Latest news about Lego animal moulds

[williejm]

4 hours ago, Roebuck said:

Nice Love to see pigeons in more sets, is it the same colour as we have gotten?

A pigeon battle pack is needed! 

[Lion King]

22 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

The pug will be included in another City set,   60506 Classic Beach Tram, along with a pigeon ^^

I wonder if they revisit or give a pigeon a new print? We need a pigeon with white spots in their eyes!

[williejm]

2 hours ago, Lion King said:

I wonder if they revisit or give a pigeon a new print? We need a pigeon with white spots in their eyes!

Don’t think that’s likely, given how they have designed the dual coloured mould. Would be great if we get another variant this early though - maybe dark tan, dark grey or sand blue?

[Lyichir]

4 hours ago, williejm said:

Don’t think that’s likely, given how they have designed the dual coloured mould. Would be great if we get another variant this early though - maybe dark tan, dark grey or sand blue?

Oh, sand blue or dark bley would look lovely!

[Lion King]

5 hours ago, williejm said:

Don’t think that’s likely, given how they have designed the dual coloured mould. Would be great if we get another variant this early though - maybe dark tan, dark grey or sand blue?

Definitely, sand blue or blue gray colors are exclelent choice for pigeon. Although i am not a fan of those soulless eyes. 

[williejm]

27 minutes ago, Lion King said:

Definitely, sand blue or blue gray colors are exclelent choice for pigeon. Although i am not a fan of those soulless eyes. 

On real pigeons or the Lego ones?

[Ardelon]

For me, the major issue is that they are missing some purple or green printing. Not that I think they'll give us such a variant, it was just a bit of a let-down for me when the pigeon was first unveiled...

[Lion King]

1 hour ago, williejm said:

On real pigeons or the Lego ones?

Lego ones. :) 

[williejm]

10 hours ago, Ardelon said:

For me, the major issue is that they are missing some purple or green printing. Not that I think they'll give us such a variant, it was just a bit of a let-down for me when the pigeon was first unveiled...

Indeed. Pigeons are much more flamboyant & complex in real life 

[Lion King]

13 hours ago, Ardelon said:

For me, the major issue is that they are missing some purple or green printing. Not that I think they'll give us such a variant, it was just a bit of a let-down for me when the pigeon was first unveiled...

Agreed with you on that. Lack of pupil or green printing is a bit of letdown. But it’s still great that it’s dual-molded. We had toucan. 

[Wolfman_Bricks]

We’re getting a pug in the new city sets

[williejm]

6 hours ago, Wolfman_Bricks said:

We’re getting a pug in the new city sets

Yep. So far we know there’s a pug in two different sets - do we know yet if they’re identical or different colours? In the past when new dog breeds were introduced in sets they came in two different colours straight away (bulldog & retriever) 

[BrickBob Studpants]

18 minutes ago, williejm said:

[…] do we know yet if they’re identical or different colours? 

I know there a white, brown, and black pugs, but I don‘t think I‘ve ever seen one that wasn‘t tan. Sure, my experience can‘t be generalised, but I still think non-tan pugs are too rare for LEGO to showcase in a set

[williejm]

11 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

I know there a white, brown, and black pugs, but I don‘t think I‘ve ever seen one that wasn‘t tan. Sure, my experience can‘t be generalised, but I still think non-tan pugs are too rare for LEGO to showcase in a set

Yet when Lego have given us Labradors/retrievers they specifically omitted a black one, despite it being a very common colour 🤷🏽

[Lion King]

And we had kittens in different colors in the same wave if i remember corretly. 

[williejm]

4 hours ago, Lion King said:

And we had kittens in different colors in the same wave if i remember corretly. 

Yes! 3 different kitties at once.

Equivalent to the year of the Great Lego City Squirrel Invasion, when we got three colours of squirrels to launch the new mould. 

[Lion King]

54 minutes ago, williejm said:

Yes! 3 different kitties at once.

Equivalent to the year of the Great Lego City Squirrel Invasion, when we got three colours of squirrels to launch the new mould. 

That squirrel invitation too!!! ;) I kinda hope we would see pug in different colors at once this time. Both squirrel and kitten molds are very small and pug one might not be as small as they are. 

