UPDATE BUNNY: You must have Brian unlocked in order to start the Jack-o-Lantern quests. Brian is in District 6. You will not be able to unlock Pink Brian and/or collect candy unless you are past this point.
If you are past that, then look to see where your Jack O Lantern is. Just go to the task bar and tap on Pink Brian quest and open the info. The details will pop up right over the top of where it is. Tall buildings can hide it. I was able to move it to better spot.
Hello There Clammers!
Note: Sorry for the late post on this guys…was working on some back office stuff on the site & didn’t catch this until my husband said something…
In true TinyCo fashion…let’s throw more updates onto of existing updates and do so late at night!
Anyway….we’ve got a little Halloween Preview going on in Quahog right now! (on top of you know trying to get Sexy Stewie, Vinny & Tom Tucker…) Fortunately, this one seems fairly simple…
Basically here’s the deal….
(FYI FROM BUNNY: Peter needs to be free to trigger this. 😉 )
Everyday between now and October 4th (at 12pm PDT)…a bucket of Candy will appear in your Quahog. Tap on that bucket to collect the candy required to unlock….PINK BRIAN!
And honestly that’s it! Pretty simple right? Just make sure you login to your game everyday to collect the bucket/candy you’ll need.
To unlock Pink Brian you’ll need:
3 Kookie Nut Pops
3 Not-a-Finger
4 Sixty-Four Thousand Dollar Bars
One of these colors will ALWAYS fall from the candy buckets….so if you login everyday between now and October 4th you should unlock Brian!
Here are what the 3 Candy Buckets look like.
Kookie Nut Pops Glowing Ghost Bucket
Sixty Thousand Dollar Orange Pumpkin Bucket
Remember you’ll see the giant Jack-O-Lantern in your town..this is NOT where you get the candy. This is basically your game center for the costume.

To find the candy bucket you’ll have to search around your Quahog…it should be close to the street. (mine was outside the Spa):
(FROM BUNNY: Look for the SPARKLIES floating up from it. “OOOOoooh piece of candy….OOOOoooh piece of candy….OOOOoooh piece of candy….OOOOoooh piece of candy….OOOOoooh piece of candy….”)
The bucket is where you’ll get your candy for the day…so make sure you hunt down your bucket and collect the candy so you don’t miss out on Pink Brian!
UPDATE FROM BUNNY: Additional info for the Event.
How Do I get Candy?
1 Candy per day will appear in your Quahog and there will be ONLY 1 candy in your Quahog at a time. That Candy Resets at every day at Noon PDT
If a Candy is available, it will appear randomly in your Quahog after you collect rent from any building. So keep a close eye out for it.
If you do NOT collect the 1 Candy within 12 hours of it dropping in your game, it disappears forever. So make sure you find it and snag it up right away.
When will the Last Candy Spawn?
For now…the final candy will drop in your town between Oct 3 and 4, Noon PDT.
What do YOU think of the little Halloween preview? Did you find your first bucket? Sound off in the comments below, you know we LOVE hearing from you!












This seems too easy. Hmmm? What’s the catch, you sneaky little monkeys?
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Just the beginning… 😉
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Probably that you may get too many of one color and not enough of another, but you can buy a Halloween mystery clam box to get a chance at getting one piece of the color you need.
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Wth!!!! I checked my town and couldn’t find the orange pumpkin even after I just updated my game to the newest update and peter was free and i tried tapping him a bunch but nothing happened and I’m iOS So….. Is any other iOS players having this problem??? Or is it just me?
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Waiting to see, but I am checking to see if iOS issue or if certain District needs open issue.
FYI…it popped up on my iPod Touch
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Do you need to have Brian unlocked because I am in district 6 and wondering if that might be the problem???
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Also I’ve noticed in the FAQs that you can view in the game it talks about pink Brian maybe if I wait till morning the orange pumpkin will appear unless I need Brian.
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I think you do need Brian for this. We’re waiting on confirmation, but I think that’s what the hold up for you is..
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How long after you start the quest does the first bucket appear? I started the quest a few hours ago but I still do not see any candy buckets in my town.
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Right away. As soon as you tapped on the Pumpkin and went through details. Look for sparkles popping up.
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unlike what the post says, peter wasn’t free for me, yet he still started the quest … the pumpkin popped up, but after collecting rent from every building there was no candy bucket at all in my town (i looked through every single building and decoration and still nothing)
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The first go round…it just drops. Once you tap on the pumpkin, go through the info, the bucket o candy will drop somewhere next to the sidewalks in your town. So it is a scavenger hunt to find it. Look for the sparklies coming up from it. Mine was the Black Bat one with candy surrounding it. It lays half on the sidewalk and half on the grass. Bout one square big. If you accidentally tapped it as you were goin around, look for a colored lil piece of candy like in the post or check the pumpkin to see if there is a count of one candy on there already.
