Today we very quickly go around the content of the LEGO DREAMZzz set 71477 The Sandman's Tower, a box of 723 pieces which will be available from January 1, 2024 at the retail price of €89.99.

I'm not making a drawing for you, this is, as the name of the product indicates, about assembling the Sandman's Tower, a building which highlights some temporal attributes associated with the owner of the place. Those who saw the construction in the first season of the animated series know that LEGO has frankly simplified the physical version of the structure, but it still remains something that is, in my opinion, quite elegant and consistent.

Everything is quickly assembled, it is a relatively basic stacking of walls and arches in the style of sets usually reserved for younger children. We still come across some refinements with the installation of a nicely executed entrance door taking into account the positioning of this range, some furniture elements and the installation of the mechanism which sets in motion the clock placed on the facade as well as the upper structure of the building. A few gears and a remote dial are enough, it's simple but effective.

The two gears based on parts placed on the sides of the building add a nice finishing touch well within the theme, it is aesthetically very successful and these two excrescences give character to the construction by differentiating it from the usual palaces and other castles for children of the Disney universe. If the tower may seem a little empty, with interior spaces deprived of various and varied furniture, its 47 cm high will allow it to stand out in a child's bedroom among other sets in the range.

As with all references in the LEGO DREAMZzz range, the manufacturer offers a variant to be assembled using the inventory provided (visual below). I ignored the proposal of the set, I find the tower much more successful than the alternative construction which seems to try to do the best to reuse a large part of the inventory but which in my opinion becomes much less readable .

It will obviously be up to everyone to choose which version to assemble and it will always be possible to move from one to the other by dismantling a model to return to the intermediate point from which the two construction processes diverge. We will also note the presence of several pad-printed elements, everything that is not on the sticker sheet that I scanned for you (see below) and a beautiful assortment of golden pieces.

The supply of figurines is interesting with a Sandman (Sandman) perched on its support, the Nightmare Witch (Never Witch), accompanied by his minion Sneak, with his superb hairstyle adorned with a crown, Logan, Izzie and Mateo. As usual in this range, the pad printing is of a very high level and there is plenty of fun knowing that LEGO provides the added bonus of a giant spider and a bird on which Izzie can sit. The transparent support that you see in the photos is not provided, I added it for the situation.

I will say it once again, this range allows at least to see that LEGO can make efforts on pad printing when it comes to "in-house" ranges while we often have to settle for economy figurines in many licensed products. It is therefore never a question of know-how, it is always financial concerns which decide the level of finishing of certain minifigs: LEGO clearly pulls out all the stops when it does not have to pay royalties to a beneficiary and when any the margin ends up in his pocket.

If you have a young fan of this universe in your circle who has not yet tired of the sets from the first wave, this box could possibly complete their collection. It is also a possible interesting starting point for a very young fan who arrives late in contact with the LEGO DREAMZzz universe, with an imposing construction around which it will then be possible to add some less ambitious and less expensive products .

There is also no need to be offended by the public price of the product, set at €89.99, which ultimately only serves as a reference here when we all know that it will quickly be possible to find this box for much less elsewhere. than at LEGO. Once again, I find all of this rather convincing in terms of form, even if I am not the target of the product in substance.

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Update : The winner was drawn and notified by email, his nickname is indicated below.

Today we are very quickly interested in the content of the LEGO DREAMZzz set 71455 Grimkeeper the Cage Monster, a box of 274 pieces which is available at the public price of €37.99 on the official store.

This product is in the soft underbelly of the first wave of sets based on the "home" LEGO DREAMZzz license, it modestly showcases the imposing Grimkeeper ou Keeper of Nightmares seen from the first episode of the animated series which serves as marketing support for derivative products.

The brick interpretation of the monster seen on screen is hardly more convincing here than that of the set 71461 Fantastic Tree House which I spoke to you about a few weeks ago, but this time the creature is really at the center of the product, it logically benefits from a little more attention from the designers. The head, however, remains reduced to its simplest expression with a pretty pad-printed part used on both versions but a half-jaw without an upper row of teeth. The two gray shoulder pads are not pad printed, although they would have deserved to be to flesh out the overall look a little.

The main functionality of the product: the cage placed in the thorax of the creature with the possibility of enclosing the young Cooper there, who will have to be rescued, with the help of the Mateo figurine perched on his flying machine. It's very well executed and the playability is obvious.

The mobility of Grimkeeper is ensured by a few points of articulation but the limbs based on macaroni elbows necessarily remain a little rigid. The whole thing is stable on its supports and the construction can take a few poses but we obviously do not achieve the flexibility of figurines of the same style available for example in the Marvel range. I'm pointing this out because it's nice: there are no stickers in this box, all the patterned pieces are pad printed.

Facing Grimkeeper, we have a flying machine which is the only part of the product concerned by the usual possibility of varying the pleasures by choosing one of the two variants proposed in the last pages of the instruction booklet. Nothing crazy, the differences between the two versions are symbolic and this box is not the one which makes the most of this good idea which is much better exploited in other sets in the range.

Two figurines are provided, Mateo and Cooper, it's enough to have a little fun and start assembling the main cast of this universe without spending too much. Z-Blob is also present in the form of a green dome with pad-printed eyes.

