Christmas 2012 Event

The Christmas 2012 Event was the second major event to take place in The Simpsons: Tapped Out and the first Christmas Event. It was initially released to players on December 5, 2012. It included new limited time content and added the ability to collect the limited time currency, santa coins, to purchase buildings and decorations. The event ended on January 10, 2013, yet the snow that covered the Player's Springfield at the start of the event stayed. It subsequently disappeared upon the release of the Valentine's Day 2013 Event on January 30, 2013, twenty days after the end of the Christmas Event.



Some of the new content included characters in reference to The Simpsons Christmas themed episodes, such as Funzos. With the new currency of Santa Coins, Players could purchase new Christmas decorated façades for houses and other buildings. New decorated building façades were priced at fifty Santa Coins each, and when a building was using one of them, it would produce five Santa Coins every 24 hours and not its regular payout. Some of the other new features and quests added in the event can be found below.

The Christmas Event was also one of the rare updates that Electronic Arts announced before its official release. On December 3, 2012, they made a post on Facebook saying that a big update was coming soon with some holiday magic, obviously hinting to Christmas. Despite announcing the event beforehand, it was not until the next day, December 4, 2012, that they said the update would be coming on December 5. It is currently the first of two Christmas Events, the second being the Christmas 2013 Event, which was released just over a year later.

New content
Below is a list of all the new content included in the original Christmas Event released on December 5, 2012. Please note that after the event, some of the items listed are no longer available and the rest are now only purchasable using donuts.

Buildings
Note: The Mapple store turned premium from 10th January 2013 until the beginning of the Valentine's Day 2013 Event (30th January 2013) when it was removed from the store

Façades
The following buildings had holiday façades costing 50, and generated  5 every 24 hours per house type in addition to the building's standard income. Buying these were required to complete the Christmas (quest chain).
 * Simpsons Home
 * Flanders Home
 * Brown House
 * Cletus's Farm
 * Purple House
 * Blue House
 * Van Houten House
 * Pink House
 * White House
 * Willie's Shack
 * Orange House
 * Muntz House
 * Krabappel Apartment
 * Frink's Lab
 * Volcano Lair