Animal Crossing

Bunnie's Outdoor Activities

A pocket sized camping trip with the bounciest rabbit in Animal Crossing.

Brick Rated Score

3.8/5

Set 77047 · 2024

Pieces164

Minifigs1

Year2024

Set number77047

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The verdict

I built this one in about twenty minutes over coffee and came away smiling, Bunnie herself is the whole reason to buy it.

LEGO gave her a real brick built head with that soft round face and the little pom pom tail, and she has more personality packed into one figure than most 300 piece sets manage. The outdoor scene around her, a tent, a bug net moment, a tiny camp table, is sweet but slight, so judge this as a character piece with a diorama attached, not the other way round. If you love Animal Crossing or you collect the villager figures, get it, if you just want a satisfying build for the price, look at the bigger sets in this wave first.

Best for: Animal Crossing fans who want the Bunnie villager figure on their shelf

The full review

What it is

Bunnie's Outdoor Activities is the smallest of LEGO's first Animal Crossing wave, and it knows exactly what it is, a cute little vignette built around one very good minifigure. Bunnie is a brick built villager rather than a classic yellow minifig, with her own molded head piece, ears, and that fluffy tail nub on the back, and she is honestly delightful in hand. The outdoor bits around her, a small tent, a folding table, a bit of greenery, give her somewhere to live rather than a proper build in their own right.

The catch

I'll be straight with you about the value math here, at 164 pieces this is a smaller set carrying a mid range price, so the per piece cost runs higher than the bigger Animal Crossing sets in the same wave. That's common for character focused sets across LEGO's catalog, you're paying for the figure and the license, not the brick count, but it's worth knowing going in so you don't expect a substantial build session out of it. The construction itself is simple and fast, closer to a relaxed afternoon project than a weekend build.

Who it's for

Get this one if you're collecting the Animal Crossing villagers or you have a fan of the game who wants Bunnie specifically, she's the star and she delivers. If you're shopping this wave for pure building satisfaction and don't have a soft spot for the character, I'd steer you toward Kapp'n's Island Boat Tour or Nook's Cranny instead, they give you more to actually build.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

The build itself is short and low friction, mostly small sub assemblies, the tent, the table, a scattering of camp details, that come together fast without any tricky techniques. It's a good one to build alongside a kid who wants to finish something in one sitting rather than come back to it tomorrow.

The real story is Bunnie's figure. Instead of a standard minifig, LEGO built her from a specialized head mold with molded rabbit ears and painted face detail, sitting on a body that reads as soft and rounded rather than blocky, with a little tail piece finishing her off. That head and ear mold is shared across the Animal Crossing villager figures, so if you pick up more than one set in the wave you'll start to see the family resemblance in how they're constructed, while each villager gets her own paint and personality on top of it.

Fun facts

01Bunnie's Outdoor Activities was part of LEGO's first Animal Crossing wave released in March 2024, its first LEGO collaboration with the Nintendo life sim.
02The villager figures in this wave, including Bunnie, use a custom brick built head and body construction rather than the classic minifig mold, a design choice made to match the rounder, softer look of the game's characters.
03The Animal Crossing wave launched alongside three other sets, Kapp'n's Island Boat Tour, Nook's Cranny and Rosie's House, and Isabelle's House Visit, with 77047 as the smallest and most affordable entry point into the theme.