Latest news about Lego animal moulds

[williejm]

18 minutes ago, lifeinplastic said:

Not just bad - as @williejm puts it, it’s an abomination! Almost on the same level as the Friends Apartment chick & duck!

OMG I’d forgotten about the chick & duck fiasco 

[pinar]

On 7/25/2025 at 11:19 AM, lifeinplastic said:

Not just bad - as @williejm puts it, it’s an abomination! Almost on the same level as the Friends Apartment chick & duck!

Why was the chick & duck an abomination? I'm curious.

[RichardGoring]

1 hour ago, pinar said:

Why was the chick & duck an abomination? I'm curious.

It was a rubber duckie and a full sized chicken, so really pretty far from the source material.

[williejm]

4 hours ago, RichardGoring said:

It was a rubber duckie and a full sized chicken, so really pretty far from the source material.

No it wasn’t even that, despite the rubber duck mould being in existence. It was a chicken, and a ‘small bird’ as the duck.

[RichardGoring]

8 hours ago, williejm said:

No it wasn’t even that, despite the rubber duck mould being in existence. It was a chicken, and a ‘small bird’ as the duck.

Oh yes! Even worse! They were removed from my SitComplex being for being terrible.

[Accio Lego]

Apparently one of the January Friends sets is called ‘Axolotl Adventure Boat’ – perhaps we’ll see a new non-Minecraft axolotl mold

[williejm]

5 minutes ago, Accio Lego said:

Apparently one of the January Friends sets is called ‘Axolotl Adventure Boat’ – perhaps we’ll see a new non-Minecraft axolotl mold

Guessing this might include the leaked, slightly strange, trans axolotl figure that looked way too big for any normal (eg City) set … 

[Roebuck]

9 hours ago, williejm said:

Guessing this might include the leaked, slightly strange, trans axolotl figure that looked way too big for any normal (eg City) set … 

Probably..

9 hours ago, Accio Lego said:

Apparently one of the January Friends sets is called ‘Axolotl Adventure Boat’ – perhaps we’ll see a new non-Minecraft axolotl mold

There was a lot of Friends and Creator sets with animals in the name, in addition to the CMF "animals", maybe next year is the year of animals, like Space and F1 have been lately 

[pinar]

On 7/29/2025 at 8:40 AM, RichardGoring said:

It was a rubber duckie and a full sized chicken, so really pretty far from the source material.

On 7/29/2025 at 1:06 PM, williejm said:

No it wasn’t even that, despite the rubber duck mould being in existence. It was a chicken, and a ‘small bird’ as the duck.

I don't remember when the rubber duck was released, but if it existed at the time, yeah, that does feel like taking the cheap way out.

 

1 hour ago, Roebuck said:

Probably..

There was a lot of Friends and Creator sets with animals in the name, in addition to the CMF "animals", maybe next year is the year of animals, like Space and F1 have been lately 

Ah, if only 😂 Friends do tend to produce lots of animals, though, so I'm always hopeful about them. Maybe this time City will join it, too.

[williejm]

3 hours ago, Roebuck said:

There was a lot of Friends and Creator sets with animals in the name, in addition to the CMF "animals", maybe next year is the year of animals, like Space and F1 have been lately 

Do not threaten us with a good time!!

[Accio Lego]

15 hours ago, Roebuck said:

There was a lot of Friends and Creator sets with animals in the name, in addition to the CMF "animals", maybe next year is the year of animals, like Space and F1 have been lately 

The known Dreamzzz sets all feature animals in the names too

[Roebuck]

8 hours ago, Accio Lego said:

The known Dreamzzz sets all feature animals in the names too

City is the odd one out, but it could of course be animals in the sets even if the set name do not specifically mention animals in the title 
 

19 hours ago, williejm said:

Do not threaten us with a good time!!