It is all about the sidewalks.
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ya i went all over the town looking for it, i couldn’t see any sparkles or anything close to the sidewalks and i have 0 for all three candies atm (even moved around half of my buildings / decorations into a corner so nothing could spawn behind / between them and might just put everything else in my inventory just so i can find these stupid things … so it looks like i’ll start this a day later than everyone else, hopefully it won’t matter
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My boyfriend has the iPhone 5c, and I have the galaxy s5, I got the halloween event. But he hasnt, he’s behind in the game, but that wouldn’t make it not show up. What can I do?
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Is Peter free in his Quahog? He needs to be free to trigger it.
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Yeahh, he is.
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I just realized he hasn’t unlocked district 6 yet, does that make a difference?
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I am not 100% but asked if specific level needed to trigger this. Will update with info when we get it.
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Ohh, and he has Peter free.
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Being asked if i got the candy reminds me of “TRHPS” where Janet screams “i got it! I got it!”
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OOOOoooh piece of candy….OOOOoooh piece of candy….OOOOoooh piece of candy….
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This is so cool! Collected my first candy and cannot wait to collect more! Pink Brian! Yay!
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Do you have to already have Brian unlocked for this to trigger? I’m a new(ish) player, jumped in mid-way through the Comic Con event. I literally JUST unlocked Distrcit 6 & the ability to get Brian, but both my workers are busy, so I can’t even start construction on the location until tomorrow morning. Then, wait for the build, then Brian appears, THEN wait for the Brian Items to accumulate…I don’t want to miss this. Is this Brian-dependent, or is it like Stewie’s Iron Baby costume (which I missed, but at least had opportunity to work towards even without Stewiw unlocked)?
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Peter triggers this event. He needs to be free to do so. Not sure Brian is needed as him n Stewie just talk but will check.
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I have Peter available right now. I haven’t sent him on a job since I saw yout post on this, but I’m not getting the Exclamation Point trigger for him at all.
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Did you check to see if you have an update in your app market? Do You have Stewie and Brian unlocked?
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I’ve left Peter available since I saw your post, but no dice – I’m not getting the event trigger. That’s why I was questioning if you needed Brian unlocked. Maybe it’s an iPhone thing – I see someone else posted they got it on their Android, but her bf didn’t get it on his iPhone….
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I am waiting more details but they are checked out for the night. I am not sure the District/Quest needed to unlock it.
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Got mine!!!
Also, now there are two “the high heel boutique” in the game, with two different designs.
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Getting many reports of that
Looking into it
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Thanks for the information ladies (and gentlemen)! I have this site as one of my favorites and check it constantly. Thanks for all the help!
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I searched my town from top to bottom and couldn’t find any of the Halloween stuff to click to get Pink Brian, and I was really Zoomd In!
I even tried clicking the images in the Brian collection page, but it just told me what time the stuff drops instead of taking me to the items.
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Did you check to see if you tapped it already by mistake? Check your candy count to see if there is a ONE on any color?
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Yup, one of the first things I did, could it have been dropped behind a building?
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If you have a sidewalk behind it, yes. It lands just off to the side of the sidewalk. Half on, half off on the grassy side.
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Nevermind, I found it right behind the “Welcome to Asian Town” Pagoda!
And I’m the guy who was always able to find Waldo in under two minutes! 😉
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Lol. yah yah yah… 😉
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It was the first thing I did, I’ve also moved every single building in town in case it was behind one of them,, I got nothing.
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got the update but peter stuck on quest loop. sent message to support as could not send peter to collect stuff for stewie on his 3 day time limited event and now an new timed event that needs peter to start.
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Did you try to update your device by force closing and restarting it? The patch to resolve the ! stuck should have been fixed.
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yes i did no change, had previous problem with quest loop on what the deuce pt2 that was fixed. but back to you tom pt1 bug has come back
thx
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Saved game so you can uninstall/reinstall?
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Haha all I keep saying to myself is “oooooo…….. Piece of candy. Ooooooo…….piece of cand. Oooooooo piece of candy”. Lol. This should be easy for everyone to get seeing as you have extra days to find only 10 buckets. I have found zooming in and then looking at the roads the easiest way to find the buckets.
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I think we are ALL saying that. Lol. 😉
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I thought it did not drop any bucket until I tapped a building to get the coin and found it was hiding behind it along the pavement.
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THat is AFTER the initial drop. 😉
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After searching and searching, I put almost everything in storage. No candy!
