“ | Could it be? It is! It's the Epic Wubbox! This is what happens when select cubic specimens are allowed to 'ripen' in the underground vault where this species was first discovered. While still preserving its connection with the Electricity Element and acting like a neuron for its slumbering Colossal, the powered down form of this Monster has been affected by extended exposure to the ambient environment of its Island home. We're anxious to discover what it looks and sounds like, but a significant consequence of its elemental transformation is the selection of Monsters required to power it up...
This Monster is the pickiest of them all! Neither Commons nor Rares will suffice - only Natural Epics can be boxed within it. |
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— Inactive description |
“ | The Epic Wubbox is the antithesis of the Rare variant, who traveled abroad and became more in step with the technologies and forms of communication of the human world. Instead, it communes more deeply with its host Colossal's Elemental affiliation than any of its cousins, which is reflected both in its appearance and in its musical performance. The Epics who shrunk down and are now living inside it attest that the virtual world of the Playground has never been more enjoyable, with a slew of endlessly entertaining Monster games to choose from. Wouldn't it be neat if we could somehow experience the fun and friendly competition of a Wubbox's Playground ourselves? We wonder... | ” |
— Active description |
Description
Epic Wubbox is a Supernatural Monster available on the Natural Islands. It was added alongside Epic Reebro on September 22nd, 2021 during Version 3.3.0, although it has been added to each island on separate dates. Epic Wubbox is obtained in a way unlike other Monsters. It is purchased in the Market for 1 Diamond . When placed, it is placed as its Box form, which is activated by boxing all required Monsters. Unlike Common Wubbox, Epic Wubbox requires Epic Monsters.
Epic Wubbox has a decent Coin production, comparable to a Rarethereal when collecting once per day, or to a Common Ethereal Monster when collecting twice per day. Due to its large size and bed count, it is not recommended for farming Coins, despite its high rate and maximum income.
Song
Plant Island
Instrument: Wooden percussion, bass drum, distorted baritone saxophone ()
Epic Wubbox's sound is made up of rhythmic wooden-sounding percussive noises. It also produces a louder wooden clacking noise. It also produces a metallic synth growling noise, relatively similar to the start of its regular counterpart's Plant Island track.
VSTs
Virtual Studio Technology is an audio plugin software that has libraries of sound effects and synthesized instruments. Within these libraries are SoundFonts, which are the individual effects and instruments themselves. The Monster-Handlers utilize several VSTs to create the sounds of instrumental and sometimes vocal Monsters.
- Synth Growl
VST: Kontakt
Sound library: Kontakt Factory Library
Path: Band > Horns
SoundFont: Baritone Sax (with an effect applied)
- Rattle
VST: PLAY/Opus
Sound library: EastWest StormDrum 2
Path: Woods and Shakers
SoundFont: Aboriginal Percussion (A3 note)
- Clap (partial)
VST: PLAY/Opus
Sound library: EastWest Stormdrum 2
Path: Woods and Shakers
SoundFont: Clacks
The VST for the rest of Plant Island Epic Wubbox's sounds have not yet been found.
Cold Island
Instrument: Timpani, chime, distorted baritone saxophone ()
Similar to on Plant Island, Epic Wubbox makes percussive noises, but on this island, it makes a chime/jingle bell sound. It also plays a timpani drum, and its synth growls stay the same. It also makes a whooshing sound, that sounds similar to a car engine starting up; but failing to do so due to being in the cold for so long.
VSTs
Virtual Studio Technology is an audio plugin software that has libraries of sound effects and synthesized instruments. Within these libraries are SoundFonts, which are the individual effects and instruments themselves. The Monster-Handlers utilize several VSTs to create the sounds of instrumental and sometimes vocal Monsters.
- Synth Growl
VST: Kontakt
Sound library: Kontakt Factory Library
Path: Band > Horns
SoundFont: Baritone Sax (with an effect applied)
The VST for the rest of Cold Island Epic Wubbox's sounds have not yet been found.
Air Island
Instrument: Steam whistles and hisses, mechanical clacking and bass drums, distorted baritone saxophone ()
Similar to Epic Wubbox's other sounds, this Epic Wubbox makes percussive noises. On this island, however, it has different sounds: a steam whistle is heard, accompanied by hissing steam. It also makes some mechanical clacks that almost sound like clocks ticking. It retains the synth growls from its counterparts, however, it does NOT have a pure percussion part on this island.
