Today we are very quickly taking a look at all the new features in the LEGO Animal Crossing range with five boxes which have been available since March 1, 2024. I am not insulting you by telling you the same thing five times in a row. continued in five "Review" separated, this range is coherent and strongly calls for a group purchase for the most die-hard fans of the video game from which it is freely inspired.

For those who have not followed, the range actually consists of five different products whose public prices range from €14.99 to €74.99, just to cover all the usual price ranges and to satisfy all budgets, even the most expensive. tight:

Fans of the video game which kept a lot of people busy during successive confinements and which has retained a rather loyal audience will therefore have to spend the modest sum of €179.95 or look elsewhere than at LEGO to save a few euros and it is at this price there they will bring together all the characters delivered in these boxes with the necessary incidental material to assemble a playset which will occupy a good part of the living room table or the bedroom floor.

We can invoke the resemblance between the approach used here and the products of the LEGO Super Mario universe with in particular the possibility of organizing the different modules of the same set according to your desires and then connecting each section to the others but it does not We must not count here on a playful overlay or any interactivity beyond the usual possibilities.

No interactive figurine, no bonus to scan, no dedicated application, these five boxes are classic derivative products sold by LEGO as allowing you to “get away from the screens”. However, you will have to have been in front of a screen for a sufficient amount of time to know what it is about and possibly spend your money on these sets which only offer the usual interactivity of LEGO products.

We can imagine that the youngest will find what they're looking for between two games on the Switch by aping the actions seen on the screen, but we're not going to lie, these products are especially attractive because they allow you to obtain some nicely designed minifigs. executed. The same minifigs sold with few or no parts would have found their audience in the same way but LEGO is a manufacturer of construction toys and you will therefore have to buy bricks to obtain the figurines of Tom Nook, Rosie, Marie, Bibi, Mathéo, Admiral, Clara and Lico.

The modularity of the concept is interesting with the possibility of organizing the overall playset according to the available space or your desires, for example by aligning all the products on a decorative shelf or by grouping all the constructions in the corner of the floor. 'room. The possibilities are endless, the accessories provided are numerous and the routes to be implemented to allow you to go from one house to another or to go from one house to the beach can be constantly renewed and diversified. From there to actually playing with the playset, you will have to be really motivated.

The three houses provided are only half-built and that's a bit of a shame. We can guess the economy of rooms under the guise of allowing access to the interior spaces and the concept deserved in my opinion better than these facades knowing that the rest is only made up of elements of vegetation and a few reliefs which do not offer a breathtaking building experience. The most courageous will have fun changing the windows of their homes, this is planned by LEGO and it is in line with the content of the video game.

We are obviously once again reaching the limits of the possibilities offered by the LEGO ecosystem when it comes to reproducing the content of a video game: you have to be content with mimicking the actions seen on the screen to have fun a little, less dose of video game fun. It is difficult to rely on the argument which consists of invoking that LEGO products allow us to move away from screens when a product is itself directly inspired by one of the most time-consuming video games of recent years, I I tried this approach with very young players, they quickly left these products aside by simply lining up the minifigs...in front of the dock of their Switch before resuming an online game.

The fact remains that LEGO offers very well executed derivative products here that are faithful to the reference license and that the figurines are successful. Many fans cite the kinship between these figurines with molded heads and the characters from the Fabuland universe, others only see minifigs which clearly go beyond the usual framework and have a little difficulty with the bias aesthetic, everyone has their own interpretation of what a minifig should be and the limitations of the format. As far as I am concerned, I think that we had to go there frankly to stick to the reference universe and that these minifigs would not have had the same flavor if LEGO had been satisfied with the usual constraints.

In any case, I'm not worried, these products will sell easily even if the prices charged are high, that all this happens a little late with a large group of players who have already moved on to something else or are less available to spend hours there and that the contents of these boxes remain of a simplicity which can disappoint the most demanding LEGO fans.

The Animal Crossing license is here however suitably declined by LEGO, we can always hope for bigger, more detailed and necessarily more expensive, but the compromise seems acceptable to me and the adaptation of the universe concerned seems credible enough to convince the fans who love to combine their video game passions with their affinity for LEGO products. The others will simply have saved €180.

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Onward to a very large handful of new products which are now available on the official store with many ranges affected by this spring launch.

As is often the case, there are some nice things in this wave, but the majority of these boxes will be available quickly for much less expensive elsewhere. As usual, it is therefore up to you to decide whether you should go ahead and pay the full price for these boxes or whether you should show a little patience and wait for the inevitable reductions that will be offered in the weeks and months to come at Amazon, on FNAC.com, at Cdiscount, at Auchan and at a few other resellers.

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To accompany the launch of a large handful of new products in March 2024, LEGO is offering two new promotional offers which allow, on the one hand, to be offered a copy of the set 40680 Flower Store from 200 € of purchase without restriction of range and on the other to be offered two small polybags, the Animal Crossing references 30662 Maple's Pumpkin Garden and Friends 30665 Beach Cleanup, for any purchase of a minimum amount of €50 in the Friends, Animal Crossing, Creator 3-in-1, DREAMZzz and CITY universes.

These two offers are valid until March 10, 2024 and you may find what you need there if you, for example, want to collect all of the products in the LEGO Animal Crossing range.

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Notice to the most complete collectors among you, the LEGO Animal Crossing range will be available in a version localized in Japan with packaging specific to this region where the game bears the name Doubutsu No Mori.

These products should quickly be available via the secondary market but you will probably have to pay a large sum to bring them to France via a reshipment service. We will remember that LEGO is making the effort even on the promotional polybag which will be offered to Japanese customers who pre-order these products.

No pre-order in France where the “classic” version of these boxes will be available from March 1, 2024: