The second spherical of LEGO Animal Crossing units brings two key locales out of your Animal Crossing: New Horizons island to life in Danish brick type. Alongside the Dodo Airways terminal, Okay.Okay. Slider makes his Lego debit within the Okay.Okay.’s Live performance on the Plaza set.
That is the priciest of the 2 units, together with three minifigures (together with a brand new model of Isabelle), a facade of the City Corridor together with the clock, the noticeboard, and the flagpole, Okay.Okay.’s camper van, and a small cafe serving tea and sweetmeats.
However is the Okay.Okay. Slider Lego set value your money? How does it evaluate to the present units with Tom Nook and the different set with Isabelle? We’re right here to reply these questions…
LEGO Animal Crossing – Okay.Okay.’s Live performance At The Plaza (77052)
Worth: $79.99 / £69.99 / €79.99
Items: 550
Ages: 7+
Minifigs included: Okay.Okay. Slider, Audie, Isabelle (pink hoodie print)
What’s within the field?
The Okay.Okay. set comprises six baggage — plastic ones — with the primary construct being the cafe, the camper van break up throughout baggage two and three, and the City Corridor, its roof, and equipment discovered within the remaining baggage.
You get one comparatively chunky handbook with this construct, and it is advisable for ages 7+ — the identical because the Nook’s Cranny set — in comparison with the 6+ score of the opposite Lego Animal Crossing units, probably as a result of many small items. You additionally get a Brick Separator thrown in, so no have to damage your fingernails separating the blighters once you make a mistake.
Audie and the Cafe
Full disclosure: we love Audie. We first met her in New Horizons and each time we see her going about her enterprise on our island, she brings a smile to our face. Seeing her on the very begin of the handbook immediately put us in a very good temper, and the lovable pineapple print and goggles she sports activities made an important first impression.
The little cafe stall is hardly an epic construct, however the yellow/inexperienced striping is satisfying to assemble — the itsy bitsy cupcakes and tea set much less so. Dendrophiles take be aware that the autumnal orange tree is unique to this set on the time of writing.
Okay.Okay. Slider and the RV
Subsequent up, it is the highest canine himself.
As cute as he’s, Okay.Okay.’s minifig is barely underwhelming. His tail is a printed element, presumably in order that it would not intrude once you sit him right down to play his set, however in any other case it is a plain white physique with quick white legs. The pinnacle mould is nice, and there is nothing actually to complain about, however given his standing as one in all Animal Crossing’s most beloved characters, we had been a tad dissatisfied with Totakeke. We might have appreciated to see some strategy to affix his guitar to his again, maybe, or another additional element.
Okay.Okay.’s stage is fairly primary, with a mic, an amp, and an album sitting on one of many two benches, however thankfully he rocks up in a candy trip with a printed quantity plate and musical notes printed on the facet.
The camper is modelled after the autos first launched within the Welcome amiibo replace in New Leaf. There’s a big container on the roof field on high of the camper the place you’ll be able to retailer the performer’s gear and, when the field is eliminated, the perimeters of the van can swing open for straightforward entry to the rockin’ blue/orange inside. From what we will collect, Okay.Okay. drives whereas seated on his mattress, swigging espresso, and chowing down on a slice of Chicago deep dish. High canine.
With its gray lollipops for wing mirrors, the camper is arguably the good a part of the set.
The City Corridor
The City Corridor itself follows the very same template as each different constructing within the vary, and as with most, it feels decidedly bare-bones and ‘funds’ if you happen to’re used to extra unique Lego builds. Nonetheless, there are some good particulars, together with the rounded tops on the white home windows, the distinction of the purple roof with the white over the orange stone, the pillars, and the clock- one other printed piece (there are not any stickers on this set).
Our favorite particulars had been the audio system mounted both facet of the door — a easy however efficient use of the usual 1×2 bricks exhibiting their underside — and the little tape deck with its twistable quantity dial.
The island flag can be enjoyable, boasting two designs you’ll be able to change between (we saved the spare in Okay.Okay.’s roof field and pretended he’d half-inched it within the early hours), though you are additionally inspired to create your individual design from the obtainable items — a neat mirroring of the flag customisation within the recreation itself.
A crowbar factor is included within the set to facilitate eradicating the tiny items that the Brick Separator is simply too cumbersome for. The pic within the handbook made the crowbar’s use clear, however for a second we thought Lego was endorsing our headcanon that has Okay.Okay. as a wiley, Lock-Inventory-style geezer able to bust some heads if the going will get robust at a gig.
The noticeboard with the little yellow chook completes the City Corridor exterior for an additional set that (rightly, given the goal demographic) prioritises play over show. After constructing the set and snapping the images for this evaluation, our children have spent the afternoon reconfiguring it, having afternoon tea events with the minifigs, and burning across the backyard with Audie and Isabelle driving on the camper van’s roof. it’d say ‘7+’ on the field, however our five-year-old is entranced.
Okay.Okay.’s Live performance on the Plaza value
And now, the rub. Okay.Okay.’s Live performance on the Plaza is the costliest of the Animal Crossing Lego units at $79.99 / £94.99 / €79.99, surpassing Nook’s Cranny and Rosie’s Home by 5 of your native foreign money items.
For that value, you get simply 15 extra items than the Nook set, though there’s one other minifig right here. Once you sit again after ending the construct, it would not really feel like a lot plastic for 80 notes, even for a licensed set.
