Latest news about Lego animal moulds

[williejm]

Official pics of the Italian Riviera set seem to show it’s a wee bit more generous with animals than we first thought - crab seems to come in both red & bright light orange, and kitten in dark bley as well as dark tan.

nothing new, or earth shattering…

[MAB]

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Edited Thursday at 10:59 PM by MAB

[Lion King]

4 hours ago, Accio Lego said:

I wish they’d just bring back the cobra at all. It still peeves me that they didn’t include one with the recent Harry Potter Dueling Club set since that scene has a cobra in it and it’s kinda the most plot relevant part of it. 

I had an exact thought. It is incredibly annoying tha they don’t include that cobra piece in Dueling Club set - it has a major story where Harry is expsoed to a snake lanauge. Anyways…  i don’t know why they never release cobra, mouse, flamingo and other animals in other sets after several years. It makes me wonder if they already destroyed those molds after 5 years or whatever it is.  Yet, seagull mold still shows up in theme a few years after Sea Captian was introduced in CMF and its sill rubbery. Lego, give us damn those animal molds!!

3 hours ago, williejm said:

The cobra is a bit of a weird one in the Lego animals world - firstly it’s all rubbery, and second, it has printing but no eyes 🤷🏽‍♂️

But it’s 2025 and there should be a printing techiqe should be improved. I think Snake Charmer with that cobra mold was introduced in mid-2010s.  So yeah, it’s bit weird in animal role. 

[hikouki]

7 hours ago, williejm said:

Official pics of the Italian Riviera set seem to show it’s a wee bit more generous with animals than we first thought - crab seems to come in both red & bright light orange, and kitten in dark bley as well as dark tan.

nothing new, or earth shattering…

Fish store menu shows fish, crab, and shrimp! But only fish and crab are there. Could we finally get a shrimp mould somewhere???

[Lion King]

8 hours ago, hikouki said:

Fish store menu shows fish, crab, and shrimp! But only fish and crab are there. Could we finally get a shrimp mould somewhere???

Is that menu printed? And YES to a shrimp mold! I think 1x1 stud would being shaped into shrimp mold would be great. 

[lifeinplastic]

1 hour ago, Lion King said:

Is that menu printed? And YES to a shrimp mold! I think 1x1 stud would being shaped into shrimp mold would be great. 

Sadly I think it is a sticker - disgusting that people (over)paying £250 for a product still have to put up with cheap, tatty stickers!!

[Lion King]

3 minutes ago, lifeinplastic said:

Sadly I think it is a sticker - disgusting that people (over)paying £250 for a product still have to put up with cheap, tatty stickers!!

Eww…..  This menu would be useful for Tudor Corner or Parisian Restauarnt… Ah well one day for Modular Building sets! Shrimp mold would be cool for sure.

[SketchBrick]

7 hours ago, Lion King said:

Is that menu printed? And YES to a shrimp mold! I think 1x1 stud would being shaped into shrimp mold would be great. 

I could see them doing a shrimp as a printed tile not unlike the insects we've been getting recently in Friends, etc.

[Lion King]

12 minutes ago, SketchBrick said:

I could see them doing a shrimp as a printed tile not unlike the insects we've been getting recently in Friends, etc.

Is shrimp’s size similar to hermit carb’s tho?

[cebelicamya]

On 6/22/2025 at 6:37 AM, 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/

Wow, what a great blog! Thanx @Roebuck for the link. Welcome, @pinar!  Now I don’t feel so alone in being obsessed with collecting LEGO animals.

Great news about CMF28! Hopefully, each costume minifigure will come with an animal. Do we know when more information or leaks about this will be released? In August, maybe? I’m hoping LEGO includes many new animal molds and recolors in the new CMF series —  a 50/50 ratio would be nice perhaps.
 

