Select Box because he will help you so much in the missions that asks you to clear a long chain (e.g. 30+)!!!

October 28, 2018 to October 31, 2018 - LAST LUCKY TIME for the Pumpkin King, Oogie Boogie, Frankenstein Goofy, Halloween Sora, and Mummy Donald!!


October 2018 looks to be a super fun, intense, and expensive month!! Start saving up coins while you can now. We still got about 2 weeks to go before all of these amazing new Halloween Tsums come!!

Thank you to all my readers for coming here to bond and read all the exciting new tsum tsum events! I have appreciated all your support and help you gave to each other in this blog. Just a small note, I will be away for the last half of October to the first week of November, so November 2018's blogpost may not happen. Nonetheless, I know you're acquainted well with Seiji, Disney Tsum Tsum Wiki, and the Reddit Tsum Tsum group so you will not be left in the dark of what's coming up in November. Thank you again to everyone's support. 

Good luck in the event and Lucky Times!!

Happy Tsuming!!