Latest news about Lego animal moulds

[williejm]

16 hours ago, Accio Lego said:

Ron would definitely deserve the new mold budget – he’s a main character no matter how often Lego likes to neglect him. It’s not surprising you don’t remember the movie version much, Ron’s patronus appeared for only a couple of seconds and not as prominently or clearly as Hermione’s, Luna’s, or Ginny’s, but it is a smooth coated terrier (probably a Jack Russel). So even the Westie mold that seems to have been phased out wouldn’t have been ideal. 

Calling it now - they’ll reuse that shepherd pup as a patronus again. If nothing else, I’ll be very happy to be proved wrong. 

[williejm]

So weird that the Arctic fox didn’t go out of stock on Bricks & Pieces yet,. 🙄

[lifeinplastic]

41 minutes ago, williejm said:

So weird that the Arctic fox didn’t go out of stock on Bricks & Pieces yet,. 🙄

Apparently Lego puts a lot of time and thought into their pricing - sadly most of this time appears to be spent thinking how best to rip off fans.

[williejm]

3 minutes ago, lifeinplastic said:

Apparently Lego puts a lot of time and thought into their pricing - sadly most of this time appears to be spent thinking how best to rip off fans.

Apparently they’re putting a lot of thought and time into responding to my complaint, which is why it’s taking ‘a few weeks’ 

[Roebuck]

11 hours ago, williejm said:

So weird that the Arctic fox didn’t go out of stock on Bricks & Pieces yet,. 🙄

Strange that  If we are staying positive I think it's a good sign that fans will not buy everything they make for ridicules prices. At least that sends a signal to them, even if it was their plan all along..
I so hope the BAM theme will snatch it up, I am sure the left hand do not know what the right hand does anyway in that huge company 

10 hours ago, lifeinplastic said:

Apparently Lego puts a lot of time and thought into their pricing - sadly most of this time appears to be spent thinking how best to rip off fans.

Part of the company definitely does, in the light of this info other crazy high prices on PAB lately make more sense. They want us to buy the set and not get the hot new parts for "cheap" on PAB, if we insist on buying them there we must pay a arm and a leg for them.. 

10 hours ago, williejm said:

Apparently they’re putting a lot of thought and time into responding to my complaint, which is why it’s taking ‘a few weeks’ 

I also complained now so lets see who gets the answer first 

Edited October 23 by Roebuck

[Accio Lego]

1 hour ago, Roebuck said:

Strange that  If we are staying positive I think it's a good sign that fans will not buy everything they make for ridicules prices. At least that sends a signal to them, even if it was their plan all along..

Might take longer than we’d hope. Right now Standard parts service has been suspended from the US and Canada due to certain political posturing mucking up shipping fees. The arctic fix isn’t visible for us at all, so that’s a significant market that isn’t buying it simply because they aren’t allowed. So it might take Lego longer than usual to realize that depressed sales are related to the price and not that. 

[williejm]

1 hour ago, Accio Lego said:

Might take longer than we’d hope. Right now Standard parts service has been suspended from the US and Canada due to certain political posturing mucking up shipping fees. The arctic fix isn’t visible for us at all, so that’s a significant market that isn’t buying it simply because they aren’t allowed. So it might take Lego longer than usual to realize that depressed sales are related to the price and not that. 

I would think that Lego would be able to draw conclusions from the territories they are selling them in, though, no? Can’t be rocket science. 

[Yoggington]

Checked out the price after reading here;

I don't know how this can be justified outside of sheer profit-chasing greed. More complex shape? Lower production run?

 

[williejm]

2 hours ago, Yoggington said:

Checked out the price after reading here;

I don't know how this can be justified outside of sheer profit-chasing greed. More complex shape? Lower production run?

 

There is *some* logic in making desirable parts, for which people might be tempted to buy a whole set, exclusive by price. But it’s totally at odds with the reality of the cost of producing said parts, and it makes them unavailable for a lot of people who can’t afford, or justify buying, big sets just to get one or two parts. It creates artificial scarcity which helps who? A cynic might say that Lego now owning BrickLink and knowing full well the after sales costs (and geographical complexities) of specific parts is all related.  I appreciate we are all AFOLs and have our own disposable incomes to fund our hobbies, but honestly that’s not that different to a wee kid who desperately wants to add some foxes (or whatever) to their collection who simply can’t afford a massive set.
 

