My Thoughts on the Toy Day Event (SPOLIER WARNING)

[TheSillyPuppy]

Personally, I appreciate that the event was short and sweet. ^_^

I think the one thing that got overlooked was that Nook's Cranny isn't guaranteed to sell the red wrapping paper and cardboard boxes on the day of the event.

 

[DragonLatios]

Now i just need red Rapping Paper and i hope it in my shop tomorew

 

[Hsn97]

I just finished the Toy Day event. Not gonna lie it was pretty underwhelming for me and another example as to why NH is a pretty rubbish game. At this point I’m not even sure why I keep playing and hoping it’ll get better....

Anyway, the entire event took me about 15mins to do. It was pretty similar to the NL version only simpler because you didn’t have to figure out which presents went to who. You just talked to your villagers with a sack in your hand.

I’m also pretty peeved at the rewards. I honestly liked the sleigh, it was the best part of the entire event. But the pile of gifts DIY is pointless. It’s an item that’s used to decorate during the festive season - which is now nearly over. Yet it requires ingredients that I’d imagine most players don’t have on hand unless the RNG was kind to them. I mean sodding red wrapping paper?! That could take ages to pop up in Nooks.

So now not only do I not have a Christmas tree for Christmas, I also don’t have a pile of gifts. Compare this to NL where I had an entire room decked out in Christmas furniture and a Christmas tree in every room of my fully upgraded house. In my entire house in NH I have just 3 Christmas decorations.

and people wonder why I say this game is garbage.

 

[-Lumi-]

I'm a little bit bummed about what we got.

I wish I had saved the event for tonight, with how short it is, but that was a me problem getting too excited and jumping right in haha. I guess I figured that since we were able to start the event early it would be a longer one, like how Turkey Day was sort of a scavenger hunt so it took a little longer to finish? I guess I was expecting them to force the event to take place later, like with Halloween, if it was going to be so short. Although having it be available all day is easier/more flexible for people who have proper Christmas plans!

I do feel like Toy Day was the most lackluster event so far and that makes me sad because Christmas is my favourite, lol. It was over fairly quick and I feel like we didn't really get anything from Jingle? Stockings (which i know are supposed to have a surprise tonight or tomorrow but still), Sleigh, Wrapping Paper, and the Gift Pile. A Gift Pile I couldn't even craft today because my Nooks isn't selling red wrapping paper, which I feel like was an oversight. Luckily I'd gotten the DIY from here last week so I knew to buy red wrapping paper when I saw it a few days ago, but still. If Jingle is going to give us holiday DIYs we should have all the materials to craft them available to us. I was also hoping we'd at least be able to keep the gift sack but he took that back

I dunno, maybe that's around the same amount of items but I felt like we got more from other events? I think it just bothers me more because getting Festive items via balloons was really tricky, I only managed to get a festive rug. :/ So I was hoping we'd get a couple more cool decorations from Jingle or something. We didn't get a wand or any garland and that really bums me out! I saw the cute garland hanging up at townhall and was looking forward to crafting some for my living room. I was also hoping that the presents a few villagers gave back to me would be their pictures but instead they were the toys that had been available all month long...? It would've been a nice touch to see what gifts each villager got from Jingle, too!

Seeing the villagers in Christmas hats was really cute though (I wish Sable & Blathers got hats too, though!) and the special music today is adorable. It's not a horrible event by any means, it just feels like it's missing that special touch? I feel like a lot of the events this year have been that way, though. Just missing a little something. Oh well.

 

[Etown20]

I thought the Jingle part was about average, but I enjoyed exchanging my own gifts with the villagers - I'm glad they included special dialogue for that. I'm glad there wasn't a way to mess up.

I wish there would have been something going on at the plaza like Halloween and Turkey Day. Most of my villagers were inside and the event just felt a little subdued compared to the other holidays.

