TIY Grand Opening

Today, Big Top approached me and told me he’s going to be moving out of town.

Big Top: I know it's sudden, but I'm leaving on the 30th of this month! It's been nice hanging with you, J dog!However, I was able to change his mind.

Big Top: Owwww! The pulling hurts! OK, OK, OK, OK! I give up!I started my walk around town, looking for my fossils and money rock. A couple minutes later, I saw Big Top again. This time, he said he heard a rumor that I’m a deep diver??

Big Top: I heard a rumor about you! Everyone's saying you're kind of a deep diver!I made my way to The Roost and I worked a shift. My job there is starting to get harder; the customers aren’t even telling me what they want any more. They just say they want “the usual.” Ugh. I have started to keep a text file to keep track of what’s right and wrong, but it’s going to take a while before I learn how everyone likes their coffee. As for today, I struck out big time.

Molly: This coffee isn't what I asked for. Maybe my order got switched with someone else's?And for the first time, Isabelle herself came in for a cup of coffee.

Isabelle: I'd like to order a cup of coffee, if you don't mind!My assistant is probably wondering why the mayor needs to be working a second job at a coffee shop that pays me in beans. Oh well. I         ed up her order too. Brewster wasn’t happy.

Brewster: ...Your heart just wasn't in the coffee today... After that, I walked up to Main Street. There’s a new store in town, T.I.Y.!

The outside of T.I.Y. (TIY).Obviously it’s a parody of D.I.Y. (Do It Yourself), but what does T.I.Y. stand for? Tickle it yourself? Anyway, I went inside to check it out. T.I.Y. has not been in previous Animal Crossing games, so I wanted to see what it was like.

Tommy: Welcome! Welcome! Welcome to the grand opening of T.I.Y.! Come on in!Other than a new layout, it’s not all that different. But there is something new: the ability to buy K.K. songs!

Tommy: Ah, K.K. Bossa! A fine item, yes?I know I had some readers ask me about buying K.K. songs before at Super T&T. You can’t buy them at Super T&T, but you can buy them once the store upgrades to T.I.Y.

Another interesting feature is that the garden shop got absorbed into T.I.Y. as well. I guess that’s to make it more like the real D.I.Y.

Leif: Timmy and Tommy said they were going to make their shop bigger, so I had them include me too.And Leif told me that he now can provide a weed-pulling service. That’s not something I’m going to need, but I know a lot of you will probably love this feature if you time travel or go long periods without playing the game.

Leif: Oh yes, I've also decided to start up a weed-pulling service.After that, I decided to open my gate for a little bit. Wendy came over to visit… and then someone else tried to come in, but we got disconnected. I reopened and Wendy came back, but the other person didn’t. Wendy brought me all the types of fruit I didn’t have yet. So I went around town planting them all. Along the way, I found a special tree stump; this one had a butterfly and a piece of bread on it.

Finding a tree stump with a butterfly pattern on it.Mushrooms will grow around special stumps, so I’m going to leave this stump like this, at least for a while. Wendy and I each sat on a stump, and then we amused ourselves by spinning around on them.

Me and Wendy sitting and spinning on tree stumps.After I was finished planting all the fruit trees, we took a trip to the island for a little bug-catching and fishing. Me and Wendy, both wearing Majora's Masks, ride Kapp'n's boat out to the island.While there, I caught a new bug (a giant stag). I also caught three sharks (two regular ones and one whale shark) that I later sold for a nice chunk of change. Around 11:40, we returned to shore and I ended the session.

I have now completed my Animal Crossing New Leaf Hair Guide! It tells how to get the hair style and color that you want, along with pictures of each. It includes the exact wording of the English language version too, so I think you’ll find it to be the best hair guide out there! I hope you’ll check it out and bookmark it so you’ll be all set once you get your character to a Shampoodle salon!