TBT's Lunar New Year 2026

[S.J.]

Welcome to TBT's Lunar New Year for 2026!

From February 17th until March 3rd, 2026, we invite you to help us celebrate the beginning of the new year as marked by the traditional Chinese calendar. While this event is smaller than our 2024 celebration, we hope it still brings you fun, festivity, and luck for the year ahead!

2026 is Year of the Horse!

​

Activities

---

There are four activities for you to take part in during the event. Two of these activities will each reward 2 Lucky Coins!

Activity	Description	Reward
Lunar Legends	Help vote for a new horse character collectible!	Winning character will be available for purchase in the shop
Auspicious Attire	Dress up your Island Representative in festive attire to celebrate Lunar New Year.	2 Lucky Coins
Festive Flourishes	Craft a Lunar New Year-themed decoration to display.	2 Lucky Coins
The Luck of the Dragon	Buy a Fortune Cookie for a chance to win a prize. Increase your luck by participating around the forums.	Various possible prizes

Rewards

---

We have two returning and two new collectibles which can be bought with Lucky Coins! The Zodiac Horse Figurine is unique until the end of the event (meaning you can only buy one).

Zodiac Horse Figurine - 1 Lucky Coin (unique)

Auspicious Red Fortune Cookie - 3 Lucky Coins

Festival Lantern - 1 Lucky Coin

Plum Blossom - 1 Lucky Coin

We will also have a number of items returning to the Shop to purchase with Bells!

Julian - 180 Bells

Fortune Cookie - 10 Bells

Red Envelope - 86 Bells

Night Sky Scenery - 25 Bells


Lucky Bonus Bells

---

Have your eye on something in the Shop but can't quite afford it? Well, lucky for you, we've brought back bonus Bells!

Throughout the event period (February 17th to March 3rd, 2026), making posts around the forums will earn you more Bells than usual, helping you save up a little faster!


Staff Credits

---

Thank you to all of the contributing staff!

Zodiac Horse Figurine collectible: Mick
Auspicious Red Fortune Cookie, Festival Lantern, Fortune Cookie, Plum Blossom, Red Envelope collectibles: Mistreil
Banner artwork: Mistreil, Mick
Activity hosts: Aerith, Chris, ~Kilza~, S.J.
Technical setup: Jeremy, Justin

 

[IonicKarma]

Happy Lunar New Year! (the images seem to be broken right now, whoops)

 

[S.J.]

Happy Lunar New Year! (the images seem to be broken right now, whoops)

Let me fix that!!

edit: And done!

 

[Rykertimee]

WOOHOO!

 

[BakaRina]

Happy Lunar New Year! Can't wait to be more active on here and maybe I'll partake in some stuff if I don't forget lol. Can't wait to get more collectibles out of the event.

 

[Roxxy]

Excited to participate ok I am willing to bribe everyone to vote for Buck @themysterybidder needs this

 

[-Apples-]

Happy Lunar New Year!

Today, it’s “I’m ready!” Tomorrow, it’s “let the apples roll!”.

 

[lasagne_of_death]

Happy year of the horse to everyone! Very excited to participate in this event, seems quite lovely. I'll definitely need to reread the activity threads because I did not digest any of the words I read at all lmao. Thanks to staff for putting this together :^)

 

[Muna]

Yess! The event started before I went to bed!
Usually they start when I'm in the middle of sleeping.

I really like the activities! With no pressure and plenty of time, just perfect!

Happy Lunar New Year everyone! Let's have a lot of fun!

 

[~Kilza~]

Excited to participate ok I am willing to bribe everyone to vote for Buck @themysterybidder needs this

Please don't actually bribe anybody for votes! Obviously you're free to openly say who you're voting/cheering for, but bribing is a step too far!

 

[Rykertimee]

Excited to participate ok I am willing to bribe everyone to vote for Buck @themysterybidder needs this

Bribing someone to vote for a horse is something I never thought I'd see lol

 

[Roxxy]

Bribing someone to vote for a horse is something I never thought I'd see lol

I do anything to make a friend happy

Post automatically merged: Yesterday at 4:24 PM

Please don't actually bribe anybody for votes! Obviously you're free to openly say who you're voting/cheering for, but bribing is a step too far!

Sorry didn’t mean it literally.

 

[-Apples-]

Sorry didn’t mean it literally.

I saw it as figurative speech. I knew what you meant.

Anyways, once I get 100 gems, I will drop them off at Drago’s bank. I’m sure the apples will help me gather more of them tomorrow.

 

[Rykertimee]

I'm getting so many notifications I'm gonna wake up tomorrow with a billion hundred of them

 

[lasagne_of_death]

I'm getting so many notifications I'm gonna wake up tomorrow with a billion hundred of them

Any event that encourages forum activities makes the place go insane lol. Last year's April fool's event was genuinely so hectic (it was a reaction based event, so even really old posts you'd make started getting reactions. I turned my notifs off during that time), the servers all started lagging so bad. It was really fun though, I suspect this time will be similar

 

[Doo]

Oh wow I’d forgotten about this
We need a Buck collectible

 

[-Apples-]

I'm getting so many notifications I'm gonna wake up tomorrow with a billion hundred of them

I have my notifications for reactions turned off. But I always had my notifications for reacts turned off, including for past reaction events.

 

[Rykertimee]

And of course NOW everybody comes online I swear like 20 minutes before this went live only like 5 people were online.

 

[Briar]

Happy Lunar New Year!

Can't wait to participate in the activities! I love Roscoe and Savannah... But... I think I would be remiss if I voted for anyone but Buck in the end

 

[You got mail!]

happy lunar new year!!! looking forward to dive in and see what I can do and of course see everyone’s amazing entries :D

luck for buck!