It’s official, the year 2024 is the Year of LEGO® Space. Across several LEGO themes, different sets feature the special LEGO Space banner, tying them together through a common string of space-themed builds. For LEGO DREAMZzz, that honour is bestowed upon set 71415: Mr. Oz’s Space Car. By day Mr Oz is a science teacher and by night he becomes a Dream Chaser, who expresses his love of classic LEGO themes with his t-shirt and from the first wave of LEGO DREAMZzz sets, via his Space Bus. Continuing the early look at the upcoming 2024 LEGO DREAMZzz sets, here’s a closer look at the Mr Oz’s Space Car.
Product Details
Set Name: Mr. Oz’s Space Car | Set Number: 71475 | Pieces: 350 | Theme: DREAMZzz
RRP: £24.99/$29.99/29.99€ | Number of Bags: Bags x 3 | Instructions: Paper booklet + Builder App | Stickers: Sheet x 1 | Characters: Mr. Oz, Jayden, Albert & a Grimespawn | Insiders QR: Yes
Availability: LEGO Stores, LEGO Online & General Retail From January 1st, 2024
One of the key features of all the LEGO DREAMZzz sets is the ability to rebuild them. But not all sets offer three different builds as the base build here is a fully complete car. As a car, it’s a similar-looking vehicle to those you’d find in the LEGO City or Speed Champions themes. Although it’s a little more futuristic, partly thanks to the large blue cockpit canopy. There are a couple of stickers used to add detail to the car, including a tiny blue Classic Spaceman and a Dream Chaser variant of the Classic Space logo.
Once the car is complete, the instructions offer two different build routes. Each one uses the body of the car as the base but it gets augmented by added additional elements to create two different vehicles – a Space Rover and a Space Shuttle. Although the instruction covers have become a little plain, I must say I like the illustrations used for the DREAMZzz instructions.
The Space Shuttle adds various extra elements to different points of the car. With the wheels removed these become connection points for a pair of wings on the rear side panels of the car and a pair of stud-shooter barrels, encased in suitably named white space wheels, on the front. The same wheel elements are used to create the shuttle’s engines. But it’s not just the car being adorned with extra gadgets, the alternate build adds a second vehicle. With the Space Shuttle, it’s a fairly simple Space Rover. This can have the grabber mount from on top of the shuttle added to it.
The second alternate build is Space Rover, as with the shuttle the car acts as the base with its normal tires removed. The white space wheels are added along the side of the car, slotting into the same holes as the normal wheels. The stud-shooter barrels are then mounted onto the roof of the car. As with the Space Shuttle build, the Rover also offers an additional build for Albert the Chimp to pilot, this time is a smaller Space Shuttle, which has a slight resemblance to the NASA Discovery Shuttles.
The set features two minifigures, along with a space chimp and another unique Grimspawn creature. Jayden has appeared in a handful of DREAMZzz sets; in each of them, he’s wearing his pyjamas and is shown as half asleep. Which is the case in this set. Mr Oz has only appeared in one other set and his second appearance in this set, sees him donning a golden spacesuit. It almost resembles an Iron Man suit and looks great when paired with his gold-coloured shoulder armour. It’s a shame neither of the physical versions of Mr Oswald sport the ‘Classic Space’ tee he wears in the TV series. Along with the minifigures, there’s another version of Albert the Chimp, his golden spacesuit also makes it unique. Finally, the set features another unique buildable Grimspawn creature and this has to be the most gruesome of the bunch thanks to the exposed brain.
It’s not as exciting as the Space Bus from the first wave of DREAMZzz sets but this is much smaller and so has a cheaper price point. I like the alternate builds but I think the base car needed a little extra detail through stickers or maybe some white or blue elements to break up the colours a little more. Mr. Oz’s Space Car will be available from January 1st, 2024 along with the other new LEGO DREAMZzz sets. Stay tuned for a look at the other sets in the theme in the lead-up to Christmas.
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