The Rocket's Red Glare Redux - Revision history

Solar Dragon at 20:08, May 4, 2025

2025-05-04T20:08:05Z

Solar Dragon at 11:08, May 4, 2025

2025-05-04T11:08:36Z

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Solar Dragon: /* Pt. 7 */

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‎Pt. 7

Solar Dragon at 14:49, May 31, 2024

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Solar Dragon: Created page with "{{Tapped Out Quest |name = The Rocket's Red Glare Redux |image = |level = 5 |update = {{TOCU|July 4th 2014}} |requirements = |characters = Rex Banner, Apu |optional..."

2024-05-31T14:46:34Z

Created page with "{{Tapped Out Quest |name = The Rocket's Red Glare Redux |image = |level = 5 |update = {{TOCU|July 4th 2014}} |requirements = |characters = Rex Banner, Apu |optional..."

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{{Tapped Out Quest
|name = The Rocket's Red Glare Redux
|image =
|level = 5
|update = {{TOCU|July 4th 2014}}
|requirements =
|characters = [[Rex Banner]], [[Apu]]
|optional = [[All-American Apu]], See [[#Pt. 4|Pt. 4]] and [[#Pt. 7|Pt. 7]]
|previous =
|next =
|premium = yes
}}

'''The Rocket's Red Glare Redux''' is a premium questline in ''[[The Simpsons: Tapped Out]]''. It was introduced in the {{TOCU|July 4th 2014}} content update. It requires [[Rex Banner]] to be obtained.

If [[All-American Apu]] is owned, Apu's jobs are done by All-American Apu instead.

== Dialogue ==
=== Pt. 1 ===
{{Table|
{{TH|After tapping on Rex Banner's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon}}
{{TB|Citizens of Springfield, fear not!}}
{{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon}}
{{TB|No longer will airborne displays of fireworks-related Technicolor splendor haunt your nights!}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Alarmed}}
{{TB|Federal agent Rex Banner!?}}
{{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon}}
{{TB|Here to stop the flow of illegal fireworks into Springfield and bring the Bottle Rocket Barons to their knees.}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon}}
{{TB|Well, that'll be nice. They're kind of a nuisance.}}
{{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon|Angry}}
{{TB|Nuisance? You call sporadic incidents of mild to moderate noise pollution a NUISANCE?}}
{{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon|Angry}}
{{TB|They're the greatest threat to the American way of life since loitering!}}
{{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon}}
{{TB|And nothing will stop me from ending this scourge!}}
{{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon}}
{{TB|Unless it is my debilitating addiction to refined sugars!}}
{{THT|{{Task/Job2|Make Rex Banner Interrogate Flanders|8 hours|[[Ned]]}}|colspan=2}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
}}

=== Pt. 2 ===
{{Table|
{{TH|After tapping on Apu's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Apu Icon|Happy}}
{{TB|Sales of fireworks are up 3,000%! This holiday is proving most profitable!}}
{{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon}}
{{TB|I've traced the fireworks to this Kwik-E-Mart. Time to see what we can see…}}
{{Tapped Out Apu Icon|Surprised}}
{{TB|Great [[Ganesh]]! Super-cop Rex Banner is hot on my trail! I'd better hide the evidence.}}
{{THT|{{Task/Job|Make Apu Hide the Fireworks Behind the Malt Liquor|4 hours|a {{TOG|Kwik-E-Mart}}}}<br>{{Task/Job|Make Rex Banner Stake Out the Kwik-E-Mart|12 hours|a {{TOG|Kwik-E-Mart}}}}|colspan=2}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
}}

=== Pt. 3 ===
{{Table|
{{TH|After tapping on Rex Banner's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon}}
{{TB|Reach for the sky, Nahasapeemapetilon!}}
{{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon}}
{{TB|I know you're the gunpowder-drunk mastermind of this fireworks racket!}}
{{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon}}
{{TB|Come clean -- you're the one they call the Rocket Rajah. The Bengal Blaster. Pyrotechnic ‘Pu.}}
{{Tapped Out Apu Icon|Angry}}
{{TB|I see. Because of my ethnicity and name, you assume this person must be me. That, sir, is profiling!}}
{{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon}}
{{TB|I'm an old-timey cop. Profiling is ninety percent of my skill set.}}
{{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon}}
{{TB|And we call it by its proper name: good ol' red-blooded, American racism.}}
{{THT|{{Task/Job|Make Apu Hide the Fireworks Behind the Malt Liquor|4 hours|a {{TOG|Kwik-E-Mart}}}}<br>{{Task/Job|Make Rex Banner Stake Out the Kwik-E-Mart|12 hours|a {{TOG|Kwik-E-Mart}}}}|colspan=2}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
}}

