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Nintendo and Lego are teaming up again for another crossover featuring an iconic series, and this time, it’s Animal Crossing. Nintendo announced the Animal Crossing Lego collaboration in a short video on Twitter, a few months after seemingly wrapping up the Super Mario Lego line for good.
The video was all Nintendo shared about the Animal Crossing Lego sets, but it shows quite a few fan-favorite characters. Rosie, Bunnie, and Marshall make an appearance, alongside Fauna and Julian, and then series figureheads Tom Nook, Isabelle, and Kapp’n the kappa. There’s also a brief shot of a Lego balloon present floating around and plenty of Lego fruit trees and Lego flowers.
That’s about it, but leaks from earlier in 2023 suggest we won’t have to wait long for more. Lego leaker Falconbricks said Nintendo and Lego plan to launch the line in March 2024, which will reportedly consist of five sets.
Welcome to…LEGO Animal Crossing!#AnimalCrossing #LEGO #Nintendo pic.twitter.com/A0XRzwVikh
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) October 5, 2023
Falconbricks said these would range from a 170-piece set for $14.99 to a 535-piece set for $74.99. Whether those are the only planned sets or if Lego will launch expansions, as they did for the Super Mario and Donkey Kong sets remains to be seen.
What they may include is anyone’s guess, though there’s certainly plenty of choice when it comes to Animal Crossing buildings. Blathers’ museum, the Able Sisters’ shop, and Tom Nook’s depot are some obvious choices that have been around in some form since the series began on the Nintendo Gamecube in 2003.
Nintendo has largely remained quiet on the Animal Crossing front since New Horizons‘ 2.0 patch launched in 2021, and while Switch 2 rumors are beginning to sound like more than just speculation, there’s still no suggestion as to what might be ahead in the cozy life game‘s future.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF