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[lifeinplastic]

Capybaras (adult and baby) please.

i didn’t think red pandas would ever exist and tapirs and anteaters both exist in Playmobil so I’m going to sulk if they don’t happen!

I also want the return of the toucan. Amazon Adventurers reboot please!

[RichardGoring]

10 hours ago, williejm said:

Updated macaw, sloth, jaguar. Maybe a capybara? I think tapirs and anteaters are very unlikely to ever show up, but the others have been made in Duplo/Friends/Disney styles

[in a very quiet voice so as not to draw attention] I quite like the minidoll version of the capybara and think it works reasonably well. Same with giraffe.

[williejm]

9 hours ago, RichardGoring said:

[in a very quiet voice so as not to draw attention] I quite like the minidoll version of the capybara and think it works reasonably well. Same with giraffe.

I hear you. And I don’t disagree. Which also makes me wonder why they didn’t bite the bullet at some point and make moulds / prints that really worked across both. 

12 hours ago, lifeinplastic said:

Capybaras (adult and baby) please.

i didn’t think red pandas would ever exist and tapirs and anteaters both exist in Playmobil so I’m going to sulk if they don’t happen!

I also want the return of the toucan. Amazon Adventurers reboot please!

I’m also keen to see a toucan recolour - and really thought they’d have done that with the Encanto sets.

I think red pandas are in the same ‘group’ as koalas, sloths, capybaras, ring tailed lemurs, meerkats - which is that they have a general popularity in popular culture. They’re crowd pleasers, which makes them popular in zoos and animal parks, and very merchadise-able.

That’s why I think we will see them but unlikely to see less glamorous or positively-PRed cousins 

[Lion King]

11 hours ago, RichardGoring said:

[in a very quiet voice so as not to draw attention] I quite like the minidoll version of the capybara and think it works reasonably well. Same with giraffe.

I ccall you a traitor, although I agree with you. 

[lifeinplastic]

10 hours ago, williejm said:

I hear you. And I don’t disagree. Which also makes me wonder why they didn’t bite the bullet at some point and make moulds / prints that really worked across both. 

I’m also keen to see a toucan recolour - and really thought they’d have done that with the Encanto sets.

I think red pandas are in the same ‘group’ as koalas, sloths, capybaras, ring tailed lemurs, meerkats - which is that they have a general popularity in popular culture. They’re crowd pleasers, which makes them popular in zoos and animal parks, and very merchadise-able.

That’s why I think we will see them but unlikely to see less glamorous or positively-PRed cousins 

I hope you aren’t calling tapirs unglamorous!

[williejm]

32 minutes ago, lifeinplastic said:

I hope you aren’t calling tapirs unglamorous!

Not at all. I am a friend to aaaaaaaall nature! 

Just that some species appeal to the great unwashed is greater than others. 
 

On the specific issue of tapirs though - Lego has an appalling record in giving us any ungulates. What do we have? Elusive camel, elephants, and a stag; then the domesticated crew 🐄🐑🐖🐐🐎**. In any logical world I’d think tapirs would have to be behind bison, moose, giraffe, zebra, donkeys, rhino, hippos and probably antelope and llama on the missing ungulates list. 
 

** dolphins and orca are technically ungulates, but they are such outliers they don’t reeeeeeally count. 

[lifeinplastic]

1 hour ago, williejm said:

Not at all. I am a friend to aaaaaaaall nature! 

Just that some species appeal to the great unwashed is greater than others. 
 

On the specific issue of tapirs though - Lego has an appalling record in giving us any ungulates. What do we have? Elusive camel, elephants, and a stag; then the domesticated crew 🐄🐑🐖🐐🐎**. In any logical world I’d think tapirs would have to be behind bison, moose, giraffe, zebra, donkeys, rhino, hippos and probably antelope and llama on the missing ungulates list. 
 

** dolphins and orca are technically ungulates, but they are such outliers they don’t reeeeeeally count. 

Yeah but unlike all those big ungulates you list, a tapir could nicely fit in a CMF package. Now if only Lego had an idea to make some sort of Animal Themed Minifigure Series, wouldn’t that big a great idea? 🤔🙄😭

[williejm]

1 hour ago, lifeinplastic said:

Yeah but unlike all those big ungulates you list, a tapir could nicely fit in a CMF package. Now if only Lego had an idea to make some sort of Animal Themed Minifigure Series, wouldn’t that big a great idea? 🤔🙄😭

We can only dream of such an announcement 

[Roebuck]

I do not fully understand the leak, but it seems there are coming a big "family tree" or some such set with a Santa sled with one deer (probably the one we already have)

[williejm]

16 hours ago, Roebuck said:

I do not fully understand the leak, but it seems there are coming a big "family tree" or some such set with a Santa sled with one deer (probably the one we already have)

What if you don’t have Santa in your family tree? I’m confused. 

