LEGO DreamZzz Prices Make No Sense ~ Help Me Understand! 

At this point it’s more affordable to buy a retired Orient Expedition set than it is a DreamZz set

It's honestly amazing how sets based on a series developed by Lego themselves are more disconnected from their source material than waves based on blockbuster movies, with their extreme secrecy before release. That takes real skill.

It's kinda shocking seeing the disconnect between the sets and the show considering the precedent LEGO has set in the past. We know from designers of Ninjago, Bionicle, and Nexo Knights that the sets are designed *before* the show is written/animated, so assuming that trend continued into DreamZzz it's really baffling to see this.

This is unfortunately just how sets are handled in most of Lego's programming. Maybe it's the writers not being interested in the builds, maybe it's some overcorrected effort to be "more" than a toy commercial, but it's all too common for something to be featured for a couple minutes, then smashed to pieces in the first outing and never used again.

My feeling is that Matteo and Izzie's sets were intentionally DEFLATED as loss leaders. I assume every kid is going to need a hero set, but the villains are always more variable.

In the US, Zblob is $20, whilst the cage monster is $38, and the turtle bus is $48. Its odd how it seems like the Canadian value of the sets is just all over the place.

I never noticed how many discrepancies and downright missing builds there are between the sets and the show. Makes me wonder if 8-10 years from now we'll see a "beta Dreamzzz concepts" video along the lines of all the crazy cancelled Bionicle G2 concepts that were brought to light somewhat recently.

I want to see original themes with more design consistency. Ninjago, Dreamzzz, Chima, Monkie Kidd, and Nexo Knights all seem to be a hodgepodge of ideas and aesthetics, likely to encourage creativity and mixing, but it just completely destroys the inspiration I used to get from the “prompts” older Lego themes used to provide in themes like Adventurers or Mars Mission. It’s an aesthetic that can work with something like a theme about dreams or time travel, but when it’s every original theme Lego has it just turns into mush.

Honestly the sets themselfs have a cool design imo but the prices just ruin it, wich is really sad since this might be one of our last chances to get new original themes and the almost certain flop will really discourage lego from making more.

The disconnect between show and sets for the first wave of lego sets is pretty common, like it happened to ninjago chima and monkey kid. As far as I am aware that is because the show starts being produced fairly early to well manifest as a show. Concept design are used. With the ground work laid, later season will begin later in production and have much later design to base the show design on.

I know Jangbricks has talked about this a few times but pricing in Canada will always "feel" off for me (without even going in to the normal price increases lego has done recently). For some reason I can't shake the fact that back around 2005 or 2008 Lego sets were the same price in the United States and Canada. Even though they're technically cheaper in Canada now compared to the United States when you adjust for the exchange rate, it makes buying them seem way "worse" of a deal. Essentially I have a hard time realizing $100 isn't worth what I remember it from when I was younger.

Really unfortunate the way this theme has been handled. There’s an idea there for sure, and there clearly was care put into the sets.

It kinda feels like this theme was made specifically for the designers so they could branch out and make big wacky brightly colored sets that don't fit the other themes, and then the management and marketing side of things sent concept art of the sets in progress to the show makers and didn't really direct things all that much. I do like that the designers have been able to branch out and create these cool wacky new playcentric sets, but it seems the lore and general continuity of the theme was never really a priority. I actually kinda like that there is a disconnect too, all the extra bits not in the show encourage creating new scenarios beyond the established stories. I do think its' really weird that the little villager guys are so drastically different though, you'd think they'd at least get the character designs consistent! Perhaps the mushroom design was changed after the concepts were sent to the show makers, or the show makers were given so little to work with they made that up on the spot? Kinda of a curious thing X3 Edit: Looking more closely, the mushroom people are in a completely different set! Must have been scrambled together X3

Finally, a RU-vidr actually addressing the prices of Lego-sets. I feel like this aspect is often missing in other videos, since no matter how well designed a set is, as long as the price is unjustified like in some of the sets here, I can't really take any recommendations for sets at face value.

I had very high hopes for Dreamzzz so it’s really disappointing to see all the signs pointing to it being a flop.