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Look to sidewalks. Follow them. It is small in size. Watch for sparkles. Keep in mind it is a Black Bat Bucket of candy (at least mine was) and sparkles shooting up from it
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Thanks for mentioning the sparkles. I would have never found it otherwise. It was completely covered behind some trees. Now that I know what to look for gimme gimme candy! although being an addict, more sugar is the last thing I need:)
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Welcome. 😉
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Right, okay, I’ll have a Mr. Wiffle bar, a Kooky Nut Pop, some Gyminyms, uh a Zip-Zap, a Choco-Buddy, uh, a Sixty-Four Thousand Dollar Bar, a Not-A-Finger, and a Dawkins Peanut Butter Disk.
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Cannot find the candy bucket anywhere.I’ve looked my Quahog over at least ten times..every single inch.I put it in edit mode so that I can look behind all of the buildings and still nothing.Completely unfair..what to do??
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Did you get the Pumpkin already? Tap on it and trigger the pop ups?
If so, try all the sidewalks. Look for a dark purple almost black pile with sparkles coming out of it. Like ONE square big.
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It won’t show in edit mode I had to destroy my town to find it
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Seems like they made it pretty easy to get pink Brian glad they mad it an easy one for everyone to get not just the older players
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another request for TinyCo…
A way to look *through* buildings (again, like TSTO in edit mode where you can “hide” decorations or buildings) so I CAN FIND THE STUPID THING!
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Lol. That is what I was thinking. Luckily my test town still had just the one spot of sidewalk for the minion maze.
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I got a purple one already… bet it tastes like “not-a-finger”, ewwww!
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Bwahahahaha
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I was super confused because the game decided to hide the pot of candy behind the Police Station. The only reason that I noticed it was the column of sparkles that looked like they were coming from the building.
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The game crashes immediately when I select the ! on Peter (or after about a minute of playing). Not impressed when it just let me buy clams to get Rupert and then it won’t let me play.
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DO me a favor. That should be fixed by now. Try a force close and restart your device. Let me know if that works.
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I don’t have the pumpkin or a candy bucket yet. I did get the update for tom tucker and sexy stewie. I tried closing out and getting back in but it’s still not there ??
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Peter triggers it, so make sure he is free. You tap on him and then Stewie and Brian start talking.
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Wonder if there’s gonna be 5 blues and then 5 purples. Then 4 reds. Y’all know what I’m talking about getting more items than needed 😛👺
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LOL
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Thanks for the post! I would never have found the bucket without your picture
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🙂
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I download the update , but no jack-o-lantern , Halloween notification , or candy bucket I’m only in Pirate’s Cove working on Long John Peter does that effect anything ? But yes any help on my issue
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Peter does trigger it. So he needs to be free.
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OK lol my peter is on a 20hr task
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OH…then you may miss the first day drop. No worries. Just hit it again tomorrow at noon PDT
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all i see is an orange pumpkin that shows your progress i havnt found any candy anywhere. i didnt get the update till 815 pm Pacific time do i need to wait till tomorrow? . sorry im just a little confused
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No. If you tap on the Pumpkin and get the details, you will then have the candy drop in randomly into your town. Now keep in mind it is NOT just a piece. It is a dark pile of black and candy (a bat candy bucket) with sparkles coming up out of it. It will be on the sidewalk.
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So are buckets of a certain candy going to spawn even if you’ve already collected all of that certain certain candy?
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It looks to keep going til the 3-4th
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I think he specifically means is it possible to miss pink brian even catching every candy every day by ending up with 7 each of two candies and only 2 of the final one.
Given that this seems to to be based on the harpoon/jello shot quest, I would have to guess that the answer is yes.
if the catch was only getting them all, they would probably have only given us 11 or 12 days. Cause even people who only play once a day can still get the daily candy.
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I knew what he meant. As was saying it keeps dropping til end date…so possible to get more.
Waiting verification, but that’s how I see it. Keep going til you get pink Brian. To me…I think they want EVERYONE to get Brian and are making it a good chance if you tap daily
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Log in once a day and find a bucket, what could go wrong with that? Im sure we will find out. Its a pretty cool way to unlock a costume its like wheres waldo but with candy. love it.
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I haven’t found my bucket.. i searched and searched and searched again and still nothing
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If you tap on the Pumpkin and get the details, you will then have the candy drop in randomly into your town. Now keep in mind it is NOT just a piece. It is a dark pile of black and candy (a bat candy bucket) with sparkles coming up out of it. It will be on the sidewalk.
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So there should be ONLY ONE bucket filled of candy everyday?
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Correct. If you take a look at the post, the set time it drops is listed.
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Is it possible for my buildings that overlap my streets be covering up the bucket? My timer is at 15 days 19 hours…. Thanks!
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Went back into my game and yes, it was behind a building… but by zooming in I was able to see the “sparkles”…
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Possibly. Just look for sparkles.
