Surprise! LEGO Animal Crossing Sets Are Actually Happening

im so excited DD

Animal Crossing gets Minifigures before Mario. 💀

What..

On one hand its a welcome surprise but I'm having a hard time figuring what things in animal crossing could be turned into lego sets...

Lego, please release legends of Zelda sets. It needs to happen.

@SpiderSquid Well, I mean… there’s literally ten plus Mario themed sets ranging from wildly complex to children’s toys. A minifig would be overkill at this point right? 😅

But I’ll gladly take my Tom Nook and be on my way.

I have 9 AC amiibo, maybe I should buy some sets and build them a place to live.😂

@Tanookduke Lots of things but most likely the original villager’s house from the GameCube original or the Town Center from New Horizons.

Or a tree. Yeah…. Probably some trees.

Loads could be done with it, love the idea of the architecture from the older games in Lego.

Fabuland returns

Sigh...another money grubbing scheme from capitalism charging you extortionate funds to build simple structures and put the poor consumer into debt. Of course, some will pay for it and blindly ignore the obvious flaws

But enough about Tom Nook. The Lego set looks cute

The potential for blind bag figures is amazing.

@Tanookduke What can they make Lego-sets of?

Able sisters store, some version of the nooklings' store, villager houses, the town hall building from either ACNL or ACNH, a set of some villagers and some outdoors items (Bench, lamp-post, fountain), even a series of minifigs (Those blind bags of one figure and some minifig items) of the more popular villagers, and that's just off the top of my head.

OH MY GOD I LOVE THEM 😱jrjdjskkzjxijfjdksmsndn

I genuinely felt my brain short circuit.

Its so weird. I was never remotely interested in Animal Crossing for years. I didn't think I liked the art style (the look of the humans in early games put me off), I don't enjoy many sandbox games...

But then I played New Horizons just to see what everyone was talking about and I'm not sure I've ever gotten so addicted to something. I feel so genuinely attached to the Nooks and Blathers and Isabelle that I felt compelled to buy them all as plushies and Amibo and now I need the Lego minifigs because that's the cutest thing I've ever seen.

Even hearing the music unexpectedly in that video made me want to cry. Is this normal? Did Nintendo hypnotise me with this game? Is it post covid lockdown trauma where we couldn't see family and friends and go out so we all escaped into this friendly little animal world to feel like we had company? Why do I feel guilty if I go too long without logging hack in and visiting my villagers? 😭

Isabelle looks a little dopey, and Nook's nose looks all goofy.
In other words, they are perfect and I love them. I want to buy them all! 🥰

@rjejr I love this idea, this is what Lego was made for ❤️

I can’t wait for these. Definitely love the minfigs which feature some of my favourite villagers. Will definitely be buying all of them

Now you too can go into debt with the power of Lego! Use Lego dollars to pay off your Lego mortgage!

@Tanookduke I dunno, to me it seems like a very natural fit.

Animal Crossing is probably the closest thing Nintendo has to a LEGO game, in that you’re building and customising every aspect of a miniature world. They both channel the spirit of playing with a doll’s house, to my mind.

AC is not short on… ‘stuff’ (collecting and arranging ‘stuff’ is pretty much the core gameplay loop) and a good deal of that ‘stuff’ seems ripe for Legofication!

Yay, more plastic to spend a fortune on lol.

They look nice enough though.

@MysticX Stop! Please! My wallet can't handle it! I don't have space to recreate my entire village in lego form. Don't make me buy a new house just to do it! 😅

Hopefully there's apron Tom Nook down the line.

The set I hope becomes a reality is one based on Nook 'n' Go or Nookway.

@jobvd Oh wow, maybe that's why this hit me SO hard in the feels. Fabuland was my first love as a preschooler. You're right, these figures look exactly like them. I hadn't made the connection.

I don't even like Animal Crossing and I think this is perfection. Lego's Ultimate form

I am waiting for the Animal Crossing themed Lego Game.

THIS is what I'm talking about when it comes to Nintendo Lego.
Can't wait to see what the sets look like!

Oh cute! If I were into Legos I'd pick it up.

With all of the villagers that exists, Lego could probably make a killing off of a blind bag series for these guys. The designs of them look really cute and I bet they could make some awesome sets for this

Eh... 😕
The villagers in ACNH is the actual cuteness.

