Review: LEGO DREAMZzz 71477 The Sandman's Tower

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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