Latest news about Lego animal moulds

[Karalora]

13 hours ago, Lion King said:

Elts’ not forget about Cute Bunny form Series 28 - she came with Easter egg taht was released in January of this year. 

i.e. a Q1 release.

[Roebuck]

Too bad we do not get a piglet in the set, would be very nice to get some piglets in other colours preferably with spots

6523305 is finally for sale on PAB with a OK price as well, 

[Lion King]

There are some new molded subsidies from Jurassic World - Mosasaurus and young T-Rex. Other than that, there are some recolored ones. 

[Roebuck]

There seem to be a new dog in a City construction set of all things, maybe they have heard our complaining 
A pug I think 

[BrickBob Studpants]

New dog breed incoming, this is not a drill!!  

3 minutes ago, Roebuck said:

A pug I think 

Yes, it‘s definitely a pug! Fun fact: the German name of the breed is Mops, which is the singular form of a colloquial expression for breasts (basically the German equivalent to the bird species homonym). Don‘t ask me why

[vizzitor]

It's in the bottom left of this picture the Redditor posted of the box:

 

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fa923mvp235ug1.jpeg%3Fwidth%3D4096%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dfa29662391c73439f66307021541b2594f7dfa3a

[SpacePolice89]

48 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

New dog breed incoming, this is not a drill!!  

Yes, it‘s definitely a pug! Fun fact: the German name of the breed is Mops, which is the singular form of a colloquial expression for breasts (basically the German equivalent to the bird species homonym). Don‘t ask me why

In Swedish the name of the dog is also mops.

[Lion King]

More dog breeds!! It’’s a good thing for City. 

[williejm]

Yay to more dogs - but can we maybe have some less specialised breeds? 
more mutts & working breeds!

 

[Lion King]

1 hour ago, williejm said:

Yay to more dogs - but can we maybe have some less specialised breeds? 
more mutts & working breeds!

 

How can we know if more muts would be represented in Lego? And working dogs woudl be cool. 

But seriously, we need more wild animals… Hippo, Giraffe, Rhino, Moose, Armadillo, Jackrabbit, Vulture, Meekah, Wild hog, Boar, Giant panda, Sloth, Fox (orange/red), Raven, Ostrich, etc….

[Accio Lego]

1 hour ago, williejm said:

Yay to more dogs - but can we maybe have some less specialised breeds? 
more mutts & working breeds!

 

Definitely agree on the more working breeds – I want dogs that are actually doing something as opposed to set dressing. The mainstay Alsatian, the Golden Retriever (introduced alongside the dog harness), and the vested lab are all excellent, but it would be cool to see breeds more specialized than the three most common service dogs. It would be nice to see the mastiff mold break out of licensed character prison, and I’d also love a Newfoundland, a proper Dalmatian, a Puli, and terriers (at least the last one seems to be coming up based on the Harry Potter leaks). 
 

That said, at least the Pug being introduced is finally offering a ‘real’ counterpart to the costumed figure from CMF 21. Perhaps this means we might one day get counterparts to other long neglected animal outfits, like the llama, raccoon, and, of course, the red fox!

[Shiva]

5 hours ago, vizzitor said:

It's in the bottom left of this picture the Redditor posted of the box:

 

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fa923mvp235ug1.jpeg%3Fwidth%3D4096%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dfa29662391c73439f66307021541b2594f7dfa3a

Ohh, looks like a nice set too.

[williejm]

2 hours ago, Accio Lego said:

Definitely agree on the more working breeds – I want dogs that are actually doing something as opposed to set dressing. The mainstay Alsatian, the Golden Retriever (introduced alongside the dog harness), and the vested lab are all excellent, but it would be cool to see breeds more specialized than the three most common service dogs. It would be nice to see the mastiff mold break out of licensed character prison, and I’d also love a Newfoundland, a proper Dalmatian, a Puli, and terriers (at least the last one seems to be coming up based on the Harry Potter leaks). 
 

That said, at least the Pug being introduced is finally offering a ‘real’ counterpart to the costumed figure from CMF 21. Perhaps this means we might one day get counterparts to other long neglected animal outfits, like the llama, raccoon, and, of course, the red fox!

Yes to all of this - have long thought a ‘big shaggy dog’ mould could double for St Bernard or Newfy. Also why do we have three flat faced breeds but no sheepdog! Nor any sighthound …

I don’t mean to sound miserly about any new animal mould, let alone a dog, but haven’t say a pug was waaaaaaay down the bottom of my list, alongside all the zombie/mohawk/Spideyfied critters (;

[Lion King]

I will repeat what I said. We need more wild animals. I feel like I’m getting tired of different dog breeds throughout City. CMF rarely offers new dog breed, the last time we got a new dog breed in CMF was last year (Groomer with Afghan hound). 

I am very fair taht Jurassic World will introduce two new animal molds (young T-Rex and Mosasaurus) and Harry Potter will bring us a new flying phoenix (i think it’s not revealed yet).  CMF will also bring us bonefish, sitting cat, and clownfish.  I can’t remember what other thing will offer us new “nomral” animals. 

It’s kinda odd that the number of new animals has been diminished in City itself. 2020 - 2024 is waht I call “godlen age of Lego animals” - so many new aniamls, such as elephant and its calf, orca, maned lion and its cub, hare, piglet, cow calf, sheep and its lamb, horse foal, gorilla and its infant, orca, sea turtle and its hatching, cottontails baby, red panda, anglerfish, great white shark, monkey, and more. 2025 only brought us Arctic fox and pigeon, nothing else. 

[Accio Lego]

6 hours ago, williejm said:

Also why do we have three flat faced breeds but no sheepdog! Nor any sighthound …

We have a sight hound – the Afghan Hound that came with the dog groomers in series 25. The lack of Border Collie, Australia Shepherd, or Corgi to herd the sheep and goats around the farm is annoying though. 
 

