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I’m not gonna say much on the sets till prices are confirmed, but I will say the buggy is definitely the least interesting. No new Arin, and I have a Riyu and Jordana already. Also looks like the rock roader, but somewhat worse function wise. also yeah what happened to Lloyds mech? No way are they gonna cancel it because it didn’t appear in the shorts? Pics of it are plastered all over every mech box

I feel like it’s important to spread the news if anyone’s interested in the show, we have finally started seeing monkie kid official soundtracks appear on the D.A. Office on soundcloud. They’re amazing! Also are we all in agreement that Nezhas mech is just gonna be doing cartwheels inside a giant ring of fire?

Making my prediction now, before the set images appear tomorrow, I think Cole or Zane are gonna look the best in climber gear as the ninja appear to use a darker secondary colour for the armour and the regular colour for the hood (I don’t agree with this choice but nothing I can do) but Cole is already black on black, and that with gold on it would look amazing. Same with Zane, only i guess his will be in white. Praying they don’t use secondary colours like orange and azure. I do also think it’s ridiculous how Sora and Arin aren’t getting climber suits. I guess it’s just Riyu and Wildfire getting some love this year.

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Agreed with the comments about it being wildly different to what we imagined. Personally I saw a black base, giant stone dragon head, waterfall pouring out of its mouth and a river/pond in the center. Jungle environment around the stone head, and maybe a small temple or room inside the dragons mouth.

Ok so looking at it more closely I can guess that this is where Wu has been chilling since the merge, maybe with an apprentice or whoever the unknown character is, as theres a teapot in the cave. It kinda sucks we dont get Nya with her full DRS1 suit, but Wu has new robes, and Lloyd has a (hopefully printed) scroll. Maybe the end of the season is just them finding Wu through a scroll or map. I do really like the tree and the water pond below it. The tree in particular is pretty beautiful. Im glad Ras is included too. I dont think he has arm printing. However, this is a preliminary, so the set may change in some way. I wouldn't be surprised if that character was swapped for Euphrasia, or if it used to be. Either way, I still feel like £100 is a bit much for the size of it. Hopefully theres something im not seeing that justifies it.

Dragon stone temple has leaked. it’s stunning, I can’t lie. Wu, Kai, Nya (in season 1 robes with island hair) master Lloyd Ras and an unknown character with golden staff are included. Build is a Chinese dragon in a crescent moon shape, pool at the bottom and tree at its head, dragon itself is made of stone. It’s beautiful. Maybe a little small for £100 but still I love it.

Yup. Another pic of Kais climbing mech has leaked. Have to say, not too hot on the look. I think it’s way to skinny for it to be an actual “climber” mech.

Riyu has leaked. We are getting wave 1 Sora and Arin. But Sora finally has her accurate hair, which is amazing. That Riyu build though…. Wow. Certainly something. Hopefully it’s just the pose that makes it look awful.

Zane has leaked for the next season/wave, coming from a video posted by “midway mayhem”. About Ninjago legoland, at 7:14 he’s on a poster on a wall (meet Ninjago hero’s), looks like sleeveless, dragon’s scales on the torso, white half mask and a new armour piece, similar to season 11 but in the opposite side now. Most similar to those seen in the mech shorts.

I’m pretty sure it was confirmed that they designed Nyas mech to be a Titan mech, and didn’t really know it was going to be the samurai X mech until the last minute, so they added some bits onto it (I’m assuming that’s why the big red X looks a bit slapped on).

Agreed, im so hyped to see the temple and buggy, and I also want to ask Toothdominos if he designed the climbing Kai mech and also is it considered part of the Titan mech series? Because I feel like it’s too small for a Titan mech, however we would get the full complete wave of Titan mechs with Cole’s in the summer then.

Big set is called “tournament temple city” source - brickmerge. Wonder what it could be! I definitely think that this is connected to the “different arenas” mentioned in some interviews (I think it was with duckbricks). This definitely seems like something name dropped in the series that will come back later on. Very excited to see what it is. Part of me hopes it’s modular, “city” and all. Also if not I hope it’s on a big mountain. High up, like shintaro.

Australian land train, hiding as a jungle set hahaha Seriously though what could it be?

Half year. Took me a while to figure it out too.

