LEGO DreamZzz First Class Of Chief Dream Creators Chosen!

A group of Children have been chosen to for the First Class Of Chief Dream Creators!

The LEGO Group launched a competition, when the first season of LEGO DreamZzz aired, to find a Chief Dream Creator. Lots of entries were submitted and today LEGO have chosen a winner – Samuel Debenham, from the UK.

Others were also named winners/runners-up which helped form the First Class Of Chief Dream Creators, you can find out more information below along with Samuel’s entry how he got on as a Chief Dream Creator.

Official details:

CHILD FROM THE UK NAMED AS ONE OF THE LEGO GROUP’S FIRST CLASS OF CHIEF DREAM CREATORS – INSPIRING THE FUTURE OF THE LEGO® DREAMZzz™ THEME

A child from the UK has been as one of the LEGO Group’s first class of Chief Dream Creators, having shared their own imagined dream creatures and seen brought to life by animators and designers, picked from thousands of submissions globally

The young creatives, aged 6-12 from Singapore, Hungary, USA, Poland and the UK took part in a workshop at LEGO HQ, to inspire LEGO® DREAMZzz™ designers and share their amazing dream creatures

The news follows the release of new episodes for the LEGO® DREAMZzz™ series – the LEGO Group’s biggest international series launch yet – and new sets, available now

UK, September 6th 2023: A child from the UK has been appointed as one of the LEGO Group’s first ever class of Chief Dream Creators, after their amazing dream creatures were selected from thousands of entries from kids globally to help inspire the future of the LEGO® DREAMZzz™ theme.

Samuel Debenham, 11 years old, from England was picked as one of the Chief Dream Creators for their creation the Seahorse Submarine.

The LEGO® DREAMZzz™ theme is the toy company’s all-new franchise that brings to life the creativity of children’s dreams through an epic new content series and product range. The winning Chief Dream Creators travelled to Billund, Denmark, from Singapore, Hungary, USA, Poland and the UK to take part in an amazing workshop in which they inspired LEGO Designers and shared more about their own imaginative dream creatures.

As part of the workshop, Samuel and the other young Chief Dream Creators saw their own creations brought to life professionally by LEGO® DREAMZzz™ animators and designers to imagine what they could look like in the dream world of the LEGO® DREAMZzz™ theme.

Samuel said, “Taking part in the workshop got me thinking really creatively, and I’m happy the designers liked my Seahorse Submarine – they brought it to life perfectly and it was so cool to see all its features captured in LEGO bricks. It was just as I had imagined it to look with the secret compartment in the ‘belly’, the long periscope neck and the twisty tail with the propeller at the end. I really enjoyed meeting the other LEGO DREAMZzz Chief dream creators from around the world and found it interesting to hear about their designs and creations.”

The other Chief Dream Creator winners and their dream creations were:

• Marisol Acosta, 12 years old, USA – The Dreamer Dragon, a majestic purple dragon made out of clouds and carrying on his back a home and the Book of Imagination, to inspire the LEGO characters, and to guide them on their quests
• Stanisław Krawczyk, 6 years old, Poland – The Flying Frog, an amazing green frog that can leap into the sky and fly around in adventures
• Matthew Chng, 11 years old, Singapore – Giraffe Mail, a giraffe who delivers mail to the dreamers using rocket boosters that shoot leaves instead of fire
• Julia Bisweska-Sidoruk, 12 years old, UK – The Dreamstone Guardian, a white cat-like creature, who lives on land and in water, is able to glide and shrink, all to help it protect its precious dreamstones
• Gergő Zoltán Fullér, 12 years old, Hungary – The Vara-Wasp, a combination of a wasp and varanus (monitor lizard) who uses his tongue to smell and lives away from the cities, protecting itself with its sting

Samuel’s incredible dream creature, and the thousands more submitted by kids around the world, absolutely blew us away with their creativity!” said Marcia Marks Laursen, Head of Product for LEGO® DREAMZzz™. “The LEGO® DREAMZzz™ theme is all about dreams becoming real and imagination being a super-power. To host our Chief Dream Creators at the LEGO Headquarters to learn more about how they harnessed their own creative abilities to design these creatures was an unforgettable experience and left us feeling very inspired.”

As a Chief Dream Creator, the children’s role in the workshops was to champion the creativity of dreams within the company and spread the positive creative aspects dreaming can have for young people around the world.

Their dream creatures have been made into artworked versions by creatives at the LEGO Group and will appear in short animations to be released in 2024.

The appointment of the Chief Dream Creators follows on from the launch of the first episodes of the LEGO® DREAMZzz™ series in May, which proved to be the biggest international series launch in the history of the LEGO Group, with the content broadcast around the world in 38 languages.

The LEGO® DREAMZzz™ series follows the adventures of school friends, Mateo, Izzie, Cooper, Logan and Zoey, as they join a secret agency and learn to use the power of imagination to journey into the dream world – and learn to defeat the tyrannical Nightmare King!

Season One of the LEGO® DREAMZzz™ series is available to stream now via YouTube and other platforms, whilst new LEGO® DREAMZzz™ sets are available now on LEGO.com and from authorised retailers.