LEGO Animal Crossing returns!
Posted by CapnRex101,
LEGO Animal Crossing was conspicuously absent from the January range, other than a polybag, but a new set has been unveiled today.
77059 Timmy & Tommy's Fun Day Out moves away from the theme's normal format, instead featuring two brick-built figures in an attractive nature scene. We do not know the price at the moment, but the set contains 513 pieces and will be released on August 1st.
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One of the few remaining themes that was still focusing on playsets has now fallen to the display mania...
Awwwwww! Who doesn't love the Nooklings? Bit of a shame to see stickers being used in an AC set, though.
Hopefully there'll be more minifig-based sets at some point. I still want my Agent S!
If it's a one-time thing, I'm good, it looks nice, but I hope there's more playsets coming like the ones we already got!
@Oeuf0platieN said:
"One of the few remaining themes that was still focusing on playsets has now fallen to the display mania..."
agreed 100%. It's sad to see another very good theme go down this path...
Collectable minifigure series please.
Look Nintendo, you see how nice that Iron Man statue looks. Let LEGO make a Samus statue. Don’t use crappy sales of crappy Metroid Prime 4 to dissuade you.
People will buy it.
these are so adorable
@Oeuf0platieN said:
"One of the few remaining themes that was still focusing on playsets has now fallen to the display mania..."
HA! I was just thinking the same thing. I find it all a bit puzzling. I feel like in recent years, Lego finally recognized the massive appeal of mini-figures, especially in themes like Star Wars and Marvel/DC. Minifigures are a massive draw and people will buy sets solely because they want some fig or another. And so after realizing that kids AND adults freaking love mini-figures, what is their strategy? Churn out a seemingly endless parade of display pieces without mini-figures.
@JDawg5 said:
" @Oeuf0platieN said:
"One of the few remaining themes that was still focusing on playsets has now fallen to the display mania..."
HA! I was just thinking the same thing. I find it all a bit puzzling. I feel like in recent years, Lego finally recognized the massive appeal of mini-figures, especially in themes like Star Wars and Marvel/DC. Minifigures are a massive draw and people will buy sets solely because they want some fig or another. And so after realizing that kids AND adults freaking love mini-figures, what is their strategy? Churn out a seemingly endless parade of display pieces without mini-figures. "
People also like buildable figures though?
Honestly the whining about buildable figures every time a set doesn't focus on minifigs bums me out a lot as someone who grew up with themes like Bionicle. I used to love building articulated characters that you could play with and pose, so the fact that modern themes can often do that for characters of any style with regular System bricks (and an ever expanding variety of joint styles to choose from) has been exciting to me more often than not. But a lot of people don't seem to care about sets beyond the minifigures, sometimes even to the degree that it feels like they don't particularly care about the builds at all (i.e. the core trait that makes a set "Lego").
@Lyichir said:
" @JDawg5 said:
" @Oeuf0platieN said:
"One of the few remaining themes that was still focusing on playsets has now fallen to the display mania..."
HA! I was just thinking the same thing. I find it all a bit puzzling. I feel like in recent years, Lego finally recognized the massive appeal of mini-figures, especially in themes like Star Wars and Marvel/DC. Minifigures are a massive draw and people will buy sets solely because they want some fig or another. And so after realizing that kids AND adults freaking love mini-figures, what is their strategy? Churn out a seemingly endless parade of display pieces without mini-figures. "
People also like buildable figures though?
Honestly the whining about buildable figures every time a set doesn't focus on minifigs bums me out a lot as someone who grew up with themes like Bionicle. I used to love building articulated characters that you could play with and pose, so the fact that modern themes can often do that for characters of any style with regular System bricks (and an ever expanding variety of joint styles to choose from) has been exciting to me more often than not. But a lot of people don't seem to care about sets beyond the minifigures, sometimes even to the degree that it feels like they don't particularly care about the builds at all (i.e. the core trait that makes a set "Lego")."
What struck me about this set is that it looks extremely playable, too. No, it isn’t compatible with the minifig playsets, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a playset. You don’t always need minifigs to play with things after you’ve finished playing with the bricks to build them.
@EtudeTheBadger said:
"Awwwwww! Who doesn't love the Nooklings? Bit of a shame to see stickers being used in an AC set, though.
Hopefully there'll be more minifig-based sets at some point. I still want my Agent S!"
I'm not seeing stickers in this set. Can you identify which pieces have stickers?
@tomahawker said:
"I'm not seeing stickers in this set. Can you identify which pieces have stickers?"
Timmy's Nook Inc. pennant, and the fishes in the water. I even think the Nooklings' shirts might be stickered, though I can't be sure.
I could see them doing a buildable figure of K.K. Slider if this sells well.
@EtudeTheBadger said:
" @tomahawker said:
"I'm not seeing stickers in this set. Can you identify which pieces have stickers?"
Timmy's Nook Inc. pennant, and the fishes in the water. I even think the Nooklings' shirts might be stickered, though I can't be sure."
Thanks. I wasn't getting the full sized images, but I can see them now.
Looks like Animal Crossing has fallen down the Display Slop path as well. Is there any hope left?
@Oeuf0platieN said:
"One of the few remaining themes that was still focusing on playsets has now fallen to the display mania..."