4 hours ago, Lion King said:

I will repeat what I said. We need more wild animals.

Oh, definitely. Now that we’ve gotten pigeons we need red foxes and raccoons to root through the City garbage cans for those brand new fish skeletons. As far as species that would need their own wildlife subtheme to introduce, I’d love to see some South American or Australian animals to go with the toucan and koala. 

[Roebuck]

8 hours ago, williejm said:

I don’t mean to sound miserly about any new animal mould, let alone a dog, but haven’t say a pug was waaaaaaay down the bottom of my list, alongside all the zombie/mohawk/Spideyfied critters (;

It was not high on my list either, but definitely not as low as to me "useless animals" like that Since I have gotten my dog bread already, the rest are more or less the same to me on the list. However I understand that other fans will be happy if they get their favorite breeds in Lego form, and all of them are useful in say a modular street. In addition I think it was really positive that City designers included a new animal in a unlikely set like that. It proves they have not completely forgotten about animals and unless the hole City team has pugs in real life I think this increase the chance of us getting something in some of the other sets this summer 

Personally other than roe deer that has been on top of my list for many years, I prefer more wild animals or farm animals compared to cats and dogs  

[vizzitor]

There are better, close-up pictures of the pug on Reddit now:

 

https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1shi4ld

[williejm]

8 hours ago, Accio Lego said:

We have a sight hound – the Afghan Hound that came with the dog groomers in series 25. The lack of Border Collie, Australia Shepherd, or Corgi to herd the sheep and goats around the farm is annoying though. 

Fair shout on the Afghan: though I think I meant the sorts of dogs people have and see more normally, like greyhounds, whippets & lurchers. 

In my five-and-a-half decades on this planet, I have seen real life Afghan hounds precisely twice. 

On the mastiff, surely a different colour /print would suffice to take it out of the Licence nonsense? It’s only a hurdle if they let it be one (though with that licence they seem to tie themselves in knots) 

[BrickBob Studpants]

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

[Accio Lego]

4 hours ago, williejm said:

On the mastiff, surely a different colour /print would suffice to take it out of the Licence nonsense? It’s only a hurdle if they let it be one (though with that licence they seem to tie themselves in knots) 

I mean, all the animals introduced as patronuses (stag, otter, hare) had realistically colored counterparts pretty expediently, as did the flying owl. The phoenix mold is probably off limits because that version of the mythical bird was specifically designed for the WB movies, so, other than the mastiff, the only animals Lego has actually gotten weird about in regards to Harry Potter is not putting most of the owl color variants introduced in the sets on Pick a Brick. With that in mind, we should get a recolored version eventually, and it’s actually odd we haven’t gotten one already. 

[williejm]

1 hour ago, Accio Lego said:

I mean, all the animals introduced as patronuses (stag, otter, hare) had realistically colored counterparts pretty expediently, as did the flying owl. The phoenix mold is probably off limits because that version of the mythical bird was specifically designed for the WB movies, so, other than the mastiff, the only animals Lego has actually gotten weird about in regards to Harry Potter is not putting most of the owl color variants introduced in the sets on Pick a Brick. With that in mind, we should get a recolored version eventually, and it’s actually odd we haven’t gotten one already. 

The owls make no sense. Especially the brown one being cross-theme but all others never crossing. 
The rat is similarly able to jump.
They also have a bunch of cat colours/prints, as well as the mastiff 

Generally I’m not a fan of any animals locked behind price paywalls (ie in £££ sets only) or ‘normal’ animals stuck in a specific licence.  No one ‘owns’ snowy owls … 

[Accio Lego]

1 hour ago, williejm said:

The owls make no sense. Especially the brown one being cross-theme but all others never crossing. 
The rat is similarly able to jump.
They also have a bunch of cat colours/prints, as well as the mastiff 

Generally I’m not a fan of any animals locked behind price paywalls (ie in £££ sets only) or ‘normal’ animals stuck in a specific licence.  No one ‘owns’ snowy owls … 

I mean, rats identical to the ones in the Harry Potter sets have been in City sets since shortly before Harry Potter rebooted. So that’s not really relevant. 
 

Mrs. Norris has unrealistic red eyes, so I can sort of see how her print could be trademarked, and the first version of Crookshanks appeared in a CMF and obviously wasn’t going to show up anywhere else. 
 

The Grimmauld Place Crookshanks and the seven or so different owl recolors+prints locked out of Pick a Brick is annoying, and I’m guessing the Lego designers could fix it by, for example, using the snowy owl in an arctic expedition set like the ones we had recently, but haven’t for some reason. 
 

As of right now, the mastiff is the only real world animal mold that hasn’t made the jump outside the theme, and the fact that it hasn’t been recolored and used elsewhere like the patronus animals yet is frankly odd. But who knows, maybe now that Lego has figured out the fawn and black coloring for the pig, they’ll do the mastiff next. 

[williejm]

16 minutes ago, Accio Lego said:

As of right now, the mastiff is the only real world animal mold that hasn’t made the jump outside the theme, and the fact that it hasn’t been recolored and used elsewhere like the patronus animals yet is frankly odd. But who knows, maybe now that Lego has figured out the fawn and black coloring for the pig, they’ll do the mastiff next. 

And on that note, it’s baffling that the existing shepherd hasn’t had a black & tan recolour for a Doberman yet 🤣

 

[Accio Lego]

2 hours ago, williejm said:

And on that note, it’s baffling that the existing shepherd hasn’t had a black & tan recolour for a Doberman yet 🤣

 

Especially since Lego proved they could pull that off technically with the BaM Dachshund. 

[Roebuck]

13 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

along with a pigeon

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