Review: LEGO® DREAMZzz Fantastic Treehouse 71461
15 August 2023
The home of the heroes from the DREAMZzz series is the 71461 Fantastic Treehouse. The treehouse consists of 3 parts: Mrs. Castillo's kitchen, Izzie and Mateo's bedroom with a living room and a lookout tower with a great swing. The treehouse can be built in party mode or defense mode. Details come to life with minifigures of key characters, including Mrs. Castillo, Izzie, Mateo and the Night Hunter.
To make the treehouse, we need a total of 13 bags of LEGO®, a few loose parts, a sticker sheet and the instruction booklet or the LEGO® Builder app. So let's get started quickly before the nightmares arrive. 
We start the construction with Mrs. Castillo. She will start with her hourglass staff and a watering can to grow the tree in front of the treehouse. From bag 1 you will build the base of the tree. In it you will find an oven to bake cookies. Other than that, it still looks bare but that will be all right later in the construction. Just wait and see.
Bag 2 contains the parts for the second floor of the treehouse. By using LEGO® Technic parts, the treehouse is reinforced. Thus, the treehouse can be built on a relatively small surface and still remain solid.
For the third part, a Dreamling Mushroom comes along to help. He helps to dress the bottom at the base of the treehouse and to put a bench and t.v. on the second floor. This section already has a lot of stickers that need to be pasted. And in the further construction there will be many more.
The always cheerful Izzie is sound asleep and comes from bag four building her floor of the treehouse. This floor will also include a bed and nightstand for Izzie. The nightly snack has also been thought of. A delicious pizza is waiting.
Of course, our hero Mateo also needs a room in this treehouse. This one is in the next bag along with Mateo. Also, Z-Blob is coming along to help. This room will be on top of Izzie's and will also have a bed and nightstand. After this, these two floors will be placed on top of the bottom two and reinforced with LEGO® Technic parts.
Bag 6 contains the top floor. With this you make the watchtower, further finish the side of the tree trunk and already place some decorations. It's already starting to look like a real treehouse. Only there are no branches and leaves yet.
A first branch with blue leaves and flowers we find in the seventh bag. Here we also used the two loose flexible parts with number 27965. With these you can make the swing that will be attached to one of the branches of the treehouse.
The rest of the branches are in bag eight. Building these can be a bit repetitive. especially if you have to make the leaves. But the final result counts and it looks great.
High time to further dress up the treehouse with decorations. What's that? From bag nine also comes a cheerful mailbox run with the mail. Furthermore, we stick some stickers for decoration again and build a funny little bird. Then the nightmares come out. A mushroom is taken over by the nightmare world and turns into a mushroom with big teeth.
And if that is not enough, from bag comes ten Night Hunter with Snivel and a Grim Grabber. This Grim Grab is a lot smaller and simpler to assemble compared to the Grim Grab from set 71455.
Party or defend
With the eleventh bag, the choice is back to choose which version you will build. We do love a party so we went for party mode. But if you want to prevent the nightmares from taking over the tree house. Then make the defense mode of the treehouse.
First we are going to build the extension to Izzie's room. A party hat and a cake are waiting in the room, and balloons and a big nameplate are hanging on the outside. Mateo's room consists of different kinds of greenery and has a "slime" theme. This room comes in bag twelve. On top of the roof of the extension are confetti cannons. Finally, we build a small floor for Mrs. Castillo. This one is in the last bag. Mrs. Castillo makes the most delicious donuts for the party in the treehouse. A party it is. The nightmares are defeated and the treehouse is ready.
The minifigures
So in this set there are seven minifigures as you could read. Mateo again has his head and shirt printed on two sides and a two-color molded legs with printing. Mateo also wears a green cape and belt. Izzie also has two-color legs with printing. And a body and head printed on two sides. She also wears purple shoulder pads and has a fabric skirt. Ms. Castillo looks the same as in the other LEGO® DREAMZzz sets. With her special body with backpack and a head printed on two sides and white hairdo. The backpack is a little different compared to the other versions, though. Namely, there are two 1x1 round plates on the side. The Dreamling and Z-Blob have the new small body. Z-Blob a small head with small eyes and slime on its head and the Dreamling an all around printed head with a 3x3 saucer printed with dots. Snivel has a printed small body, shoulder protection. The head is of a new size and measures 2x2x2. Night Hunter has a black hat with an eye and a special scarf. The head has yellow eyes and a scar on the cheek and his body and legs are printed.
Conclusion
This is one of the larger sets in the LEGO® DREAMZzz series and is a fun challenge to build. The colors used match the characters well and there is plenty of difference between the two different versions you can build. There are quite a lot of stickers used in this set but have a high decorative value. All in all, a decorative set with a lot of detail and where there is plenty to discover.
The fantastic tree house in the series
The fantastic tree house grows into a full-fledged tree house from the end of episode 4. This shows once again that even the greatest things start small and need time to grow
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