Moon Festival


 * For the similar episode featured in Seasons 2012, see Year of the Dragon.

Mooncake Festival (中秋節 Pinyin: Zhōngqiū jié) is the seventh holiday themed Angry Birds episode, and as such, is available through Angry Birds Seasons. The setting is China. Rovio announced the episode shortly before August. The episode is the first to be held in a certain country. Golden Mooncakes are available, and are similar to Golden Eggs.

This episodes includes 99 stars, 33 levels (including 3 bonus Facebook levels), 8 hidden pieces of mooncakes, including a special mooncake level when all mooncakes are found, 5 new "secret" achievements, paper art that costs 3,000 points, and many bug fixes.

It will be released for Angry Birds Chrome on August 19, 2012, 1 month before Mid-Autumn Festival.

Trivia

 * It was the second episode from Angry Birds Seasons to have official merchandise, with its Angry Birds Mooncakes. The first was Summer Pignic, then later by Ham'o'ween and Wreck the Halls.
 * This is the second episode in any game not to feature the King Pig, although he appeared in the picture at the end of level 2-15.
 * The musical theme for Moon Festival is slightly altered to sound like Chinese music. (Ex: Original theme=A, B, C, A, C, D, E, A. Moon Festival=A, C, D, A, C, D, F, D)
 * Rovio published an online fourteen strip comic titled "Angry Birds Moon Festival"
 * This episode is the first to be leaked through achievements, the second being Wreck the Halls.
 * This is the first Chinese holiday in Angry Birds Seasons. The second one is Year of the Dragon and the third one is Mid-Autumn Festival 2012.
 * With the Ham'o'ween update, the episode title was changed from Mooncake Festival to Moon Festival.