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 Sunday at 11:30 AM 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 Sunday at 08:49 PM 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)..

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Edited Tuesday at 05:36 AM by Roebuck