To be honest I think TNT are either liars or there was once a way to get it but there isn't now. The past two years I've visited every day and got the Sidebar. I can't remember if I visited every day before that. But we've heard of people getting it and they hadn't visited every day.Wingsrising wrote:I wish TNT would give some sort of hint about the sidebar. They insist it isn't random but it's really not reasonable to except us to figure it out when we only have one chance a year.
(I got it last year so I can't contribute any data on that score. It's well-established that it has nothing to do with collecting every day, though.)
This December I haven't done anything remotely special on Neopets except zap and play Qasalan Expellibox so I can't imagine what I did that would separate myself from those that didn't get it. I have both of the avatars given by the Advent Calendar since I visited every day but I'm guessing Will has both and he didn't get it.
My theory is that it actually is random, no matter what TNT says.