The Laugh Floor update is officially here! In all honesty, I don’t have any strong connection really with Monsters Inc., though, I still appreciate the characters and will always take new realms. Before I got into all the Monsters Inc. stuff, there were a handful of other things I wanted to check out. And of course, if you prefer videos, you can check out my playthrough of the new update over on Youtube. As an aside, I know people are upset I haven’t been streaming the updates– it’s a combination of updates not always coming out at the best time for me (I actually had a lot of other stuff to do today so there is a lot of pausing in the video that I mostly managed to pause the recording for) and being sick a lot recently combined with that I just don’t think it’s fun to watch me give like 100+ flowers to characters to level them up which I can at least not record when just… well, recording. With that said, let’s get on to update stuff!
First of all, the mail with the the community gifts came (and it seems our mail got a bit of a makeover in general to be more organized)! Still looking forward to the Critter… Anyway, due to my love of fountains, I ended up replacing the Figment topiary I had with the Partner statue. If I didn’t already have a nice Figment Picnic area, I may have left it, but since I already have a very nice Figment place, I feel this works pretty well.
I then made my way to see Scrooge’s shop adjustments and uh… It wasn’t as much as I expected. The top floor is revamped and there is a place exclusively for wall items at least which is nice.
The biggest perk for me in Scrooge’s Shop update though is that we can now order up to 1,000 items a day. I’m so happy. The 25 limit has been so incredibly frustrating and I usually hit it pretty quickly during decorating sessions. This is so much easier to work with.
Speaking of decorating, I loved so many items from this Star Path and due to various personal stuff, I’m not sure how much I’ll actually be able to do quest-wise (as it is, I heard this one is longer than ever… :/), so I actually bought a bunch of points to get stuff right away because there were so many items I adored. The small fountain, the Arches, the Plushies, the Swan Boat, the floating Lanterns, and the Rosy Cloud Turtle (though, I’ll admit the ‘Cloud’ looks more like a fancy seashell to me, but you can see it wisping around if you zoom in) especially, but there’s so many other cute things as well.
I think it’s going to be hard to beat this Turtle for me right now as my top favorite Critter, but we’ll have to see…
After placing some more things around my house, I went and took my new DreamSnaps entry. It’s… very much not my kind of look, but I think it came out okay. Good thing I had this room set up in the Haunted Mansion.
I then did some adjustments over in the Forest of Valor with moving in some buildings. I had to buy the Snuggly Duckling– besides my love for Tangled, it genuinely is just really cute? I plan to try and decorate the main room as close to the actual Snuggly Duckling as possible, but I’m not quite sure what to do with the other three rooms. Maybe just general Tangled themed? I also ended up picking up the Belle pack– it’s the first bundle to not have a questline attached to it which, from an exclusivity standpoint, is kind of for the best– I don’t think story stuff (or things like Ursula’s transformation) should be locked to a premium bundle, but honestly, everything from it was pretty cute. I especially loved getting Belle’s favorite Library which is across the street from the Snuggly Duckling and nextdoor to the cottage:
I also ended up moving Gaston’s house over. Right now, it’s across from Venellope. I kind of like the position of his so I may try and move Vanellope over/somewhere else. I need to figure it all out, really.
Regardless, with this done, it was finally time to check out the Monsters Inc. stuff.
The general plotline here is that everyone is missing except for Sulley and Mike and this takes place shortly after the original movie’s ending. After disguising as a monster, we were able to enter the Laugh Floor and essentially pretend to be the new intern.
My little ID card I made with the resources on the official Twitter— I might make one with the other ID template too. Or try to make a nicer one in general.
If it was possible to actually save full appearances, I might’ve experimented with some of the new skin tones and contacts and stuff.
Anyway, after taking care of their coffee orders, Mike headed into the first door, but there was a power outage and thus, we needed to find some fuses and get the plugs set back up in order to get him back before he was discovered.
After bringing up Dreamlight Valley, Mike wanted to have the biggest record for making kids laugh so he wanted to do one final hoorah of three rooms before they headed to the Valley and thus, we were tasked with getting Keycards. Along the way, due to my need to examine everything, I also found broken pieces of a keycard in addition to the various sticky notes around. We’ll talk more about that later.
Regardless, our job wasn’t quite done yet. There was no intel with the keycards so we were tasked with checking each kid’s bedroom to see what kind of things would make them laugh.
I really want to be able to buy more plushies…
Anyway, after helping out Mike, it was finally time to make his and Sulley’s place in the valley. Sulley showed up first as Mike wanted his photo taken for the Monster of the Month board before he headed on his way.
Before I made my way back to Mike though, I made sure to repair a certain keycard… Using it on the fifth door’s panel summoned a door with the 10th Sticky Note and a chest. It wasn’t the biggest secret, but still a neat secret nonetheless!
I then went and took Mike’s picture, and he made his own way to the valley.
I decided to work on Sulley’s friendship quests first (since he moved in first), but I absolutely relate to Mike’s plight. Allergies are the biggest nemesis x-x
Sulley’s friendship questline had three fully different things which each had their own photo spot surprisingly. I can’t think of any other friendship quest that had multiple like that off the top of my head. The first was setting up Monster Movie night again. After a little quest to find the video tape, we had a cute scene. Kind of surprised Minnie wasn’t there though.
I also couldn’t help but decorate a little more… I love the lanterns so much.
Sulley’s next quest was a Villager of the Month event to get people helping out more in the village. Of course, it didn’t really go as planned… Mike wanted help making a dish to give to Sulley, Ursula wanted help making perfumes for various villagers, and Donald… Donald tried to fake himself picking up trash and we mainly had to do it.
So unsurprisingly, we were the Villager of the month.
Of the three actually trying for Villager of the Month, I think Ursula’s gift was the nicest, even if her motives weren’t exactly pure.
Sulley’s next quest was trying to teach Vanellope. While his lemon clock plan didn’t work, his arcade machine sure did. I was kind of sad we couldn’t actually play it though.
His final friendship quest was a Scavenger Hunt. While we didn’t directly participate, we ended up winning anyway since we had to help each participant along the way. It was honestly pretty cute. Most of it was easy– the only thing that threw me off is the third clue was further away from where the second clue lead than I expected.
And then it ended with this adorable scene with a very cute handmade clay Sulley.
Meanwhile, Mike’s questline, after setting things up to help prevent his allergies and get over his stress (plus finding his contact lens…), was essentially trying to introduce things to the valley from perfumes and meals that only monsters could love followed by trying to do a comedy show that Vanellope tried to take over/have them be equals instead of her opening for him. It was… okay I guess?
For everyone upset about Mike constantly still being in frame though with most official stuff, they’ll be happy to see the billboard does exactly wanted.
And with that, I was done! Which meant it was time to get back to decorating. With the fixes to things on tables, I made a few adjustments to the museum and my character’s bedroom.
I then decided to work on Floor 5 which I’m essentially labeling the Cozy Floor. I was honestly really proud with how things came out.
At the time, I didn’t really have inspiration for the final room, so I ended up working on some more things outside for a bit.
After some more thinking though, I did finally come up with what to do with the last room on Floor 5. I’m pretty happy with it.
I then just made a few other minor adjustments to things.
With that, I’ve finished most of my update goals! I’m likely going to try and work on the Snuggly Duckling and Library houses, though, they will likely get a video quite a while before I make a post talking about that. I’m pretty sure what I want to do with each so we’ll see how it goes!
Otherwise, it’s back to the memory grind… And doing Star Path stuff to get some of those moonstones I used back. But yeah, I had fun! Looking forward to the next update and keeping an eye out in case any other bonus stuff pops up in the meantime…