Rumor: Lego Animal Crossing Sets Are In The Works

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There’s a new rumor going around that Animal Crossing is the next Lego video game crossover.

As reported by Video Games Chronicle, dataminers claimed that a few sets, leaked with their prices and numbers of pieces, are for Animal Crossing. These are the set numbers, alongside prices and numbers of pieces:

These Animal Crossing playsets will also come with minifigures of familiar characters, that will have custom heads, as opposed to following the universal head pattern that other Lego minifigures have.

Lego has seen a lot of success with their video game themed sets for the past few years. Thus far, Lego video game licensees have included Atari, Sonic the Hedgehog, Horizon Forbidden West, and Minecraft.

As you may imagine, the most substantial license Lego has had in this realm is Nintendo. They started out with a somewhat modest NES Lego set, but the big one they clearly invested about everything else is Adventures With Mario.

While Adventures With Mario doesn’t interact or cross over with any Mario video games, Nintendo and Lego have worked to make it a unique interactive experience, even compared to other Lego sets. Lego figures for Mario, Peach, and others have small screens and speakers, so that they can interact with other Lego pieces in the playset. Players can build stages and sets to make use of these interactions. There is also a companion app that teaches players how to build these playsets.

Adventures With Mario was a notable investment, and is substantially more successful at a higher level, compared to Lego’s other playsets, licensed or not. So it is certainly a big deal if Nintendo and Lego are looking to expand with Animal Crossing.

Animal Crossing itself crossed over into one of the pillars of Nintendo