VSTs
Virtual Studio Technology is an audio plugin software that has libraries of sound effects and synthesized instruments. Within these libraries are SoundFonts, which are the individual effects and instruments themselves. The Monster-Handlers utilize several VSTs to create the sounds of instrumental and sometimes vocal Monsters.
- Synth Growl
VST: Kontakt
Sound library: Kontakt Factory Library
Path: Band > Horns
SoundFont: Baritone Sax (with an effect applied)
- Steam Whistle
Sound library: General Series 6000
Sound effect used: 57 - Train. Steam Whistle. On Board Moving Train. Many Blasts
The VST for Air Island Epic Wubbox's drums have not yet been found.
Water Island
Instrument: Distorted baritone saxophone, bubbles, radar noises and bass drums ()
Like Epic Wubbox's other sounds, Epic Wubbox retains the stomping drums and synth growls, while also emitting bubble sounds, water sloshes, and a radar noise. The synth growls are less rough on this island compared to the previous three.
VSTs
Virtual Studio Technology is an audio plugin software that has libraries of sound effects and synthesized instruments. Within these libraries are SoundFonts, which are the individual effects and instruments themselves. The Monster-Handlers utilize several VSTs to create the sounds of instrumental and sometimes vocal Monsters.
- Synth Growl
VST: Kontakt
Sound library: Kontakt Factory Library
Path: Band > Horns
SoundFont: Baritone Sax (with an effect applied)
The VST for the rest of Water Island Epic Wubbox's sounds have not yet been found.
Earth Island
Instrument: Distorted baritone saxophone, bass drums and clamshell bucket ()
On Earth Island, Epic Wubbox makes a loud noise similar to old rusty construction equipment's exhaust or horn, similar to on Water Island, except deeper and more like a rusty machine that needs oil with crumbling rock sounds underneath. After it has sung its first verse, it will start to make loud percussion noises.
VSTs
Virtual Studio Technology is an audio plugin software that has libraries of sound effects and synthesized instruments. Within these libraries are SoundFonts, which are the individual effects and instruments themselves. The Monster-Handlers utilize several VSTs to create the sounds of instrumental and sometimes vocal Monsters.
- Synth Growl
VST: Kontakt
Sound library: Kontakt Factory Library
Path: Band > Horns
SoundFont: Baritone Sax (with an effect applied)
The VST for the rest of Earth Island Epic Wubbox's sounds have not yet been found.
Gold Island
Audio Samples ():
Plant Phase:
Cold Phase:
Air Phase:
Water Phase:
Earth Phase:
Instruments:
All Phases: Distorted baritone saxophone, bass drums (except Cold and Water phases)
Plant Phase: Wooden percussion
Cold Phase: Timpani and glockenspiel
Air Phase: Steam whistles and hisses, mechanical clacking
Water Phase: Timpani, bubbles, and radar noises
Earth Phase: Clamshell bucket
Like all Epic Wubbox, it produces a metallic synth growling noise. In each phase, Epic Wubbox also plays in a similar style to its respective island's counterpart.
In its Plant phase, its sound is made up of rhythmic wooden-sounding percussive noises. It also produces a louder wooden clacking noise.
In its Cold phase, it makes a glockenspiel sound and its stomps play a timpani drum. It also makes a whooshing sound, the same or very similar to the one it plays on Cold Island.
In its Air phase, a steam whistle is heard, accompanied by hissing steam. It also makes some mechanical clacks that almost sound like clocks ticking.
In its Water phase, it emits bubble sounds, water sloshes, and a very faint radar noise.
In its Earth phase, it makes a clamshell/rocky percussion sound.
VSTs
Virtual Studio Technology is an audio plugin software that has libraries of sound effects and synthesized instruments. Within these libraries are SoundFonts, which are the individual effects and instruments themselves. The Monster-Handlers utilize several VSTs to create the sounds of instrumental and sometimes vocal Monsters.
- Synth Growl
VST: Kontakt
Sound library: Kontakt Factory Library
Path: Band > Horns
SoundFont: Baritone Sax (with an effect applied)
- Glockenspiel
VST: PLAY/Opus
Sound library: EastWest Hollywood Orchestral Percussion
Path: Metals
SoundFont: Glockenspiel
- Steam Whistle
Sound library: General Series 6000
Sound effect used: 57 - Train. Steam Whistle. On Board Moving Train. Many Blasts
The VST for the rest of Gold Island Epic Wubbox's sounds have not yet been found.
