RollerCoaster Tycoon Touch Summer Season Guide: How to Get the Donut Train, New Water Park Buildings, and the Event Explained

Summer Season has arrived in RollerCoaster Tycoon Touch, and it brings more than just sunny weather with it. There’s the introduction of the first ever legendary coaster train, the Donut Train, 20 new Water Park buildings, and a few fixes and tweaks here and there to make the game play a little more smoothly.

Consider this your complete guide to the Summer Season event. We’ll detail all of the exciting new features and how to get them, along with the few changes and Atari made to make the game a little better.

RollerCoaster Tycoon Touch Summer Season – What’s New:

The Donut Train

The Donut Train is the first ever legendary coaster train, and it’s the ultimate goal of the Summer Season event. Earn it, and you can assign it to all of your coaster types to reduce nausea.

New Water Park Buildings

To celebrate summer, Atari has released a whopping 20 new buildings to the Water Park, including an Aqua Coin collector, and six each new rides, restaurants, and decorations.

Summer Cards

Collecting summer cards is how you earn the new content, and you can collect them from the following activities:

• Card packs
• Trading Fair
• Purchase at the Mall
• Casino Wheel
• Summer Park Entrance Boosts

A big thanks to Reddit user u/C082-40F1-8720-B580 for helping us figure out where you get summer cards from

Summer Missions

You’ll find new summer missions in your missions list, which you can complete for bonus rewards. Apparently they don’t offer any specific summer rewards, but it’s nice to get rewarded for doing what you would already be doing anyway.

Changes and Tweaks:

The following are a list of changes and tweaks that Atari has made to the game, and are separate from the Summer Season event.

Mission Log

The Mission Log has been returned to its original place, allowing you to check it with a simple tap. That’s nice!

Ride Durability

The ride durability stat has been adjusted to prevent rides from breaking down too quickly. We guess this means rides should generally last longer between breakdowns?

However, it’s also been adjusted so that the more you upgrade the ride, the higher the chances of it breaking down are.

Unconfirmed: Casino Wheel Adjustments

Reddit users are reporting that the Casino Wheel has reverted back to its original form of incrementing the price upwards with subsequent spins.

However, this is likely a bug as it is only affecting certain users, and it seems that turning your device off and on again fixes the issue.

How to Make the Most of Summer Season:

Now we’re going to round up a bunch of tips and tricks to help you make the most of Summer Season and max out your rewards:

• Collect and upgrade summer cards: This is key to making the most out of the Summer Season event. Collect as many summer cards as you can from the various methods we detailed in the summer cards section of this guide, and upgrade them. Each time you upgrade a summer card, you earn points for the Summer Season Park Entrance Bonus. Why is that important? Read point two.
• Max out the Summer Season Park Entrance Bonus: It’s important because this is how you earn Donut Train cards, allowing you to unlock the new legendary coaster train. We’re not sure exactly what it takes to unlock it, but provided you collect and upgrade as many summer cards as possible, you shouldn’t run into trouble.
• Collect all of the new Water Park buildings: We’re not sure if you’ll still be able to unlock these after the event is over, so we recommend grabbing all 20 of the new Water Park buildings while the event runs.

Glen Fox

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Glen has over a decade's worth of experience in gaming journalism, writing for Pocket Gamer, Pocket Tactics, Nintendo Life, and Gfinity. When he's not badgering everyone about the dangers of passive text, you can probably find him playing Wild Rift.