The inclusion of so many weapons at the Blacksmith shop is surprising for the village set. I don't recall from your last Dreamzzz video if the protagonists actually used edged weapons or other methods to defeat the nightmare forces. I definitely feel like using edged weapons instead of intuitive methods (such as sleep training) and morals would be a HUGE waste of potential. So I guess my question is: what role do weapons play in this show, or are they just in the sets as a play feature?

Lego might have moved the production cost from the the Z-Blob set and the Bunchu the Bunny to the Grimkeeper in order to keep those other sets cheaper. As a sort of entry level set into the theme.

It seems like there's a big disconnect between the Lego sets and the actual show itself. I mentioned this in a comment on your other video, but the first season of Monkie Kid had a similar problem where the sets really didn't tie into any of the plot points or characters from the first season. It's really only been from like the 2nd season onward (so sets from the last two years) where there's a definite connection between the sets and the show and more easter eggs and references. My assumption is that the toy line informs the show and the show informs the toy line, so you need to build up a bit before things get going. I will 100% be picking up the rocket bunny and the Pegasus Flying Horse (it's far more reasonably priced in the US).

Man the crocodile car looks cool but jeez that’s some unfortunate pricing

The fact that there’s such a disconnect between the sets and the show is odd because lego did so much research in the theme and had thousands of kids to test the toys and probably even the show itself and had a positive reaction to them. I sometimes wonder if the product that was made is out of touch or ourselves being out of touch because we’re not in the demographic like we were years ago. I’m sure that if dreamzzz was made back in the early 2000’s I’d love it to bricks but now I’m 24 and see the world differently and have to take care of the house, along with my parents. I hope that kids enjoy the show and gets a target audience otherwise lego is gonna lose confidence in their original ips again.

I love how you can hear the madness leak from Slugger when he laughs after pointing out something bizarre. It’s too bad about the show. I like the designs of these sets and I especially like how it seems to blend “boys” themes and “girls” themes really well. I really liked the rabbit mech and the dream animal lodge a lot so it speaks to the broad appeal maybe!

They seem to be either intentionally inflating the prices of the bad guys or intentionally deflating the prices of the good guys.

The way you talk about this all makes me feel like the series was in development hell..... all of that "focus group testing" that the lego group did probably cost so much and took so long that it entirely changed the direction of the series. at one point, the things that never show up probably *were* big parts of the series, but ended up on the cutting room floor because it took so long to happen that there was a breakdown between the toy line and the animation

I don't doubt that there will be some weird disconnects/mixed emphasis when it comes to the sets vs. the show when it's all said and done, but there are still 10 episodes left to go. I think some of the stuff we haven't seen yet (especially surrounding Mrs. Castillo) will turn up later on. It's weird that the back half of the season (or season 2, not sure how they're dividing it up) hasn't been mentioned more in the promotional stuff, but 20 episodes have been confirmed in the Blocks 103 magazine cover story and on IMDB. (IMDB lists these episodes as dropping August 1st along with the new sets.)

THIS MAKES PERFECT SENSE!!! You ever try to explain a dream to someone? The disconnect in your story vs the actual dream. Yeah. Thats what we have here. This is just Lego being SUPER meta. 😂

I am just surprised how little minifigures so many of the newer Lego sets have. Especially licensed ones. Like, having a 100$ set with like 3-4 figs

The only one I would be willing to buy is the Mateo and Z-Blob purely for Z-blob his design is so cool

I swear they rose the price on a lot of the sets recently Nightmare Shark Ship was $120 and Stable of Dream Creatures and Shark Car was $50, now they went up $20 in price I really hate how they're scalping the price, like with the Lego Mario Question Block going from $160 to $200

Hello, Slugger :) I'm indeed from Germany and actually really really like your videos espacially the charme and nostalgia of the retro-stuff 😊 Keep it up, man!

I wonder if the sets were designed to be canon, but the show writers couldn’t figure out how to write them in the story…or maybe they were forced to drop them from the show for time constraints.

It feels like the showrunners must have been given either too little resources or direction or both. The disconnect between show and sets is really disappointing because it's such a genuinely interesting idea to have a theme all about dreams explored through lego. All around there's some baffling decisions on show here though.

The irony is all these sets of things basically not in the show, yet the weird gryphon owl creature ISNT one yet

Shrooms: The Lego Theme Edit: Yes the prices are bad, but here in Western Europe at least, we gett at least 20-30% off easily on most sets through Amazon etc.

