LEGO Animal Crossing Launches March 2024, Five Sets Announced

Lego did it better 40 years ago with its Fabuland sets.

Never expected to see Fabuland revived, but here we are.

Not sure why Nook's Cranny and Rosie's house have to be bought together. It's like they knew people wanted the shop by itself, so decided to throw an extra set in there to charge more for it. I do like that the trees are blossoming in the Julian's birthday set, since his birthday is March 15th... Okay, that's two weeks before they should blossom, but his birthday is in the spring, and the set reflects that at least.

Gotta say, those houses are pretty meh... I was expecting a huge house playset.

All I want is a Raymond minifg

Kinda disappointed in the sets, would’ve been completely satisfied with a large sized museum or Nook’s Cranny set… idk what this is

Only 4 years late. Or 4 months late if you wanted to buy these sets as holiday gifts. Reminds me of the Lego Friends sets, which we don’t own any of but think I bought a few for my nieces. Think I’ll just stick with the amiibo.

I'm a bit surprised that they look a bit basic and bit... dull maybe. Was expecting nook's cranny to be bigger. Bit underwhelmed

Holy smokes those prices. 💦 At first I was like, oh this isn't so bad, pretty cheap actually, then I saw what was actually included in each set and uh. Yeah nah.

@KayFiOS Lego does have a hand of adding additional stuff to the most wanted sets. Like for example the Harry Potter Gringotts Bank with the safes / minecart built below it.

They are at or over €0,10 / piece. Which really isn't expensive for licensed Lego. (Star Wars is often €0,12/piece) But the sets are really small. So mostly for buying the mini figures, and then the price really is bad.

The sets look fun, the houses are a bit small, but i find most recent building sets to be fairly small in terms of surface area compared to earlier sets. (Yeah, i'm a lego-boomer)

Nook's cranny would be better as one single bigger building IMO, but i love the attention to detail, the recipe cards, the plates with the K K Slider record covers on them, i'll be getting a few of those sets.

How do Lego and Nintendo combined keep screwing up what should be slam-dunk sets?! I was hoping for a wider range overall; simple sets and complicated sets. Something for every kind of fan. These are all clearly aimed at young children. No catering to the older fans whatsoever.

man i forget how expensive lego can be, these are pretty small and condensed sets. i love AC but im just not in the market to display these or play with them from my imagination

@MysticX Sets have gotten smaller, but more detailed overall. But these are just very small sets.

What's with the weird circles everywhere too? Why not proper bases?

I think a lot of people forget that these sets are aimed at children, mostly. Having said that, I do agree that they look extremely basic, even for children's playsets. Still, going to get Tom Nook and some others for sure. Really hoping for a Coco set somewhere along the line

Not really my style... Looks like I'll be heading to Bricklink for the characters, and then build my own sets to match

Looks super mid honestly. Thought that they were going to do more of the actual houses and furniture for each set.

@Wolfleaf use Bricklink for the figures, it'll save you money if you don't want the sets.

As a big fan of AC and Lego I thought I couldn't go wrong here. But the sets look cluttered and messy to me. I get these aren't adult-focused sets, but even so, there are many other sets that are much more detailed and still aimed at children.

While I don't find the prices outrageous (given the Lego norm) it's still a bit of a miss for me. If I'm going to pay $75 bucks I would rather just have a more detailed Nook's Cranny instead of tossing in the other house and both being subpar detail.

I'm not sure how much say Nintendo had in the design process, or if Lego is to blame, but it seems foolish not to have at least one set aimed at adult collectors. Given both AC and Lego have a massive adult following.

Just fronts instead of full four wall buildings is a massive disappointment, but I guess that's all we should expect from Lego these days.

The first few Minecraft sets were far better, but those have gone downhill as well.

Anyways, I was excited but I am glad the excitement is now dead, so I can spend my money elsewhere. No FOMO for me either.

Those prices are quite steep but BOY are they cute!

Is Isabelle the first smash character to have an official LEGO minifig?

Absolutely overjoyed with these sets..!

I love the extensibility of this all. I can already imagine adding platforms from the Mario sets (which I obviously already own) and trying to build my own ACNH house there.