 

On 7/16/2025 at 9:33 PM, williejm said:

I’d be up for a variant non-flying gull though …

Even with the recent goatherd & Wolfmaster, I certainly found enough CMFs when I went looking, and things like the cockatoos and Persian cats are pretty plentiful on Bricklink, so I really don’t think scalpers are denying us animals. 

As I have said before - I have much more of a problem with large £££ licensed sets which have exclusive animals. 

I totally agree with you!@Roebuck
I’d much rather see LEGO include animals in smaller sets and CMF packs than in large licensed sets, where animals are hard to get—usually only through eBay or BrickLink. I’m also not a fan of the big City sets where LEGO has been adding large animals in recent years. I’d rather just buy the animals separately through Bricks & Pieces than get an entire set I’m not interested in.

[Roebuck]

I have been Lego hunting in flea markets in Denmark for a few days, I found less then I expected. However I might have found something fantastic even if it do not look like much at first glance
In a big box of minifigs, with accessories and a few animals I found this strange creature and bought it with some of the other parts from the box.
The jury is still out, but I think it might be a early model of a flying parrot that was never made into a mould. It could be a custom part someone has made of course, but this close to the heart of Lego it's more than suspicious that something like this show up
Unfortunately one of the wings have broken of and was missing
What do you guys think is this something that flew out the window at Lego or a local Dr Frankenstein that tried to make the Lego parrot fly back in the day?

 

[pinar]

1 hour ago, cebelicamya said:

Wow, what a great blog! Thanx @Roebuck for the link. Welcome, @pinar!  Now I don’t feel so alone in being obsessed with collecting LEGO animals.

Hahaha exactly what I felt when I discovered this thread. It's one thing to be obsessed with LEGO, another to find people who are obsessed with the same thing you are 😂

 

11 minutes ago, Roebuck said:

I have been Lego hunting in flea markets in Denmark for a few days, I found less then I expected. However I might have found something fantastic even if it do not look like much at first glance
In a big box of minifigs, with accessories and a few animals I found this strange creature and bought it with some of the other parts from the box.
The jury is still out, but I think it might be a early model of a flying parrot that was never made into a mould. It could be a custom part someone has made of course, but this close to the heart of Lego it's more than suspicious that something like this show up
Unfortunately one of the wings have broken of and was missing
What do you guys think is this something that flew out the window at Lego or a local Dr Frankenstein that tried to make the Lego parrot fly back in the day?

 

I'm sorry, are we allowed to say the f-word here? Probably not, but I'm going to say NO EFFIN' WAY! I have always been a fan of these little parrots and seeing one with wing(s) spread out is just... wow! From the photos, it feels wood, though, not plastic. Still, I agree with you about being so close to the mothership, this may very well be a prototype or even a suggestion that somehow survived all these years. Does it have any writing anywhere? Does it fit a stud? Does it feel real? Come on, you can't just drop a bomb like this and give no details!!!

[williejm]

33 minutes ago, Roebuck said:

I have been Lego hunting in flea markets in Denmark for a few days, I found less then I expected. However I might have found something fantastic even if it do not look like much at first glance
In a big box of minifigs, with accessories and a few animals I found this strange creature and bought it with some of the other parts from the box.
The jury is still out, but I think it might be a early model of a flying parrot that was never made into a mould. It could be a custom part someone has made of course, but this close to the heart of Lego it's more than suspicious that something like this show up
Unfortunately one of the wings have broken of and was missing
What do you guys think is this something that flew out the window at Lego or a local Dr Frankenstein that tried to make the Lego parrot fly back in the day?
 

 

Wow - hard to tell but I think I’d go with some sort of custom. Do the wings closely resmble any specific part? 

 

33 minutes ago, Roebuck said:

 

 

1 hour ago, cebelicamya said:

Wow, what a great blog! Thanx @Roebuck for the link. Welcome, @pinar!  Now I don’t feel so alone in being obsessed with collecting LEGO animals.
 

Yes, it’s like a big family reunion, but without having to endure family! So glad that the gang is all here. 