The version of Cooper delivered here without his super-outfit seen in other boxes (71458 Crocodile Car et 71459 Stable of the Dream Creatures) is only present in this set, it will undoubtedly interest those who want to complete a collection of characters with all their variants. The Mateo figurine and the dome embodying Z-Blob are also delivered identically in the set 71454 Mateo and Z-Blob the Robot.

In the end, this box currently available for a little less than €30 from many merchants constitutes a nice gift for a young fan of the LEGO DREAMZzz universe, it offers enough content to have a little fun and Keeper of Nightmares is an interesting villain whose LEGO version, although a little economical, retains the look and main functionalities of the character.

This is a constant in this range anyway, there is a real gap between what we see on the screen and the LEGO versions of the vehicles, ships and other creatures present in the derivative products, this will have to be addressed to do, LEGO having decided not to limit itself to the possibilities offered by its own product to develop the animated series which then makes it possible to sell these boxes.

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Update : The winner was drawn and notified by email, his nickname is indicated below.

Today we very quickly go around the content of the LEGO DREAMZzz set 71469 Nightmare Shark Ship, a box of 1389 pieces available from LEGO at the public price of €139.99 but accessible for much less from the vast majority of resellers.

This is the largest and most expensive set of the first wave of products derived from the animated series which promotes these boxes and we find there the main cast of this “in-house” LEGO license.

This product may therefore seem essential to begin in the best possible way a collection which will then be expanded with several small additional products allowing you to imagine new adventures and to obtain some more or less secondary characters.

Everyone knows the main construction proposed in this box, so I set out to build the variant proposed in the pages of the instruction booklet, I find in passing this shark on wheels with a boat placed on its back even more successful than the simple flying boat shark presented by default which does not stand out.

Like all the sets in the range, this box allows you to vary the pleasures a little and extend the "experience" by choosing the model to assemble in the last pages of the instruction booklet. The formula imagined by the designers does not reach the level of the best sets in the Creator 3-in-1 range but it seems to me to be sufficiently simplified to allow the youngest to not have to take everything apart to quickly enjoy the secondary model.

It is in fact only a question of implementing certain accessories differently on the product, the common core of the two variants using the majority of the inventory. I also note that the secondary model here attempts to make maximum use of the parts delivered in the box and that on arrival there are only a handful of parts left on the floor (see photos below), c 'is appreciable on a large product like this.

In both cases, this shark vessel with an articulated tail benefits from a few features that should please young people with a winch whose cable (a simple wire) with its grappling hook circulates through the shark's mouth, a movable jaw, an accessible cage by manipulating the shark's ribs and a chest hidden in the upper floor of the ship. No mechanism integrated into the wheels to, for example, open and close the jaw when the shark tank is moving.

It is also possible to remove the boat's cabin to use it separately and take advantage of its interior layout, which remains basic but which will allow some interactions between the King of Nightmares and the young heroes Mateo and Izzie who have come to free Nova.

The number of stickers used remains limited, which is good news for a toy intended to be handled without care by young audiences. I note some fragilities of the whole here or there, you will have to be careful not to lose some decorative elements which only hold on a tenon like the railing or the lanterns of the bridge but we cannot however complain of having the right to a construction which benefits from numerous finishing details despite its frankly crazy side which visually takes over.

This range manages to surprise me, all things considered because I am obviously not the target of this universe, with some pretty details which testify to the obvious care taken in its design. LEGO is not making fun of its youngest fans here, there is both a real effort on aesthetics and on the pleasure of construction.

As for the figurines provided, it is as usual in this range relatively balanced and very well executed. I have said it and repeated several times, the minifigs are very accomplished and the level of detail of each of the characters will undoubtedly be enough to annoy fans of other ranges which provide less polished and somewhat economical figurines. .

With this truly original construction measuring 60 cm long by 31 cm high, fans will have the “flagship” of the LEGO DREAMZzz range on their shelves, and they will then be able to try to convince their parents and friends to offer them gifts. other less ambitious but complementary sets.

The fact remains that in my opinion all of this is not worth the €140 requested by LEGO, especially for an in-house universe without an external license or royalties to be paid back in the form of a percentage of sales. Fortunately, this box is available elsewhere for a little less than a hundred euros, so we approach a price more consistent with the content offered.

The public price of the product does not seem to scare customers, however, this box being indicated as a restocking course at LEGO with availability promised for December 15. Elsewhere the product is still currently in stock: at Amazon at €99.99 or at Cdiscount at €99.99, the other brands having already raised their prices as is customary to do during the last weeks in the run-up to Christmas. If you don't know what to get a young LEGO fan for Christmas and want to keep them away from the usual Star Wars or Marvel licenses, this product shouldn't disappoint.

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It's a tradition at LEGO, each range or universe benefits from one or more small promotional bags and the year 2024 will be no exception to the rule with more than twenty polybags for which we at least already know the reference.

Several of them have already been revealed by resellers including the German brand JB Spielwaren who already offer them for pre-order and some of these bags will undoubtedly be offered by LEGO or its partners to ensure the promotion of the ranges concerned when they arrive on the shelves.

The list below is in principle up to date with the information available at the moment, do not hesitate to indicate in the comments if you have visuals or additional information, I will complete it.

The range based on the LEGO DREAMZzz house license will be expanded with at least five new references in 2024. It is still as crazy, colorful and creative even if the target obviously remains the very young fan audience of the animated series broadcast on Youtube, Netflix or even Prime Video :