Whilst we wait, Im proud to present my newest module: Ninjago city heights! So if you have been following this moc, then you will know that the original premise has shifted pretty dramatically from ninjago city airdocks. Originally this was going to house an airship landing pad, however I struggled in making it fit in and also having the docking tower be structurally secure, and eventually I just left it off and changed pace. The module has several callbacks to previous ninjago city media, such as the 2 storey keet-orange and dark azure building being a major piece of concept art when developing the original ninjago city set, along with its tiled roof build which is similar to lloyds apartment in the old set, even having a battle suit in the attic! The ring on top of the green house also references the ninjago city tower, albeit in a less impressive fashion. The greenhouse itself is a combination of wanting a central tree but also keeping the more compact and "built" sense of the original city set, and the record store has a direct colour match from a previous sketch model I made as a building in ninjago city, retaining the red, dark nougat masonry bricks, the trans blue windows and the black trim. Unfortunately most interiors are not as fully fleshed out as they could be, due to lack of available parts, but I have plans to finish them when I have access to my main parts selection. Another big part which will be updated in time is the large grey block on the left side, which currently sits empty, but will eventually contain a portal into another dimension. But im still waiting on a parts order for that. But its all in a state now where im comfortable showing it off, so here it is! The lower level features a diagonal canal which cuts through the base of the build, something which I wrongly identified when ninjago city gardens prelims leaked back in late December 2020, and since then I've wanted to incorporate that idea into a set. There are also plenty of monkie kid references throughout the build, a few more prominent than others (DBK, Chang'e) and another reappearing reference are the frogs! See if you can spot them all! The model features on the lower level: A small boat shed and shrine, with an apartment above it accessed via a bed trapdoor, a small dock for ships and a sandwich store above it, along with the main bridge and central supports, and a little tree on the side. On the second level, a records store, sponsored by VIDYO, and a second level that is under construction, with rooftop access to a crane. Next door is the Ninjago city greenhouse, where residents can chill inside. Theres a Koi pond at the back with some rocks, and a huge tree taking up the central room. Watch out for the yellow poison dart frog! Going around the side, a tall alleyway with a mysterious door on one side, head up the steps and scale the ladder up to the grating that will take you over to the apartment owned by one of the members of the fly-boarders, who can be seen zipping overhead, with a kitchen, table and a ladder up to the second floor, where a desk, shelf and bed can be found, along with a bed side table and a small hiding spot under the bed. On the roof of the greenhouse, industrial units and comms towers can be found. The large grey stone structure features the insignia of a rouge faction, who can be seen patrolling the streets with their black helmets and swords, looking for trouble. Enjoy! Let me know of any feedback and/or constructive criticism.

I’ve thrown around the idea of Arin getting a mech that combines with Riyu, that may have been it. Actually no it was probably the idea of a UCS mech. Either way I’m absolutely hyped to see these set images, but also kinda miffed that we didn’t get reveals on Sunday, it being the anniversary and all. Happened in 2021 but I guess that was a special case for 10 years.

Which eurobricks post is this In reference to, sorry I forgot 🫠 Wasn’t it rumoured that the ninja would get tournament like suits that have a half mask and sleeveless arms? Then we got the mech suits? I could see this wave being a combo of both.

Speaking of Ninjago city expansion, I have just (like 5 minutes ago) finished my newest and biggest module to date. Will post some pictures soon. To be honest I could see them do a “cross roads” Ninjago city module where it doesn’t have water on the sides, or maybe one side so it bridges the gap between Ninjago city modular and icons/created expert modulars. That would be cool. I’d still like to see a UCS bounty or monastery. If we got a UCS monastery this year, then the year after next (supposing they release every 2 years) that would put it inline with the timeframe for a new bounty set. Getting a full scale new bounty design to correspond with the show (maybe the season sees the ninja travel around new-Ninjago on the bounty doing small tasks) would be absolutely amazing, as I always feel like the bounty sets really lack the interior and detail the show puts in, not to mention obviously the size.