=== Pt. 4 ===
{{Table|
{{TH|After tapping on Homer's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Homer Icon|Serious}}
{{TB|Release Apu, Rex Banner!}}
{{Tapped Out Homer Icon|Serious}}
{{TB|I've discovered the true identity of the fireworks smuggler -- Ned Flanders!}}
{{Tapped Out Homer Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|Arrest him and interrogate him for hours and hours!}}
{{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon}}
{{TB|Let's go, boys!}}
{{Tapped Out Homer Icon|Happy}}
{{TB|And… he's gone. Woo-hoo! Come on, everybody -- the coast is clear! Let's buy some boom!}}
{{THT|{{Task/Job|Make Rex Banner Interrogate Flanders|8 hours|[[Ned]]}}<br>{{Task/JobMulti|Send Springfield Residents to Buy Fireworks|60 minutes|a {{TOG|Kwik-E-Mart}}|15}}|colspan=2}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
}}

Characters that can do the "Buy Fireworks" task are:
{{Table|
{{TBT|[[Homer]], [[Abraham Lincoln]], [[Agnes]], [[Arnie Pye]], [[Barney]], [[Blue-Haired Lawyer]], [[Booberella]], [[Brandine]], [[Brockman]], [[Bumblebee Man]], [[Carl]], [[Chalmers]], [[Wiggum]], [[Cletus]], [[Comic Book Guy]], [[Mr. Burns]], [[Ned]], [[Disco Stu]], [[Dr. Nick]], [[Drederick Tatum]], [[Duffman]], [[Fat Tony]], [[Grampa]], [[Hank Scorpio]], [[Herman]], [[Jasper]], [[Judge Snyder]], [[Kang]], [[Kearney]], [[Kirk]], [[Kodos]], [[Kumiko]], [[Legs]], [[Lenny]], [[Lou]], [[Louie]], [[Lugash]], [[Luigi]], [[Marge]], [[Mindy]], [[Miss Springfield]], [[Moe]], [[Moleman]], [[Mr. Costington]], [[Mrs. Krabappel]], [[Otto]], [[Patty]], [[Professor Frink]], [[Quimby]], [[Rev. Lovejoy]], [[Sea Captain]], [[Selma]], [[Skinner]], [[Smithers]], [[Snake]], [[Suzanne the Witch]], [[The Grumple]], [[The Rich Texan]], [[Tribal Chief]], [[Willie]], [[Wolfcastle]], [[Krusty]], [[Sideshow Mel]], [[Dr. Hibbert]], [[Eddie]], [[Luann]], [[Tom O'Flanagan]], [[The Yes Guy]], [[Sanjay]], [[Manjula]], [[Miss Hoover]], [[Cocoa Beanie]], [[Father Sean]], [[Dewey Largo]], [[Shary Bobbins]], [[Crazy Cat Lady]], [[Bernice Hibbert]], [[Roger Myers Jr.]], [[Lampwick]], {{Giuseppe}}, [[George Washington]]
}}}}

=== Pt. 5 ===
{{Table|
{{TH|After tapping on Rex Banner's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon|Angry}}
{{TB|Hands where I can see them, Apu! I'm taking you in!}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Alarmed}}
{{TB|Wait! That man is innocent!}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon}}
{{TB|I've just found an old town law from 1803 which expressly permits “the sale and detonation of pyrotechnic devices for one month following June 4.”}}
{{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon}}
{{TB|What's so special about the Fourth of June?}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Deadpan}}
{{TB|June 4th was [[King George III]] of England's birthday.}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Deadpan}}
{{TB|Springfield was the only town in the nation that voted 182 times to return to British rule.}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Sad}}
{{TB|We've always been America's cowards.}}
{{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon}}
{{TB|Well, at least there's one thing this town is still good for.}}
{{THT|{{Task/Job|Make Rex Eat a Banana Kaboom|4 hours}}|colspan=2}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
}}
{{TOQNext|Paranoid Android Redux}}

=== Pt. 6 ===
{{TOQPrev|Paranoid Android Redux}}
{{Table|
{{TH|After tapping on Apu's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Apu Icon|Happy}}
{{TB|Now that this awful business with the authorities has blown over, it's time to restock!}}
{{THT|{{Task/Job|Make Apu Stock Up on Illegal Fireworks|24 hours|a {{TOG|Kwik-E-Mart}}}}|colspan=2}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
}}

=== Pt. 7 ===
{{Table|
{{TH|After tapping on Apu's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Apu Icon}}
{{TB|I am happy to announce I am open for business once again!}}
{{Tapped Out Homer Icon}}
{{TB|Woo-hoo!}}
{{Tapped Out Homer Icon}}
{{TB|I haven't blown anything up in a couple of hours, this was starting to feel like a Canada Day celebration…}}
{{THT|{{Task/Job|Make All-American Apu Turn a Profit|12 hours|a {{TOG|Kwik-E-Mart}}}}<br>{{Task/JobMulti|Send Springfield Residents to Buy Fireworks|60 minutes|a {{TOG|Kwik-E-Mart}}|15}}|colspan=2}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|200}} and {{XP|20}}|colspan=2}}
}}

