Hey there, Investigators!
Well just look who FINALLY made it into our lil games. I don’t know about you but this is one I’ve been looking forward to for a while! I’m just curious who’s been running the mini-mart in the meantime??
With Episode 2 of The Hauntening event, we also get some New Characters. Characters like the manager of the Quahog Mini-Mart, Carl!
I’m Carl, yes I’m the real Carl, all you other Carls are just imitating…
Let’s take a look at what Carl can do in our silly lil games.
Carl is a Character added during the 2nd Episode of The Hauntening in 2016. As with (almost) all Characters in TQFS in order to unlock him you’ll have to collect lots of STUFF.
First though, you had to get the Pink Car in the Event Area repaired so you could get him out. It costs $1000 & is Instant Unlock.
With him now visible in front of the Pink Car, you can tap on the Lock Icon to see just what is required to bring him into your game.
Requires
55 Alien Bobbleheads (Always): Clear Buggy Alien
10 Losing Lottery Tickets (Common): Herbert Freeze Popsicles OR Legitimate Business
15 Trivia Questions (Uncommon): Bruce Make Bathtub Gin OR Quagmire Enjoy Carrots OR Alien Autopsy Lab
4 Popcorn (Rare): Probe Plant
4 Alf DVDs (Rare): Clear Spacemen
Once you had all his Requirements checked off, the Unlock Icon appeared over his head. Tapping on it brought him into your game as a Character.
He does come with a Questline, Speak to the Manager, more on it in a later post.
Carl does come with a complete set of Tasks! Tasks that will help you earn $$$ & XP. He also has a task to help you clear Spacemen!
Let’s take a look at some of Carl’s Tasks:
| Task | Time | Earns | Location | Level |
| Clear Spaceman | 3hrs | 25 20 |
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| Fight Like a Movie Hero | 4hrs | 5030 |
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| Try On Movie Masks | 6hrs | 6545 |
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| Manage Mini Marts | 8hrs | 8050 |
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| Pump Butter on Popcorn | 10hrs | 9059 |
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| Attend Night School | 12hrs | 10065 |
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| Read Tabloids | 1day | 150100 |
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**Note: Within an Event, tasks may change and vary as the Phases come and go. So some of these tasks will be temporary. Others may be one time use. Some will stick around even after the Event. We won’t know until the Event Ends.
IS HE VOICED?
He is not currently voiced.
And there you have it, the complete breakdown for Quahog’s number 1 movie fan… Carl!
What do you think of Carl? Have you unlocked him? If so, what do you think of his tasks? Have a favorite? If not, how close are you? Let us know!
~Lotty
Family Guy Addicts 
Another one in the “no way in heck am I getting Carl completed” camp. Largely, I think, due to drop rate and the overlap with James Woods. For me it has been the EMF to Aliens ratio – I think I have only had two searches actually find aliens. That means little to no radiation (bugs don’t drop well) and therefore little to no keys since all of the ectoplasm I have accumulated is currently pretty much worthless. Oh well – can only do what I can do, I guess. Just a little bit frustrating.
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Carl might be possible for me. At 35 bobble heads I’ve just got Herbert switched over to sprays having got the legitimate business with 1 ticket needed.
What annoys me is that after struggling with missing aliens and bad drops, by the time I earn “prizes” on the second row they are usually 90% worthless as I have earned the items through game play.
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is he timed
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Carl is part of Case 1 so he is expected to leave when that ends tomorrow.
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Unlocked the popcorn building this am and have tried every 2 hours and have zero popcorn. So far I have had 7 tries and nothing. Any suggestions on what to try?
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Ouch that sucks. Sometimes you can try restarting your device/clearing cache I think. The good news is it drops 2 at a time and as you can collect often I hope you get them before the case closes!
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By restarting/clearing do you mean just shut my iPad off and restart or is there something else? At this point I’ll try anything as we started today just like yesterday’s luck.
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You can’t clear Family Guy cache on an IOS device without completing removing the game, but you could try shutting down iPad and restarting, occasionally this does help.
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Thanks, I contacted in game support and they said they cleared my cache for me. It must have helped as drops seem much better and I was able to complete carl.
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That’s great Dan, you can sit back and relax until the next case.
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I like Carl, I’m sad I am nowhere near getting him, and worse I don’t really know where I have gone wrong 😦
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Are you struggling with anything particular?
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No spacemen for me 14 times in row. Really nice TC!
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I know an extension was just given for Carl (he has a timer over his head), but the extension runs past the closing of case 1. Can it be confirmed that we will be able to launch case 2 content no matter where we are in the questline for phase 2 of case 1? Carl is needed for one aspect of the questline and there is no way I am getting him even with the extension.
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As far as we have been told the Case 1 main Questlines will leave when the case ends.
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Seems like the items that supposed to be common are dropping like their extra rare
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My drops have improved last 24 hours or so.
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As have mine!! I’m so happy with our little TinyCo😉 Aliens drop more often, the bugs drop radiation more often too!! I almost get 3 out of 4 EMF readers every 6 hours, and craziest thing=when I finally got my popcorn dropping building it dropped the first 2 times I tapped!! 4 popcorns in 4 hours and they were rare?!!? Can’t hate that, still need some bobbleheads but am 43/55 so I feel super confident I’m going to get Carl!! NEVER saw that happening!! ***Happy dance***
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I should have Carl today thanks to the better drop rates. I will join you in that happy dance…
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If Carl is an episode 2 character, why is he under episode 1 time constraints?
