I'm not terribly excited about the new EP because of so much focus on family because I rarely play with on going families and I age up babies and toddlers pretty fast. (I'm just not a baby,toddler person) I am, however, going to buy it for the new items and some of the new skills. I'm currently adding a lot of teenagers to the town I'm playing right now. I want to see what new things they can do and what will happen. Right now weddings are really hard to organize so they seem right and I'm hoping now it will be easier.
I am awfully disappointed there won't be a new town. I spend a lot of time bulldozing, building and rearranging existing towns so they feel a little more new.