The Africa pack added the meerkat, white rhino, African penguin and fennec fox. Based on the rule clarification for 'herd', I guess this now permits meerkats and African penguins as well as the rhinos for 'mixed African herd' species! Although given their need for a very rocky environment and such a specific real-world locale, the penguins are a tricky one to combine. Meerkats though...I am sure someone could do something interesting combining them with an ungulate species - giraffes and meerkats ha! I like how these themes are going to stretch us to think in new ways...
The scenery in the Africa pack was great in my opinion because it added lots of flexicolour plaster pieces, which I absolutely love using. I don't like the themed stuff too much in any of the packs, but the more neutral plaster wall set and off-grid plaster bricks and blocks are some of my most-used construction pieces. The texture seems really soft somehow while also being very plain and smooth. They're just very appealing somehow. Set to white, they make a nice plain white stone wall with just enough texture to feel tactile without anything distracting or repetitive in terms of pattern. Set to a block colour, really fun to play with. Plaster is such a versatile material and used in almost every culture and time period, so they can go with anything really. I guess the "little plaster brick" is the PZ equivalent of the LBD
All this raving about plaster and now someone is going to tell me that the plaster pieces came with the free update
for sure
