This Animal Crossing Nook's Cranny Set Is Being Officially Reviewed By LEGO

Is it me, or Animal Crossing would make even an more fertile ground for Lego sets than Mario? The latter franchise's prominent natural occurrence of bricks notwithstanding.

They're nice renders, but I don't see this making it. At least in this version.

Nintendo will be focused on Mario until March, and then probably move onto something else.

A complete Lego replica of my Island. That would be fantastic.

Is this going to be extortionately priced like their NES?

This would be great! They often work with the designers to tweak and improve the ideas, so I imagine the shop interior would be spruced up a bit, plus some bespoke minifig heads. A couple of Lego Nooklings would be adorable!

Of course if they do this we need The Able sisters, Town Hall, Museum etc...

Well, Lego once had Fabuland, which is basically the precursor to Animal Crossing, but they weren't very proud of it. Haha.

Still, my kids loved the Minecraft Lego and while I really don't understand the Mario Lego, an Animal Crossing Lego would be insane!

This is more like what I was expecting in the first place, although I still think Hyrule Castle, Peach's Castle and Bowser's Castle have the most potential.

Looks really good! An island set would be awesome.

Tbh. This is the type of lego sets that they should do. Even with Mario. Decent replication of Houses, Castles etc...

No gimmicks. Just straight forward Lego.

I can see the whole AC line doing well if it followed this route.

As lovely as this would be, this won't get past licencing stage since Nintendo will want all of the profits and not give anything to the creators.

It's the same with the Zelda sets that constantly get voted for by the community.

Put Timmy and Tommy Amiibo figurine and Voila! 😀

It's actually a good collaboration and good idea and would be preferable to me than the LEGO Mario sets.

This is such a no brainer. They could do a whole bunch of minifigure series with Animal crossing characters. They could have hundreds of characters all based off of a relatively small number of moulds (similar to how the Animal Crossing characters are reskins on the same animal models). Makes very good business sense!

Any chance of a Zelda set? Would insta buy that!

I wouldn't be surprised if this is rejected because Lego are already working on their own Animal Crossing sets...

This is beautiful! My son would freak out from pour excitement.

The Naruto Ramen shop, the Temple of Hermit and the Zen Bonsai would definitely get my votes

@Menchi all I want (and would pay for) is the cartridge, to be honest. $20? And that’s pushing it - considering how few bricks it is...
If MAYBE pay for the NES system, but I’m in no way buying that stupid TV, which accounts for half the pieces in the set and thus DOUBLED the cost of the set.
It’s a shame.

If LEGO had sold the set alone and then sold cartridges separately, I’d have given them a few pay checks....

I supported this one. One of the only sets I supported. I would buy it, it looks awesome!

Okay, this is adorable. I'll take your entire stock!

Lego Animal Crossing?

What a genuinely brilliant cross over.

@WreckitRyan Hahaha yeah

Mario may have some fit...

Nintendo obviously won't let this pass the licensing stage since it's just a "simple" fan creation. The fact that this even made it to the official review however will prove that the AC brand holds a lot of interest and potential for a LEGO crossover, so I'm pretty confident they will go to this franchise next after Mario, or maybe after Zelda lol

Also, the other 35 items on the list are wonderful creations! I want almost all of them, and then I'm noticing a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang model in the first 2020 official review list... the LEGO brand really is filled with limitless possibilities!

I'd prefer Animal Crossing sets and figurines to be made by Epoch, the creators of Sylvanian Families/Calico Critters. Not that I'm against LEGO or anything. It would be fun to build and display. I just think Epoch would do a better job.

This is sooooo much better than the Mario sets we've had!

But knowing Lego, a set like this is likely to be between 80 and 100 dollars.

Zelda is a safer bet, AC's hype has reached the top already

I want to, but I cant afford LEGO.

@Daniel36 I remember playing with those figures and their tricycles and stuff (even though looking it up now, I can only find motorbikes... Maybe my memory is a bit foggy), at a friend's place, never had them myself. They were from that friend's parents even, if I remember correctly. Or older brother. Don't know, my own lego's already had the more standard figures (and technic figures as well). But what do you mean, not too proud of it? I haven't seen them often, so I guess they had a short run indeed, but I never really thought about it. They were nice to play with.

Edit: I DID find them on the internet, both a version with two front wheels, and a version with two back wheels.

@Shambo In the Lego Movie game, at the start the narrator explains how Lego has different worlds, such s Wild West and such, and when Fabuland is shown, the narrator says something along the lines of "We don't talk about that one.", so I am guessing they are ashamed of it haha.

@Daniel36 I saw and even quite enjoyed the movie, but I don't really recall it to such details may have another look. I did in the meantime see that fabuland is quite pricey on ebay... But maybe that is just because it's ebay, and everything is quite pricey on there...

@Shambo Well it was in the game, not sure if it was in the movie, and I remember cuz I used to have them and I thought it was a funny joke.

I'd like to see LEGO Zelda next.