[lifeinplastic]

I had been waiting to get some gorillas 🦍 but was reluctant to spend big to buy the set with a helicopter I didn’t really need. However, on Pick a Brick all the baby gorillas were never in stock and now they don’t appear to be available at all!

I have therefore caved and bought the set at a reduced cost from a certain delivery service (I know I’m a terrible person), so tomorrow I will finally be a proud gorilla Dad. Just a warning to anyone else as I don’t know how long the set will be available. Personally I hope the gorillas will return one day but they may end up like the camels never to be seen again!

Edited September 5 by lifeinplastic

[williejm]

4 hours ago, lifeinplastic said:

I had been waiting to get some gorillas 🦍 but was reluctant to spend big to buy the set with a helicopter I didn’t really need. However, on Pick a Brick all the baby gorillas were never in stock and now they don’t appear to be available at all!

I have therefore caved and bought the set at a reduced cost from a certain delivery service (I know I’m a terrible person), so tomorrow I will finally be a proud gorilla Dad. Just a warning to anyone else as I don’t know how long the set will be available. Personally I hope the gorillas will return one day but they may end up like the camels never to be seen again!

I still have a random bunch of spare gorilla arms. Gonna put them in a vault.

[Lion King]

On 9/3/2025 at 5:27 PM, williejm said:

What if you don’t have Santa in your family tree? I’m confused. 

I’m confused when I read this..  i think “family” means to be a community as a family? Also, how comes it relates to animals?

[williejm]

23 minutes ago, Lion King said:

I’m confused when I read this..  i think “family” means to be a community as a family? Also, how comes it relates to animals?

I can only surmise that it’s something along the lines of the sets they already released as ‘family tree’ and ‘ travel map’, but this one has a Christmas theme - in an effort to make it a kinda Christmas tradition set … who knows

[Lion King]

On 9/5/2025 at 4:27 PM, williejm said:

I can only surmise that it’s something along the lines of the sets they already released as ‘family tree’ and ‘ travel map’, but this one has a Christmas theme - in an effort to make it a kinda Christmas tradition set … who knows

I know this is off topic but the leak said there would be an elf with green knight helmet and new shield. It doens’t sound like “family” to me. Anyways, i am wondering what kind of animal would be included din that set since we are talking about it here?

[williejm]

1 hour ago, Lion King said:

I know this is off topic but the leak said there would be an elf with green knight helmet and new shield. It doens’t sound like “family” to me. Anyways, i am wondering what kind of animal would be included din that set since we are talking about it here?

@Roebuck said a deer (with Santa)

[Lion King]

9 hours ago, williejm said:

@Roebuck said a deer (with Santa)

Thank you! I dind’t see Roebuck’s post somewhere here. I think it might be a same color as the sleigh set’s deers in 2021.  Unless, there might be new printing or different shade of that color. 

[Roebuck]

Looks like a normal squirrel is the only animal in October BAM 

[williejm]

11 hours ago, Roebuck said:

Looks like a normal squirrel is the only animal in October BAM 

The drought continues 

[SketchBrick]

LMG is reporting there is likely no explorer subtheme for City next summer. Truly we are in dark times. 

[Driver Brandon Grumman]

9 hours ago, SketchBrick said:

LMG is reporting there is likely no explorer subtheme for City next summer. Truly we are in dark times. 

Now that's something I'm shocked about and I have to see to believe. First they stop oversaturating the theme with police and now they are doing away with explorers? 

[The Reader]

12 hours ago, SketchBrick said:

LMG

Who or what is „LMG“?

[Klaus-Dieter]

Thanks for the news! 

A regular, unlicensed CMF series in 2026 sounds great! Hopefully we'll get a new food costume and a musician with a new moulded musical instrument.

[SketchBrick]

1 hour ago, The Reader said:

Who or what is „LMG“?

Sorry, lego_minecraft_goat (ig)

[FinlayTheFaithful]

1 hour ago, Klaus-Dieter said:

Thanks for the news! 

A regular, unlicensed CMF series in 2026 sounds great! Hopefully we'll get a new food costume and a musician with a new moulded musical instrument.

I personally want a minecart costume figure, let me recreate a Donkey Kong level dangit!