I don’t mind it too much, it will be like a sea bound situation. And IMO there’s plenty to be excited for in all the waves. Cheap mechs in W1, Ras’s shadow dojo and the dragon stone temple in W2, and finally the source dragon, Titan mech and unknown D2C set in W3. What does everyone think it is by the way? I’ve seen a growing number online say they want it to be a UCS style monastery, which honestly I can get behind. I’d love to see Ninjago explore with more adult oriented sets that aren’t just Ninjago city as there’s a lot of potential (don’t get me wrong though, I’m still personally hoping for a new city module), for example a minifig scale bounty, a city of ouroborus, or maybe a big fire temple (I guess dragon stone temple is getting close to that anyways). There’s quite a bit they could do. I would absolutely kill for a minifig scale Titan mech that’s fully functional, like the dude on YouTube who does UCS versions of sets (talentedartsproduction). They would likely have to incorporate a new joint part though. Either way, very hyped! I do have to still grab some of the dragons rising sets, I think zanes car is top of my list so far. Temple of dragon energy cores and the dragon mech battle if I can find them for cheap.

Haha so glad to see exactly what I wanted, a mid range space base set! Can’t wait to see pics of that. Hopefully we see more to come!

Couple of updates - Cole’s titanium dragon mech. Could he be sharing with zane?? And also the source dragon is fire, not motion. Motion would have been cool, maybe the same power as zeatrix?

Set names are out. Looks to be a small wave like sea bound where it’s just 5 sets. Sad to see there’s no small sets aside from one. zanes bike tournament arena ninja combo vehicle Cole’s Titan mech source dragon of motion so yeah. Very uninspired wave, sad to see no mention of Arin Sora or Riyu but I guess they get sets in the March wave. However I can’t lie I’m so excited to see a Ninjago dragon at 1700 parts that sounds fantastic, and correct me if im wrong but that is by far the biggest Lego dragon right? Golden ultra dragon didn’t even make 1000 parts in crystalized. And Cole finally getting a Titan mech is also awesome, I really hope it’s based off his golem form, maybe a bigger version of it. I just hope we get that awesome backwards knee design on a big mech. Now all we need is a Titan mech for Kai and the series is complete. Although actually I guess Sora and Arin need a Titan mech too. Tournament sounds like whatever, we are getting an arena in the March wave anyways. Zanes bike sounds mildly interesting, small bike set is cool. And I think we can all agree the combo vehicle is likely a raider isn’t it? I kinda hope we see something new like a bounty made up of all the vehicles combined. May look a little off with all the different colours but I think they could make it work. We saw a boat shaped mech in the hydrobounty. Upscale, give it to Kai. Give an armoured vehicle to Cole in the centre. Give Jay a vehicle with the engines and then zane the cabin at the back. Make it a base or something. Give Arin the sails and Sora the roof of the cabin. Make them a kite and a shield or something. it’s harder than I thought to make a bounty out of vehicles.

Finally got my hands on the rover and another mech, god damn the rover is beautiful. Better in real life. Love the suspension and the look of it. Gotta mod it a bit to better fit what I want from a Rover but I would not mind at all to get 2 of these and have them in a convoy. The mine mech is also an awesome set. Looks great with 2 hammer hands and the other with 2 claw hands and I get another mining suit. I did notice when building that the rover actually has a second feature. Everyone was so confused with the seating arrangement and why there’s the minifig leg slots. They’re not for minifigs. They’re for mini dolls! It’s probably the first real friends/city compatible build and that is absolutely awesome. (I know Lego movie 2 had sweet mayhem but that’s it’s own universe thing)

Just picked up the mining mech, my god it's such a nice little set. The robot is one of the worse-er ones we get from this sub theme but I like it regardless. The mech itself is brilliant, love its design. Hammer doesnt work as well as intended but looks awesome, and I love printed space tiles. The minifig is absolutely excellent, and the reason im going to get another pretty soon. Love the armour and I hope it will be recoloured, same with the helmet. I would die for a black or red version of it. Speaking of which, I'll post some pics in a bit of my own red spaceman using the prints from the set. We REALLY needed this. I dont know why a red set of figures were omitted. The printing and colours line up. At least the prints aren't colour locked and can be modified with parts. Another big thing for me is this wave is really missing a medium size structure build, maybe a small outpost made up of 2 modules and a small rover, something in the £45/$50 range. The jump from £25/$35 to £60/$85 is ridiculous, and I really wish we had a miid range set to go with this wave.