Dreamzzz

The Never Witch's Midnight Raven

A gorgeous raven and a Baba Yaga hut hiding inside one clever box.

Brick Rated Score

4.2/5

Set 71478 · 2024

Pieces1,203

Minifigs5

Year2024

Set number71478

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The verdict

The raven is the reason to buy this one, and it's genuinely beautiful, with a wingspan that flows and a bird head LEGO absolutely nailed.

What sold me, though, is the two-in-one trick: build the raven with a witch's hut on its back, or split it into a standalone bird and a wonky chicken-legged hut straight out of Slavic folklore. At $99.99 for 1,203 pieces and five minifigures, this LEGO® set is a lot of set for the money. If you love birds or fairy-tale weirdness, you'll be glad you grabbed it before it retired.

Best for: Kids and adult fans who love creature builds and folklore-flavored weirdness

The full review

What it is

Every so often a set has one element that just stops you, and here it's the raven. LEGO built a bird with a massive wingspan, feathers that actually flow down the wings, a tail that curves the way a real raven's does, and a head so well shaped you forget you're looking at bricks. It's part of the Dreamzzz line, which is LEGO's dream-world theme where heroes ride creatures into wild subconscious landscapes, and this is one of the better creatures the theme has produced. But the raven is only half the fun. The whole set is built around a two-in-one idea: you can assemble it as the raven carrying a witch's hut on its back, or you can split the two apart into a standalone bird and a hut that stands on its own tall, spindly legs. That hut is a direct nod to Baba Yaga, the Slavic fairy-tale witch whose house walks around the forest on chicken legs, and seeing it perch there is equal parts creepy and delightful.

The catch

A few connections are softer than you'd like. The beak joint is a little feeble, so the head can feel wobblier than a bird this handsome deserves, and the cauldron doesn't lock firmly to the flapping trapdoor mechanism, so that play feature is fiddlier than it should be. The minifigure roster is strong on paper, but Dogan shows up here after appearing all over the rest of the 2024 wave, and by this point a fresh face would have been more exciting than seeing him again. There's also a B-model, and it's a mixed bag: the alternate spider is genuinely one of the best Dreamzzz B-models going, but the alternate raven you can build comes out fairly plain next to the showpiece main model. None of this is a dealbreaker, it's just the difference between a very good set and a flawless one.

Who it's for

If you love animal and creature builds, or you have a soft spot for folklore and things that are a little spooky, this is an easy yes, and the raven alone justifies the shelf space. Kids get a ton of play out of the transforming build and the walking hut, and older fans get a display piece plus a pile of unusual parts. If you only care about tight, engineered mechanisms with rock-solid connections, the couple of loose joints here might nag at you. And a heads up: this one ran from August 2024 through the end of 2025 and is now retired, so you're shopping the aftermarket. At its original $99.99 for 1,203 pieces and five figures it was a strong deal, and even now it's worth chasing if the raven has your heart the way it got mine.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

The build splits into clear sections and each one has its own personality. You start on the raven's body and wings, and this is the stretch that wins you over, because the wing feathers are layered so they cascade instead of sitting flat, and the tail gets the same careful treatment. The head comes together with a bird shape that's genuinely impressive for a mid-size set, even if the beak hinge ends up softer than you'd want. Then you switch gears entirely and build the witch's hut, which is all wonky angles and leaning walls sitting on those tall folkloric legs, plus an opening roof for play. Swapping between the combined build and the two separate models is straightforward, since the hut and bird share most of their structure, so kids can flip between modes without a full teardown.

For parts people, there's a lot to like. New molds include the marbled raven element, a pair of cauldron halves in pearl titanium, crystallized 2x2x2 domes, and a weapon hilt with an hourglass bar in opal trans-bright-green. The trans-dark-pink opal weapons with jagged edges are the standout recolors and they catch light beautifully. You also get printed eye tiles in yellow and a run of dream-themed transparent tiles in assorted colors. Astrid comes with a pearl gold wheelchair fitted with opal trans-blue cones, which is a lovely touch, and Mateo has dual-molded legs plus a new bodywarmer piece. At 1,203 pieces with five minifigures for a $99.99 launch price, the part-count value was genuinely good, and the unusual recolors push it further for anyone who raids sets for their collection.

Fun facts

01The hut is modeled on Baba Yaga, the Slavic folklore witch whose house famously wanders the forest on giant chicken legs.
02It's a true two-in-one design: build the raven carrying the hut on its back, or split them into a standalone bird and a self-standing walking hut.
03The set introduced several new molds, including cauldron halves in pearl titanium and a weapon hilt with an opal trans-bright-green hourglass bar.
04Astrid rides along in a pearl gold wheelchair fitted with opal trans-blue cones, one of the nicer accessibility-forward minifig accessories LEGO has done.