I haven't seen the show (and have ZERO desire to do so), but judging by how simple everything looks there compared to the actual sets, I'm suspecting that the show is based on really, really, REALLY early concepts. As in, they started working on it before even nailing down the Lego sets, which then evolved over time, while the show was stuck with these early iterations of models, characters and set pieces. Like, originally ALL of the villagers were generic mushroom people, but they decided to expand the concept for the sets, because, you know, it looks nicer if they look different to each other! Same reason why the crocodile-car looks more complex as a set, or why the giant bunny has the cool roller skates and boxing gloves, it's just more fun to look at and play with. I'm actually really reminded of the early Rock Raiders renders, where you can sorta see the resemblance to the final models in the game and the sets, but they're also a lot more primitive. And considering the show... doesn't look very good to begin with, I think they really just needed to get it out asap to coincide with the release of the physical sets. As if they knew it's not enough, but they had to show SOMETHING. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if they release a new season and basically just completely revamp EVERYTHING. Like, introduce everything from the Lego sets, change how old designs of characters and objects looked, and so on.

I wonder if some of the weird price gaps despite similar piece counts could be because of the alt builds they mentioned the theme pushing. Like maybe the crocodile car has more complex alt builds therefore more like development cost/time.

Honestly it is quite a shame to see this new original theme sort of fall flat on all fronts so far. I'm not really a fan of the Lego Group due to their recent business practices but I was genuinely hoping that this line would be able to shine through some of the more mediocre offerings Lego as of recent. I feel like Lego has acquiesced more to licensed themes lately and as such we haven't been able to see a lot of their own ideas and themes. Monkey Kid was pretty good when it came out and I guess I was hoping this theme could launch with a similar level of hype and creativity but at least from what we've seen so far, it just doesn't feel like it's gonna reach similar heights. I just hope that the upcoming 2023 sets will be able to shore up what feels like a middling year in Lego so far...

EU context (Prices taken from German Website): Our sets are consistently more expensive than yours, probably because people here are willing to spend more on LEGOs. Given 1€=1,44CA$, we pay 5CA$ more on the "small" sets (including the cage monster), 10CA$ more on the medium sets and 20 CA$ on the big sets (stable and up). Only things that stand out to me is that the village price is pretty much the same, and the tree house only costs 10CA$ more despite being the 2nd biggest. Hope this helps someone contextualize, I wasn't going to buy these sets either way. But if you want to feel like a Canadian fan of LEGO, buy the village.

Well, there's more episodes planned this august, so hopefully we'll see what's in the sets there. It kinda sucks to have to go through a dozen of episode before seeing them though.

It's a really damn shame how disconnected the sets are from the show. When I first saw the set leaks I started imagining what kinda crazy adventure show would come out of it. The writers dropped the ball really hard. My only guess is that most of these features will be better shown later on, similar to how a lot of ninjago sets come out before they ever appear onscreen. The price inbalance was also one of the first things I noticed. The dream village and ms castillo's van have the EXACT same piece count and general volume of stuff, however there's a 18 euro gap between them... HOW? We're not talking about one set being all 1x1s and the other being 400+ massive panels. All sets in the wave share the same general element palette. There's just nothing directly visible that looks like it'd cover such gap aside from the minifig count (is lego once again trying to sell us the idea a single minifig is worth 5 bucks??). And lets not even start on the crocodile car. that thing has star wars levels of bad pricing. What happened to non-licensed themes being incredibly fair with their pricing? Remember the lego ninjago movie coming out with those beeg badass mechs, all in the range of 20-80 bucks?! The more I think about it the more I fall into the thoughts that "Oh no...is this a giant flop unfolding right before my eyes?". I really like the designs, I really wanna like this theme because of how pretty it all looks, but lego just doesn't help their own case.

Amazing video man, I'm so glad I find your channel! You are 100% right and after seeing all this and your other video about the show, it all has a weird aftertaste now, idk if I will get any sets now. Probably those two little ones, blob for me and bunny for my wife, but others... I'm not so sure now.

I work in a LEGO store, and the motorbike side-build from Crocodile Car appears in a free comic we're giving away with every purchase at the moment, so at least there's that!