Characters that can do the "Buy Fireworks" task are:
{{Table|
{{TBT|[[Homer]], [[Abraham Lincoln]], [[Agnes]], [[Arnie Pye]], [[Barney]], [[Blue-Haired Lawyer]], [[Booberella]], [[Brandine]], [[Brockman]], [[Bumblebee Man]], [[Carl]], [[Chalmers]], [[Wiggum]], [[Cletus]], [[Comic Book Guy]], [[Mr. Burns]], [[Ned]], [[Disco Stu]], [[Dr. Nick]], [[Drederick Tatum]], [[Duffman]], [[Fat Tony]], [[Grampa]], [[Hank Scorpio]], [[Herman]], [[Jasper]], [[Judge Snyder]], [[Kang]], [[Kearney]], [[Kirk]], [[Kodos]], [[Kumiko]], [[Legs]], [[Lenny]], [[Lou]], [[Louie]], [[Lugash]], [[Luigi]], [[Marge]], [[Mindy]], [[Miss Springfield]], [[Moe]], [[Moleman]], [[Mr. Costington]], [[Mrs. Krabappel]], [[Otto]], [[Patty]], [[Professor Frink]], [[Quimby]], [[Rev. Lovejoy]], [[Sea Captain]], [[Selma]], [[Skinner]], [[Smithers]], [[Snake]], [[Suzanne the Witch]], [[The Grumple]], [[The Rich Texan]], [[Tribal Chief]], [[Willie]], [[Wolfcastle]], [[Krusty]], [[Sideshow Mel]], [[Dr. Hibbert]], [[Eddie]], [[Luann]], [[Tom O'Flanagan]], [[The Yes Guy]], [[Sanjay]], [[Manjula]], [[Miss Hoover]], [[Cocoa Beanie]], [[Father Sean]], [[Dewey Largo]], [[Shary Bobbins]], [[Crazy Cat Lady]], [[Bernice Hibbert]], [[Roger Myers Jr.]], [[Lampwick]], {{Giuseppe}}, [[George Washington]]
}}}}

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 |name = The Rocket's Red Glare Redux
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 |next =

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 {{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon}}
 {{TB|Unless it is my debilitating addiction to refined sugars!}}
-{{THT|{{Task/Job2|Make Rex Banner Interrogate Flanders|8 hours|[[Ned]]}}|colspan=2}}
+{{THT|{{Task/JobDual|Make Rex Banner Interrogate Flanders|8 hours|[[Ned]]}}|colspan=2}}
 {{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
 }}

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 {{TB|Sales of fireworks are up 3,000%! This holiday is proving most profitable!}}
 {{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon}}
-{{TB|I've traced the fireworks to this Kwik-E-Mart. Time to see what we can see…}}
+{{TB|I've traced the fireworks to this Kwik-E-Mart. Time to see what we can see...}}
 {{Tapped Out Apu Icon|Surprised}}
 {{TB|Great [[Ganesh]]! Super-cop Rex Banner is hot on my trail! I'd better hide the evidence.}}
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 {{TB|I know you're the gunpowder-drunk mastermind of this fireworks racket!}}
 {{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon}}
-{{TB|Come clean -- you're the one they call the Rocket Rajah. The Bengal Blaster. Pyrotechnic ‘Pu.}}
+{{TB|Come clean -- you're the one they call the Rocket Rajah. The Bengal Blaster. Pyrotechnic 'Pu.}}
 {{Tapped Out Apu Icon|Angry}}
 {{TB|I see. Because of my ethnicity and name, you assume this person must be me. That, sir, is profiling!}}
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 {{TB|Let's go, boys!}}
 {{Tapped Out Homer Icon|Happy}}
-{{TB|And… he's gone. Woo-hoo! Come on, everybody -- the coast is clear! Let's buy some boom!}}
+{{TB|And... he's gone. Woo-hoo! Come on, everybody -- the coast is clear! Let's buy some boom!}}
 {{THT|{{Task/Job|Make Rex Banner Interrogate Flanders|8 hours|[[Ned]]}}<br>{{Task/JobMulti|Send Springfield Residents to Buy Fireworks|60 minutes|a {{TOG|Kwik-E-Mart}}|15}}|colspan=2}}
 {{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
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 {{TB|Wait! That man is innocent!}}
 {{Tapped Out Lisa Icon}}
-{{TB|I've just found an old town law from 1803 which expressly permits “the sale and detonation of pyrotechnic devices for one month following June 4.”}}
+{{TB|I've just found an old town law from 1803 which expressly permits "the sale and detonation of pyrotechnic devices for one month following June 4."}}
 {{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon}}
 {{TB|What's so special about the Fourth of June?}}
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 {{TB|Woo-hoo!}}
 {{Tapped Out Homer Icon}}
-{{TB|I haven't blown anything up in a couple of hours, this was starting to feel like a Canada Day celebration…}}
+{{TB|I haven't blown anything up in a couple of hours, this was starting to feel like a Canada Day celebration...}}
 {{THT|{{Task/Job|Make Apu Turn a Profit|12 hours|a {{TOG|Kwik-E-Mart}}}}<br>{{Task/JobMulti|Send Springfield Residents to Buy Fireworks|60 minutes|a {{TOG|Kwik-E-Mart}}|15}}|colspan=2}}
 {{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|200}} and {{XP|20}}|colspan=2}}