Glad the rumors came true, I love this so much!!

FABULAND HAS RETURNED!

@FawfulDX exactly my first thought. They are those minifigs! Early 80s nostalgia!

man it's going to be another very long wait till the next mainline Animal Crossing game isn't it?

So they should happen! Lol.

Looks cute and cool.

My daughter wi definitely want to get this.

Wake me up when they release the Gallant Statue set.

Oh my goodness they’re soo cute! I need it!

The new lego fabuland. This brings back good memories

Oh shiiiiiiii! This is amazing! My wallet is crying!

You're gonna buy a set, then Lego will start sending additional pieces and saying you are now in debt. If you pay, they will send another batch of pieces, increasing the debt

Something about the Minifigures proportions scares me.

And those movements...

@samuelvictor

You can't unsee it now. But it's a good thing

NOO!! MY MONEY!!!!

These look great… now if we could only get Zelda sets next…

YESS I'm so excited!! Marshal my boy is there too, I have him on my island ^_^ I'm buying EVERY set, I will have no self control for this theme

I'm not sure if Lego still does the blind-bag mini figures or not; but if there was ever a property that is screaming for the collectible blind-bag treatment, it's Animal Crossing.

@jobvd Of course! Makes me like them even more 😀

@MrJellySandwich
I'm hoping for kapp'n's boat and dock, the island shop from New Leaf and/or different houses for the styles in new horizons (as well as the style from the first game)

Well, time to max out the good ol' creditcard again

I never got into lego, and being an AC fan these didn't change my mind thankfully (I don't got that kinda money lol)

Absolutely disgusting!! This is beyond terrible... do they not think about the debt I will be in? Can they not see the holes in my socks?! I'm going to have a sell some more organs on the black market.... Ninetendo, stop releasing things I simply must add to my collection!!!

metroid lego would be 1000x cooler than this but this isn't bad.

Oh well, who needs money anyway, right?

@-wc- They can do more with Animal Crossing than they can with Metroid.

Honestly, based on that animation, I'd be more excited if this crossover was the next Switch game.

Animal Crossing x LEGO seems like such a natural fit, I'm excited to see what they come up with!

Aren't there like a million villagers? This is going to ruin some collector's day (and finances).

Why does Marshall’s color look off?

Knowing Lego these are going to be expensive. That being said let me know if they release a set that includes Rover

@martynstuff
Enjoy LiberalLand where it's run by communism and where you won't own anything and be told what to do and where to work, with no freedoms or anything.

@martynstuff
Also, no one said you don't have to buy this.
If you don't like it, don't buy it.

I, personally, don't care for lego anymore so I am not buying them.

This crossover is pretty much perfect!

@martynstuff Well played!

o/yeayo/!

...
But I'm still oddly uncomfortable with Minifigs without Minifig heads..

The tagline says it all:
TAKE MY BELLS

@dkxcalibur they still do

Fingers crossed that they give us Timmy and Tommy

@LadyCharlie First day of covid 3 1/2 years ago I built them a display platform which turned out looking like a Spaltoon stage that IO kept them out on for awhile before I built an amiibo shelf for the wall. 😂

@jobvd There’s someone out there who remembers Fabuland

@Morsel Yep I am old;)

Well now that the Nintendo/LEGO partnership has expanded beyond Mario, this gives me a lot of hope that we're going to see Zelda LEGO sets sooner than later here.

@rjejr Nice collection! And those shelves are a great way to display them!

Looks way better than the Mario set.

I swear Animal Crossing translates well to LEGO... It's crazy how it makes sense. I loved LEGOs as a kid, what I wouldn't give to be 5 again in this age of LEGOs 😃

@jobvd ikr

@samuelvictor Thanks. It's just some scrap wood but it works. I made one twice as big for our Skylanders, it's standing on a table, we have way too many of those. 😂

@rjejr That's really cute! Love that K.K gets center stage. Thank you for sharing! I hope you had fun putting it together

@Trikeboy

1 metroid set would be 1000x cooler than 1000 animal crossing sets. 😂

ps i dont hate animal crossing at all. ✌️

hey PS everybody, for the record this actually is cool to me and i like what im seeing (if i didnt, 1000x as cool still wouldn't be very cool would it? 😄)

@FawfulDX now THAT'S a deep lego cut

@-wc- i mean metroid set chances are only brought up thanks to this wave of sets

@epicgamner

that has to be true!

i feel like im constantly working through endless waves of animal crossings, splatoons, and pokemons to ever get to the stuff i like, and it basically never happens lol.

i really, really appreciate your optimism though 😊👍

@-wc- yeah man np! i get how you feel (with splatoon specifically), but everyone gets their chance to shine at some point. My prediction is that after this, mario and zelda are up and then from there who knows? Metriod is def bigger rn than it was 5 or even 3 years ago

That'll be a difficult minifig set to complete.