So this feels like pretty typical lego pricing, alot fo the time lego prices sets at what they think they can get, not what the set is worth. There are themes I think arr generally decently priced, speed champions, friends, ninjago, and monkie kid are generally priced right but alot of others like dreamzzz, city, star wars, etc are at least 10 or 20 dollars more (if not more) than what i think it should be, especially big sets. It sucks but not much we can do about it

Loves these vidoes love how passionate you are it really shows. Love you slug

I am too broke to be watching this video.

This series has a lot of creativity and potential for wide appeal, it doesn't deserve to be dead on arrival, but between the phoned in and inconsistent show/marketing and the way it wiggles between Ninjago and Monkey Kid pricing, I don't think Lego has confidence in the series. This feels like it could have been a way to get a fantasy series that doesn't alienate demos in boys or girls categories but what seemed like an inventive concept is proving itself to be a lack of direction.

As an American, I made the choice that Canadian dollars and US dollars are the same. I know that's not the truth, but it makes things easier in my head. With that, here's my totally arbitrary thoughts on the prices: Matteo & Z-Blob: $5 over Bunchu: $5 over Dream Village: $10 over Grimkeeper: $25 over, WTF Turtle Van: $10 over Pegasus Flying Horse: $5 over Crocodile Car: $20 over Stable of Dream Creatures: $20 over Spacebus: $20 over Fantastical Tree House: Price is fine? Nightmare Shark Ship: Price is fine? I feel like most modern LEGO is overpriced. I really liked this video; it felt like a livestream, but, like... not a livestream. I hope Dreamzzz can turn around; it doesn't seem to be doing good! I want LEGO to succeed, dang it!

YES! I was waiting for Bunchu "Battle mode" appear on screen and I was dissapointed in both ways. The alternate build for set should have have been "Bunny on 4 legs" if they have it in show. Maybe it will transform in later episodes when theme premieres? Same with the dentist nightmare guy who looks like a king? Also the Dreamstables do appear but in big shot in Dream village. also its a less detailed version, The Dreamhouse it a weird cause - we can see Izzie planting the sapling in last episode, but for some reason that treehouse also appears randomly on their island in other episodes. xD

I think it's 'modern' pricing strategies. Lots and lots of workshopping, algorithms, applied psychology, pricing 'segmentation', 'pushing' consumers into slightly higher prices than they had initially budgeted for by providing (comparatively) much better value at those prices and awareness of pricing power. (I bitterly blame Apple for making all these things mainstream lol, and psychologists selling out). I basically see it as a combination of Bullshit Jobs (excellent book) and Greedflation (about 2/3rds of price inflation in the last couple of years is companies in monopolistic market positions taking the opportunity of 'cost of living' narrative to increase profit margins above pre-2020 levels). For example, I speculate that $50 CAD is a common figure that parents set aside for 'buying a toy', therefore the $50 CAD set is priced to represent terrible value (we can imagine the protests from the kid in the toy store - refusal to 'lose out' on money by accepting a cheaper set but really, really not wanting that POS). This makes the sets that are $10, 20, 30CAD more expensive appear to offer much better value and become 'irresistible' in the eyes of the consumer (the pressured parent, keenly aware that " well things have got more expensive..."). In this way, applied year over year, they force parents to psychologically readjust their expectations of 'what toys cost', and increase revenues and profit margins as a result.

tbh, even though the sets are expensive and not reflective of the show, I do like the design of the sets themselves. Hopefully they can pull together the link between the sets and the show together, and get pricing sorted for the second series, if it happens...

Looking at the same sets you are for my kids around Christmas time. They enjoyed the show but the prices seem pretty outrageous for the sets. Will definitely be looking for them on sale.

I think there was a lot lost in translation to the show itself. The vision that is represented in the sets seems so much better imo

I’m fine with trying a new theme like this out. For example, I intend to get the Spacebus & Croc Car because I like Space sets in general (excluding most Star Wars) & the Croc Car is a nice unique concept.

I feel like this series is overall a step back from Monkie Kid. That series typically has really nice builds, and from what I hear, the show is good. I just don't know what went on here, unfortunately. These sets have fake alt builds, and with a concept like "dreams", you'd figure they'd go wild with alt builds and using your imagination - especially with a target audience of children. It's just disappointing that all that research Lego did was pretty much wasted.

