Could Gyroids Be Returning To Animal Crossing: New Horizons?

Sure, I wouldn't mind them coming back. Is there anyone who didnt like them?

@Kalmaro
"Is there anyone who didnt like them?"

I'm not a fan of Gyroid.
They are creepy somehow.
It based on Haniwa, a clay statue from Okinawa that will be buried during funeral.

sighs
I'm just sitting here...waiting. I loved collecting these, I wonder how many can be active at once this time, though. Usually it's 5.

I love gyroids, and I've been finished with my fossils for a while now so having something else to collect would be lovely. I'm still having fun with the game and have plenty to do, but I'm looking forward to the updates!

@Anti-Matter
That is incorrect. My wife is Okinawan. I’m currently living in Okinawa and I’ve been a part of 3 family member’s funerals and nothing remotely resembling those statues has been anywhere near the tombs where the funeral urns are placed.

A quick google search shows they were used in mainland japan a loooong time ago.

On topic. I really hope they bring these back. I love having them singing away when I enter my house. It’s like they’re welcoming me home.😄

Their origins notwithstanding the purpose of such figures is clearly to bring cheer, they play flippen beep boop sounds.

Obviously a few of them are creepy but only a vague and silly way. They bring a lot of character to the game so it's hard to imagine them being abandoned now.

I'm fairly certain that MOST of the features from previous games will be making a return in one way or another gradually over time. If we're lucky we'll get Brewster at the same time. And I have to say I'm enjoying the gradual rollout. In the past I've felt a bit overwhelmed at the start wanting to work on collecting EVERYTHING and feeling like I was losing time. Now I feel like I've better been able to focus at a more leisurely pace on projects that I imagine will be done or close to done once the next collection starts.

I like how they gave Coco (a gyroid looking bunny) a house interior that looks like she lives comfortably in an ancient burial site.

It's a nice reference to gyroids and their origin. Hopefully they'll bring them back.

Not that fussed to be honest, creepy things with very little aesthetic value.

I think they should evolve them into something new - with similar, but expanded appeal - like lovable domestic robots maybe. Gyroids are just a bit too esoteric for a game based on simple joys.

According to a recent datamine gyroids will be donatable to the museum.

This being my 1st Animal Crossing, I am glad I showed up right when simply the best version came to street. I look forward to the gyroid experience. Also, I do wonder if all this "data mining" has Nintendo pulling their hair out per se since they tend to operate on a need-to-know basis with their consumers...a gentle push of the company into the 'new times.'

Bring them back please.

@RPGamer had a whole room for theme. Really helps getting highest Hha rank

I hope so. I really miss them.

Only a matter of time. They and the cafe are already in the code. Stuff that substantial doesnt get left in the code if not intended for use

@johnvboy they're worth a lot of hha points

I never cared much for them in New Leaf so always sold them.

No, no, no, please. It was just extra work collecting and selling them after rain or snow. This game is quickly starting to feel like work ... again ... so one fewer must-do is welcome. Maybe just sell them in the shops, so they can be ignored.

@PickledKong64,

This may be true, but still not convinced.

Don't got the space as is, rather give me more expansions to my house, like the rooms in the basement and attic, increase my storage, which is full. Then we can talk about more collectables.

Before we bring back gyroids how about bringing back things we care about, like CJ, Flick and Redd? None of them on my island this week. I have 2 pieces of art in my museum, 4 toy bugs and only 2 toy fish. They take way too long to appear but the depression of finding Gulliver on my beach or Sahara walking around - Sahara seems like EVERY week without fail - is growing. 😩

@DanTheSausage The game needs an outside "shed" for lawnmowers, wheelbarrows and stuff, or the house to get a side door "garage" to make into a gym or store our bikes and scooters, even if we can't go in them. I guess these are foreign concepts in Japan though, maybe the EU as well, but here on the states a garage is a great place to store stuff, and most homes have a shed.

The game let's us change our wardrobes in a cooler, should let us store stuff in some kind of containment unit outside. Fingers crossed.

@johnvboy suit yourself

@Kalmaro hated them. Half of them were ugly, they had no point other than making noise and new leaf had no type of storage system for them. The worst part was they would make digging fossils take longer, however in new horizons fossils don’t sell for as much

@rjejr data mining already showed you would get one per week and the ones that didn’t show will take priority the next week.

@rjejr that would be because Sahara is programmed to show up once each week minimum, while some, like Redd, aren't and you have to rely on RNG that they show

@Strictlystyles I KNEW fossils sold for more in the past. It felt like I wasn't getting much.

@Kalmaro another Gyroids hater here. If they are around when New Horizons launches, I'm sure my fossil museum will still be half full and not almost done.

that would be cool

@Phostachio they should have a gyroid section of the museum.

@PickledKong64,

Not having at go at you fella, it's just a part of the games I have never really liked, and their role in new horizons with Lloyd was perfect as far as I was concerned,.

Oh god; please no.

feel like garbage just want her back (the gyroids)

@Axel-Bit @Strictlystyles So which "1 per week" am I getting if Sahara shows up every week? Neither CJ, Flick nor Redd showed up this week and those are really the the only 3 I care about. Both Labelle and Kicks stuff can be sold in Mabels and Leifs stuff an be sold in Nooks Cranny. And Gulliver was funny the 1st couple of times but now he serves no purpose. And Sahara and are blind loot boxes can never come back, I have everything I need on sale elsewhere.

CJ, Flick and Redd should be the 3 that show up every week, like KK on Saturday and Daisey Mae on Sunday. The other 2 weekdays can rotate Gulliver and Sahara. The salespeople like Leif, Kicks and Labelle who never leave their spot oin front of the residence center shouldn't even count as the wanderers since they don't move from their spots. So every day could have 1 non-moving AND 1 roving visitor. Or only 1, or neither. But 1 wanderer and 1 non-mover max per day.

