2025 brought three new Animal Crossing is set to The LEGO line of cute critters from Nintendo’s slow-life simulation series, including the cheapest set in the main range yet.
Stargazer Celeste is one of our favorite characters, so we’ve been eager to get our hands on this affordable set since it was first announced. Let’s see if it blinks.
LEGO Animal Crossing – Stargazing with Celeste (77053)
Price: $9.99 / £8.99 / €9.99
Parts: 78
Ages: 6+
Minifigures included: sky blue
What’s in the bag?
As with all Animal Crossing Lego sets, you get a lot of 1×1 pieces (and a lot of leftovers).
The headliner here is Celeste herself, obviously. His head mold is as good as any of the other minifigs, although we were a little disappointed from the neck down.
The printed details on the torso, arms, and feet get the job done, but Celeste’s owl shape doesn’t fit well into the dimensions of a minifigure. The short, static leg piece doesn’t capture his legs and claws well, with yellow printing only on the front edge of the feet. And although the printed arms suggest feathers, a new pair of “wing” elements would have looked much better.
Naturally, new Lego elements would have pushed up the price and the head here is already new. Still, one could imagine that wing-style arm elements would be useful for bird characters in all Lego sets in the future. Without a tail or wings, it would be difficult to recognize Celeste as a headless bird.
Elsewhere, you get a cute constellation book, a telescope, a moon statue, a picnic-style tea set, some flowers, and what we at first thought was a lantern with yellow-orange tips representing the light in darkness, but then we realized it was a star. fragment. Oh, and a disappointing little fir tree.
And except for more than a dozen extra parts for your spare parts bin, that’s your lot. As for the construction, it will take you 10 minutes if you are relaxed or if you drop some pieces. We enjoyed the staging of the blended details, and although her body could have been rendered more accurately, Celeste is still an obvious addition to your AC minifigure collection.
In fact, the moon and star fragments make this set one of the few ways to add a nighttime feel to your collection. This could have been taken further, with darker green, blue or even purple base tiles to emulate the hours of twilight and night (shown on the box). Nighttime activities are a big part of the game itself and not leaning on them is a missed opportunity.
Stargazing with Celeste costs
You get 78 pieces per $9.99 / £8.99 / €9.99including an exclusive minifigure.
Despite our disappointment with the figure (perhaps influenced by the fact that Celeste is in our top five characters in the game!), there’s no arguing the price. Without stickers, the printed detail on the constellation mosaic is excellent and the star fragment on the blue mosaic adds variety that some of the other sets lack.
Conclusion
What you have here is a nice add-on set with a fan-favorite character and a decent price. We would have liked to see Celeste’s Lego body rendered more accurately. Likewise, the bright green base tiles seem like a missed opportunity – a darker color for a character linked to the night would have been more thematically appropriate and would have been created for a unique ‘after-hours’ set.
Still, as a whole, the details are great and we love Celeste. Complaints aside, it’s a thumbs up.
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