Breeding
The Epic Wubbox cannot be bred: it can only be purchased in the Market for 1 . Unlike its common and rare counterparts, Epic Wubbox requires Epic Monsters.
Activation
- Main article: Wubbox#Activation
The Epic Wubbox is activated just as the common or Rare Wubbox is. The only difference is that it only accepts Epic Monsters. On the Natural Islands, it requires all 15 Natural Epics.
Gold Island
Epic Wubbox is activated in a starkly different manner on Gold Island, being done in five phases of six Epic Monsters each, rather than all 30 Natural Epics at once. Each phase corresponds to one of the five Natural Elements and must be done in the order of the Natural Islands, that being Plant, Cold, Air, Water, and Earth.
Phase | Required Monsters |
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Plant Phase | |
Cold Phase | |
Air Phase | |
Water Phase | |
Earth Phase |
Using Diamonds
Just like its Common and Rare counterparts, Epic Wubbox can use Diamonds instead of boxing monsters. Diamonds can be used while having no monsters boxed, or while already having some. Each monster boxed reduces the price. Each monster equals the same amount of diamonds, despite some being harder to obtain. Due to Epic Wubbox's high Diamond cost, it's recommended to use this method sparingly.
The total cost for all 15 monsters is 750 and 50 for each monster.
On Gold Island, the cost of each phase is 3,000 and 500 for each monster, making for a grand total of 15,000 required to fully activate Epic Wubbox on Gold Island without boxing any Epic Monsters.
Likes
Every Monster has different things that they like. For every unique object that they like that's placed near the Monster, the Monster's happiness will increase by 25%. Placing more than one of the same liked item near a Monster won't increase its happiness by an additional amount. If there's a Unity Tree on the Island, items don't need to be near the Monster. Below are the things liked by Epic Wubbox:
- Star Rocks (requires level 12)
- G'joob (level 9) ()
- Tree Forte Tower (level 17) ()
- Ockulo Tree (level 13) (,, )
- Strombonin (level 9) ()
- Flappy Flag (level 9) ()
- Cold Globe (level 16) (,)
- Yawstrich (level 9) ()
- Dragon Tower (level 20) ()
- Innertuba (level 20) (,)
- Anglow (level 9) ()
- Floofy Nest (level 24) ()
- Swurlee Tree (level 17) (,)
- Hyehehe (level 9) ()
- Barbloo Statue (level 13) ()
See the Likes page to view a complete list of all Monsters' likes.
Statistics
Earning Rate and Maximum Income
Earning rate is in Coins per minute and depends on Happiness % (Likes increase Happiness) and Monster Level. Each Monster also has a maximum amount of income it can hold at a time. Increasing the Monster's Level also increases this limit.
Feeding Monsters
Each Monster needs to be fed four times before it reaches the next level. Increasing the Monster's level increases the Coins earned per minute, as well as the maximum Coins earned.
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More info can be found in the Feeding article.
Version History
Epic Wubbox originally was only available on Plant Island, but it has since been made available on 6 islands.
Date | Islands Released to | Version |
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September 22nd, 2021 | Plant Island | 3.3.0 |
December 8th, 2021 | Cold Island | 3.3.3 |
March 16th, 2022 | Air Island | 3.4.1 |
August 3rd, 2022 | Water Island Earth Island |
3.6.0 |
September 6th, 2023 | Gold Island | 4.0.0 |
Gallery
In-Game
Idle animations
Muted
Related Article: Mute
Powering Up
Transitioning (Gold Island)
Discovery Screen
Other In-Game
Parodies
Other
Possible Monster Names
To see all possible names for Epic Wubbox, see Monster Names.
Notes
- The sell price of Epic Wubbox increases with each additional monster boxed, although not exactly by an amount equal to the sell price of the boxed monster.
- The Gold Island variant is the only variant that has visible fingers and thumbs.
- On release, Epic Wubbox was not present in the Recording Studio, hence its tracks could not be recorded over. This was later fixed during Update 3.3.1.
- It was revealed during the HandlerCam Maintenance livestream that Epic Wubbox will go to more islands other than the Natural Islands and Gold Island, possibly the Fire Islands and Ethereal Island.
- Epic Wubbox costs the fewest amount of Diamonds out of anything in the Market, being priced at only one Diamond.