Why do you think this is display ad not play. It is a scaled up set with two figures that can be played with. The box even shows play features built into the set. It is aimed at 10+ kids.
Nice bridge.
I can't tell what the arms are made of, something existing?
@Roloff said:
"I can't tell what the arms are made of, something existing?"
They almost look like arm pieces from the seventies.
Look at the animals crossing the bridge.
@CCC said:
" @Oeuf0platieN said:
"One of the few remaining themes that was still focusing on playsets has now fallen to the display mania..."
Why do you think this is display ad not play. It is a scaled up set with two figures that can be played with. The box even shows play features built into the set. It is aimed at 10+ kids.
"
The transparent bricks to fix the butterfly and the balloons are rather found in display models honestly. And the promotional pictures include a shot of the model on a side table on its own, which is the kind of pictures we usually find included for larger display models than for smaller playsets. I coupd be wrong but previous Animal Crossing sets have shown sets on their own, but on the same table that children used in other pictures.
I do agree tho, it's a kind of hybrid between a playset and a display piece... but it's still a step into larger scale sets that what we're used to with this theme, a departure that moves it closer to what LEGO is doing with its other licensed themes.
What is that green Technic pin at the base of the butterfly connected to? I can’t make out how it’s connected to the rounded plate underneath. Is it a new piece or just an existing piece I didn’t know about?
Oh no!! At least my money is safe from me purchasing this!! Yuck!
It's definitely an interesting set, and I like the construction. But I don't think it's nearly as interesting as making a whole town using the existing minifigure scale.
Using the Nooklings as the characters for this is also a bit confusing imo. I'd have done a fan-favorite villager, or at least Rover or Isabelle.
Oh, look, more special molds! Yay! LEGO has evidently decided cranking out new, special molds at their old 2004 rate is perfectly fine now. Well, good for them. Who needs limitations in the system when you can just mold excuses to get around them?
This set introduces those arm pieces (presumably with bar attachment at the shoulder-end) and, unless I'm mistaken, that 4x6x2/3 rounded slope/tile for the faceplates is also new here. Not to mention the other new molds being introduced by other sets revealed today... Sigh.
@ClassicSteam said:
"What is that green Technic pin at the base of the butterfly connected to? I can’t make out how it’s connected to the rounded plate underneath. Is it a new piece or just an existing piece I didn’t know about?"
The rounded plate and pin are one piece, it's been around for a few years: https://brickset.com/parts/design-65826
@Lyichir said:
" @JDawg5 said:
" @Oeuf0platieN said:
"One of the few remaining themes that was still focusing on playsets has now fallen to the display mania..."
HA! I was just thinking the same thing. I find it all a bit puzzling. I feel like in recent years, Lego finally recognized the massive appeal of mini-figures, especially in themes like Star Wars and Marvel/DC. Minifigures are a massive draw and people will buy sets solely because they want some fig or another. And so after realizing that kids AND adults freaking love mini-figures, what is their strategy? Churn out a seemingly endless parade of display pieces without mini-figures. "
People also like buildable figures though?
Honestly the whining about buildable figures every time a set doesn't focus on minifigs bums me out a lot as someone who grew up with themes like Bionicle. I used to love building articulated characters that you could play with and pose, so the fact that modern themes can often do that for characters of any style with regular System bricks (and an ever expanding variety of joint styles to choose from) has been exciting to me more often than not. But a lot of people don't seem to care about sets beyond the minifigures, sometimes even to the degree that it feels like they don't particularly care about the builds at all (i.e. the core trait that makes a set "Lego")."
I think if there were play sets with minifigures as well there would not be an issue, as such. But this is the only Animal Crossing set this year and it is disappointing if you were expecting more minifigure-scale sets.
@ClassicSteam said:
"What is that green Technic pin at the base of the butterfly connected to? I can’t make out how it’s connected to the rounded plate underneath. Is it a new piece or just an existing piece I didn’t know about?"
I can't figure it out either! The other photos where it's removed don't indicate anything that it would attach to... Maybe it's just a poor render?
@ClassicSteam it's part 6301284. If you look on the product page, the picture where the kid is building the set, you can see it better.
@Oeuf0platieN said:
"One of the few remaining themes that was still focusing on playsets has now fallen to the display mania..."
This is a play set though? The promo images feature a young girl playing with the Timmy and Tommy builds, plus there’s a 10+ age rating on the box. While I’m disappointed there’s no Timmy and Tommy minifigures to go with the rest of the existing NPCs, this is still in the same spirit of the other sets, just scaled-up.
@BLProductions said:
"Oh, look, more special molds! Yay! LEGO has evidently decided cranking out new, special molds at their old 2004 rate is perfectly fine now. Well, good for them. Who needs limitations in the system when you can just mold excuses to get around them?
This set introduces those arm pieces (presumably with bar attachment at the shoulder-end) and, unless I'm mistaken, that 4x6x2/3 rounded slope/tile for the faceplates is also new here. Not to mention the other new molds being introduced by other sets revealed today... Sigh. "
Why do you think those molds won't be used elsewhere? Neither of these seems particularly specialized—the face plate is a basic shape with a big surface area for printing, and the arms seem to have some pretty useful connection points in a compact space. When I saw these my first thought was "I bet those'll be reused in the Pokémon theme or something".