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Christmas 2012
Christmas 2012


December 5, 2012 - January 10, 2013

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 and 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, however the snow that covered the Player's Springfield during the event remained. 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. To date, this is the only instance of the snow remaining after the end of the Christmas Event, except for the Snow Place Like the Woods 2023 Event. The release of the Christmas 2012 Event coincided at the same time as the Level 24 update.

Christmasguide

The Christmas 2012 event guide

Much of the new content included characters in reference to The Simpsons Christmas themed episodes, such as the 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.

During the event, the free daily bonus Mystery Box (discontinued)es were replaced with Santa's Sack. Santa's Sacks gave the player between 10-20 Santa Coins. Starting January 2nd, 2013 players could spend their extra Santa Coins on Mystery Stockings. Mystery Stockings were 50 Santa Coins and contained 1-3 Donuts or Reindeer.

The 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.

The main questline for the event was Christmas.

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[]

Name Cost Cost after Christmas Event Characters unlocked
Mapple Store Santa Coins150 Donuts150 (10 Jan 2013 - 30 Jan 2013) None
Barney's Bowlarama Santa Coins200 Donuts250 Barney Gumble
Try-N-Save Santa Coins450 Donuts70 None
Santa's Village Donuts200 N/A Santa Homer

Characters[]

Name Cost/How To Unlock Cost After Christmas Event Character Collection
Barney Gumble Barney's Bowlarama Barney's Bowlarama Barflies
Purple Funzo Santa Coins750 Donuts50 Funzos
Pink Funzo Santa Coins1000 Donuts70 Funzos
Santa's Little Helper Santa Coins1500 Donuts150 Animals and Pets
Blue Funzo Donuts50 Donuts50 Funzos

Costumes[]

Name How To Unlock
Santa Homer Santa's Village

Decorations[]

Name Cost Cost After Christmas Event
Lamp Post Cash385

Cash385

Reindeer Donuts20 Not available
Holiday Tree Donuts75 Not available

Façades[]

Name Cost/How To Unlock Bonus During Event
Christmas Blue House Santa Coins50 Santa Coins5 per 24h
Christmas Brown House Santa Coins50 Santa Coins5 per 24h
Christmas Cletus's Farm Santa Coins50 Santa Coins5 per 24h
Christmas Flanders Home Santa Coins50 Santa Coins5 per 24h
Christmas Frink's Lab Santa Coins50 Santa Coins5 per 24h
Christmas Krabappel Apartment Santa Coins50 Santa Coins5 per 24h
Christmas Muntz House Santa Coins50 Santa Coins5 per 24h
Christmas Orange House Santa Coins50 Santa Coins5 per 24h
Christmas Pink House Santa Coins50 Santa Coins5 per 24h
Christmas Purple House Santa Coins50 Santa Coins5 per 24h
Christmas Simpsons Home Santa Coins50 Santa Coins5 per 24h
Christmas Van Houten Home Santa Coins50 Santa Coins5 per 24h
Christmas Volcano Lair Santa Coins50 Santa Coins5 per 24h
Christmas White House Santa Coins50 Santa Coins5 per 24h
Christmas Willie's Shack Santa Coins50 Santa Coins5 per 24h

Mystery Stockings[]

Starting January 2, 2013 players could spend their extra Santa Coins on Mystery Stockings. Mystery Stockings were 50 Santa Coins and contained 1-3 Donuts or Reindeer.

Character Dialogue
Homer Icon "I can't wait till the holidays are over and I can eat all our leftover Santa coins...just like I did with the Halloween candy."
Lisa Icon "But not all those coins are made of chocolate. Some of them are made of coin."
Homer Icon "Doesn't matter. I'm still going to eat them."
Lisa Icon "How about if instead we use them to buy Mystery Stockings, which contain all sorts of goodies."
Homer Icon "And then I can eat those? Lisa, you're a genius!"
Use surplus Santa Coins to buy Mystery Stockings before the Holiday Event ends on January 10th.
 
— In Game Message


Holiday Donut Sale[]

Holiday Donuts

The "25% More Donuts" offer lasted between December 23, 2012-December 27/28, 2012. The offer was added to the game in an update on December 23, 2012.

Name Bonus Total
Boatload of 2400 Donuts Donuts600 Donuts3000
Store Full of 900 Donuts Donuts225 Donuts1125
Truckload of 300 Donuts Donuts75 Donuts375
Tray of 132 Donuts Donuts33 Donuts165
Stack of 60 Donuts Donuts15 Donuts75
Dozen Donuts Donuts3 Donuts15
Character Dialogue
Gil Icon "Ho-ho-ho boy. Have I got a Christmas miracle for you! To celebrate the season, all donut packages come with 25% more donuts! Which means a dozen is now 15. 50 is the new 40! And that tray of 132 donuts is now... well, Ol Gil's not that good at math. If he was, he wouldn't have to be standing out here in the cold hawking donuts. He's also not that good at grammar, always calling himself he instead of I..."
Homer Icon "Fine, I'll look at the store. Just shut up already!"
Gil Icon "Bless you, fat sir."

Trailers[]

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The Simpsons Tapped Out Winter Update

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