Despite the game being out for over a year, Animal Crossing: New Horizons remains a cultural phenomenon in many ways. With Animal Crossing-themed podcasts still popular to this day, a cacophony of merchandise for fans to purchase, and various seasonal content updates releasing for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, there's many ways for players to enjoy the game. Now, the long awaited release of the Animal Crossing-themed Build-A-Bear plushies is happening soon.
Ever since it was announced in March that Animal Crossing would be collaborating with Build-A-Bear, many fans have have been excited. One big factor with Animal Crossing: New Horizon's success is the memorable characters that populate each player's in-game island. With this new collaboration, it will now be possible for fans to purchase physical versions of some of their favorite characters.
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Nintendo revealed earlier today via its official Twitter page that the Animal Crossing: New Horizons collection at Build-A-Bear would be launching tomorrow, and prompted fans to sign up for email updates as a way of receiving more information. However, while the collection itself was announced for tomorrow, no other details were revealed in terms of what fans could expect from the collection.
It's obvious a lot of popular and well-recognized Animal Crossing villagers will find their way into the Build-A-Bear collection, likely including characters such as Isabelle, Blathers, Tom Nook, and Timmy and Tommy. Other than that, there's no way of knowing who else will be making an appearance until the collection is properly unveiled tomorrow.
There are a lot of Animal Crossing: New Horizons characters that fans are hoping will come to Build-A-Bear, but with so many memorable characters that occupy the game, it will be hard to know which characters will be included in the collection. All fans can do for right now is just wait to find out more.
In any case, it will be interesting to see if Animal Crossing: New Horizons manages to maintain its longevity with regards to how popular it has become. Given the effects that COVID-19 has had on the world at large, it has allowed games like Animal Crossing: New Horizons to grow to incredible heights. With all of the content that has been released for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, both digitally and physically, fans will have a lot more to look forward to in the coming years.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available now exclusively for the Nintendo Switch.