Latest news about Lego animal moulds

[Accio Lego]

7 hours ago, Lion King said:

Maybe another year to get a proper fawn! Bambi looks fantastic. 

Definitely, if it weren’t for the head shape that mold would be perfect to go alongside the current stag. Hopefully we see something unlicensed in the near future. 

[Lion King]

1 hour ago, Accio Lego said:

Definitely, if it weren’t for the head shape that mold would be perfect to go alongside the current stag. Hopefully we see something unlicensed in the near future. 

Agreed.  Here is my hope for CMF or. City.

[Accio Lego]

3 hours ago, Lion King said:

Agreed.  Here is my hope for CMF or. City.

I keep hoping that City will do a full woodland animal rescue subtheme instead of just the occasional camping set here and there. They’ve already got a deer stag, hare, otter, squirrel, bear, owl and eagle. A proper wave of woodland sets would give them a chance to feature all of those, recolor the new bear cub mold, bring back the skunk, and introduce new molds like the doe, fawn, fox, racoon and wolf. 

[SketchBrick]

49 minutes ago, Accio Lego said:

4 hours ago, Lion King said:

Agreed.  Here is my hope for CMF or. City.

I keep hoping that City will do a full woodland animal rescue subtheme instead of just the occasional camping set here and there.

I fully agree. I'm hoping next summer's subtheme is forest wilderness like you've described or tropical rainforest/jungle. Lots of great opportunities for recolours and new moulds!

[Accio Lego]

24 minutes ago, SketchBrick said:

I fully agree. I'm hoping next summer's subtheme is forest wilderness like you've described or tropical rainforest/jungle. Lots of great opportunities for recolours and new moulds!

The last time they did a jungle subtheme was the year before their last arctic subtheme right? So we’re definitely due to revisit that. Would definitely be worthwhile since they’ve introduced the big cat cub, python, new monkey, baby crocodile, and toucan molds since then. And if they made use of the toucan and set it firmly in South America we could get a system style sloth to match the Friends one and a proper capybara to make up for that sad reprinted Friends hamster in the Encanto set. 

[Lion King]

On 5/3/2023 at 8:42 PM, Lion King said:

So….

2020 - We got Anglerfish, Hammerhead shark, Manta ray in Ocean subtheme and it’s 3 new animal molds.  Not to mention, there was a new turtle mold from CMF S20 in the same year.

2021 - We got Lion (male), Lion cub, Monkey, Elephant, Elephant calf in Wildlife Rescu subtheme and it was 5 new animal molds.

2022 - We got Piglet, Lamb, Cow calf and it was 3 new animal molds in Farm subtheme. I’m not counting a sheep mold if it cam with a fleece piece… And we got foal from CMF S22 in the same year

2023 - We will get Orca, Seal, Baby seal, Polar bear cub, and Turtle and it will be 5 new animal molds in Arctic Ocean subtheme. 

Noticing a pattern?

 

14 hours ago, Accio Lego said:

The last time they did a jungle subtheme was the year before their last arctic subtheme right? So we’re definitely due to revisit that. Would definitely be worthwhile since they’ve introduced the big cat cub, python, new monkey, baby crocodile, and toucan molds since then. And if they made use of the toucan and set it firmly in South America we could get a system style sloth to match the Friends one and a proper capybara to make up for that sad reprinted Friends hamster in the Encanto set. 

Yeah Jungle subtheme was in 2017 and Arctic one was in 2018. I feel the North American forest subtheme could be better as we are missing a lot,such as moose, fox, bison, hedgehog, Raccon, fawn, etc. 

I feel South American has a lot of existing molds as y mentioend.  What kind of new mold we miss out for South America? We have baby crocodile, we have toucan, we have monkey. What else we would like to see something NEW, not existing, mold? Take a look above I quoted myself. 

I won’t count recolored animals as “new”, in my view. Of course, I welcome African Rock Python, African eagle, crocodile, cow, Great White Shark, squirrels, kittens, big cat from previous subthemes.