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Awsome love it! That is what makes this game so great. Constantly giving you something to keep busy. I don’t mind so many different things going on at once so long as I don’t have to make an either/or choice. I think it makes it better. That way it doesn’t get so monotonous. Just a few characters doing the same task repeatedly gets boring. I wanna play cards not slots. It just shows the kind of creative geniuses behind this game. Thank you and have fun.
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Does this mean that there is only 16 more days until the Halloween. Because if that is the case, then that would be great because I am kind of bored of district 7.
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Finally found my piece of candy (ohhh, piece of candy….), was hidden behind my Q Hotel. Just to check, it says that the candy appears at noon PDT, am I right that in UK time that’s at 8pm?
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I believe that translates to 10 GMT. So whatever that is to you.
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Very cool and easy! I love it.
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Woohoo! But I’m having a hard time finding my bucket…
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If you tap on the Pumpkin and get the details, you will then have the candy drop in randomly into your town. Now keep in mind it is NOT just a piece. It is a dark pile of black and candy (a bat candy bucket) with sparkles coming up out of it. It will be on the sidewalk.
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I found my candy however it did not look like the pic from above there was just a very light square sparkling on my road. I missed it the first couple times. I had to zoom in and slowly go down every road but I found it 😀
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Hmmmm glitch? Mine looked very much like a Black Candy BAT bucket surrounded by purple pieces and sparkles.
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I think so
as long as I can find them I can’t complain. Just wanted people to be aware of any possible problems there are
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We appreciate it. We like to keep an eye out for any trending glitches that impact game play. So thank you. 😉
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There are three different buckets. When you click the pumpkin then click on one if the three candies to see what tasks earn them you’ll see what the basket looks like. It could be any one of the three
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Correct. So far most everyone that has reported and in ALL the test games…it was the black bat one.
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Also are the buckets pretty big in size? Like same size as the pumpkin thing?
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Nope. Very small. Like one square. Black Bat bucket surrounded by candy and sparkles coming up from it. Will be by the sidewalk.
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I have a bug….
The ! never leaves Peter…
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The looped quest issue (with the ! over their heads) should now be fixed for all players. If you are still seeing it, you may need to force quit and restart 🙂
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I even deleted the game and installed it again….
I think it will be OK tomorrow….
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I have a similar bug, but my ! doesn’t leave Carter. Super obnoxious, but I guess not really a huge deal.
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That should be fixed by now. Please try to force close and restart your device.
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WHAT?!! U got a husband? Now that just suck.
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Hey I just got this update but I can’t find my candy basket, there is one spawned, right? I think I’m already gone nuts.
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If you tap on the Pumpkin and get the details, you will then have the candy drop in randomly into your town. Now keep in mind it is NOT just a piece. It is a dark pile of black and candy (a black bat candy bucket) with sparkles coming up out of it. It will be on the sidewalk.
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Believe it or not I’m actually very happy with this Halloween preview! It seems simple enough. Just log in once a day, get the bucket of candy that shows up, and within a certain amount of days you’ll have a nice Pink Brian costume in your town! Even players who aren’t on all the time could accomplish it which I think is VERY fair. Can’t wait to unlock. 🙂
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Seems pretty cut n dry. I like. 😉
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Are we guaranteed to have all the required candy types drop in our town? I would hate to have say 10 purple candies drop and only 2 orange candies.
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I do not know what drops on what day, but the odds look pretty good in our favor as long as you go in and collect the candy til Oct 3-4
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You guys * hahha
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Any word on what time the candy will drop? Like 24 hours after you collect your piece for the day or anytime between 12am and 1159pm or every morning?
I feel like I’ll be searching around my quahog constantly all day until I find the candy.
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No word on time change…we’ll see tomorrow. My guess is it’ll change at 7pm PDT daily…
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Eventually found the first bucket, but it took me a bit. I do wish they would be a little more explicit in their directions, as I was rather confused until I missed a cow and tapped the bucket on accident.
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For me was hidden beyond Q Hotel. I saw it very easy because sparkles.
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A cow? Hah. That was so long ago for my Quahog I’m surprised there isn’t a Ken Burns documentary about it already! 😆
P.S. Have yet to find my bucket 😦
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Keep looking all around. They can hide behind a building if there is a sidewalk there.
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Ooh a candy! 🙂
Thanks, Bunny: I finally found it! Purple and half hidden behind the steeple of the Founding Father!

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NICE!
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Yup I found my pocket and clicked on it so we only get one piece per day so is this set up to guarantee that we get pink Brian as long as we click the bucket daily?
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It would seem so…16 days to do it. But you never know…
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Except if the drops are random! But TinyCO would never do that! 🙂
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If you look at the post. There is a set time it drops each day. 😉
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this is awesome i just hope we dont get the candy buckets at random so that i would end up with say 6 blue and 8 red
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Yayyyyyy!!! Lollol guys are amazing!!
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