I was so psyched to see the release of Big City in the news. Then when I actually went there and explored I was even more excited. I'm the type of person who likes figuring things out for myself, so I didn't want anyone's help in doing the quest. I was being told that it was taking people 6-8 hours to complete (because of what we now know was a bug related to the digging parts). Thankfully I wasn't even able to figure out where to go first until after that bug was fixed, so I finished the quest pretty quickly once I figured out how to get to the top area.

Anyway, I love everything about this island. The quest was fun and there's some really awesome furniture (the fans are awesome too). I'm a little saddened that there's no plans to add to it, but I'm hoping that's because there are other big updates in the works.

Awesome! I love rare spawns.

I believe you are correct in what you saw, as there are other "rare" versions of certain baddies in the game that often drop gold gralats (bomb rat, gold blob).