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Dreamzzz 2026 Collector’s Guide

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A visual guide to the 2026 LEGO® Dreamzzz sets featuring minifigures, swords, crystals, and creatures organized by set numbers: 71508, 71512, 71513, 71514, and 71515.

The next wave of LEGO® Dreamzzz contains a collectable aspect, as such themes often do. In the past we’ve had spinners, golden weapons, shields… and in the 2026 Dreamzzz sets, we have two collectables; HUGE swords, and crystal creatures. The boxes seem fairly clear about this:

A display of five LEGO® Dreamzzz set boxes, showcasing various colorful designs and characters, including a dragon and robotic figures.
A stack of LEGO® Dreamzzz sets, showcasing colorful boxes with character illustrations and collectible swords.

For your convenience we’ve put together a quick table to show you which variants you can collect in the 5 sets to be released in January 2026, so you can target your favourite parts.

The five sets generously provided by LEGO, to be released in January are:

We will refer to their set numbers in the images below

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10350: Tudor Corner [Rambling Review]

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The Modular building release is a key date in the AFOL Focused set release calendar. The 10350 Tudor Corner is the 20th Modular building in the series to be released (not including several other compatible releases in other themes such as Marvel, Ninjago and the Chinese Spring Festival). Due for release on January 1 2025, I was delighted to be sent a copy of the set for review by the LEGO Group. All opinions are my own.

Now, what would you expect to find in a set that represents such a milestone? A nod to the Traditions of the past? Innovations? New parts or recolours? Neat techniques? Storytelling? All of the above? Let’s take a look inside and find out.

I may have dived in too deep…

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NEW Build-a-Mini brings us Waking World DREAMZzz Characters: Minifigure Overview

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In which we look at the figures in the build a ministations, compare theme with their existing counterparts and speculate over the next colour of spaceman torso. I think the clues are all there…

While LEGO® Dreamzzz sets focus mainly on the Dream World, a significant part of the action takes place in the waking world: the schoolyard, the kids’ homes and other locations around LEGO Brooklyn. It has been a little frustrating, being unable to get the right minifigures for these settings, until now…

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Extra Pieces Podcast: Awesome August – Technic, Dungeons and Dragons, Jaws now available for your listening pleasure.

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A new episode of the Extra Pieces Podcast, our ongoing collaboration with JaysBrickBlog, is now live. In this post, you will find the links to the sets we mention.

You can find the episode here or on your favourite Podcast Player. Please leave a 5 star review if you enjoy the episode, and let your friends know about it too, so you have something to talk about with them 🙂

In this episode, we look at Awesome August, and some of the recent releases, including the LEGO® Technic range and the LEGO Ideas Jaws Set. Jay presents his review of the Dungeons and Dragons Minifigfures due for release in September or October (depending on your location). We also look at the latest LEGO Ideas Announcement and speculate on just what might be going on with the ongoing review of the Pixar Lamp submission.

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71047 Dungeons and Dragons® Minifigures Revealed. Preorders Now Available.

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After the release of the LEGO Ideas Red Dragon’s Tale earlier in their year, the LEGO Group are continuing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the iconic role playing game Dungeons and Dragons with a collectible minifigure series, set to be released in September (Most of the World) and October (Australia). Figures are now available for re-order from LEGO.com (maximum of 12 per customer)

Let’s take a closer look.

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We’re committed to recycling: 42167 Mack LR Electric Garbage Truck

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Branko is back with another review. This time its the Technic 42167 MACK LR ELECTRIC GARBAGE TRUCK, part of the January 2024 Technic range. Interestingly, the scale appears just about right for some other play themes…

LEGO communities have been committed to cleanliness, garbage disposal and emission reduction, expressed historically with cleaning and garbage vehicles and, in recent times, with electric vehicles and even electric recycling trucks! Until now, most of these vehicles seem a bit undersized for serious garbage management until now; introducing 42167 Mack LR Electric Garbage Truck available for AUD 59.99/£29.99/US$32.99/€34.99 containing 503 pieces*. The arrival of this truck certainly caught the attention of Friends Emma and River, who felt that their own (albeit colourful) truck looked a bit underwhelming in comparison.

*Technic sets typically contain a lot of pins and connectors that I would not equate to a full ‘piece’. More on this below.

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Halloween BAM Figures Spotted in the Wild.

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Here we are on the eve of the final quarter of the year and our local LEGO Certified Store has already put the new Build-a-Minifigure (BAM) elements in the station, and loaded up some new figures into easy to carry 3-packs. With closing time mere minutes away, I didn’t have the time to see if there were any other new figures to be found. You may or may not find any when you next visit your local LEGO Branded store.

There is a distinctive Halloween flavour in the air with some of these figures, even though there are still more than 2 months to that time of the year. Lets take a closer look (Special thanks to Tash for her work on this week’s cardboard cut out backdrop).

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Enter the Nightmare King: 71457 Pegasus Flying Horse [Hands On review]

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We are days away from the official release of LEGO DREAMZzz. One of the great things about the theme is the appearance of the villains. We have discussed the appearance of the Grimspawn and Night Hunter previously, but with this set, we finally meet the Big Bad of the series: The Nightmare King. This is one of my favourite minifigures of the theme. This set also brings us Zoey and Nova minifigures and the ‘advanced grimspawn’ Susan. But is this striking Black and Pink horse enticing for shoppers? Or will they overlook it in favour of the major set: Nightmare Shark Ship, which also comes with the Nightmare King, Nova and Susan? Read on to find out.

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Time to Work Smarter, Not Harder: Building a Stage To Photograph LEGO® Minifigures.

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LEGO® Minifigures: they add life to our sets and our MOCs as well as a little personality to the benchtop. Over the last few years, since the advent of the first Collectable Minfigiures, they have become increasingly intricate in their designs. In the life of a casual LEGO Reviewer, I realise that I have been making photographing my minifigures for reviews unnecessarily challenging for myself.

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The Figures of 10316 Rivendell

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We recently looked at the building experience for 10316 Rivendell – the upcoming LEGO Icons set. It is big, with over 6000 pieces and 15 minifigures (+6 statues)! I thought I would take a closer look at the new minifigures, and compare them with the original Lord of the Rings figures from 2012-13.

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