LEGO Dreamzzz (stylized as LEGO DREAMZZZ) is a line of LEGO playsets, introduced in May 2023. The line uses around a mix of real-world and fantasy inspirations.
The line follows Mateo, Izzie, Cooper, Zoey, Logan, and Dr. Oz as they travel between the real-world and the dream world to defeat The Nightmare King.
It had a crossover episode with Ninjago: Dragons Rising in December 2023.
"Step into the dream world with LEGO Dreamzzz, the first theme from the LEGO Group to be truly inspired by the way children dream, after research finds two in three children globally say dreaming helps them be more creative." - LEGO
This theme has examples of:
- All There in the Script: The antagonist of "Songs of the Mist" is never formally named in the episode itself, and is only credited as "Witch" in the credits. The official synopsis for the episode calls her the Never Witch.
- And Starring: In the end credits, the cast are listed in two pages. The first is an alphabetical list of characters and actors; the second simply reads "And Sarah Jeffery as Zoey".
- Bad Boss: The Nightmare King has a habit of killing his Grimspawn when they fail or annoy him. He also repeatedly threatens to kill the Night Hunter due to his recent string of failures, though at one point comforts him noting that he might be the "stuff of nightmares", but he's not a monster... Yet. In the final episode of Season 1, the Night Hunter abandons the Nightmare King after he's sealed in Z-Blob, likely having had enough.
- Bittersweet Ending: Season 1 ends with the heroes defeating the Nightmare King and sealing him away again, possibly for good due to him being unable to corrupt new Guardian Z-Blob, but leaves Z-Blob trapped in the Grim Realm, separated from Mateo. Afterward, after everything seemingly goes back to normal, Sneak is revealed to have snuck into the human world, showing that the Rift between the Waking World and Dream World is still open.
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Cooper, Logan, and Mateo.
- Book Ends: In the first episode, Mateo is in Mr Oz's science class when he hears strange noises from his backpack, and discovers Z-Blob for the first time. In the last episode the same sequence of events takes place, except that the creature in his backpack is Sneak.
- Breaking Old Trends: The protagonists live in a real-life location, in this case, Brooklyn, New York, rather than a Constructed World or fictional town in an ambiguous area like LEGO generally does.
- Built with LEGO: Played straight, as it is a LEGO theme, although in the show only the characters are LEGO mostly.
- Character Development: Logan is initially quite mean to his fellow Dream Chasers, but particularly Mateo due to both sharing Cooper as a friend, and has a tendency to act cowardly or in a way that endangers the crew due to his selfishness. After being rescued by the Dream Chasers at the midway point of Season 1, however, he buries the hatchet with Mateo, and while his mean streak never really goes away, he becomes more thoughtful.
- Cheaters Never Prosper: In "The Bigger Picture" the protagonists try to get the answers to a mathematics test by entering their teacher's dream. They get the answers, but the chaotic dream that results inspires the teacher to compose a new test, rendering the answers useless.
- The Chosen Many: The main characters ("Dream Chasers").
- Foreshadowing: The Night Hunter is capable of Dreamcrafting, something none of the Grimspawn or even the Nightmare King are capable of. He's later revealed to have been a former Night Bureau member, corrupted by the Nightmare King.
- Giant Woman: In Ms Putnam's dream in "The Bigger Picture", she grows to gigantic size when Logan angers her.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: Unlike the rest of the heroes, Logan cannot Dreamcraft due to giving up at the first sign of trouble in "Chased Dreamers", and whenever he tries only manages to turn himself blue, and in "Short Sheeped", ends up turning into a small blue creature. However, he realizes said blue creature possesses enough strength and speed to take on Grimspawns with his bare hands, is able to take advantage of his smaller size to escape from a cage in "The Grim Escape", and finds out he can turn Cooper's Dream Build Car into powerful monsters, in what they dub "Dreambashing".
- Imagination-Based Superpower: All of the heroes except Logan are capable of creating things from their imagination in the dream world, with the Night Hunter also being capable of doing so. Logan eventually manages to figure out how to augment Cooper's own builds in "The Grim Escape".
- Incredibly Obvious Bug: Zigzagged with the eye that the Nightmare King plants on Logan's baseball cap; when inactive it can't be detected, but when active it's plainly visible.
- Kaleidoscope Hair: In the waking worlds, the characters have realistic hair tones, but Izzie, Zoey and Mateo all have coloured hair in their dream personas (respectively: Izzie's hair is pink and blue, Zoey's is purple, and Mateo's brown hair gains a green streak).
- Literal Split Personality: In the dream world, the rational side of Mr Oz's personality becomes his chimpanzee sidekick Albert.
- Morton's Fork: In "Night Hunted", the Night Hunter tries to escape the Nightmare King, and when Sneak tells him that he'll be killed for doing so, the Night Hunter tells him that he'll die if he tries to go back anyway for already trying to desert after the Nightmare King kept trying to make him use Lunia's hourglass, which almost killed him. It takes the Night Hunter pointing out Mateo is much stronger than him to the Nightmare King to let him reconsider.
- Multiple Endings: Towards the end of building a set, the builder is given two different sets of instructions for what they want to do with the remaining pieces, kind of like the 3 in 1 Creator sets.
- Mythology Gag:
- Seeing something he thinks is a "space hologram", Logan asks "Are we doing Galaxy Squad now?"
- The anime that Izzie watches in the first episode is a 2D scene from Ninjago's eleventh season.
- In the waking world, Mr. Oz wears a shirt with the Classic LEGO Space logo. This is carried through to the dream world in the design of his spacebus, which has a similar colour scheme to classic space sets like 6980
and carries a modified version of the logo with the planet replaced by an hourglass.
- Not So Stoic: Zoey does a Spit Take and bursts out laughing when Inspector Strick is accidentally regressed to behaving like a baby in "The Anomaly".
- Psychopathic Manchild: Downplayed. The Nightmare King is generally quite good at keeping calm, but particularly as Season 1 goes on, tends to be impatient and temperamental with screaming fits when his goals meet setbacks. He's revealed in "The Light of Nocturnia" to actually have been a being Dreamcrafted by Lunia named Migo, but she had a tendency to leave him alone for long periods of time, something that frustrated him and eventually turned Migo into a monster, giving him an obsession with being remembered, not unlike a child lashing out for attention.
- Sequel Hook:
- "Songs of the Mist" implies that due to the prior fight between Zoey and the Night Hunter, the Never Witch is able to leave her confinement, likely having plans for the Dream World.
- "Enter the Nightmare" ends with the Nightmare King having been sealed away, and things seemingly go back to normal, until it turns out Sneak stowed away in Mateo's backpack, revealing that the rift between worlds is still open.
- Ship Tease: Both Mateo and Logan are hinted to have crushes on Zoey.
- The Speechless: Z-Blob can't talk, because Mateo originally drew him without a mouth.
- Team Pet: Z-Blob.
- Theme Naming: One of the Grimspawn in the spacebus set wears a Classic LEGO Space helmet, and is named as Denny — in keeping with Benny and his colleagues Jenny, Kenny and Lenny.
