The Whimsical Tea Party event in Heartopia is exactly what it sounds like: a limited-time gacha banner stuffed with Alice in Wonderland-inspired outfits, pet costumes, and home decoration items. Three separate banners cover wearables, accessories, and furniture, and since everything here is time-limited, knowing where to put your Exhibition Tickets matters. After going through all 12 highlighted items, here's a breakdown of what's actually worth pulling for.
What's in the Whimsical Tea Party event?
The event splits across three banners: the Wandering Traveler Banner (Alice-themed), the Duke Bunny Banner (White Rabbit and Mad Hatter-inspired), and the Labyrinth Banner (furniture and build permits). Each one has standout pieces and filler, so the goal is to help you figure out which tickets to spend and which to save.
Best items from the Wandering Traveler banner
This first banner draws directly from Alice's story, letting you assemble a full outfit or mix individual pieces with your existing wardrobe.
Heartopia Guide: Best Items in Whimsical Tea Party
Fantastical Cheshire Cat Back Decor
The standout pick from this banner is the Fantastical Cheshire Cat Back Decor, a backpack that comes in three colorways. What makes it special is the animation: the Cheshire Cat wriggles on your back as if he's floating in midair. It's one of the few accessory items in the game with active movement, which makes it immediately recognizable in the neighborhood circuit.
Wonderland Wandering Dress
Alice's classic blue dress with a white apron gets a mature redesign here. Heartopia's version uses an asymmetrical silhouette with card suit motifs and frilly lace throughout. An accessory set adds lace sleeves and a heart-shaped choker with a ribbon, and the bunny ear leather shoes complete the look. If you want a full cohesive Alice outfit, this is the anchor piece.
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The Wonderland Wandering Dress pairs cleanly with the Fantastical Cheshire Cat Back Decor for a complete Wonderland aesthetic without needing every item in the banner.
Hedgehog & Flamingo Croquet Mallet
This one doubles as a functional item: it's a replacement skin for your axe, modeled after the Queen of Hearts' croquet mallet from the source material. The design features a flamingo with a hedgehog strapped to the top with a bow. Axe skins that fit a specific build theme are always useful, and this one is hard to replicate with any other item in the game.
Teapot Set Headwear
A pet outfit rather than a player cosmetic, the Teapot Set Headwear puts a full teapot and cup on your pet's head alongside a frilly lace collar. It's niche, but if you're building a tea party-themed home and want your pet to match, nothing else in the banner comes close.
Best items from the Duke Bunny banner
The second banner leans into the White Rabbit's aesthetic, with additions from the Mad Hatter and Cheshire Cat to round things out.
Fantastical Duke Bunny Top Hat
This headpiece is genuinely one-of-a-kind. It's designed to resemble the White Rabbit in anthropomorphic form, with a steampunk-styled hat adorned with a pocket watch. A hood version is also available for players who want the aesthetic without the full rabbit head transformation. Both are strong picks, but the full hat is the more memorable option.
Bunny Trumpeter Bubble Machine
The Bunny Trumpeter Bubble Machine is a handheld item that functions as a bubble machine. It's styled after the White Rabbit's trumpet, gilded brass with a banner, and there's a small white rabbit stuffed inside the horn. Bubble machines are always crowd-pleasers in the neighborhood circuit, and the detail work here is above average compared to standard handheld items.
Cheshire Cat Transformation Outfit (pet)
For pet owners, the Cheshire Cat Transformation Outfit turns your dog or cat into the Cheshire Cat with his signature stripes and smile. The outfit includes a small tie and a heart-shaped bell. It's the companion piece to the Cheshire Cat Back Decor from the first banner, and the two work well together for a consistent theme.
Fantastic Cheshire Cat Top Hat
If you want the Cheshire Cat's presence without spending all your Exhibition Tickets on the full pet costume, the Fantastic Cheshire Cat Top Hat is a solid compromise. It blends the Duke Bunny's gothic lolita styling with the Cheshire Cat sitting on the brim. The laced-up hat design means it works outside of strict Wonderland builds too.
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Exhibition Tickets are limited, so decide early whether you're prioritizing player cosmetics or pet outfits. Trying to collect both Cheshire Cat items from different banners will stretch your budget thin.
Best items from the Labyrinth banner
The third banner is entirely focused on home decoration and build permits. If you're working on a neighborhood circuit build, this is where the real value sits.
Labyrinth Spinning Teacup
The Labyrinth Spinning Teacup replicates a theme park teacup ride, with spinning cups surrounding a large teapot that pours out diamonds. The source material notes it pairs well with roller coaster parts for theme-park-style builds. It's one of the more elaborate interactive furniture pieces in the banner.
Card Labyrinth Tower Roof
This build permit adds turrets with white rabbits, heart motifs, and waving flags to your rooftop. If you've been frustrated with the standard roof options in Heartopia's builder, this is a meaningful upgrade for players going for a Wonderland or fantasy castle aesthetic.
Labyrinth Stained Glass Window
The Labyrinth Stained Glass Window features a portrait of the Queen of Hearts and works as a statement centerpiece in any room. Stained glass items are consistently popular in Heartopia builds because of how they interact with lighting, and this one has a strong enough design to stand alone as a focal point.
Huge Cotton Rose
The Huge Cotton Rose (along with two other giant flower types and a massive mushroom in the same banner) lets you play with scale in your home's lot. Making characters look small against oversized plants is a reliable design trick, and having three oversized plant options from a single banner gives you real flexibility.
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The Labyrinth banner items work best together. Combining the Spinning Teacup, Tower Roof, Cotton Rose, and Stained Glass Window in a single build creates a coherent Wonderland theme that's difficult to achieve with items from other banners.
How should you prioritize your Exhibition Tickets?
The honest answer depends on whether you care more about your avatar or your home. The Wandering Traveler and Duke Bunny banners are stronger for players who want standout wearables, while the Labyrinth banner is the better spend for dedicated builders.
If you only have tickets for one banner, the Wandering Traveler banner has the highest density of useful items: the animated Cheshire Cat backpack, a full outfit with accessories, and a functional axe skin all in one place. The Duke Bunny banner is worth pulling if the steampunk rabbit aesthetic appeals to you or if you want the bubble machine as a social item. The Labyrinth banner is a must for anyone building a themed home, but has less appeal if you're primarily a cosmetic collector.
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