[Accio Lego]

3 hours ago, Lion King said:

I feel the North American forest subtheme could be better as we are missing a lot,such as moose, fox, bison, hedgehog, Raccon, fawn, etc. 

I’m afraid we don’t have wild hedgehogs anywhere in North America - you have to go to Europe or Africa for them. Although we do get raccoons and moose while Europe misses out (not to mention mountain lions, but that would just be another big cat recolor). Another more uniquely North American forest animal would be the opossum, which is definitely distinct from the cuter possum species you get elsewhere. 
 

[Lion King]

18 minutes ago, Accio Lego said:

I’m afraid we don’t have wild hedgehogs anywhere in North America - you have to go to Europe or Africa for them. Although we do get raccoons and moose while Europe misses out (not to mention mountain lions, but that would just be another big cat recolor). Another more uniquely North American forest animal would be the opossum, which is definitely distinct from the cuter possum species you get elsewhere. 
 

We do have mountain lion in Mountain Police subtheme some years ago. It was the first big cat mold introduced, I think. I think opossum would be great. And goose / duck too. And wolf. And bear cub. Maybe a woodpecker. Maybe a sitting American bald eagle (we already ahve a wing-spreading one in 2017). Oh yeah and mountain lion cub is needed. And beaver.  

I think I get myself confsued with hedgehog for another animal staring with “Q”. Some mammal with needle. I need to look that up…

[Karalora]

Lion King, are you thinking of the porcupine? It doesn't start with Q, but there's a Q sound in the pronunciation, and its needles are called quills.

[Roebuck]

9 hours ago, Lion King said:

I feel the North American forest subtheme could be better as we are missing a lot,such as moose, fox, bison, hedgehog, Raccon, fawn, etc

European forest you mean? NA has got a lot already

6 hours ago, Accio Lego said:

I’m afraid we don’t have wild hedgehogs anywhere in North America - you have to go to Europe or Africa for them. Although we do get raccoons and moose while Europe misses out
 

We have plenty of moose at least in northern Europe

6 hours ago, Lion King said:

We do have mountain lion in Mountain Police subtheme some years ago. It was the first big cat mold introduced, I think.

It came the year before in the Jungle subtheme, so that was the 3rd colour it came in

[Accio Lego]

25 minutes ago, Roebuck said:

We have plenty of moose at least in northern Europe 

Yes you’re right. My brain can just never remember if it’s moose that are called elk some places or the other way round. 

[Roebuck]

8 minutes ago, Accio Lego said:

Yes you’re right. My brain can just never remember if it’s moose that are called elk some places or the other way round. 

In Norwegian moose is called "elg"
Elk/Wapiti is called hjort (red deer, a different spices/subspecies)
Bambi is called rådyr (roe deer) witch is technically correct since he was a roe deer in the original books, however Disney made him a white-tailed deer in the cartoons since there is no roe deer in NA.

So you are not the only one getting confused by this

[Lion King]

9 hours ago, Karalora said:

Lion King, are you thinking of the porcupine? It doesn't start with Q, but there's a Q sound in the pronunciation, and its needles are called quills.

That’s one!

3 hours ago, Roebuck said:

European forest you mean? NA has got a lot already

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3 hours ago, Accio Lego said:

Yes you’re right. My brain can just never remember if it’s moose that are called elk some places or the other way round. 

Yeah it’s little confusing the difference between North American and European deer!

[williejm]

I blame Europeans for being colonisers and not understanding biology when they went places! I prefer to use ‘moose’ whether in Europe or N America, simply as it’s a much better name than ‘elk’.

As for Bambi getting Disney species-swapped, as someone who lives in Scotland, where they like to emblazon stags on almost everything, you’d be amazed how often Scottish branded things feature American deer species!

fun fact - Europe does now have naturalised populations of raccoons (and racoon dogs / tanuki) - though they are not native. 

Edited July 7, 2023 by williejm

[BrynnOfCastlegate]

In the UK, the animal called "moose" in North America is called elk (though they do not live in the UK). This matches with the Norwegian word "elg". However, in Norway, one usually sees "elg" translated as "moose", thus increasing the confusion. 