I think, whilst recognising it’s a niche issue and a privileged position, to folk who have collected and spent a fair whack of money on Lego over many years, it’s -at best- pretty insulting. I think it also makes a mockery of any sense of fairness to anyone wanting these pieces / animals, and I honestly thought they already had a policy to wait a few months before B&P availability as a specific policy to balance this. 
 

At the end of the day, you simply can’t justify in any rational way a small animal like a fox costing almost the same as a large complex animal like the orca*, or costing the same as a couple of horses which are both larger, more complex, and articulated. 
 

I see the only logical outcome of this is to drive Lego fans to clone brands for desirable pieces like the animals - and - again - who does that help?

 

*acknowledging the nonsensical situation of the orca needing a separate, vastly overpriced, jaw piece. 

[Roebuck]

There are a lot of redfox focus in the coming sets from Minecraft, hopefully we will get one in City as well (preferably in a cheap set so we do not "need" to pay $16 on PAB)..

[zoth33]

On 10/25/2025 at 8:30 AM, Roebuck said:

There are a lot of redfox focus in the coming sets from Minecraft, hopefully we will get one in City as well (preferably in a cheap set so we do not "need" to pay $16 on PAB)..

Yeah that price is crazy for the fox.  I can't get it anyway I'm in the US and PAB is still just bestsellers.  

[Roebuck]

From the description it seems not all the HP sets have a animal patronus in them, looks like we get wolf, cat and hare (otter?) this round. Surely that could not be everything so I assume they well give us more interesting animals in the summer, hopefully a doe or something else that is new..

[williejm]

6 hours ago, Roebuck said:

From the description it seems not all the HP sets have an animal patronus in them, looks like we get wolf, cat and hare (otter?) this round. Surely that could not be everything so I assume they well give us more interesting animals in the summer, hopefully a doe or something else that is new..

So - as it stands - no new moulds required?

I’m not massively surprised but I’m also torn on any new animals arising via this licence. Though we have seen most animals from HP sets arrive in unlicensed ways (python, otter, rat, stag, hare ) other moulds, and prints / species have been stuck behind the license paywall. 

[Roebuck]

6 hours ago, williejm said:

So - as it stands - no new moulds required?

I’m not massively surprised but I’m also torn on any new animals arising via this licence. Though we have seen most animals from HP sets arrive in unlicensed ways (python, otter, rat, stag, hare ) other moulds, and prints / species have been stuck behind the license paywall. 

It seems like most animals that have not been used anywhere else from this licence is because no other set have had use for them yet. Especially a patonus is a patronus in those colours, in normal colours it's just an animal. So probably only a matter of time before another set have use for them. However a bigger animal like a doe could maybe fit in a City set or maybe a Castle set, but do not have the same use as the stag that they pretend is a reindeer. So would probably need a designer that sees that they can get a new animal for cheap an include it, smaller animals would be easier to fit in.. After all HP is one of the themes that has given us most animals over time

[williejm]

1 hour ago, Roebuck said:

It seems like most animals that have not been used anywhere else from this licence is because no other set have had use for them yet. Especially a patonus is a patronus in those colours, in normal colours it's just an animal. So probably only a matter of time before another set have use for them. However a bigger animal like a doe could maybe fit in a City set or maybe a Castle set, but do not have the same use as the stag that they pretend is a reindeer. So would probably need a designer that sees that they can get a new animal for cheap an include it, smaller animals would be easier to fit in.. After all HP is one of the themes that has given us most animals over time

They really should have made the deer mould with detachable/changeable antlers in the first place! 

[Accio Lego]

16 hours ago, Roebuck said:

From the description it seems not all the HP sets have an animal patronus in them, looks like we get wolf, cat and hare (otter?) this round. Surely that could not be everything so I assume they well give us more interesting animals in the summer, hopefully a doe or something else that is new..

The ‘bright side’ of this is that January will get almost all of the repeat patronus forms out of the way (Harry’s Stag is unsurprisingly being saved for later). 
 