Dang I still need to finish the show before I can watch your previous video! And yeah the pricing in the middle is WILD?! Like... The smallest sets are priced great, the largest sets also seem priced great... But then the Crocodile Car, which I expected to be 30-40 is 63?! :S Gives me Cloud Chaser flashbacks... a 70€ set that got retired suddenly and unexpectedly before I had saved up enough for it, and is now perfect scalper fodder as it was a store/online exclusive...

The different new molds, new pieces, and prints are probably why they're expensive Also the little people are sooo disturbing and uncanny, like why LEGO? WHY?! 😰

I get the impression that development for the sets and TV show diverged at some point. The show continuing to be rewritten and editted while the sets were designed based off an earlier draft.

from what I'm seeing the 10 episodes we've gotten are seemingly just the first half of a two part season, (an unlisted playlist showed up on a random youtube channel with 20 episodes, but I haven't watched the latter half of those yet) so we might still see more of the wave 1 sets?

I managed to watch the whole show (that is available right now) and it really feels like there are more episodes that aren't out yet. So many things from sets that aren't in the show! Maybe a bunch of episodes were cut? It definitely seems like something happened with the show behind the scenes, perhaps late in production.

Gosh, that reminds me of Monkie Kid, where the sets and the show have a noticeable disconnect. The price disparity is incomprehensible, but I truly think some sets might still be worth getting (I'm personally eyeing on the Bunny).

If I'm really honest, I think the colors selected for Lego DreamZzz theme is an eye sore. So, a lot of these sets are unappealing for me. However, Mrs. Castillo's Turtle Van is the exception and overall represents the show and concept well. Mrs. Castillo's Van is featured both in the real and dream world, which I think this theme should do more often. Sets (and story elements) that have crossovers between the two realms.

So the balancing act I see with the pricing, is they take the "financial hit" by providing fairly priced entry level kits, then get people interested and push the price of the wave onto the slightly bigger kits. I could understand some disconnect with the sets and the show if they were different IP, but yeah you fairly pointed out it's all in house, and they should have a better read on which sets to release to be more involved with the show. I don't have the space for shark ship, but whoever gets that kit it's going to be an awesome addition to their collection for sure.

In my region (Finland) the prices are about the same number (usually a tiny bit lower but sometimes even higher) as the Canadian ones despite the euro having a higher value, so even the fairly priced sets are overpriced here

You're really cranking out the vids lately, nice!

the weirdest thing about lego prices is the inconsistent conversion rates between different currencies. even within the same wave of the same theme. E.g. relatively spoken 71455 Grimkeeper and 40567 Dream Villager are cheaper in Eurozone when I compare it to the other sets and Canada, while the 71457 Pegasus or 71459 Stables are more expensive. The Canadian Dollar is 117%-133% of the price in Euro. granted there are themes which have a bigger span of conversions, but we can already see here some notable difference which make some sets appear cheaper in Eurozone and some more expensive in Eurozone. And the inconsistency between sets and show: I think a bit of it will clear up once the 2nd half of the first season and the 2nd wave of sets is out. Its probable they they just made sets for the 1st season, but the decision how to split them up between two waves depended on other reasons than strict chronological order. Has someone any insight, maybe a designer interview how Dreamzzz was created? Or some old interview how this works in Ninjago? I mean specifically, how the design process between show and sets work? is it a ping-pong-process? or does the show come first? or the sets?

As a very casual observer of LEGO stuff, it looks like there are a lot of new moulds and printed pieces in this theme. Are those causing the weird price fluctuations? I think the winner here is the turtle bus. That thing rules! It looks like someone took a City set and added a bunch of wacky fantasy stuff to it. Reminds of some of my favorite Hidden Side sets!

Great video Slugger! This whole Dreamzzz thing is so odd.

i appreciate getting your perspective while sticking to talking about canadian dollars. as a fellow canadian value can be hard to trickier to gather in other videos with foreign currencies.

Maybe it isn't a disconnect, but more of a case of the sets showing off everything that'll appear later on to make sure the sets match their final forms which they'll be getting later on in the show.

