The New Year is here, and we are continuing with our reviews of January 1 releases. Today, let’s take a quick look at one of the Dreamzzz sets just released: 71475 Mr Oz’s Space Car

71475 Mr Oz’s Space Car has 350 pieces, and is priced at AUD49.99/$USD29.99/€29.99/CAD39.99/£24.99. Mr Oz is passionate about space travel , and this set brings us a car that is about as far from the ‘car that a middle school science teacher drives’ as it could be.

This set has a couple of options for how you choose to complete the build, as is par for the course in DREAMZZz. The instruction manuals feature gorgeous cartoon art on the cover, and splendidly coloured stories being told within, helping us to understand how the dream vehicle fits into the story. As a side note, this set was the first I built loaded up with paper bags! I’m glad they are starting to appear in the wild, after years of discussion. I’m sure we will see them more and more as the year goes by!

71475 Mr Oz’s Space car has 350 pieces, 2 minifigures: a reissue of Jayden the perpetual victim, Mr Oz in a golden Spacesuit, one li’l guy in the form of Albert, and a brick built grimspawn, plainly more intelligent than others as it keeps its brains in a jar…

Mr Oz is in an all-gold spacesuit, with some blue piping, and once again fails to have a Space Logo on his outfit. Here he is displayed with his original figure, seen in Mr Oz’s Space Bus. I do prefer the new ‘cyberpunk specs’ compared to the previous ‘pirate patch’ look.

As an aside, I had the chance to ask Freddie Charters, the set’s designer, about why we are yet to see the classic space logo on Mr Oz’s torso: He reponded that to this point, all of the sets are based on adventures within the dream realms, rather than the waking world. Perhaps if we get sets based on the Waking World, we might see it appear, but until then…

Here are the elements for the build: While bright yellowish orange dominates the colour palette, Blue, white and grey and even reddish orange are all present in quantities that make this an appropriate set to mix with the new City Space sets. A satin blue windscreen and radar dish add some exotic content to the palette. Some of the most ‘Space like’ elements that appear here are the Space Wheels – recoloured in white for the first time. Perfect for some Ice Planet Action.

The build starts off simply enough, building up a bright-yellowish-orange sports car in the best traditions of Speed Champions. Along the way, we apply some stickers, paying homage to the LEGO Space logo, with the Night Bureau’s hour glass in place of the traditional moon, as well as a picture of the classic blue spaceman on the side.

The Logic for Mr Oz’s bright orange space car goes something along these lines: Mr Oz is a space obsessed Middle School science teacher, who drives a beaten up brown station wagon. He dreams of a better car… a sports car, and this is the first thing that we build.And he also dreams to travelling in space. From here we make a choice: Do we build a flying craft for Mr Oz, and provide a small rover for Albert to drive, OR do we build a 6 wheeled armored rover, and add a small flyer, the size of 885 Space Scooter?

Lets start with the Rover. And it is here where we see the appeal that this set might have to fans of classic Space: White Space Wheels. Initially introduced in Metallic titanium in NEXO Knights, these wheels are certainly in keeping with the space vibe.

The vehicle is given 6 of these to take on any alien terrain. A satin blue radar dish, along with moveable claw are attached to the side of the vehicle, while Albert is given a little turret, mounted on the back of the car. In this version, he has dual 6-shooters to take on the Grimspawn and other threats.

I do find myself wondering how much modification this vehicle might require to become an Ice Planet vehicle. Indeed, strip away the Bright Yellowish orange, and you see that much of the colour scheme is in keeping with the new City Space colouring – including a couple of the 1×10 plates in Reddish orange. One of the things I love about the new satin blue windscreen is that it is essentially opaque: you cannot see whether or not a driver is present. This lets Mr Oz go for a ride on the small flyer – similar to my all time favorite set, 885 Space Scooter.

I have to admit (and the collection of photos in my library that I have taken reveal this), I think I prefer the other alternate build: a very small rover, with otherwise making Mr Oz’s car quite the spacecraft adding smallish wing, and just a few too many oversized engines (in the form of the Space wheels with added transparent orange radar dishes. While Albert can ride the rover, with his turret, it looks a little more at home when it is attached at the rear of the car, providing communications and manual handling support.

The Dual front-mounted stud-cannons provide ample defensive capacity.

With this set, I appreciate both ways to build the car, but I certainly prefer the shuttle version over the rover, despite the homage to 885 included in that build. I do appreciate the fact that the turret can swap between the Rover and the Spaceship, depending on where the action is. While I would not consider this set to be ‘Classic Space’ in any sense of the word, I do still consider this to be a Space set. Beneath the outer orange skin, the rest of the ship appears to be made of elements in the basic ‘City Space’ colour scheme this year. The stickers call back to classic space, without directly copying the symbology.

But for me, the ‘Spacey’ elements are the wheels, along with the small wedge plates, particularly with application as shuttle wings. I appreciate the minifigure selection, but I am starting to feel that Jayden is becoming a little overused in the range overall, and it would be good to get a different ‘dreamer’ being kidnapped by the monster. It certainly feels like a Dreamzzzz set, with 3 alternative builds (stop at the car; build the rover or build the shuttle). The ‘Brain in a jar’ grimspawn is fun and I hope we continue to see variety amongst these denizens of the Nightmare Realm. I’m happy to give the set 3.5 out of 5 arbitrary praise units. I do expect that the Space Wheels will end up popular with ICE PLANET fans who are looking to build their own MOCs.

71475 Mr Oz’s Space Car has 350 pieces, and is priced at AUD49.99/$USD29.99/€29.99/CAD39.99/£24.99 and is now generally available. If you are looking to purchase from LEGO.com, consider using this affiliate link: The Rambling Brick Might Receive a small commission, while it costs you nothing.

But what about you? Does this set appeal to you? Is it one you are looking forward to? Are you just after the big white space wheels? Or do you have other LEGO priorities at this time? Why dont you leave your comments below.

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