Latest news about Lego animal moulds

[The Reader]

5 hours ago, williejm said:

Woohoo - already have some gorilla arms in order, but no body, as it went out of stock *exactly* when I was processing the order. It’s like the headless elephants all over again! 🦍

Same here in Germany. The gorilla body would be the last part to complete my order ...

[williejm]

2 minutes ago, The Reader said:

Same here in Germany. The gorilla body would be the last part to complete my order ...

Why are there more arms than bodies!? 

[The Reader]

4 minutes ago, williejm said:

Why are there more arms than bodies!? 

That's an easy one: Each body has two arms so there are twice as much arms than bodies.

[williejm]

3 minutes ago, The Reader said:

That's an easy one: Each body has two arms so there are twice as much arms than bodies.

You know what I meant … for me it also dipped me below the delivery charge threshold, but the bodies only disappeared mid-ordering, so I had to call customer services and ask nice

[The Reader]

1 minute ago, williejm said:

You know what I meant

Yes, of course I do.

2 minutes ago, williejm said:

so I had to call customer services and ask nice

Did you have success? Did you get the gorilla body?

[JohnTPT17]

21 minutes ago, williejm said:

Why are there more arms than bodies!? 

I wouldn't be shocked if some people ordered the gorilla body not realizing that it needs arms. I think the same thing happened with the orca/orca jaw.

That, or, since the body is bigger and has printing, they take up more space and take longer to produce, hence, they have less on hand.

[williejm]

15 minutes ago, The Reader said:

Yes, of course I do.

Did you have success? Did you get the gorilla body?

No. But they refunded the shipping fee i shouldn’t have had

[The Reader]

28 minutes ago, williejm said:

No. But they refunded the shipping fee i shouldn’t have had

[Black Falcon]

1 hour ago, williejm said:

Why are there more arms than bodies!? 

My guess would be, because they are smaller so more fit into a box.They probably also have different box sizes for different parts but in the end I would guess that they ship full boxes eitherway, so there would always be one part having more than others.

[Roebuck]

8 hours ago, Black Falcon said:

My guess would be, because they are smaller so more fit into a box.They probably also have different box sizes for different parts but in the end I would guess that they ship full boxes eitherway, so there would always be one part having more than others.

I agree

Some of the new animals are still standard, but I assume they will be moved soon as well. I have a lot in my shopping cart, but will wait until a better GWP for me since the animals are that expensive I need something to sweeten the deal
The red panda is probably better to just buy from BL or get the set on sale

[williejm]

The ‘big cats’ always seem to be a pretty reasonable price on PAB. Think that’s especially true of the new tiger, given that they’re doubly-articulated & printed in quite a lot of detail. I get why the smaller critters that are dual/triple moulded and printed are expensive to produce - but it seems madness when you compare, say a tiger to a red panda in terms of what you get for your money! 

[RichardGoring]

Yes, I'm definitely going to just get the ATV set with the red panda. I was hoping to get it on sale, but as it retires at the end of the year, it may not be around long enough to get discounted. Hmmm... the quandaries taken over saving a dollar, and yet it gnaws away at me.

Edited October 10, 2024 by RichardGoring

[karrit]

I'm surprised no one has had a sale on it.  I was able to get a bunch of the Otter one at reduced prices multiple times.  Didn't really need the ATV parts but considering the price just for two otters it was worth grabbing the whole set.  I've been hoping for deals on the Red Panda one but so far nothing still don't really need more of the vehicle parts.  May just purchase a few more Red Pandas off PAB.  Walmart doesn't even have it available except through third party sellers at inflated prices.  At this point better off with Target, LEGO, Kohl's, Scheels, Best Buy at rrp.

 

[zoth33]

1 hour ago, karrit said:

I'm surprised no one has had a sale on it.  I was able to get a bunch of the Otter one at reduced prices multiple times.  Didn't really need the ATV parts but considering the price just for two otters it was worth grabbing the whole set.  I've been hoping for deals on the Red Panda one but so far nothing still don't really need more of the vehicle parts.  May just purchase a few more Red Pandas off PAB.  Walmart doesn't even have it available except through third party sellers at inflated prices.  At this point better off with Target, LEGO, Kohl's, Scheels, Best Buy at rrp.

 

I saw that the Owlery set from HP at Walmart was discounted so I picked one up for the Owls in the set.  I have one red panda and also hope the set goes on sale some point.  

[karrit]

1 minute ago, zoth33 said:

I saw that the Owlery set from HP at Walmart was discounted so I picked one up for the Owls in the set.  I have one red panda and also hope the set goes on sale some point.  

I snagged a couple of the Owlery from a Sam's Club that was clearancing them for $17.50 back in July.  I should have grabbed a few more.  Definitely worth it just for the owls.

[zoth33]

14 minutes ago, karrit said:

I snagged a couple of the Owlery from a Sam's Club that was clearancing them for $17.50 back in July.  I should have grabbed a few more.  Definitely worth it just for the owls.

That's a great deal.  I'm always looking at Walmart and Target for clearance deals.  Back when the LOTR sets were out Helms deep was $50 and I picked up 2.  It is a good way to get sets cheap especially now with how expensive Lego is getting.  

[Roebuck]

Looks like there is a dog in the botanical garden set, but maybe not the dachshund in the submission? Could be other animals like butterflies in a set like that also

Edit it's the puppy from City, I also see a small red bird, white rabbit and brown squirrel so not too exciting Odd if there are not any butterflies..

Edited October 19, 2024 by Roebuck
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[williejm]

On 10/18/2024 at 12:01 PM, Roebuck said:

Looks like there is a dog in the botanical garden set, but maybe not the dachshund in the submission? Could be other animals like butterflies in a set like that also

Edit it's the puppy from City, I also see a small red bird, white rabbit and brown squirrel so not too exciting Odd if there are not any butterflies..

There’s a yellow bird too - so nothing new animal-wise. I like the puppy, would be nice yo get it in some more colours. There’s one new plant piece that I can see - a ‘flower bud’.

[hikouki]

4 hours ago, williejm said:

There’s a yellow bird too - so nothing new animal-wise. I like the puppy, would be nice yo get it in some more colours. There’s one new plant piece that I can see - a ‘flower bud’.

Looks like it is bright light yellow? So it isn't a new color.

[RichardGoring]

2 hours ago, hikouki said:

Looks like it is bright light yellow? So it isn't a new color.

No, that's been out before. Not sure of the sets, but I ordered some from PAB, maybe last year, or earlier this year?

[karrit]

The Light Yellow bird has been in several sets this year.  It looks like there is a tan version of the bird up on the roofline but the pictures are so blurry I can't tell if it's the printed one from the D&D CMF or just a new simple tan one.  The new flower bud piece looks like it should represent a tulip.  There also seems to be another new flower piece in red with 6 swirled petals unless it's stacked epaulets.  I must have missed the squirrel.  There is also a couple of small turquoise looking things on a couple of the tree limbs that I can't quite make out.

 

[Roebuck]

The dachshund mould joined the goat at the mould cemetery, RIP, maybe you one day will rise like the phoenix from the ashes

Is is 4 birds, 1 rabbit, i dog, 1 squirrel and a beetle print in the botanical garden (1 bird and a butterfly in the GWP)
 

[karrit]

The beetle printed tile is the turquoise thing I spotted in the tree.  Glad to see the tan bird is the one from the D&D CMF's. 

[williejm]

It’s interesting that they don’t have all the animals set out clearly, especially given there are a few. Nice surprise to see the  dark tan bird reused. Hope that also makes it available on B&P in time 

[williejm]

Some new pics leaked of CMF27. Seem to confirm just the one cat for the ‘cat lover’, though you can’t really see the cat. Wolf looks smaller when standing next to the figure than it does in the group pic render.