- This means that, unlike the other Wubbox variations, Epic Wubbox does not have a unique hatching time, as Monsters bought with Diamonds do not require incubation, and Epic Wubbox cannot be bred.
- However, it likely does have a failsafe incubation time to fall back onto in the off chance that it is somehow added to a Nursery with incubation time, though the only "legit" way to achieve this would be through a bug/glitch that has yet to be discovered or created.
- Currently, Epic Wubbox, along with the Celestials, are the only monsters that are obtained solely through spending Diamonds and have no other way to acquire it.
- Of these, only Epic Wubbox has an egg form, making it the only Monster that needs to be hatched in a Nursery but has no hatching time.
- This means that, unlike the other Wubbox variations, Epic Wubbox does not have a unique hatching time, as Monsters bought with Diamonds do not require incubation, and Epic Wubbox cannot be bred.
- Epic Wubbox suffered some bugs that were fixed shortly after its release. It didn't have a unique Memory Game sound, using its Common counterpart's sound instead, and its final animation on Plant Island was incorrect, in that it kept using the second animation, instead of switching back to the first one.
- The Inactive form of Epic Wubbox's variants resemble a tree house, a winter chalet, a hangar, a submarine, a steam shovel, and a Greek temple respectively.
- Each of these inactive forms are either a building or a machine, due to Epic Wubbox's Electricity Element.
- Epic Wubbox's Memory Game sounds are unique on Air Island and Water Island. Plant Island and Cold Island share one, while Earth Island and Gold Island share a different one.
- The energy cores of Epic Wubbox on all its islands match the colors of the Crystals of the Crystalline Castles, which belonged to each island when they were part of the Continent.
- Epic Wubbox, and a few of the Monsters on Shugabush Island (Oaktopus, Deedge, Furcorn, and Quibble), are the only Monsters to have unique appearances varying by island.
- Epic Wubbox is the only Monster to have more than one island-specific appearance.
- Epic Wubbox is the second Monster whose model extends beyond its box in the Market and Fabled Book of Monsters, the first being Epic Dandidoo, and the third being Rare Bowhead. This is only true after activation, however, with the exception of Plant Island and Air Island's variants.
- Epic Wubbox has the highest maximum income (over 900,000 ) and, when powered up, the second highest sell price (just under 3,500,000 , compared to Common Wubbox's roughly 56,250,000 plus anything boxed) in the game.
- It also technically has the lowest maximum income on Gold Island only, at 0 . In addition, it also has the lowest coin production rate at 0/min. This is due to Gold Island not allowing monsters to produce currency, however every other Monster has their production copied over from their main islands, despite not producing currency as well, excluding Epic Wubbox.
- When it debuted on Cold Island, there was a bug where Epic Wubbox's egg in the Nursery would be replaced with a red box with the Epic Monster egg shimmer overlaid on top it. Similarly, when it was released on Water and Earth Island, its egg was also bugged. It was fixed shortly after. This also happened with Epic Thrumble.
- On release, Epic Wubbox's Cold Island Memory Game icon had a violet jewel on its head. This isn't seen in-game, and it was quickly changed.
- Similar to Rare Wubbox, Epic Wubbox was released on both Water Island and Earth Island at the same time.
- However, unlike the Rare Wubbox release on those islands, this was not done in error, as Water Island's variant had been teased both the day before release, and in the SummerSong 2022's loading screen/trailer.
- The Epic Wubbox on Water and Earth Islands have several distinctions from their Plant, Cold, Air, & Gold variants:
- They are the only designs to reuse the Common Wubbox's mouth, though Earth Island's has a glow in it.
- They are the only designs to not use eye glow during any of their playing animations.
- Their animations are a lot smoother, similar to Common Wubbox.
- They are the only designs to not take the center spot in the Fabled Book of Monsters, instead both appearing to the right of Common Wubbox.
- Their synth growls sound smoother and less hoarse.
- They produce a snare sound with their arms.
- Their percussion track is the same as their first track, but without the synth growls.
- Earth Epic Wubbox is the only Epic Wubbox to not have its power core move within its torso during its idle animation.
- However, upon release, an animation bug caused Earth Epic Wubbox's power core to float out of its torso while muted. This was later fixed.
- Gold Epic Wubbox has the most tracks, with 15 (27 including transitions), while Air Epic Wubbox has the least tracks, with only one.
- On every island where Epic Wubbox shares an island with a Mythical Monster, that monster is a like of Epic Wubbox.