Diffrent reasons go towards pricing sets the amount of peices if a set uses new molds or lots of prints the amount of figures the size and how much demand they think the sets will have edit: the crocodile car is the only price that makes no sense to me in any way

Great video Slugger, but man I am craving for your next Orient Expidition set review!

This theme went from being really exciting to just another original theme that won’t have much staying power. I don’t think it’s going to sell well since kids may find the disconnect with the show an issue and may not even have the cash to get the larger sets.

Honestly the only Lego themes I enjoy anymore are the occasional 18+ space set (they haven’t made one since 2021), and Lego Minecraft. (It’s somewhat fair priced)

I love how you have the prices in Canadian tire don’t have to do any conversion when watching the US channels talk about the Lego sets

I think a good topic that should be discussed more is budgeting and coming to stronger decisions about what sets you buy. There have been many a time ive seen a set I didn't want that much, but because it was there, and it was new or part of a collection or wave, I feel obliged to try and justify it. This leads to sets that sit unloved, or at best apathetically set up next to or behind sets you actually like. The line between something youll get your moneys worth out of and something that youll get bored of quickly can be grey, and its something that should be discussed more often. Especially for those in the community less experienced or in less financially forgiving lifestyles.

Considering the fact more episodes come out on the release date of the sets, I'd like to assume the stuff we haven't seen in the show will show up then, but thats just hope

It feels like the show designers and the set designers were only given concept art to work on, and just tried to make do

I honestly hope this theme does well; the sets all look really cool and original. The dissonance between the sets and the show is really weird, but it doesn't bother me too much since I've no intention of watching the show. In fact, I think it's a bit weird that there even _is_ a show in the first place - having an official canon storyline seems antithetical to the theme's core concept of "whatever you can dream up". Just give us a basic premise and some surreal abstract sets and let us fill in the gaps with our imaginations. Isn't that what LEGO is supposed to be all about?

I guess something broke down in regards to getting the sets and the show synced up on what they were making, yeah. Hmm.

I am 100% in for the treehouse & will be doing a review of it. I figured with the set to show discrepancy that they would be in the show more in the future. That has been what they do with Star Wars - a little bit of spoilers for some of the scenes in those shows.

It would have been better if they made the sets first, then make episodes that center on the sets, make sure to spotlight each set in one way or another. What I think they DID, was do both simultaneously, based on the same preliminary designs, and it was only after did it turn out that there was some miscommunications happening. I prefer the sets, myself, even though I probably won't get many of them.

Not sure what's going on with the pricing, although the fact that many sets were made that don't correlate, or even appear in the show kind of remind me of what I learned about Transformers figures made for the movies. Apparently a lot of the times when the toys are made, they base them off of earlier scripts and story elements. Best example would be the Cogman and Nitro Zeus figures. Cogman was stated to be a headmaster (a robot that converts into a head) and there was a scene were Nitro Zeus would lose his head, and Cogman would transform and take control of his body. It would later get cut, but the gimmick is still a part of Nitro Zeus, and the toy made for Cogman is a headmaster.

For me the Stable is probably the worst offender because I think the building facade is one of the prettiest ones they've released. But at this price point (85€ for me), I would feel bad paying even half of that.

Now, watch as the wild slugger slowly loses his mind, script, and composure when he has to reconcile with the general soggy disappointment that could have been a half decent original theme for once.

Maybe the show has a Season 2 where most of these sets appear in. All of Lego original IP lines with shows have this model where they release sets way ahead of their show appearances.

These weird sets really peak my interest, harkening back to Hidden Side days. It could be a really engaging new line or a quirky speck in the Lego Group's history. Time (and marketing) will tell. Do you live stream builds on this channel or another platform? I'm curious to see these built live.

My guess is all the sets were designed before the show was made, but the show itself was susbtantially reworked after all the sets were already in production.

With other themes, creator in particular, I've noticed the rubber tires add a pretty large premium. So $80cad for a 500 piece set with 6 solid rubber tires is not all that out of place. (eg. the little creator motorcycle is $20 for 130 pieces, vs. $14 for the 140 piece unicorn). Unfortunate for lego fans who like vehicles...