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Episodes 1 & 2 are both part of Case 1. Basically Case 1 has 2 parts.
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I need 3 more bobble heads so if I get Carl, the missions that require Carl to do a task, will they be available or gone too.?
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Usually the character questlines will stay, but the main questline will not. We’ll have to find out for sure on Friday though.
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Sadly, Carl doesn’t seem to be within reach by Friday for me, I have all the needed items already with exception of the alien bobble heads that drop from the buggy aliens. I’m at 13/55 needed for those and I don’t anticipate being able to complete it, and being a mostly freemium player who just had to fork over a grand to fix my car I just can’t afford clams to buy him out. And I really like the character Carl so it does sadden me that I won’t be getting him. Drops for bug spray have been really awful with all my available characters trying around the clock for bug spray and averaging one can drop per 3 to 4 tasks for it. Meaning I send them on task 3 to 4 times to get 1 can of spray, not at all the “common” that is advertised. Same goes for my alien ufo building that drops the spray, I’ve had it for 4 days now and gotten one single can of bug spray for it since I’ve gotten it, it’s mostly just a coin building at this point. And my alternate playspace is overrun with buggy aliens. So not like there are a lack on them to spray! At least if each buggy alien dropped multiple bobble heads per spray that would be helpful, or if each can of spray would kill multiple buggy aliens that are in the purple target area that would be much better and most would have a fighting chance of completing by Friday. Just my two cents on game play I’m seeing so far here! It’s the big sticking point of this part 2 on this first case for me for sure! Thanks for all the helpful info Lotty!
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Sorry to hear about your drop rates being rubbish 😦 mine haven’t been too bad this phase and once I got the 33 key building it progressed quite smoothly. Personally I’m struggling with the lotto tickets lol.
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Just an update from me, bug spray seems to be dropping a bit better these past 24 hours, I’ve managed to get up to 18/55 needed alien bobble heads at this point, but I noticed that now whenever I try to spray a buggy alien with it now I’m having issues with my game force closing. And I never ever have issues with that even when everyone else is having that issue. I’ve got a lots on memory and ram, so that’s not it. My regular quahog is practically bare with zero decor and buildings only the needed ones are out and one small street maze in case they drop something we need to bomb again. I sent tiny Co an in gamer message and we shall see what happens. Tried installing the update in the Google play Store but that didn’t help. Did basic troubleshooting. Anyone else having this issue today?
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How much is going on with your Play Field? How many “bad guys” do you have running around? How many Characters on “visual” tasks? Crashing is more than just what your device has stored… it is also what is going on IN the game too. Think of it as this… rush hour traffic… lots of things all cramming into the same spot, there is going to be a lag.
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Are no new characters from now on gonna talk?
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It’s a good question which I’ve been asking myself. If I find anything out will try and confirm. Sometimes the voices have been added later on.
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That is what I wanted to know. My Carl wasn’t voiced. I have the volume down most of the time so didn’t notice James Woods didn’t talk either. Maybe they will have the voices added later.
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when you do these polls and people post comments, does TinyCo ever actually read it? Most people (myself included) play non stop and I just unlocked James Woods last night. The fact that they added a 2nd character to unlock with 2 days left is crazy. And no matter what they say (and i’ve messaged in game) the drop rates are broken. Mort Chris and Herbert are supposed to have common drops for spray cans and I have only gotten 1 out of the last 12 tries. All other item drops are similar. Really hope they extend this event/section as almost all comments on here are that people are WAY behinf
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Yes the information is fed back to TinyCo and has led to changes in the past. I’ve had same issue with Mort and bug spray but other drops improved for me today.
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Yeah, totally feel like they didn’t give enough time to get Carl. Way behind on popcorn and the Bobbleheads. Hope they give us a few more days but not gonna bank on it. Wish we could get them to give us that much!
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It would help if I could get bug spray always (I don’t think I have ever had 4 for 4).
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Only need 16 bobbleheads, so might be OK
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You can do it.
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Nobody is going to get Carl without spending a TON of clams. 55 buggy alien statues, 4 hours per bug spray.
Popcorn is a rare drop from the last building, but only Peter can clear aliens to get the materials to get keys. The pke readers have a 6 hour task to get, and 3/4 of them don’t find aliens. I’ve gone entire days with only one alien discovered.
Carl is very badly thought out.
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I’m 9 Bobbleheads away from getting Carl but I agree he’s been very tough unlock.
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Carl is gonna be a long way 22 bobble heads,9 lotto tickets and yeah 4 popcorn.hope they just add some more days to get Carl.They did replace “have James woods take a nap” by peters 30 sec action in the probing quests part 2.
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I got the popcorn building this morning and I got 2 x 2 drops lol so that was lucky, and some others had similar. Now just to get more Bobbleheads and lotto tickets! 🙂
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I had the double popcorn drop too!! The TinyCo fairy must’ve been working overtime to help on drop rates!!
I am only 12 bobbleheads away and that’s about 95% freemium!! (Hurried a few EMF tasks at the beginning so I could get buildings faster but only using clams made from watching ads). NEVER thought I’d be this close!!!
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Fantastic.
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Seriously just somehow got James woods hope they keep Carl’s mission for at least 4 days more
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