As you may or may not know, I love Animal Crossing.  Pac-Man may be my number one favorite game of all time, but I think Animal Crossing may be my second favorite.  So you know that’s a lot!  A little over a year ago, they started releasing Animal Crossing LEGO sets, and I finally got a couple of them so I thought I’d share with you all here.

Keep in mind that the sets I got are the cheapest ones.  LEGOs are expensive, and most of the Animal Crossing sets run over 50 bucks, with a couple in the 90 dollar range!  Sheesh!  I like Animal Crossing, but not that much!  Some of the bigger sets are pretty cool, though, and let you build things like Nook’s Cranny shop and the front of Town Hall with K.K. Slider’s tour van and a little figure of him, or the airport from New Horizons, etc.  So yeah I probably won’t get those sets.  Heck, I know for a fact there’s a Pac-Man LEGO set that lets you build a replica of the arcade cabinet but it’s like, 300 bucks!  I like Pac-Man, but not THAT much!

Anyway, the first set I got was Julien’s Birthday Party.  I asked for it for my birthday last year because I figured it would be fitting, but I didn’t really get it until Christmas.  It was only 13 bucks.  In the Animal Crossing games, you can celebrate your birthday and the birthdays of the other animals, so that’s probably why they did that here.  The mini-figure is of Julien who is a unicorn, which is kind of weird, but sometimes they do weird stuff like that in the games.  Hey, it’s a video game, so why not?  Here’s the box it came in.

Oh yeah, I also bought a green LEGO flat piece to put my Animal Crossing LEGOs on.  It was only five bucks.

And here’s what the set looks like built.  There’s a table with cake and presents.  Looks like Julien got a skateboard.  One of the presents has little pieces in it for you to shake around I guess.  There’s also lights and a tree and the mini-figure of Julien is wearing a party hat.

The other set is a newer one that came out more recently and has Celeste the owl doing some stargazing.  This one was only ten bucks, so I bought it myself.

And here it is all built.  Not sure why there’s a giant moon on the ground, but it also has a telescope and a little pond with stars in it, a tree, tea picnic set, and Celeste can hold a star chart.

And those are all the LEGO Animal Crossing sets I got.  Too bad they don’t have one with Blathers the owl in it.  He’s Celeste’s older brother and my favorite character and he runs the museum, which is my favorite part of the Animal Crossing games.  Wouldn’t it be cool if they had a museum LEGO set?  I bet it would be super expensive!  Anyway, I’d like to thank my brother Jeff for helping me put these together.  There are some other Animal Crossing LEGO sets that are only 15 and 20 bucks, so maybe I’ll get those some other time.  Later!  –Cary

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