 

[Insulaire]

I have some xtra red wrapping paper, I can drop off a set of 3 sheets (enough for one DIY) on a few islands for free (trying to increase my Dodo visitor rewards, so offer only good if I can come to you real quick). I have some xtra cardboard boxes too if you need one as well. Just message me or quote this post

 

[Sheep Villager]

I have mixed feelings about the event. On one hand I understand why they would want to keep it short, but on another this is the most hollow an event has felt for me. It feels incredibly strange that Turkey Day felt more complete than Toy Day.

I can't help but wonder if they ran out of time for Toy Day due to how short the intervals between Halloween, Turkey Day and Toy Day are.
+ the pandemic obviously.

I also wonder if the initial negative reaction people had to Bunny Day is now starting to truly show in that Nintendo doesn't feel comfortable with longer events. But then again Turkey Day was decently lengthy albeit that time was padded by RNG for fishing.

Going to close this post off with things I enjoyed with the event as I didn't hate everything about it. I would rate the event a 4.5/10.

Spoiler: Good things!

-Music was very cute
-For someone who doesn't do online trading, getting new color variations of the toys as gifts made me very happy.
-Villager dialog was cute
-The presents the villagers get don't potentially ruin their house interiors.

 

[Sara?]

I have mixed feelings about the event. On one hand I understand why they would want to keep it short, but on another this is the most hollow an event has felt for me. It feels incredibly strange that Turkey Day felt more complete than Toy Day.

I can't help but wonder if they ran out of time for Toy Day due to how short the intervals between Halloween, Turkey Day and Toy Day are.
+ the pandemic obviously.

I also wonder if the initial negative reaction people had to Bunny Day is now starting to truly show in that Nintendo doesn't feel comfortable with longer events. But then again Turkey Day was decently lengthy albeit that time was padded by RNG for fishing.

Going to close this post off with things I enjoyed with the event as I didn't hate everything about it. I would rate the event a 4.5/10.

Spoiler: Good things!

-Music was very cute
-For someone who doesn't do online trading, getting new color variations of the toys as gifts made me very happy.
-Villager dialog was cute
-The presents the villagers get don't potentially ruin their house interiors.

Completely agree with what you have said and with how toy day made you fell!

 

[maria110]

Now i just need red Rapping Paper and i hope it in my shop tomorew

I ended up getting some red wrapping paper from a villager. It was by accident. After distributing all the gifts from the magic bag and talking to Jingle to wrap up, I went up to a villager and they suggested doing a gift exchange. I thought I still had some gifts in my pockets but I didn't have anything wrapped. Since nothing was wrapped, I couldn't give them anything and had to back out of the exchange. The villager, Genji, said something like, "Nothing wrapped? You have to have wrapping paper! Here take some." (Something like that.) Then he handed me 3 red wrapping paper. I went to the store and bought some other color of wrapping paper and wrapped villager gifts in that, keeping the red to make a gift pile.

I think this is an unfortunate way to get red wrapping paper because you have to fail at having a wrapped gift ready for your villager(s). But overall, I thought Toy Day was a cute event. The special sleigh is beautiful!

 

[sleepydreepy]

I just did the event and I agree it was underwhelming. My main complaint though is again like the Thanksgiving event, I really don't like getting holiday decorations on the same day as the holiday!! I did the Thanksgiving event around 4pm or something and could only enjoy the Thanksgiving set for an hour or so before I put the game down for the day and Thanksgiving was over. I really wish they hadn't time locked the event so I could have enjoyed the Thanksgiving and now Toy Day decorations for at least several days beforehand.

 

[Kuroh]

I get some people might be disappointed in the event but where did Nintendo act like it would be the best one of the year? Easter, Wedding and Turkey Day were all also time locked, the only one that wasn’t was Halloween.

Turkey and Toy Day were the first events that had time traveling patched and even had an official statement from Nintendo as to why they did it.

Nintendo patching time traveling on Toy Day to (quote) "prevent spoilers", insinuated that they had anything that was even spoiler-worthy to begin with. To wait weeks for an event that takes 9 minutes to complete and doesn't have anything surprising (like they had implied) was disappointing in my opinion. As for the biggest event of the year, I would say Toy Day was the event that most players looked forward to the most, so you would think Nintendo would have done more for it.

 

[duckykate]

i feel guilty being such a bitter biscuit about it but this event was soo boring ;-; i miss new leaf more and more every day

 

[moonchu]

perhaps a bit of an unpopular opinion, but i'm glad the event was short and you could extend it by gifting your villagers your own gifts and exchanging - i thought that that was cute. i felt the halloween event to be a bit drawn out and repetitive tbh, so maybe they could find something in the middle.

i will agree that i wish the decor items were obtainable earlier in the game so that we could enjoy them throughout the month, and i still only have one gd balloon festival DIY. (i'm really not enjoying the amount of balloon DIYs but anywaysss) also, i feel like buying candy throughout the month of halloween conditioned me to assume that the toy items in nook's were going to be important to toy day. i'm glad that they weren't, but i wouldn't have bought em all if i had known LOL there's always next year to decorate at least!

 

[-Lumi-]

i feel guilty being such a bitter biscuit about it but this event was soo boring ;-; i miss new leaf more and more every day

Honestly I don't think you should feel guilty! It seems like the developers put most of their time and effort into the DIY aspect of the game so other portions are suffering. The holidays in this game are definitely more lackluster by comparison and I think it's because they're based so strongly around building new items. Which doesn't make a whole lot of sense - why do I want to build holiday DIYs on the holiday? It just feels like a bit of a lazy reward and they've based all their holiday events around that mechanic.

 

[due]

I liked the event!

 

[Sara?]

Turkey and Toy Day were the first events that had time traveling patched and even had an official statement from Nintendo as to why they did it.

Nintendo patching time traveling on Toy Day to (quote) "prevent spoilers", insinuated that they had anything that was even spoiler-worthy to begin with. To wait weeks for an event that takes 9 minutes to complete and doesn't have anything surprising (like they had implied) was disappointing in my opinion. As for the biggest event of the year, I would say Toy Day was the event that most players looked forward to the most, so you would think Nintendo would have done more for it.

to be honest after reading your comment i feel even more bitter about Toy day. What spoilers where they trying to hide ?It was a 5 minute event with nothing much special about it, i mean, so far at least for me i have to say that this one has been the worse holiday event thus far. I feel like the others were more fleshed out and there was more to it than toy day. My only hope is that next years toy day will be better

PS: i must say i have been very active for the forums xmas event BUT sorry nintendo the tbt christmas holiday event has been 100% more fun than the one in the game ... at least for me, really happy that the staff put so much care to it

 

[bebebese]

I quite liked the event, but I do have to agree with the sentiment that the diys (or lack thereof until the actual big day) really put a dampener on things I was planning on giving my villagers a festive tree or spinning top but I didn't have time to grind, so I just have the little tree in my house. Doesn't really feel festive without the decorations.
I did think it was cute that the villagers recognised you as Santa Felt a bit cheeky after how NL and CF did toy day.

 

[Livia]

This is unpopular, but I loved it. I'm glad it was quick and easy to complete because I thought Turkey day took way too long. My only complaint is what others have said about being unable to get the festive diys.

 

[SlEEPYTEARRS]

i do have to say i was p disappointed with this event. took me 10 minutes to complete and really didnt put me in the christmas spirit :/ i wish there was just more to do yknow

 

[Lanstar]

Just me... I never liked New Leaf's toy day to begin with - as well as that game's Harvest Festival. The reason: If you make a mistake in either one, you'd lose the ability to get certain items for that day, and you'd have to reset in order to 'redo' the events to get them. This was really, really annoying, especially for younger players and people who don't want to wiki-search events all the time.

I'm glad that, even though Toy Day became a bit oversimplified, it did not follow this "get it right or lose" part of these holidays in New Leaf. It was a fairly relaxing and low key for me as a result, as I was less worrisome about making a mistake. Turkey Day was way better, though.