LEGO Timmy and Tommy's Fun Day Out Is Easily the Best Animal Crossing Set So Far

I was besides bittersweet to observe that the acquisition booklet jumps close into Step 1. Timmy and Tommy are amazingly mysterious characters, and I would person eaten up immoderate lore. Tom Nook has mentioned that helium isn’t related to them by blood, but successful New Horizons, helium besides calls them his nephews. Some villagers volition suggest Tom recovered them connected the thoroughfare and took them in. Obviously they stock the tanuki-inspired quality — but what’s the existent story?

That dreaded sticker sheet.

To my surprise, you really commencement by gathering these mysterious tanuki twins. I consciousness similar astir LEGO sets person a consciousness of their ain ‘main feature,’ and prevention it for aboriginal successful the build. Gives you thing to look guardant to, you know. This acceptable gives you the accidental to conscionable physique Timmy and Tommy and determination on. It besides rapidly hands you immoderate small accessories: food food, a sportfishing rod, and a small flag.

The makings of a Nookling.

Now, however bash you archer which duplicate you’re building? In the games, Tommy theoretically has the higher voice. Tom Nook says you tin archer them isolated by a mole connected their wrists, but this acceptable doesn’t get that detailed.

In LEGO form, the lone quality is 1 has unfastened eyes and 1 has closed eyes. On the box, the open-eyed 1 is holding the flag. Tommy is usually the flag-bearer successful New Horizons, truthful that’s my choice.

Timmy (left), Tommy (right)

I was entertained by however galore much pieces spell into gathering the heads than either twin’s body. It’s comparatively close to their in-game proportions, but these consciousness similar immoderate due bobbleheads. They’re inactive amazingly poseable, and I couldn’t assistance but privation this was however LEGO approached its Brickheadz line.

Once you’ve got your shopkeepers, you determination to the foundation. One of my favourite details successful this acceptable is the swirling food successful the water, which unluckily requires a sticker, but tin besides spin. Every clip I rotation it my encephalon automatically plays the in-game sportfishing sound, which is what I thin to usage much than immoderate ocular cues. Little pro extremity for you.

I caught a oversea bass! No, wait—it's astatine slightest a C+.

While you lone extremity up marking 1 of them with the accepted ‘dig spot’ symbol, there’s really 2 spots wherever you tin fell things underneath the grass. The acceptable includes a small fossil to enactment successful 1 spot, truthful I decided to fell the food nutrient successful the 2nd one. Otherwise I would suffer it.

Blathers would beryllium proud.

Building a span is simply a large infinitesimal successful ACNH, portion of the main land milestones that bring you done Animal Crossing’s approximation of a ‘campaign.’ That archetypal span you physique is mode uglier than the 1 you physique successful this set. It takes a batch (228,000 Bells, to beryllium specific) to physique the in-game equivalent, the reddish zen bridge, but I get wherefore they went with this one. The bannisters adhd a large popular of color.

You'd request to merchantability a batch of effect to physique this.

You decorativeness up with immoderate of the smaller details crossed the set. The biggest of these is the balloon present, which does successful information unfastened and close. It besides comes with a tiny LEGO mentation of Bells to propulsion successful there. Though, again, you besides person the food nutrient option.

The present, arsenic good arsenic a bluish butterfly, are attached to the acceptable with transparent rod pieces. I ne'er similar these pieces, but I recognize the accidental they supply for much variety. The balloon present’s rod is truly casual to fell down Timmy and Tommy, but I’ve been considering moving the butterfly onto 1 of the flowers.

Bells, Bells, Bells.

I cognize I’ve been harsh connected immoderate random elements of this set, but present I’ll travel retired and accidental it’s the champion Animal Crossing-themed acceptable truthful far. Other sets inspired by the simulation crippled springiness you somewhat random sections and pieces of an land that, yes, if I had a cardinal dollars would beryllium precise chill to assemble into a full scene. This acceptable feels cohesive and cozy portion besides giving you immoderate tidbits to play astir with.

A interruption from the grind.

I’d really been waiting for a acceptable that truly captured the tone of Animal Crossing, and I deliberation that’s precisely what Timmy and Tommy do. They’re enjoying the beingness I myself play those games to unreal I’m living. Now I'm feeling inspired to dive backmost into New Horizons and up my span game.

LEGO Animal Crossing: Timmy and Tommy’s Fun Day Out presently retails for $59.99. It was released connected August 1, 2026, and is inactive successful banal astatine Amazon and the LEGO Store.

Blythe (she/her) is an Audience Development Coordinator astatine IGN who spends mode excessively overmuch clip successful quality customization screens and tracking down collectibles.