IGN reports that the Spore Creature Editor will come out in June. According to EA’s Patrick Buechner:

A trial version of the Spore Creature creator will be available for free through a variety of sources including as a download from Spore.com and in The SimCity Box. There will also be a version of the Creature Creator available at retail. The free Creature Creator has about 25-percent of the creature making parts from Spore. The retail version will have 100-percent. It’s up to the players to choose which version they want, but they’ll all be available at approximately the same time.

The SimCity Box will include SimCity Societies, SimCity Societies Destinations, SimCity 4, SimCity 4 Rush Hour and The Sims Carnival SnapCity, and retail at 40USD.

Buechner goes on to say that the creatures made by the stand-alone editor can be shared among users, and directly imported into the game once it ships.

So what’s your take on this? Are you going to get the full-version, or make do with the free one? Let us know in the forums!