 Most likely it is nothing, but it's not impossible either, animals make as much sense as Space and F1

I hope the CMF foal and cat comes in those colors with normal printing, maybe in BAM 

[williejm]

5 hours ago, Roebuck said:

I hope the CMF foal and cat comes in those colors with normal printing, maybe in BAM 

You mean the Spidey versions? I hope so too, but not sure there’s even a precedent for that 

[Roebuck]

44 minutes ago, williejm said:

You mean the Spidey versions? I hope so too, but not sure there’s even a precedent for that 

Yes, I believe it should be easier to make a animal in an existing color in a new print than make a animal in a new color. They make the mould first and then later print it, if they already have the animal they could just print it with the original print. However I do not now and the animal will still take up a spot in storage etc 

[Lion King]

No thanks to CMF foal and cat in Spidey style just like they did with Ptera and Stego babies. And….this….weird Goblin ratpor.  No thanks!

[lifeinplastic]

6 hours ago, Lion King said:

No thanks to CMF foal and cat in Spidey style just like they did with Ptera and Stego babies. And….this….weird Goblin ratpor.  No thanks!

Yeah, Spidey style animals are of no use/interest to me. Still, with this latest series now officially revealed it won't be too long before we see leaked pics of what could be the best CMF series of all time for us regulars in this thread (or most likely a crushing disappointment with the budget for new parts put towards costumed animal moulds and no new actual animals)!

I'm still thinking it will be an all costumed series given the koala suit leak in the hope I'll be pleasantly surprised. I wouldn't mind if the koala costume comes with a koala like the Series 24 one (as I only have one), which therefore wouldn't require a new mould presumably. Even better if it was a reverse of the previous koala (e.g. head looking right instead of left) so that multiple koalas don't all look exactly the same.

[Lyichir]

4 hours ago, lifeinplastic said:

Yeah, Spidey style animals are of no use/interest to me. Still, with this latest series now officially revealed it won't be too long before we see leaked pics of what could be the best CMF series of all time for us regulars in this thread (or most likely a crushing disappointment with the budget for new parts put towards costumed animal moulds and no new actual animals)!

I'm still thinking it will be an all costumed series given the koala suit leak in the hope I'll be pleasantly surprised. I wouldn't mind if the koala costume comes with a koala like the Series 24 one (as I only have one), which therefore wouldn't require a new mould presumably. Even better if it was a reverse of the previous koala (e.g. head looking right instead of left) so that multiple koalas don't all look exactly the same.

It's not impossible even for costumed figs to come with other smaller animals (a la the Series 18 Elephant Girl coming with a mouse). So all hope's not lost for fans of non-costume animal molds.

[williejm]

9 hours ago, Lyichir said:

It's not impossible even for costumed figs to come with other smaller animals (a la the Series 18 Elephant Girl coming with a mouse). So all hope's not lost for fans of non-costume animal molds.

This would be a lot to hope for though. Especially where new moulds are needed for both (I know they are not always required, but still)

The elephant girl remains an outlier in costumes yielding new animal moulds. 

[Accio Lego]

22 hours ago, lifeinplastic said:

I'm still thinking it will be an all costumed series given the koala suit leak in the hope I'll be pleasantly surprised.

This seems like an awfully pessimistic take. If the series was all costumes it would be named something more specific like ‘costume party’ not ‘animals’. That’s not even getting into the fact that only animal costumes is a bit too niche. Plus, just look at the Space series, which is the best cue of what a current themed series would look like. It’s not all aliens, it’s not all throwbacks (no matter how much some AFOLs wanted it to be), and it’s not even all sci-fi – it’s a mix of all different themes and archetypes to maximize the potential audience. Using that as a measure, I’m fully expecting to see some animal centric professions – it’s been awhile since the last vet and we’ve had an animal control officer and zookeepers but not a wildlife rehabilitator or aquarium staff, at least one fantasy or historical take on animals, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see a kid who’s a big animal fan whose accessory is something like the old zoobooks. There will still be costumes, obviously, I just wouldn’t expect them to comprise the entire series – Lego knows full well actual animals are more popular than costumes. 

