Friday 8 February 2013

Happy Lunar New Year! A host of new rooms!

This morning, when I opened up the Monopoly Hotels game to see if any trains had come in overnight (I am not rebuilding as yet!), I saw this:



Assuming that this meant at least two new rooms, I went to check it out. And yes, there are new rooms:


I suspect there is some kind of error there, because, as you can see, there are two rooms both with the exact same name ... I suspect one of the "Lion's Lantern" rooms will disappear. And I presume the Giant Matchstick is the Firecracker room.

Limited time, I presume.

Also, as you can see, some of the rooms from the Ventnor Museum, the Vermont Aquarium and the Tennessee Zoo seem to have migrated to the regular hotels.

    

    

These rooms are also still available in their original locations as well, and are marked 50% off. It looks like only the higher-value gold rooms in those properties are on sale, not all gold rooms.

I don't know if this is a planned migration, like last fall's Go Wild! sale, but I'd suggest holding off on buying those until EA confirms or denies that it's an intended availability.

In addition, there are two more new rooms (Black Pearl and Murky Depths) in the Aquarium, and again, these are high value rooms, with excellent XP earnings:




I would expect the Lunar New Year rooms to be limited time because they are seasonal, but I could be wrong.

Enjoy the update!