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The day after Thanksgiving is Sale Day in Animal Crossing, so I headed up to Nookington’s to check out the deals. The first floor was filled with grab bags for 2,013 bells each. Each one contains three items, which are often shirts, pinwheels, carpets, or wallpapers.
The pinwheels are bigger and better-looking than the ones in later Animal Crossing games. I went running around with this flower pinwheel spinning in the animals’ faces when I spoke with them. Belle asked a good question about the trees in the game. She wondered why trees that are cut down just disappear as soon as they hit the ground.
I then went to meet my newest neighbor, Stella. She’s a purple sheep that never made it to the later Animal Crossing games. Her default catchphrase is baa-da-bing.
Tortimer was celebrating Sale Day over at the wishing well. He will give you a market model the first time you attend on Sale Day, but of course the GameCube game only gives holiday items once (not every year like in later games). So he didn’t have anything for me this time, except some words expressing excitement about the upcoming holiday season.
Another feature of Sale Day is that Crazy Redd will be somewhere in town (after 6:00 p.m.). There is a cool glitch that only works on Sale Day, so I made sure to do it today. First, you have to find Redd’s tent and buy all three items he has. This can be expensive, but it’s worth it if you’ve never seen this glitch for yourself. So I bought his items, including this overpriced Golf NES game for 12,000 bells.
After buying everything, leave the tent. You’ll see the door is now closed. If you quickly leave and re-enter the acre, you’ll see the tent disappear completely. But it’s not gone for good; the tent will reappear somewhere else in town, without Redd in front. Do not go in it, or you’ll have to buy all his items once again for this to work. Instead, keep looking at all your sign posts around town. You will find Crazy Redd standing in front of one of them, without his tent!
Speak with him and when he’s finished, he will walk into the sign post and disappear right before your eyes!
I made a video of this glitch a few years back. Here it is if you’d like to take a look:
Stella DID in fact make it into the later games! I had her in New Horizons!
This is an old blog entry from 2013. Stella returned in 2016 for Welcome Amiibo (and then again in 2020 with New Horizons).