Edited August 2 by Accio Lego

[hikouki]

19 hours ago, Lyichir said:

It's not impossible even for costumed figs to come with other smaller animals (a la the Series 18 Elephant Girl coming with a mouse). So all hope's not lost for fans of non-costume animal molds.

 

10 hours ago, williejm said:

This would be a lot to hope for though. Especially where new moulds are needed for both (I know they are not always required, but still)

The elephant girl remains an outlier in costumes yielding new animal moulds. 

 

On 8/1/2025 at 1:54 PM, lifeinplastic said:

Yeah, Spidey style animals are of no use/interest to me. Still, with this latest series now officially revealed it won't be too long before we see leaked pics of what could be the best CMF series of all time for us regulars in this thread (or most likely a crushing disappointment with the budget for new parts put towards costumed animal moulds and no new actual animals)!

I'm still thinking it will be an all costumed series given the koala suit leak in the hope I'll be pleasantly surprised. I wouldn't mind if the koala costume comes with a koala like the Series 24 one (as I only have one), which therefore wouldn't require a new mould presumably. Even better if it was a reverse of the previous koala (e.g. head looking right instead of left) so that multiple koalas don't all look exactly the same.

I would not be surprised if indeed Lego does not include an animal with any of the animal-costumed minifigs given how stingy they are.

As much as I am a big fan of animal-costumed figs, I would not put it past Lego if the cat and koala were the only costumed figs we get for an animal series. Either the rest of the minifigs have "animal-costume-printed" regular heads, or they are animal-related occupations such as a zookeeper, etc.

 

[Accio Lego]

2 minutes ago, hikouki said:

As much as I am a big fan of animal-costumed figs, I would not put it past Lego if the cat and koala were the only costumed figs we get for an animal series. Either the rest of the minifigs have "animal-costume-printed" regular heads, or they are animal-related occupations such as a zookeeper, etc.

I wouldn’t be surprised if those were the only new costumes – Lego now has a sizable backlog of costume animal heads that have never gotten corresponding torsos, legs, and tails because of how they’ve done the mascots for the Chinese New Year sets the past several years, so they could easily make brand new animal costumes with preexisting parts. The tiger especially is probably something fans of the genre would like to see done properly. 

[williejm]

28 minutes ago, Accio Lego said:

I wouldn’t be surprised if those were the only new costumes – Lego now has a sizable backlog of costume animal heads that have never gotten corresponding torsos, legs, and tails because of how they’ve done the mascots for the Chinese New Year sets the past several years, so they could easily make brand new animal costumes with preexisting parts. The tiger especially is probably something fans of the genre would like to see done properly. 

There are also a slew of previously used costume parts that can easily be reprinted and recoloured and re-purposed - both to make variants and/or entirely new animals 

[hikouki]

2 hours ago, Accio Lego said:

I wouldn’t be surprised if those were the only new costumes ... 

Good point. Wonder if they might re-use the HP lion headgear.

2 hours ago, williejm said:

There are also a slew of previously used costume parts that can easily be reprinted and recoloured and re-purposed - both to make variants and/or entirely new animals 

I think initially, there was some inconsistency with how they made costume minifigs. The bunny costume had the minifig face showing and the headgear was only bunny ears. Ditto the tiger cub (BAM?) and tiger woman halloween CMF. It seems that now the 'standard' version is that the whole animal head is the headgear, with the whole minifig face still showing. They have re-done the bunny and tiger in the CNY sets.

[Roebuck]

There is a orange cat of some sort in the Star trek set picture, however it apparently is a prelim so do not mean much I guess..

the horn is loose so makes the mould more useful even if we are not used to holes in the minifig animals compared to minidoll ones.
Other new ones i August

Last seen in 2011

[Roebuck]

There is a good chance we will get a horse in the Hogsmeade set since it includes a "carriage driver" fig
Hopefully a new color, but not likely. 
I speculate they will reuse the crazy high priced owl from the burrow for the owl in the start of the clip
@williejm there is even a highland cattle in the movie clip, but the chances are small they will include that.. And some pigeons flying around
Maybe a goat