A slimemobile with bright green wheels!
LEGO DREAMZzz for this year gives us another wave of new enemies, new sets and new part moulds! Now into its third wave of enemies, we are greeted with the newest force on the block – brain suckers! With Mateo and the Z-Blob Action Race Car rolling into the fight, how does it hold up?
The Car
The first thing that stands out to me in this LEGO DREAMZzz set is the bright colours. I have never seen so much bright green with highlighter green in a set before! The set strikes an image immediately, giving us the feeling of the slime aspects across the whole chassis.
We have new recoloured trans-green slopes at the front, the green wheel, the tubing on the side, canopy, guns and power effects at the back! The car also gives us a subtle arrow motif on the hood, and even a detachable controller/hovering gun that comes off the back!
The set is great for two kids playing together, with one taking on Mateo and the other Z-blob. The alternate builds for this set are also neat – changing up the car for a bike but still keeping the controller/hovergun around. Z-blob can shoot from the air whilst Mateo shapes the car up into a bike! Fantastic!
Cyber Brain Spider
The LEGO DREAMZzz Cyber Brain Spider is one of the new threats to the Dream world for 2025. Giving us a new moulded brain, two new tendril flex elements, and an otherwise new nightmare. Latching up the dreamlings, hiding on walls and sapping all the energy from them is a scary precedent in itself.
The Figures
The three figures in the set are Mateo, D-Shock and a Dreamling. The Dreamling figure seems to be almost trapped in a state of VR paralysis, and due to not having extra heads, forever stuck! He’s an interesting figure to have for the story, but hard to ‘save’.
Mateo for this wave gives us a casual meets armour meets punk vibe. We get some wicked leg prints, a punk-themed jacket and a bandolier with the Dreamchaser logo on it. Mateo has definitely evolved as a character, and these prints bring a new side to him.
D-Shock is the biggest unknown for this set, as I haven’t watched the season he is in. Giving us a static blur/computer glitch style of helmet and ribcage, he definitely doesn’t seem like one to mess with. He also gives us a new version of Storm’s CMF hair, as well as some wild printing on the legs. This figure definitely looks like it belong in a cyberpunk or new hashima setting. I do think his colours blend a little with the Z-blob car however.
Verdict
With so much green, this set is a set you think it would be easy to give a green light to. The reality is, the build compresses a lot into the car that you simply don’t feel like it matches the $70 AUD price tag. The new enemies for the wave are cool, and at time of writing this set is sold out on LEGO.com. I just don’t personally think it befits $70, and wait until you get it on sale.
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