That means the summer wave will definitely have new sparkly blue animals. You’re right that the Doe is pretty much guaranteed given its plot significance, which should be a new mold. Another one that’s practically certain is Ron’s dog, which may or may not be a new mold. To round out the wave (and possibly the D2C) top contenders would be Ginny’s Horse, Aberforth’s Goat, and Kingsley’s Lynx – all of which appear in some form in the movies – and Dumbledore’s Phoenix – purely due to his significance as a character. Of those, only the Lynx would be a new mold. There are a decent number of other canon patronuses, but most of them are handicapped by the fact that they never appeared on screen and their characters aren’t as critical as Dumbledore (McGonagall lucked out with her patronus animal being the same as Umbridge’s, since her cool patronus scene was cut from the movies). 

[Roebuck]

9 hours ago, williejm said:

They really should have made the deer mould with detachable/changeable antlers in the first place! 

Yes, but there is a rather big size difference between male and female for red deer. However I dream of a roe deer mould with 3-5 different antlers we can swap and the sexes are basically the same size..
If I was crazy rich I would made a deal with Lego so I could pay for the mould and include it in a Castle farm set or similar

7 hours ago, Accio Lego said:

The ‘bright side’ of this is that January will get almost all of the repeat patronus forms out of the way (Harry’s Stag is unsurprisingly being saved for later). 

That is right, will be interesting to get news for the summer wave now In January we still got the City tractor set that might give us something new

[williejm]

5 hours ago, Roebuck said:

Yes, but there is a rather big size difference between male and female for red deer. However I dream of a roe deer mould with 3-5 different antlers we can swap and the sexes are basically the same size..

Since when did relative size matter for Lego animals!?

[Lion King]

29 minutes ago, williejm said:

Since when did relative size matter for Lego animals!?

Yeah. Take a look at dinosaurs. They introduced a new Velicratpor mold and it’s more smaller than the originals one this year. I feel relative size does matter to Lego. 

[RenLUG - Central Florida]

15 hours ago, williejm said:

They really should have made the deer mould with detachable/changeable antlers in the first place! 

That would be great.

[williejm]

7 hours ago, Lion King said:

Yeah. Take a look at dinosaurs. They introduced a new Velicratpor mold and it’s more smaller than the originals one this year. I feel relative size does matter to Lego. 

Yet the leopard and cougar are the same size as the lion; the ant is bigger than a squirrel, and the anglerfish is almost as big as a dolphin 🫠

[Accio Lego]

5 minutes ago, williejm said:

Yet the leopard and cougar are the same size as the lion; the ant is bigger than a squirrel, and the anglerfish is almost as big as a dolphin 🫠

Let’s not forget the owls being nearly as tall as a short legs minifig. Makes first year Harry Potter look rather comical hauling around a pet practically the same size as himself. 

[Lion King]

14 hours ago, williejm said:

Yet the leopard and cougar are the same size as the lion; the ant is bigger than a squirrel, and the anglerfish is almost as big as a dolphin 🫠

Yup, thanks to the system! If you prefer something different than Lego, that would be Mega Blox or something. Those pieces way smaller than the regular Lego pieces. Easy for animals in relative size!

i wonder if we will see a new medium body for big cats like leopard and cougar. 

[lifeinplastic]

On 10/28/2025 at 6:49 AM, Roebuck said:

In January we still got the City tractor set that might give us something new

I’m hoping for geese - it’s only a small set though so probably unlikely to have a new mould. A recoloured sheep would be good.

The rest of the rumoured sets don’t sound too likely to produce new animals - but I’m hoping the ‘Great Vehicles’ sets provide a surprise - perhaps safari vehicles (with one of the missing 4 - hippo, giraffe, rhino, zebra), a National Park ranger’s vehicle (with a bison), a canal boat (with swans) or a coastal boat (with sea lions) and that the trains are an Outback train (with kangaroos) or an Andean train (with llamas). Doubt Lego will give us anything though!

[Roebuck]

7 hours ago, lifeinplastic said:

I’m hoping for geese - it’s only a small set though so probably unlikely to have a new mould. A recoloured sheep would be good.

You never know, depends on if they have some mould budget to spend. However more likely in a wave of farm sets probably..

The otter has leaked so then that is confirmed as well, trans light satin or something like that, not the same color as the original it seems..