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Just as minifigures portray humans, there are also specific figures that depict the Animals in the LEGO Universe. These are made up of dedicated Lego elements instead of being composed of standard pieces. Animals may consist of just one single element as well as there are creatures that consist of a whole complement of special parts.

Not all Lego animals were made up of special pieces or even one single dedicated element. There were also some animals that were build of universally usable pieces. But those creatures would usually occur in only one set while the other animals could be reused more often due to their more simple and standardized design.

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The first purpose built animals were horses introduced in several Castle sets in 1984. These first horses were only available in white and black. A brown version was introduced in 1988. Over the course of the next decades a growing number of variants with different coloring was released but the basic form is still the same.

There were no new animals until the advent of the Pirates theme in 1989, when the monkey, the first shark and the first bird were introduced. The bird was printed with a parrot pattern and also its shape had the basic appearance of a parrot. Nevertheless, the same piece also served as generic "bird piece" and was released in various colors to suit its many different functions. It's still in use today.

In the 1990s a greater variety of animals were introduced. Many of them, such as cats and dogs, initially appeared in Belville sets but were later also used in normal Lego System themes. There was also a growing number of sea creatures like the octopus, available in Aquazone sets, and the dolphin, both introduced in 1995, and also the manta ray and the sawfish, both included in Divers sets. Smaller single-piece creatures such as crabs, scorpions, spiders, snakes, starfishes and bats also made their first appearances in the 1990s. There was also a small pony that was released in just two Paradisa sets in 1996. All of these new animals, except the sawfish (which was basically a shark with a new head-piece) consisted of only one single piece. The only more complex new animals from the 1990s were the dragon and the crocodile.

The introduction of the Harry Potter theme added the first owls to the complement of Lego animals, as well as several mythical creatures, such as the Hippogriff, a 3-headed dog, the Basilisk, a Phoenix and a Hungarian Horntail dragon. Anoher new dragon was introduced in the new Castle line from 2007.

The new Vikings line from 2005 brought three different dragons, the Fenris wolf and the Midgard serpent, but those creatures rather fall in the category of non-reusable designs that were only designed for the respective set they appear in. The same can be said for the bigger sea creatures included in the Aqua Raiders sets from 2007.

There were also several dinosaurs released in sets of the Studios, Dino Attack and Dino Island lines.

More conventional animals introduced in the 2000s include two versions of a rat, a frog, an elephant, a Polar Bear and a wolf, that would later become a police dog. A very rare animal was a lemur that was only available in the Shop-at-home set 3828 Air Temple. All of these animals except the elephant are single-piece designs.

2009 brought some new animals, such as the first Lego cows (available in either brown or black and white), a small fish and a new shark, that is substantially bigger than its predecessor from 1989 and can now swallow a whole minifigure.

[edit] List of Lego Animals

[edit] Fictional creatures

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