And the moron camping - moron b/c they go camping on an island but never leave their tent - shouldn't count since they ever leave the tent. Or they can cou t as a non-mover. If they did actually leave the tent then they could count as a wanderer that day.

I don't count Celeste, she shows up occasionally at night and basically does nothing. And I don't think she does, I feel like others are there that day as well as I never see her until late and there is always 1 person on my island. Spirit ghost doesn't seem to count either, he seems very random. I may have even had nights with both Celeste and ghost, but maybe not.

I'm just saying, they could easily make our islands a little more interesting, graphics and AI can't be pushing the Switch so hard it can't handle a camper, sellor and CJ on the same day.

@johnvboy I dont need an explanation dude I just said suit yourself. Really no need to get offensive

@Kinpatsu The part about Okinawa is incorrect, however the information of Gyroids based on Haniwa figurines is correct.

@Anti-Matter Personally, I think that little creepy factor is part of their charm. Just like with Coco and Lucky, who might be dead/undead but are such nice and likeable regardless of that

@roy130390 Which I didn’t dispute. Was simply trying to correct the Okinawan culture part.👍

And I like Coco for the exact same reason. Kind of a zombie villager to me.

In fact I wish I could get Coco for a villager then gift them a ton of gyroids so they had them piled up in their home.😆

I'm all for more content being added to the game. Any and all reasons to keep playing.

I am neutral toward gyroids. I think they can be neat, but I also feel like they end up as storage clutter. I remember just dumping them all in the museum spare rooms in New Leaf...

What I'd like to see, is another museum expansion, for gyroids. I finished my fossils the other day and this would give me another thing to collect in their place.

@Kinpatsu Sorry if it felt like a correction haha, I sometimes clarify that stuff in the comments section just to avoid missunderstandings from future readers.

That's a great idea, I also want Coco but my main interest is Pietro. I got Lucky so at least I have the "creepy villager" part of my island covered haha.

Just looking at the floor plan for the art wing, I find it curious for the door to be centered when you head up the stairs, yet the entire art gallery is right aligned. While this certainly isn't concrete proof Gyroids are coming, something certainly is as it would be fitting to have a second room that was aligned left to match the art gallery. -thoughts from a designer

@PickledKong64,

Just back up a little, when did I ever get offensive?, I just did nor share your opinion on the Gyroids pure and simple, you like them I am not a fan, so don't make problems when there are none, there has been no offence from my side towards you in any way.

@Heavyarms55 Congrats on finishing the fossils. I've been missing 1 or 2 - 2 empty tables next to each other so I have a feeling it's only 1.

I thought art was the new fossils but not at this once every 3 weeks we get one pace.

Wouldn't mind something else to dig up once we finish fossils, though I have been putting them on my island. Only just found out a few days ago some of the heads have 2 poses. I'm an AC noob.

I would love for them to come back even though I think lyoid is adorbs I really want the other gyroids coming back

@johnvboy then what the hell was the second comment for? Could've left it at that. I said suit yourself and you give me an explanation.

@rjejr Yeah if this doesn't change, I could imagine sitting here in May 2021 and still, MAYBE having like half the art.

I have heard that villagers will randomly send you art. But not that I've seen.

@Heavyarms55 I play the game every day and today was the first time EVER that I had no mail in my mailbox. I usually buy KK records every day plus 1 mail from an inhabitant but they usually don't send me gifts, just friendly letters. No art though.

There are loads of missing features in NH, we could also do with buying furniture directly from villagers in their homes, inviting or being invited into villagers homes. Larger ground floor rooms at home as per previous games, shops for leif, kicks etc........

@PickledKong64,

I understand that, but where was the offence in my comment?, you still have not answered that, you seem to be saying I replied too many times, fair enough let's just end it at that.

@X68000,

Was never a big fan of being invited to the other villagers homes, I would accept then find myself doing something else at the time, never liked the time restriction on it.

@Burning_Spear The game is as much or as little work as you want to make it. If it's feeling like a chore, that's not the games fault!

@rjejr I've cataloged a bunch of stuff from other people, so I order the 5 item limit like every day at this point. lol

@Heavyarms55 "I've cataloged a bunch of stuff from other people, so I order the 5 item limit like every day at this point. lol"

I've read this many times, and our previous posts, but I still can't figure it out.😢 I hardly buy anything from anybody so have no idea - I think you mean from the Nook Miles redemption regarding my mention of the KK album purchase, or sending mail to people on your island - 1 day I sent 3 but I've only ever sent happy birthday wishes otherwise, to the 2 people who had birthdays. Or Nook's Cranny only lets us buy 5 of each item but I only buy the "specials".

Sorry, might be my noob showing. 😉

@rjejr When we talk about cataloging what we mean is - when you pick up an item, it's registered in your nook shopping, then you can drop the item and give it back to whomever. Later you can order a copy of it for yourself.

@Heavyarms55 OK thanks, that clears it up a bit. I have purchased duplicates of items I wanted that way, like the bell bag rug.

Come to think of it, what does a bell look like? Gonna spare ya the trouble and go Google it myself b/c now I'm curious, is it a coin, a bill, a flower?

Edit: Well that was anticlimactic, seems like it's just that 100 bell coin with no real lore. I guess smaller amounts are probably just smaller coins.

@rjejr I mean what did you expect it to look like? It's just money. lol

@Heavyarms55 If it's just money then why is it called bells? Do they call their doorbells doormoney?

@rjejr Why call dollars, dollars? Why is yen, yen? It's a fictional name for a fictional currency. shrug