I'll be happy even with just KK and Resetti.

One has to admit, that’s a perfect fit. They look great. I think I found some people's birthday present.

@rjejr Haha nice! I don't have any Skylanders but slowly amassed a full set of Disney Infinity 1-3 figures. For now they are just wrapped in bubble wrap then stored in a couple of big flight case so they won't get damaged. I really like the consustent art style through all the properties and the quality of the builds, so while actively collecting them I always planned to sort out some kind of display for them.

But then Infinity was cut short (shame as i thought it was pretty good, especially V3 with the expansions, and some of the v1 playsets), and now it feels annoying to have a "complete set" with so many obvious major characters not included... and an over abundance of comparatively minor Star Wars and Marvel alsorans... maybe I'll just chose a few of my favourites to keep and display, and sell the rest 🤔

It has to be better than Lego Mario.

@samuelvictor I have a bunch of Disney Infinity figures as well, maybe 40? Which is a lot cause we hardly ever played the game. Put them on the DVD shelf I built. And Lego Dimensions but those were small so I didn't build a shelf to display them, we just put them all in a box somewhere and I completely forgot they existed until just now reading your comment. 😂
Dark image, I'm blaming the dark web.

@LadyCharlie You're welcome. Here's the Skylanders pic I accidentally came across while I was looking for the Disney pic so figured might as well. We bought a bunch more after this, some of the playset boxes are still unopened, but I probably never took another pic, moment had passed.

I'll take a museum, Capn's boat and one Roost café please.

@rjejr Thanks for sharing those! Really cool to see your collections! I loved the look of Dimensions but didn't want to get into collecting yet another set of Toys to Life not knowing if there would be an end in sight or just another money sink! We started with Infinity because we are a Disney family (nowadays kids have left home, but my apartment is within 5 minute walk of Disneyland Paris) but from everything I've heard, at least the first few Skylanders games were actually pretty good and full featured games. As a Spyro and Crash fan, they've always intrigued me at the least.

Me and my wife have actually jist started collecting Lego. Last week i purchased the Ghostbusters Ecto 1, all flower sets, bonsai tree and LOTR Rivendell set. Thankfully AC sets isnt one i would be interested in. Do some Zelda sets then im on board.

I created a bunch of Lego Animal Crossing BrickHeadz style characters a while back - https://rebrickable.com/mocs/?q=animal%20crossing%20iprice

@samuelvictor I'm in the same boat as you w/ the kids, mine are 18 and 21 now, so those toys to life released at just the right time we had to have them all. Both my kids are really into video games. We weren't going to get the Disney toys but then I Wanted a PS3 for my bedroom TV b/c my kids were always on the main TV and the PS3 w/ Disney Infinity Marvel bundle was the same price as the PS3 alone. We were always into Legos, even since I was a little kid like 50 years ago, so we kinda sorta had to get those. The Skylanders games were good co-op games early on but then got weird.

Now my kids and I are almost all digital. Buying all of those Labo may have been the last straw. Those things are so big I couldn't even build a shelf, had a to buy 1 just for them. 😂

@rjejr Cool! I really liked the idea of Labo, definitely something I would have loved as a kid. I stayed away because I knew how much space they would take up and I didn't think they'd take kindly to being repeatedly built then flatpacked. Sounds like your kids had a really great childhood and family 😀

I know many of my favourite long lasting memories (especially as an only child) were when my parents would take time to play wth me or work on projects together, so I tried to do the same with my kids. My parents weren't really into videogames, but I sure as heck played tonnes with my kids, and made sure I caught them up on the classcis as well as the latest titles. 😀

@zitpig WOW those are really good!! Using the snake for Kapp'n's mouth is a stroke of genius lol

@OFFICIALMichi Can't wait, I'm gonna be so broke lol