Review: LEGO DREAMZzz 71459 Stable of the Dream Creatures

Today we are very quickly interested in the content of the LEGO DREAMZzz set 71459 Stable of the Dream Creatures, a box of 681 pieces currently in pre-order on the official online store at the public price of 84.99 € and which will be available from August 1st. The statement leaves no room for doubt, this product derived from the animated series, the first 10 episodes of which are online at Youtube, Netflix or even Prime Video is very expensive.

The main construction of the set is very quickly assembled, there is no complex technique or functionality but the small house whose interior spaces are easily accessible seems to me rather correct. It's colorful, there is enough furniture and accessories so that the whole thing doesn't seem too empty and the presence of stickers is relatively limited.

The title of the product evokes "The stable of dream creatures", we are still looking for the stable and the reason for the plural used for the word creature. On the other hand, there is a mill whose propeller is rotated manually by manipulating the wheel placed at the top of the house.

We also build a guardian deer of the forest and this is where we measure the gap between what appears on the screen in the animated series and the adaptation of this content in LEGO bricks. The plastic creature is immediately much less majestic and you have to be content with a deer with very stiff legs but with nicely stamped eyes.

The animal's head is articulated, the Ball joint clearly visible gray confirms this in case you didn't understand. For those who have not watched the episodes of the series already available, I remind you that the content seen on the screen is not based on bricks and there are only the minifigs which remind us that we are in the LEGO universe. The transition to physical content is therefore necessarily a little disappointing, both in terms of the volume of the constructions and their finish.

Like many sets in the range, this box offers a construction variant with a bifurcation during assembly in the pages of the instruction booklet. The variant present here is not of the level of that of the set 71456 Mrs. Castillo's Turtle Van with his food truck which becomes a turtle, it is simply a question of giving a pair of wings to the deer by recovering the blue branches of the tree planted in the garden. Not much to shout about the 2-in-1 concept this time around, but it's still a bit more building fun for younger kids.

The endowment of figurines here is rather substantial with Izzie, Zoey, Cooper, Mrs. Castillo, Z-Blob and two Champirêves. These are the stars of the set with a rather interesting look and potential use in other contexts. The pad prints are generally very successful with once again all the technical know-how of LEGO at the service of the handful of characters.

This box will probably not mark the history of the range, it lacks content for the price requested and the LEGO DREAMZzz universe only based on the confrontation between the heroes and the king of nightmares accompanied by his minions, so it lacks also here something to have fun by reproducing the events seen on the screen.

In the end, this set is only half of what it should have been and the marketing obviously went through this: it will be necessary to go back to the checkout so that the youngest can do something other than brush the stiff-legged deer, to grind grain, take tea or rake the garden.

This derivative product will inevitably end up being sold with a big reduction in its public price, the two blue mushrooms and the few interesting pieces delivered in this box will then become more accessible. In the meantime, no need to spend 85 € on this box, it's far too expensive for the content offered, as cute as it is.

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