Latest news about Lego animal moulds

[Roebuck]

I hope for around 1$, but fear it's 4$+

This seem like a nice blog by the way (just taken a quick look) 

https://www.bukabricks.com/en/brick-bestiary-the-ultimate-lego-animal-archive/

[RichardGoring]

I really hope it appears in the BAM towers. In the US, once things have been out for a little while, they allow you to take 15 pieces, so it can be really useful for amassing a collection of specific things. I've previously bought about 60 butterflies, 60 duckies, and 60 candy canes to customize seasonal bonsai trees.

Ooh... I'm suddenly thinking that it might be cool to get a load of pigeons and put them into a greyscale bonsai. That's extremely tempting! Then pair it with the CMF film noire detective.

Edited June 22 by RichardGoring

[williejm]

8 hours ago, Roebuck said:

I hope for around 1$, but fear it's 4$+

This seem like a nice blog by the way (just taken a quick look) 

https://www.bukabricks.com/en/brick-bestiary-the-ultimate-lego-animal-archive/

That is awesome. I do (always) get a little sad at the inclusion & conflation of Friends/fantasy/Duplo/Disney animals - but we all set our own boundaries, and it’s their (wonderfully inclusive) blog! 
 

I also learned some things - like the very small but differing face prints on the cats! 

[williejm]

Curses @ that BUKABRICKS blog, now my list of animals I don’t have that I *need* to complete the collection has just grown by a few 🙀 

I demand compensation. Either off @Roebuck or whoever at Lego sees fit to produce almost-identical animal variants 

Edited June 22 by williejm

[Lion King]

Soulless piregons are not the first i have seen. I only know I saw chicken’ eyes without white pupil.  But the lack of white pupil for pigeons don’t bother me.  Those little birds are nice for modular building. 

 

However, I can’t wait to see proper printing for pigeon in future. 

[williejm]

42 minutes ago, Lion King said:

Soulless piregons are not the first i have seen. I only know I saw chicken’ eyes without white pupil.  But the lack of white pupil for pigeons don’t bother me.  Those little birds are nice for modular building. 

 

However, I can’t wait to see proper printing for pigeon in future. 

Although the newest iteration of the chicken has a printed eye with a white ‘glint’, so those have gone in the other direction.

[Lion King]

2 hours ago, williejm said:

Although the newest iteration of the chicken has a printed eye with a white ‘glint’, so those have gone in the other direction.

Yeah, it’s nice to see chickens’ eyes printed with white pupils.  I don’t get it why they left pigeons soulless in the first sets. Not so soulful. 

[Roebuck]

22 hours ago, williejm said:

Curses @ that BUKABRICKS blog, now my list of animals I don’t have that I *need* to complete the collection has just grown by a few 🙀 

I demand compensation. Either off @Roebuck or whoever at Lego sees fit to produce almost-identical animal variants 

Do not blame me I am in the same boat, did not know about the latest cat prints either However I must say they look worse than the originals

[williejm]

4 minutes ago, Roebuck said:

Do not blame me I am in the same boat, did not know about the latest cat prints either However I must say they look worse than the originals

Jokes aside, I’m genuinely puzzled why they make tiny variations rather than just a totally new print. I mean what’s the point, and how does it make sense? Like wouldn’t a new cat colour be more of a draw than, say, a slightly different nose? 
Point in case would be all the owls: of all the owls we have, different colours have never just been printed with an existing design - it would be the simplest (and presumably cheapest) way to have variants, yet each is different, and in some cases only slightly. 

[Clone OPatra]

14 hours ago, Lion King said:

However, I can’t wait to see proper printing for pigeon in future. 

There is a lot wrong with the new pigeon, most notably that pigeons have distinctive, colourful necks. That would probably be hard to implement without triple moulding plus printing, and simply dual-moulding with no printing definitely keeps the cost down on LEGO's end.

I'm still happy to have a pigeon at all though and am not that fussy about accuracy.

[Roebuck]

10 hours ago, williejm said:

Jokes aside, I’m genuinely puzzled why they make tiny variations rather than just a totally new print. I mean what’s the point, and how does it make sense? Like wouldn’t a new cat colour be more of a draw than, say, a slightly different nose? 
Point in case would be all the owls: of all the owls we have, different colours have never just been printed with an existing design - it would be the simplest (and presumably cheapest) way to have variants, yet each is different, and in some cases only slightly. 

Maybe it's similar to when a part retire with a set then pops up in new set a few months later it it gets a new part number right?
When a printed animal retire with a set and then pops up 2 years later in another set, maybe they need to design the printing from scratch for that part. Makes little sense why they do not just store the print on a computer for use later Or maybe they are made on different factories and that's why they need to design them again
I must check, but I probably picked up the dark gray one since it also had the printed chest not that I noticed the slightly different face-print 

Talking about cats the star trek set comes with one, not sure if it is a crazy looking one, new color etc (must probably google it)..

Edit:

Edited June 24 by Roebuck

[Accio Lego]

On 6/23/2025 at 9:30 PM, Clone OPatra said:

There is a lot wrong with the new pigeon, most notably that pigeons have distinctive, colourful necks. That would probably be hard to implement without triple moulding plus printing, and simply dual-moulding with no printing definitely keeps the cost down on LEGO's end.

I'm still happy to have a pigeon at all though and am not that fussy about accuracy.

The color on the neck of your average rock pigeon is a lovely iridescent that can disappear at the right angle. Given that I don’t think Lego has any iridescent printing in production right now I’d say leaving it off reads better. And sadly most people don’t pay enough attention to pigeons to even notice how colorful they can be. 

[RichardGoring]

The final Dreamzzz wave set names include 71508 Fox Guardian Mech, which might imply a recoloured red fox in early 2026.

[Roebuck]

2 hours ago, RichardGoring said:

The final Dreamzzz wave set names include 71508 Fox Guardian Mech, which might imply a recoloured red fox in early 2026.

That is definitely a possibility  If not City pulls the trigger first

[BrickBob Studpants]

5 hours ago, RichardGoring said:

The final Dreamzzz wave set names include 71508 Fox Guardian Mech, which might imply a recoloured red fox in early 2026.

Fingers crossed! After they introduced the arctic fox this year, it’s only a matter of time before we see a red one. And Dreamzzz introduced the red panda before (granted, simultaneously with City), so there‘s a precedent too!

[JohnTPT17]

3 hours ago, Roebuck said:

That is definitely a possibility  If not City pulls the trigger first

Or there's a fox in the January CMF.

Or, they do it like the plush from this year, and it's released in several different sets at the same time.

[Black Falcon]

4 hours ago, Roebuck said:

That is definitely a possibility  If not City pulls the trigger first

I hope if they do, it comes in an affordable small set.

1 hour ago, JohnTPT17 said:

Or there's a fox in the January CMF.

Or, they do it like the plush from this year, and it's released in several different sets at the same time.

Yeah, but they wouldn´t make the same fox in the CMF as they would in City and Dreamzzz - I could see them including a fox pub in the CMF though and a Adult one in City and Dreamzzz (or an Arctic Fox pub in the CMF and later in City a fox family?)

[zoth33]

2 hours ago, Black Falcon said:

I hope if they do, it comes in an affordable small set.

Yeah, but they wouldn´t make the same fox in the CMF as they would in City and Dreamzzz - I could see them including a fox pub in the CMF though and a Adult one in City and Dreamzzz (or an Arctic Fox pub in the CMF and later in City a fox family?)

What's a fox pub?  Is it where  Fox get drunk drinking with their friends the coyote and wolf.  

[williejm]

1 hour ago, zoth33 said:

What's a fox pub?  Is it where  Fox get drunk drinking with their friends the coyote and wolf.  

Lol.

I’m actually willing to bet money on them repurposing the existing shepherd pup/ wolf cub mould as a fox kit down the line. Though the fox is smaller than the others, the ‘babies’ have a limited lower size they could usefully be, and in think they’ll just use the existing one in a new colour. 

Assuming we *do* get a red fox soon, what are folks thinking they will use for the body colour? I’m assuming either dark orange or the new red/orange colour. The fox costume in CMF used orange, and the Creator 3 in 1 was mostly dark orange if I remember correctly. 

[Black Falcon]

6 hours ago, williejm said:

Lol.

I’m actually willing to bet money on them repurposing the existing shepherd pup/ wolf cub mould as a fox kit down the line. Though the fox is smaller than the others, the ‘babies’ have a limited lower size they could usefully be, and in think they’ll just use the existing one in a new colour. 

Assuming we *do* get a red fox soon, what are folks thinking they will use for the body colour? I’m assuming either dark orange or the new red/orange colour. The fox costume in CMF used orange, and the Creator 3 in 1 was mostly dark orange if I remember correctly. 

Well, as with the wolf. for me that mould doesn´t work, but we will see - they used it for the wolf too, though it fits even less for a fox IMO.

I would guess reddish orange, that probably fits the most.

[lifeinplastic]

This year's Winter Village set rumoured to be $130 - no details as yet but a chance for another arctic fox appearance?

[Lion King]

21 hours ago, lifeinplastic said:

This year's Winter Village set rumoured to be $130 - no details as yet but a chance for another arctic fox appearance?

I do LOVE to see an arctic fox in Winter Village set!

[Roebuck]

Someday we might get them in moulds also 

[Roebuck]

New black butterfly without print in a Halloween set (+ purple and spiders and bats) 

[Lion King]

6 hours ago, Roebuck said:

New black butterfly without print in a Halloween set (+ purple and spiders and bats) 

Where do you find out?