And that cute net of Bunnie's!!

i actually really like the kapp'n tour and camping ones, (and the party set is cheap which is good), but yeah the buildings being only being 3 walls and not even technically that since it's horizontally cramped where they're only about 4-5 bricks wide is lame, even with the filler props they added. also, why does nook have a dog tail in one of the images? XD

I knew they'd miss the potential when it was announced but I never dreamt it would be this ugly. Nothing is recognizable. The trees, flowers, fruits, anything. It's like a bad fever dream of the actual games.

@Aurumonado minecraft steve got once ages ago

@Aurumonado LEGO x Super Smash Bros confirmed?!

So, yes, the houses are weirdly small. There are upsides to it though: very accessible pricing for LEGO sets and improved play access.

It also makes it more accessible to make your own additions, without needing a ton of other legos.

If you look at other ranges, where you need to spend at least double for the sets with the nice minifigs, well.. this seems more flexible.

I used to be a HUGE animal crossing hater, but one day a close friend told me to play it so I did.
Now I have put 135 hours into it, got 5 stars and still play from time to time.
Anyway, these look cool.

I'll pass. They look a little generic, plus the prices. Will get the mini figs separate if possible, but something tells me it'll be difficult.

That's some Nintendo Tax for sure, those sets are small.

honestly, just having the figures and specialized print pieces is more than enough. the lego fans will do the rest

Why aren't I rich? I just want a mansion full of toys and games!

I can’t believe they didn’t add some sort of “Nintendo-y” gimmick to these

Oh my they're reasonably priced too. I have to get the Kapp'n and Marshal one. 😁🫨😮😳🤯

I don’t really understand the complaints. These aren’t out of the typical Lego pricing policies (all Lego is expensive - even when you buy it on offer or discount - of which many are to be expected), the mini figs look very good and the sets - though small - are quite detailed.

As others have said - the mini figures and few special pieces are the main part. They make it possible for more impressive modifications.

I’d also say that a range of several sets at different price points like this is very good for Lego. The alternative would be a £100+ set with half a dozen mini figs but nothing else ever. Being set out like a range allows scope for bigger adult focused sets in the future and/or gradual replacement of the smaller and mid sized sets over time.

If it’s successful then this could be a long running theme. The initial pitch seems good for that.

These... aren't as good as I hoped... Waaaaaaaaay too expensive for the amount of stuff you're getting. The colors also look really weird to me, like they just don't fit in the Animal Crossing universe.

I'm personally not a big Animal Crossing fan so I probably won't pick up a lot of these sets if any, Also their price as I stated before is insane!! Nooks Cranny is as much as Tears of the Kingdom??? Sorry, $5 more than Totk!!

I'll pass on most of these, really I might just order the minifigs from Bricklink so that I can display them. Other than that I'll just be waiting on F-Zero sets. Which 'ill never happen but hey, a Nintendo fan can dream, right?

Just let me go sell my kidney and I'll pick up one of these sets. Maybe if I'm lucky I can get two.

Tragic that it’s only New Horizons, but seeing as old animal crossing is dead now, I guess this is all we get :/

@Aurumonado dont forgot Sonic. But maby shen is the first Nintendo-based minifig

I need the Isabelle fig, it looks so funny! I don’t know what it is about It!

@nimnio Yes, but it makes sense those don’t have any sort of gimmick because they’re considered “adult” Lego sets. I just thought it was odd they didn’t add one to these since they’re clearly geared toward a younger audience.

@Kermit1 Never heard of Bricklink before. Thanks for the info!

@Wolfleaf it's like Lego Ebay.

no problem-o!

Too.....much......money..............
Why is it 75 bucks for a stupid lego set?!?!?
I could get a giant pack of legos and make my own animal crossing set for much much cheaper

Nobody came to Julian’s party

I kinda prefer Nook wearing just his blue apron instead.

Strong LEGO Fabuland vibes coming off of this!!

I'm surprised this collab was able to happen in this manner, but if any one Nintendo franchise were to jive with the with the shape and funcction of the standard LEGO minifigures, it would be Animal Crossing. ^^

Nooo the sets are really disappointing!! I guess I shouldn't be surprised, since the target audience was always going to be younger

Good timing that the next modular building will be a massive natural history museum, because I can just buy the mini figures separately and fill the museum with all the villagers, and pretend they're visiting Blathers' museum <3