INTRO
Okay, so you’re probably wondering; why the hell does the Fireworks show need a guide? Well, it doesn’t as much as other parts of the game, but I have some advice for playing safe and sane with gorging on fortune cookies all night. Oh, and fireworks, I guess.
Fireworks occur every other Sunday in August. This year, that means Today on the 4th, and on the 18th. EDIT: its every Sunday in August, actually. I suggest you do today by yourself and another sunday with friends, for reasons that will become clear…
DURING THE DAY
Before the show starts, head to the plaza to see Isabelle. You’ll notice Redd, but he wont be doing anything until tonight. Trust me, you’ll get your fill of him then. As for Isabelle, she’s preparing the fireworks, and if you show her designs, you can make them appear as one of the fireworks! I don’t know if there’s a limit other than the 10 your character can hold (so a potential 40 with 4 human villagers?), but not every design is going to look good; Reggie’s face didn’t really seem to be easy to make out, sadly.
Also, make sure your pockets are empty for tonight. You’ll need all the space you can.
DURING THE NIGHT
At 7 o’clock, the fireworks get set off. Talk to Isabelle again, and you’ll get a random Bopper, special glowing antennae-like hats that cannot be reordered from the catalog. Chat to her again after that, and she’ll give you some fireworks. You can get another one every time you use up your last one, but make sure you have a place to throw the used fireworks away!
But in reality, Fireworks day isn’t about sparkling lights or burning your friends. Oh no, it’s about one thing and one thing only.
REDD’S GOODS
This is what you will be doing all night.
Redd is selling really cheap fortune cookies that provide tickets to exchange for items! You can get one of several items you can only obtain during this event, depending on the ticket:
Miniature Car - Sparkle
Lovely Phone - Flash
Boxed Figurine - Bang
Love Tester - Pow
Ten Billion Barrel - Whiz
Ultra Hand - Crackle
Ultra Machine - Pop
Ultra Scope - Kaboom
The Miniature Car, a reoccurring item in the series, is based off Gracie’s car in the first game. She gets a different car in the next game, and it’s gone by the third, but the Miniature Car item still returns. The Boxed Figurine can be converted from its girly appearance to a Robot one, but it should be noted that the doll is the only item in the game that looks like a human, but fits what the human characters look like, as all the others are statues either based on real art, or at the least, real human beings. Odd…
The Ten Billion Barrel, Love Tester, and Ultra items are all Nintendo toys! Much like the Card Series, its a throwback to before Nintendo started making video games. You may recognize the Ultra Hand and Machine from the WarioWare series, and the Ultra Hand makes a few other cameos in Nintendo games as well, sometimes with Wario since Gunpei Yokoi made both many toys for Nintendo, as well as Wario. The Love Tester also shows up in Pikmin 2 as the Prototype Detector.
The Lovely Phone is easily the most notable of the items, because it tells fortunes! For FREE! Just place it in your house (or the Museum if its too gaudy for you), and after a few seconds, you get a fortune and what item to wear/avoid to help your luck for the day! Its both free and faster than Katrina, so the only real use for her at this point are her two exclusive hats, which you can reorder if you cataloged them anyway.
Now, here’s where things get messy…
If you want all 8 items, do it by yourself. Keep your gates closed, hope you have a house nearby with a garbage/trash disposing furniture item, and just devour fortune cookies all night. If you don’t, this ensues:
Every single one of you will be fighting to talk to read to buy fortune cookies, and then AGAIN to exchange them for prizes, and the dialog is so long, you’ll all just be pushing and shoving and calling each other obscenities just to get your own chance to spend about 5 minutes talking to read about all 16 empty inventory slots being filled with cookies.
This is also where the garbage can comes into play. Throw all the Dud tickets in there, as they only give sparklers, roman candles and the like. You don’t need those if all you’re going for is furniture items, and the floor is gonna be covered in Dud tickets when all this is over, so make sure there’s a house nearby with a trash disposal something. Also keep note of which tickets provide what (as I listed up above) and save yourself some time on not getting furniture you need by just chucking the tickets for them too.
Even without your friends, this will take quite some time. Like I said, this is the REAL main event. The fireworks show is just the backdrop for your amazing fortune cookie speed eating contest.
But hey, you’re gonna get some cool items at the end of this! The lovely phone and the Nintendo toys are especially notable, since the former serves a purpose greater than most other furniture, and the latter being a necessity for any Nintendo collections. Of course, let’s not try ignoring the fireworks too much! It’s what this event is named after, y’know! That’s it for the guide, but remember to play safe and sane with… ah hell, we know you wont.
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Cool info!