[Accio Lego]

So more detailed leaked descriptions of Marvel series 2 have dropped and it looks like there’s a decent number of animals for a licensed series. Namely:

- Lucky the pizza dog - may or may not be a new mold. At bare minimum we’ll be seeing a new print on the current golden retriever piece. 
 

- A new owl - also from Hawkeye - apparently a brand new mold? Which is interesting because we already have perched and flying owls. 
 

- a 1x2 brick with printed goldfish (from Moon Knight)

As a Harry Potter collector, the supposed new owl mold has got me very interested. Looking at the owl in question from the show, the only reason I can think of for a new mold is to finally do a small owl. More appropriate for saw-whet or screech owls compared to the snowy/great grey/eagle owls the current mold was designed for. I’m eager to see if this is legit, might have to bricklink the owl if it is (although if lego makes a new owl mold I expect the Harry Potter designers will find a way to sneak one into next year’s sets for us). 

[Roebuck]

Will be interesting to see, I assume with all the small juvenile animals moulds they have made recently a small owl seem logical. 

7 hours ago, Accio Lego said:

(although if lego makes a new owl mold I expect the Harry Potter designers will find a way to sneak one into next year’s sets for us). 

It has been very varied how many owls are included in the sets, some year it have been a decent amount and some years zero  However since several of the owls in the films are small species it would be very strange if they do not take advantage of this. It could also be that it is included in the coming Gringotts set already

[Accio Lego]

41 minutes ago, Roebuck said:

It has been very varied how many owls are included in the sets, some year it have been a decent amount and some years zero  However since several of the owls in the films are small species it would be very strange if they do not take advantage of this. It could also be that it is included in the coming Gringotts set already 

If that’s the case we could get a sneak preview very soon indeed given the rumors that Gringott’s will be revealed Tuesday. 
 

And if not, well, the Magical Menagerie and Eylop’s Owl Emporium are probably the two most desired Diagon Alley shops that don’t feature in the movies, so hopefully the designers are lurking on here and paying attention to that. The WWW set with the long desired Pygmy Puffs gives me hope. 

[BrickBob Studpants]

That owl in Hawkeye was so adorable! If the LEGO version is even remotely as cute, I hope they will use that new piece in as many sets as possible  Not expecting it to show in the Gringotts set already, but there will be plenty of opportunities next year

[williejm]

It would be appropriate to have a new mould, but it also means that we would have three current moulds for *just* owls. I’m obviously not complaining, though we do still lack some pretty basic animals, whilst owls get all the love, and goats get all the teasing ;)

[Alexandrina]

1 hour ago, williejm said:

I’m obviously not complaining, though we do still lack some pretty basic animals, whilst owls get all the love, and goats get all the teasing ;)

The solution is obvious.

Invent time-travel, go back to 1995 with copies of the Harry Potter manuscripts changed so that their post is delivered not by owls but by goats. This gets you:

• All the wealth and plaudits of "writing" the Harry Potter series
• A chance to buy the golden sets of the mid-90s at their retail price
• In the year 2023, a surfeit of different goat molds

In fact, massive tangent train of thought but you could turn a tidy profit if you had a time machine, just finding all the rare and expensive sets on the second-hand market, then travelling back to when they were new and stocking up. Anyone for flooding the market with 10,000 copies of 1309? 

[Roebuck]

A blurry picture is up, the owl looks new, but see no dog

[williejm]

39 minutes ago, Roebuck said:

A blurry picture is up, the owl looks new, but see no dog

Ah. Potato camera 

[Accio Lego]

1 hour ago, Roebuck said:

A blurry picture is up, the owl looks new, but see no dog

I mean, it’s definitely a new print, but between the horrible picture quality and the fact that only the head and chest is really visible it’s hard to confirm that it’s a new mold or not yet. 

[Lion King]

2 hours ago, Accio Lego said:

I mean, it’s definitely a new print, but between the horrible picture quality and the fact that only the head and chest is really visible it’s hard to confirm that it’s a new mold or not yet. 

Agreed. I won’t look into it toomuch yet, although I’m thrilled about a new owl.