I don’t think the sets have consistent quality unfortunately. Some look really cool like the bunny or the slime robot but others like the cage monster look pretty bad. I will maybe buy a couple sets like the car and the slime robot probably but otherwise, I’m hoping wave 2 is better. It’s a shame cuz I wanna like this cuz we’ve been stuck with just ninjago and ninjago+ for the last several years. We’re finally getting something new but it feels like a mixed bag. Hopefully if this theme does meet an early end, it’s actually replaced and we aren’t just stuck with ninjago and monkie kid for eternity.

I don't come here for traditional reviews. I see this as a more archival/opinion channel, I in no way expect a modern review unless you have an interesting reason like the light neon trans green video.

Lego releases their shows in a 10 episode fashion 10 for one month and the rest for the others so we have only watched half of the 1st season so far which is why some sets don’t line up with the show so far

personally i might pick up, Z-Blob mech, turtle van and Shark ship. but i might not do it immediately, maybe wait for a sale on the last one since it is pretty pricey

I get the feeling this is affecting a lot of different themes? Like i'm aware that buying directly from the lego website or lego store will be more expensive than buying them from one of my standard retail places, but my local store has one of the new Ninjago sets for 45 aud, whereas the Lego store has them for 62.99. not sure if this is the case for other places, but overall its rather confusing

i'll get myself the DreamVillage. It looks cute, has an acceptable price tag and i might even buy it multiple times. Colours look great and it could be a good main source for moccing an actual medieval/fantasy village. It contains arches, window frames, lattices, some accesoiries like baking goods and smithing stuff and even guild shields for potion maker and blacksmith. :D the rest of the sets ... well, i guess i'm not the target audience ^^

LEGO DreamZzz had so much potential. What doesn't help is that the TV show isn't even faithful to the actual Lego sets for starters!

Although I'm not completely sold on the first wave of Dreamzzz, I do hope the sets themselves are able to stand on their own merit and convince Lego to release more waves (which I'm sure are already deep in the development cycle). I think there's still enough potential here; maybe discontinue the show or hire a new production team and attempt at salvaging the story. Personally, I'm likely to pick up the Z-blob, Bunchu, and maybe also the Pegasus set (the most optimal combo to get all the important characters). At the very least, I hope this doesn't discourage Lego from continuing to create original IPs.

Weird that some of these sets don’t get much screen time, maybe they are planning a second season of the show or had to cut some content to fit the budget or deadline?

When I convert the prices from GBP to CAD they are all priced higher for some reason, and I think they vary a lot more as well. The biggest difference is the Stable of Dream Creatures which is £75 or $125, about a $25 difference. Grimkeeper and Dream Village however are only $3 more expensive than in the Canada store, but Bunny and Z-Blob are $12 more. I'm moderately interested in some of the sets though (the Turtle Van might be my favourite, it's really cute!) but won't be able to pick any up at launch, I may have to wait for a price drop perhaps.

Nice video overall, well I am from Europe and prices are way lower here, for instance, instead of buing a 100 euro set from Lego Official, you can easily get it for around 70. Also, special offers can make it even lower, so I would say that the prices here will be very different from the ones in store, should be the same for Canada too no?

Went through the same exact thought process as you have with the grimkeeper upon seeing the pricetag. In general the price range is far too user hostile to engage with at a casual level. Ah well, maybe the "action theme" is just not for me anymore.

I'm a little disappointed at all the upset comments, although I understand some of the criticism about the show and the prices of the sets, I also feel like there is a lot of anger from adult fans for whom this theme was never intended. On the prices: They seem high, but also not very out of place for all the other prices Lego is asking. I understand the anger, but that is just the reality we seem to be having to deal with right now. For the European market: It is basically priced in that every Lego set is getting at least a 20% discount at some point in toy stores and the like in my country, I never buy any sets through the Lego store because of that. If that is not the case in the Americas I can understand the criticism more though. Here these sets will all be a fair bit cheaper than they look at surface value. On the designs and sets themselves: I think most of the sets look absolutely wonderful and I really wish adult fans would be a little more forgiving of dumb stuff like "weh it has no knees" or stuff like that, when these are very purposeful design decisions made for kids, where it has been proven that kids enjoy them more that way because they don't fall over as much, for example. I personally think the sets look super charming and are very imaginative, and I hope that this theme will be successful even if the show isn't that great apparently, hopefully the coming episodes or potential future seasons will be better.