Toy Day 2017

Today is Christmas Eve (Toy Day), and I was finally able to complete my Santa outfit. Outside, I spotted the northern lights for the first time this season. It’s definitely looking festive around town!

Northern lights and festive lights on trees in Forest in ACNL.

I found Jingle the black-nosed reindeer near the town tree. He gave me the Santa bag, which had all of my villagers’ Toy Day presents inside.

Jingle: Happy holidays!

I then stopped to take this picture of Jingle, my town tree, the northern lights, and my modern clock.

Jingle stands near the modern clock while the northern lights appear in the sky overhead.

I then started going around town to hand out everyone’s gifts. My first stop was Bob’s house.

Bob: Santa! I'm glad you came back, daddy! So, ummm...

It’s nice to see my villagers so happy when I give them a gift. 🙂

Boots: Happy holiday hamstring! it's a present! I'm gonna open it!

Boots’ gift was a lotus lamp, and of course he put it in the same spot where he always puts his lamps. 😛

A lotus lamp in Boots' house in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

Since I had all of my clues, I was able to successfully get everyone’s gifts correctly. Here’s the list of what each villager wanted and what I gave them.

  • Agent S: gray lamp – mini lamp
  • Aurora: aqua umbrella – blue dot parasol
  • Big Top: black doll – lucky black cat
  • Bob: beige musical instrument – timpano drum
  • Boots: a pink lamp – lotus lamp
  • Hornsby: red plant – poinsettia
  • Molly: gray carpet – modern tile
  • Rolf: pink umbrella – candy umbrella
  • Vivian: pink doll – wobbelina

So I returned to Jingle and told him I was done. He thanked me for the help, and he then gave me a festive wreath for my help.

Jingle: Let's see... Yup, yup! You've indeed delivered everything perfectly, kid!

My recent dream visitors have been Connor from Starloft and Jack from Newlea. Thanks for stopping by, and have a very Merry Christmas! If you’re getting a new copy of New Leaf for Christmas (either for the first time or for a 2nd/3rd/4th town), remember to use the face guide to start out your character right!

Happy Holidays! 🙂

Preparing for Toy Day

I’ve been checking out the campsite for igloos, and on Sunday, Baabara was inside. I already have her in my GameCube and Wild World towns, and that’s more than enough for me. A person can only handle so much Baabara.

Baabara: I'm just visiting Forest. But who knows? This place is so beautiful, I just might move here.
OVER MY DEAD BODY!

I purposely answered one of Gulliver’s questions wrong recently. If you’re wondering why, it’s because I wanted to see how much the chocolate coin sells for. It’s information I wanted to include on my new Gulliver Guide. Give it a look when you have Gulliver in town and don’t know the answer to his question! (Or if you just want to see what all of his items look like).

Reese: Ooh, a chocolate coin! I can take that item off your hands for 25 bells, if that's OK?
Only 25 bells? BUT IT’S CHOCOLATE!

Big Top sniffed out a fossil in my pockets, and he offered to buy it off me for 1,400 bells. I agreed to the deal.

Big Top: Would you ever consider selling your dinosaur egg to me? Up my nose?
How about I just hand it to you instead?

I’ve been continuing to collect Toy Day hints, and I now have all but two of them. So I should be able to complete the event without much trouble…unless an unexpected 10th villager moves in before then and throws me off.

As for Vivian, she made it clear that she will not be happy if she gets the wrong gift. 😛

Vivian: If I don't get what I want for Toy Day this year...I WILL BE DISPLEASED.

I remembered that I need something else for Toy Day–the Santa outfit! I know the shops should have all the items on Toy Day itself, but I wanted to prepare ahead of time, if possible. I’d be out of luck if I played after the shops were closed! But the only part of the outfit the shops had today was the beard. At least the beard will remind me to look for the other pieces. 😛

Jeff wears a Santa beard in Able Sisters in ACNL.

My recent dream visitors have been Yoshi from Actor, Mayounna from Amy Rose, Pinky from Catville, Maleah from Kirikun, and Lolo from Lolland. Thanks for stopping by!

A message on the bulletin board informed me that tomorrow is the winter solstice, the longest night of the year. In New Leaf, it stays dark the entire day! I don’t plan on blogging tomorrow, but I will likely blog on Sunday (Toy Day aka Christmas Eve). So I’ll see you then! In the meantime, I’ll be posting a new Animal Crossing: City Folk video on my Youtube channel tomorrow.

‘Tis the Season

Once the snow started falling, I noticed that Harvey put on a St. Patrick’s Day green hat. 😛

Harvey wearing a green hat at the campground.

Big Top won last weekend’s fishing tournament, while Hornbsy was 2nd and Aurora was 3rd.

Snow covered the ground as of December 11th, and just today, festive lights started appearing on some cedar trees. That motivated me to get my frosty ice brick path out of (design) storage.

Festive Christmas lights on two cedar trees in Forest.

Even though I didn’t fully decorate my house for the season, I at least put up my white festive tree in the main room of my house.

Sleeping near my white festive tree in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

My villagers have been giving me more Toy Day hints, but I don’t have all of them yet. Here’s what I know so far about what the animals want:

  • Agent S: something gray
  • Aurora: an umbrella
  • Big Top: a black doll
  • Boots: a pink lamp
  • Hornsby: a red plant
  • Molly: carpet
  • Rolf: a pink umbrella
  • Vivian: something pink

Vivian: Oh! I almost forgot. What I really want from Jingle this year is a pink present.

I’m not even sure if I’m going to play on Christmas Eve. But if I have most or all of my hints by then, I may play since it generally doesn’t take too long when you know what everyone wants.

Rolf told me that he wanted to move away…on December 25th! On Christmas Day? No way, tiger. You’re stuck here in Forest, like it or not.

Rolf: The 25th of this month sounds as good a day as any to leave!

Vivian asked to visit my house, and I stupidly let her come over. Even though she repeatedly said she would only visit for a minute, she hung around for at least 20 minutes. Why did I ever agree to this?

Vivian: Thanks for inviting me inside. I'll only be a minute--don't break out the hot cider or anything.

Not only that, but in my room full of monster masks, she said the room was SO me! Excuse me?! You’re the one that belongs in here, werewolf girl!

Vivian: Muffin, this room is SO you!

My recent dream visitors have been Oscar from Nugville, Alfredo from Smithson, Jake from Poketown, JenJen from Tall Oak, Abriana from MistWood, and Xavier from Quigley. Thank you all for visiting, and have a good weekend! 🙂