@cebelicamya the next CMF slot is Spiderverse, so that would be start of September. Series 28/Animals then would be next which would be the series releasing at start of January 2026

Edited 6 hours ago by williejm

[Roebuck]

58 minutes ago, pinar said:

I'm sorry, are we allowed to say the f-word here? Probably not, but I'm going to say NO EFFIN' WAY! I have always been a fan of these little parrots and seeing one with wing(s) spread out is just... wow! From the photos, it feels wood, though, not plastic. Still, I agree with you about being so close to the mothership, this may very well be a prototype or even a suggestion that somehow survived all these years. Does it have any writing anywhere? Does it fit a stud? Does it feel real? Come on, you can't just drop a bomb like this and give no details!!!

It seemed like a normal parrot that has/had wings to me, but I compared it to the normal one now and got a small shock since it is narrower over the back like a flying bird would be since the wings are not "there" any more.
 

48 minutes ago, williejm said:

Wow - hard to tell but I think I’d go with some sort of custom. Do the wings closely resmble any specific part? 

It is definitely some sort of custom, but is it a Lego designer one or a civilian  No, but there where no birds with wings at that time, maybe a misunderstood your question. Do you mean the material if so it seems to be grey plastic, then some other grey stuff on top of that and then painting. I has a Lego stamp at the same spot as the normal parrot.. 

[williejm]

10 minutes ago, Roebuck said:

It seemed like a normal parrot that has/had wings to me, but I compared it to the normal one now and got a small shock since it is narrower over the back like a flying bird would be since the wings are not "there" any more.
 

 

It is definitely some sort of custom, but is it a Lego designer one or a civilian  No, but there where no birds with wings at that time, maybe a misunderstood your question. Do you mean the material if so it seems to be grey plastic, then some other grey stuff on top of that and then painting. I has a Lego stamp at the same spot as the normal parrot.. 

Yeah I think my question is moot because of the timing, as you suggest, but I was really asking if they looked to be modified parts from existing parts we have - such as the small wings or tips of the long wing piece that came with flying mummies.

Narrower shoulders, plus the Lego logo print, do seem to muddy the waters … 

[Black Falcon]

43 minutes ago, Roebuck said:

It is definitely some sort of custom, but is it a Lego designer one or a civilian  No, but there where no birds with wings at that time, maybe a misunderstood your question. Do you mean the material if so it seems to be grey plastic, then some other grey stuff on top of that and then painting. I has a Lego stamp at the same spot as the normal parrot.. 

Looks like a normal parrot to me, where someone just cut the wings off (you can actually still see where they ended in your pictures) Of course noone can say for certain, unlike the person who did it (probably the dad of the person you bought if from, so you should have asked the seller about it ;)) but to me the wings look nothing like what a part designer would design, so my bet is on some normal person doing it.

[Lion King]

@Roebucki’m still interested Ed to hear why you think it’s unlikely when it comes to seagull mold in hard plastic. 

[Roebuck]

10 minutes ago, Black Falcon said:

probably the dad of the person you bought if from, so you should have asked the seller about it ;)

Definitely not, it was a seller that bought and sold a lot of Lego and he also had some rare and expensive stuff, so nothing good could have come from that . I hope I can ask Niels Milan Pedersen about it if I see him at SFW.

9 minutes ago, Lion King said:

@Roebucki’m still interested Ed to hear why you think it’s unlikely when it comes to seagull mold in hard plastic. 

Because then they must make a new mould probably and that cost a lot of money. Not sure why they made it in the softer material, maybe because they did not want kids to hurt themself on the sharp angles, even if they have made other birds with wings later

[williejm]

21 minutes ago, Lion King said:

@Roebucki’m still interested Ed to hear why you think it’s unlikely when it comes to seagull mold in hard plastic. 

It’s so Roebuck doesn’t hurt himself when playing with his gulls 😜

Edited 4 hours ago by williejm