I'm about to give up on this. I don't even know how many fails I've had. I've been trying since day 1 and I just used a breeding boost and a hatching boost to speed breed. I used gold until I got (again!) 18 hour fails. I've had to buy the common dragons needed for Tales for a few months, but no more. Even though I was compensated for the Peppermint Mocha debacle. This is ridiculous!
I've been hanging by a thread for space to put dragons anyway, so rather than spend the gold to go forward with this event, I'll just stop if i don't breed it. I'll keep trying to breed it until it becomes impossible to complete this event, but I'm not spending any gold to do it. It's a money pit, a never ending cycle of pay to play. I use a little gold to help with Leaderboards and World events, but nowhere close to the 200 it takes for Tales just to get 1 commom dragon. No more.