PHOTO: Animal Crossing and LEGO have collabed

Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Animal Crossing and LEGO have collabed.

Lego seems to be working its way through Nintendo’s IP, and the next franchise to get the block treatment is Animal Crossing.

Nintendo confirmed the collaboration on Twitter with a short but sweet trailer showing off some of the characters and other potential pieces that could appear in the upcoming sets. The official website also promises that more will be revealed soon.

The collaboration was leaked in August, which tipped up to five sets available for purchase on March 1, 2024. The smallest set is rumored to be 170 pieces while the largest might be 535 pieces, ranging from $14.99 to $74.99. We’ll know for sure once official details get released, but the leaks were correct about the existence of Lego Animal Crossing.

The trailer shows a number of Animal Crossing villagers—including grinning cat Rosie and blushing rabbit Bunnie—and series mainstay characters—like public transportation king Kapp’n, entrepreneurial raccoon Tom Nook, and helpful Shih Tzu Isabelle—as claw-handed Legos. They stand in a plastic tree forest and jump around, thrilled at the present suspended by a blue balloon (in Animal Crossing, blue balloons indicate a crafting item), which passes through the clouds and reveals AC’s and Lego’s logos side by side.

Nintendo and Lego have been working together since 2020. From this marriage, you can currently buy a massive Lego Bowser set for $270 (Lego), a content-looking green Lego Toad in a $6 blind box (Lego), or a $270 Lego CRT TV (Lego) playing an NES copy of Super Mario Bros. But this just-announced AC collaboration is the first ever Animal Crossing set, and it’s the first brave enough to stop invoking mustachioed plumbers. Leaks suggest it will be released in March 2024, but neither Nintendo nor Lego has publicly set a date.

Based on only this teaser, we can assume that AC’s collaboration will at least include the eight minifigs shown in the trailer, as well as the green apple, orange, and cherry trees that appear behind them. Bunnie holds a leafy flower in her hand, and there are pale yellow and pink flowers, which look like they could represent AC’s hyacinths or roses, poking out of the ground, too.