[Roebuck]

Lego and National Geographic are according to latest rumors collaborating on a Disney+/Hulu series called "Lego wonders" (City?, Friends?).
Sounds very promising regarding animals , been a few year since we had any NG sets now  

https://www.lego.com/en-us/exploretheworld

Edit" the link is from last time they had a collaboration, I got existed and googled 

Edited Tuesday at 05:51 AM by Roebuck

[Lion King]

If i remember correctly, Lego had collorbrated with NatGeo in 2021 when we had Wildlife Rescue. And I could not rmemeber if we had Ocean subtheme in 2020 when Lego paired up with NatGeo. 

If so, i felt like Marine Biolgoist from Seires 29 is foreshadowing Lego Wonders as we had diver with baby turtle for Ocean subtheme in 2020. Right now, I won’t look into that further. 

[williejm]

21 hours ago, Lion King said:

 

I always thought the Nat Geo / Lego partnership was seriously underused. 

[Lion King]

1 hour ago, williejm said:

I always thought the Nat Geo / Lego partnership was seriously underused. 

Exactly. 

[hikouki]

On 4/12/2026 at 9:39 PM, Wolfman_Bricks said:

We’re getting a pug in the new city sets

Is the Family Canidae the most number of genus/ species/ subspecies that Lego has made?

The family includes not only dogs, but also foxes and wolves. 

But I think the subspecies Canis lupus familiaris alone has had quite a number of variants from Lego, no?

Edited Tuesday at 11:23 PM by hikouki

[Karalora]

4 hours ago, hikouki said:

Is the Family Canidae the most number of genus/ species/ subspecies that Lego has made?

The family includes not only dogs, but also foxes and wolves. 

But I think the subspecies Canis lupus familiaris alone has had quite a number of variants from Lego, no?

Felidae has more species represented--domestic cat, lion, tiger, leopard, jaguar*, puma, and smilodon!

* The adult black panther appeared in a set with Mesoamerican-style ruins.

[williejm]

5 hours ago, Karalora said:

Felidae has more species represented--domestic cat, lion, tiger, leopard, jaguar*, puma, and smilodon!

* The adult black panther appeared in a set with Mesoamerican-style ruins.

I don’t think the panther is a bona fide Jaguar, as the jungle theme maintained the same foliage/other animals, but it certainly works in the black form. I’d still like to see a reuse of the OG big cat mould coloured and printed for a Jaguar (and the new tiger mould redone for a snow leopard, while we’re at it! To my mind this would be the obvious next in the series of big City sets we have with the animals & maps, following on from the wolfs & arctic foxes).

But yes, cats have more Lego species (6/7 to 3) though dogs have more unique Lego moulds (15(?)* to 9**)

When you start to count either they really add up to a bunch more than we might normally think. 

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*dog moulds:

wolf, fox, shepherd,  shepherd pup, husky, terrier, chihuahua, dachshund, bulldog, French bulldog, pug, Afghan, retriever, retriever with vest, mastiff 

**cat moulds:

standing cat, sitting cat, long haired cat, kitten, big cat, maned lion, smilodon, new tiger, big cat cub

 

[Lion King]

13 hours ago, hikouki said:

Is the Family Canidae the most number of genus/ species/ subspecies that Lego has made?

The family includes not only dogs, but also foxes and wolves. 

But I think the subspecies Canis lupus familiaris alone has had quite a number of variants from Lego, no?

And bird family has toucan, flamingo, penguin, owl, chicken, seagull, and dinosaur. 

2 hours ago, williejm said:

I don’t think the panther is a bona fide Jaguar, as the jungle theme maintained the same foliage/other animals, but it certainly works in the black form. I’d still like to see a reuse of the OG big cat mould coloured and printed for a Jaguar (and the new tiger mould redone for a snow leopard, while we’re at it! To my mind this would be the obvious next in the series of big City sets we have with the animals & maps, following on from the wolfs & arctic foxes).

But yes, cats have more Lego species (6/7 to 3) though dogs have more unique Lego moulds (15(?)* to 9**)

When you start to count either they really add up to a bunch more than we might normally think. 

———————-

*dog moulds:

wolf, fox, shepherd,  shepherd pup, husky, terrier, chihuahua, dachshund, bulldog, French bulldog, pug, Afghan, retriever, retriever with vest, mastiff 

**cat moulds:

standing cat, sitting cat, long haired cat, kitten, big cat, maned lion, smilodon, new tiger, big cat cub

 

Tecnically, I won’t count standing and sitting cats as “species” but yeah they are molds!