Dreamzzz

Zoey's Cat Motorcycle

A cat that turns into a motorcycle, and somehow that is not the strangest part of my week.

Brick Rated Score

3.9/5

Set 71479 · 2024

Pieces226

Minifigs1

Year2024

Set number71479

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The verdict

I love a set that has a trick up its sleeve, and this one has a genuinely good one.

Bunchu starts the build as a chunky little cat with a swishing tail, and then you fold and click him into an entirely different machine, a motorcycle Zoey can actually ride. That transformation is the whole reason to own this set, and the first time it clicks into place it is a real little grin moment. I would not call it a deep build (226 pieces goes fast), but for a Dreamzzz fan or a kid who wants the toy-in-a-box feeling rather than a marathon build, it is a lot of fun for what it is.

Best for: young Dreamzzz fans and anyone who loves a transforming toy more than a serious build

The full review

What it is

Zoey's Cat Motorcycle is built around one idea, and it is a good one. Bunchu, Zoey's shapeshifting cat companion from the LEGO Dreamzzz show, starts life in this set as a sturdy little cat figure with a tail that actually swishes. Then you take that same model apart at a handful of built-in hinge points and fold it into a motorcycle Zoey can sit on and ride. It is the kind of transformation that would have blown my mind as a kid, and honestly it still got a smile out of me as an adult putting it together on my kitchen table.

The catch

I do want to be upfront about the size of this one. 226 pieces is a small set, and if you are picturing an afternoon-long build, that is not what you are getting here. This is closer to a focused half hour, which is exactly right for the age range LEGO is aiming at but worth knowing if you are buying it for yourself as a display piece. The motorcycle mode itself, once you have seen the trick, is fairly plain, there is not a ton of extra greebling or detail layered on beyond the transformation mechanism. And because this is tied directly to a specific Netflix show, the emotional pull is going to be much stronger if you or your kid actually watch Dreamzzz. Walk in cold and it is just a cute cat-bike toy, which is fine, but you are missing the context that makes fans love it.

Who it's for

Get this one if you have a Dreamzzz watcher at home who already knows who Zoey and Bunchu are, or if you just want a quick, satisfying transforming-toy build without a big time commitment. Skip it if you want a meaty build to sink an evening into, or if the show itself does not mean anything in your house, since the piece count alone will not carry it.

The parts story

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

Building this one feels less like constructing a vehicle and more like assembling a puzzle box. You build Bunchu the cat first, complete with an articulated tail and expressive face, and only once he is standing there as a cat do you start refolding sections of his own body around a set of hidden hinges and swing points until a motorcycle emerges from what used to be a four legged animal. It is a short build, so there is no long stretch of repetitive plate-stacking, every step is doing something toward that eventual reveal.

The part that earns its keep here is the transformation mechanism itself, a cleverly hidden set of Technic pins and hinge plates buried inside Bunchu's body that let the same collection of pieces read convincingly as both a cat and a motorcycle. It is the kind of specialized engineering LEGO uses across the whole Dreamzzz line, and it is more satisfying in hand than it sounds on paper. Zoey's minifigure brings a simple, clean print in her Dreamzzz outfit, and for 226 pieces you are getting a genuine two-mode toy rather than a static model, which is decent value for the transformation gimmick alone even if the raw piece count looks modest next to other sets in this price bracket.

Fun facts

01Bunchu is Zoey's cat companion in the LEGO Dreamzzz Netflix series, and shapeshifting into vehicles and creatures is his signature ability on the show, which is why this set can fold from a cat into a motorcycle in the first place.
02Dreamzzz sets built around transformations, like Bunchu here, use hidden Technic pin and hinge assemblies to let a single model convincingly hold two very different shapes, a design approach LEGO has leaned on across several sets in the theme.
03The set is part of LEGO's Dreamzzz line, a theme built directly around an original Netflix animated series rather than an existing movie or franchise, which was a fairly unusual bet for LEGO when the theme launched.
04At 226 pieces, Zoey's Cat Motorcycle sits toward the smaller end of the Dreamzzz range, positioning it as an entry-level or gift-sized set within the theme rather than one of its larger centerpiece builds.