- Before their islands' respective Mythicals were released, Epic Wubbox's Cold, Water & Earth Island placeholder likes were the Blue Bubblerite Path, Green Bubblerite Path and Black Bubblerite Path respectively. Furthermore, if you had an Epic Wubbox on Water or Earth Island before the Mythical properly released on either island, it would still like the paths along with the Mythical after powering it up.
- Epic Wubbox (except for the Water one) now has updated activation animations to fit their inactive forms more.
- Some of Epic Wubbox's parts sound similar to other Monster tracks:
- Epic Wubbox's growling in its second track on Plant Island sounds rhythmically similar to Mammott's Plant Island track.
- Epic Wubbox's first pitched track on Water Island is rhythmically similar to Toe Jammer's track on Cold Island while its second pitched part is harmonically similar to it.
- Epic Wubbox's second pitched track on Water Island plays exactly like the castle bass' second track on Water Island. However, all of the B notes are tuned down by one octave on Epic Wubbox's sound, and the animation plays differently from the sound.
- Epic Wubbox's percussion track on Earth Island is rhythmically similar to Clackula's second track on Bone Island while its pitched part is rhythmically similar to Wubbox's Gold Island track.
- The text on the inactive Epic Wubbox say "WUB" in Monstrous.
- The text on the Earth Epic Wubbox's arm translates to "CAUTION".
- If its branches are included, a Level 15-20 Biggified Epic Wubbox on Plant Island is the largest obtainable Monster in the game.
- Epic Wubbox is the fifth Monster on Cold Island to have two tracks. The first is Mammott, the second is the Dipsters, the third is Tawkerr, and the fourth is Maggpi.
- At one point there was a bug where upon hatching an Epic Wubbox "egg" from the nursery, the Wubbox would be added to the Book of Monsters like with any other Monster, despite the fact that it was only intended to be added after powering up the Wubbox. This bug also happened with the Rare and Common variants. This has since been fixed.
- Gold Island Epic Wubbox was first announced and shown off during PAX West on September 1st, 2023.
- Gold Island Epic Wubbox is the only Epic Wubbox to not have its own unique egg.
- Gold Island Epic Wubbox's Gold Island design may be based on Greek Mythology. The similarities are with the leaf crown, the Wubbox's pistons that bear resemblances to columns on ancient Greek architecture, and the overall Greek mythology building aesthetic.
- Gold Island Epic Wubbox is the first Monster to change its design throughout the song.
- On Gold Island, there is a glitch where Epic Wubbox will sometimes disappear when transitioning from track to track.
- There is also a small glitch on Gold Island, where the gems on its fists, for the first part of the Water phase idle animation, change to the gems from the Air phase.
- When switching to an unpowered phase, Gold Island Epic Wubbox will perform a unique animation in its default state. It will replace it with the phase animation when that phase is powered.
- An Epic Wubbox on Gold Island must have all of its Elemental Phases powered up in order for another one to be placed.
- If a fish was to swim down one of Water Island Epic Wubbox's periscope eyes, it would be transported to the Playground.[1]
- The official name for the inactive form of Air Island Epic Wubbox is Metal Hangar.[2]
- Plant Island Epic Wubbox began as a Wubbox concept before it was scrapped because they wanted a unified design that would work on all islands. It was later reused when the first Epic Wubbox was released.[3]
References
Monsters | |||
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Epic Single Natural and Fire Element Epic Double Natural and Fire Element Epic Triple Natural and Fire Element Epic Quad Natural and Fire Element Epic Ethereal Single Element Epic Ethereal Double Element Epic Core Seasonal Epic Aux. Seasonal and Jam Boree Epic Mythical Double Ethereal Element Triple Ethereal Element Quint Ethereal Element Rare Single Natural and Fire Element Rare Double Natural and Fire Element Rare Triple Natural and Fire Element Rare Quad Natural and Fire Element Rare Quint Fire Element Rare Single Magical Element Rare Double Magical Element Rare Triple Magical Element Rare Quad Magical Element Rare Supernatural Rarethereal Single Element Rarethereal Double Element Rare Core Seasonal Rare Aux. Seasonal and Jam Boree Epic Single Natural and Fire Element Epic Double Natural and Fire Element Epic Triple Natural and Fire Element Epic Quad Natural and Fire Element Epic Ethereal Single Element Epic Ethereal Double Element Epic Core Seasonal Epic Aux. Seasonal and Jam Boree Epic Mythical |
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