darkSpyro

Oh yeah. I remember the last such invasion not amounting to much--no more than 10 or so all day if I recall. While that's more that I catch on a regular day, it's not all *that* exciting. Be nice if there were dozens upon dozens of them, and that no more than 12.5% of the "slots" require an earth element swapper...

Quote: HappyGamer

If you're time traveling, DON'T COLLECT ANYTHING! If you do, it resets the collection counter based on the 'current' date and time, so when you travel back, you'll have to wait until you get back to the future the long way. Of course, to fix this, you just need to travel far enough ahead in time that you're able to collect again, but DON'T COLLECT. Then, when you go back to the correct time, things will be ready to collect and you can continue as normal.

Just remember Marty McFly - time travelers should only be observers or everything can get messed up!

Quote: Mariojedi

That's the trick people usually don't understand......to be safe never collect anything until u go back to the present. The way it works is if you start an adventure or collect xp the timer for that item uses the current time so when you travel back it adds 24 hrs to the timer for every day you traveled to the future. The easiest way to prevent problem, don't collect or start anything until you are back.

really helpful info.. thanks a bunch you two..

Technically, it's not safe to collect anything with an automatic counter, like shrines or community buildings. You can collect from adventure balloons, crops, elemental sanctuaries, alt skylander houses, etc. As long as you don't reactivate them in the future, you're ok.

Has anyone tried this now? If we still can get other top prizes by traveling to January?

Glitch is now gone

It's a miracle it lasted as long as it did really.

Yeah, I time travelled to January 1 and it still showed Snowler Brawl in the wishing well. It's possible it could have something to do with us being within a week or so of the end of the month. I have no idea. So maybe we can check it, again, towards the end of the month. And for how long it lasted, it really only lasted a few days, I believe. It was discovered over the weekend and was gone with the next update on that Tuesday (which would have gotten rid of it, anyway, after Snowler Brawl was programmed in). I think the glitch with Hyde lasted longer. Too bad only a few were able to actually get that one to work.

I don't think that glitch lasted long, but even without that, the well is not currently updating to everyone. (NYC isn't in my well yet, and several others are having the same issue.)

I wouldn't try this anymore, it appears that a worse glitch happens when you try to use it as mentioned above. The well gets stuck and you are unable to wish for the new variant......the only way to get the new variant is to buy him with gems.

Quote: CecilyTechuan

Does anyone know if this still works? I've never gotten it to work, because I misread the original descriptions and skipped to January (in December), then wished for the Countdown Alt, and it's been stuck on that as the Grand Prize ever since. When I go to the well in February, it's still Countdown, and when I come back it's still Countdown. Shouldn't I see a Companion in the well when I come back to the present?

The glitch was fixed a long time ago. It was only good jumping ahead to December from November before they added the update that would put Snowler Brawl into the well on Dec. 1. Once you got Snowler Brawl and jumped ahead to January, it would put a random item in your well to win, but would not change every time you time jumped (like it did before). It seems the fix they put in to keep people from doing that also kept the well from updating on January 1 to the new alter ego.