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It’s been a long day….. Thanks for reminding me though! hopefully it is the hound, I believe if he shows us the full set we will see Jay as well.

Don’t hold your breath guys. Could be anything. I’m expecting a blurry image of the temple or the empress mech. Nothing more. He wouldn’t title it imperium rising unless it’s imperium based, and there are no imperium based sets (I mean the temple may be but it’s Lego exclusive, even promobricks have no knowledge on it). If it was titled dragons rising I’d be by your side hyping this up.

Looks like we are getting a glimpse of an imperium leak from the goat, “imperium rising” in 3 hours. This will be interesting. Synchronise your watches fellas!

There’s a better (but still blurry as hell) picture on lego_insider_bricks on Instagram, I agree with the fact it looks like the comic version unfortunately. I can see some definitive feet, and it looks like the wheels are on its side. Damn, why did they make the show version looks so good!? At least it should be easy enough to mod.

Sorry mate, but I doubt it. Whislt he has been teasing sets for some time, this would make the most sense to tease a full (but pixelated) set the day before it reveals, but I am not gonna believe we are getting set images any time soon until something like JBspielwarern posts a countdown or something. Some big confirmation. If you take a step back, all we know is this is a leaker in the inner circle, and it’s highly likely he has the set images. There is no evidence to suggest he will reveal them tomorrow, it’s only speculation. We just have to be patient.

Lego_minecraft_goat posted on his Instagram story a heavily pixelated image which he says is soras mech bike (number 71792). I believe this is the official set image as it is in nome what of an action pose, it’s shot on a white background, and all elements of the set seem to be present (the mech and a rimperium glider)

I believe it was confirmed Rapton was in the hunter hound set, although I’m not sure how accurate that is, I can’t remember the source. He’s also seen riding and/or summoning it in.

I think (and hope, I’ll explain after) that there’s actually 3 or 4 types of generic villain here. We have 1: Raz (from the magizine leak and from the show teaser clip, the all gold triceratops dudes) 2: the imperium claw general (black/PDG armour and helmet from the 4+ set and possibly the team mech set (on the right))and then 3: a black/pdg round head dude (figure on the left in the pictures) and then possibly 4: a gold variant that we have seen in the trailer and so far not seen in the few sets we have pictures for. Basically we have (possibly) 4 generic villains now, plus Rapton and Lord Ras and the Rempress. It’s really cool how we could have so many villains, we would be seeing so many exclusive figures (would definitely be putting the crystalized budget to good use) and it would be like having 1 or 2 exclusive figures in each set, but also this is just way to many figures, especially looking at the lists we currently have from promobricks. I just don’t feasibly see how we can get all of these figures in one wave. Another option is we are left with what I call a season 11 issue, where the preliminary sets were the designs implemented into the show and not the retail sets (see the rock cycle, the land bounty, the shuricopter) and it basically led to a split between the sets and show. I wouldn’t be surprised if Lego came up with the golden triceratops guys, (magazine leak) and they where implemented into the show, but then the set figures where changed last minute to a darker design. Obviously the evidence against this is that we know the black/PDG dude is a general, and the gold ones are called “Raz”. We just need more images and details now. Heads up, The goat is back! They have teased a heavily pixelated Sora bike set, looks like it comes with one of the villain glider vehicles which is great. Looks like we can re-enact the scene from the bridge. Also it seems to be an official product image, so we are getting close. He has the official images now, it’s only a matter of time. I wonder what event or reason they have for keeping them back for so long. @Falconfan1414 are you able to offer any insight or is it something the inner leaking community doesn’t want getting out there too early? Or is this a complete blackout situation where no one knows anything?

I can see that actually, the soldier on the left seems to have a staff as opposed to the sword, and we saw the round heads with staffs. My only question is how do the dragon cores play into the sets? Are they held in some sort of staff build like the golden one we see now? Or do they just kinda sit there like a football or something?

The one with the orange sword in the bottom left corner is Rapton. Also I feel like we are not focusing on the bigger issue here: they’re called “imperium claw soldiers” and not “rimperium claw soldiers”.

Yeah. We keep asking when? And it never happens. “Do you think we will see pictures on Friday? Water day? Sunday?” Probably not. I’m not making any guesses now.

Rewatching the trailer we got from Netflix a few days ago, at the end Lloyd does some sort of doinjitzu burst-esq move. He also has a gimmick set called spinjitzu cyclone, and the others have different names. What if each ninja, whilst separated, learned a new move unique to them? That could be cool. Give the team some variety.

Considering how big Lego is and how many people would be going onto the website on may 1st to see the other sets, I’m calling fake until a second separate person says the same thing.

If he’s got proof, I mean anyone can use the way back machine so we can go check. Depends what country and stuff. Also if he has seen them, he by have they not leaked yet?

@fernandoleone932 It comes from insta, check ridexninjago leaks. Not sure how credible though, we will wait for Doc to confirm or deny the statement.

We got an update on the show fellas- it’s going to be divided into 2 chapters, each 10 episodes each. So 20 episodes of 22mins, which would be the longest season yet. I’m assuming the other chapter will focus on Jay Cole and zane and will end with the whole team meeting up. This does mean however that we will probably be getting chapter 2 in October or something which I’m not too excited about.

Interesting! Well I’m happy we have our first set of the wave, we can rest easy tonight. Thank you especially @Falconfan1414, I think I speak for everyone when I say we really appreciate this.

Yes, glad I was right with my prediction. Dragons name is Riyu. Can anyone make out what the triceratops dudes name is? Imperium ___?____ general is all I can read. Clone? Cloid? Also if this is the only set Nya comes in (surprising considering she’s in all the marketing) then I won’t feel too bad picking this set up. Seems alright and I can get a decent dragon MOC out of that amazing new headpiece.

Quick someone get on Itoys.lu and start scanning. They may all leak in the coming hours.

about damn time. Love the first set!

Bit of an update - the news we got from the goat was based on prelim imagery, so these may change. Hopefully not by much though.

Usually parts are made all over the world, the Mexico factory alone doesn't have the facilities to make full sets. Therefore parts need to be shipped around the world and that takes some time. Slow news day if we've resorted to talk about the North American/European time divide.

Sorry to start the day with some somber news, but it looks like we will be getting “the parting whip”. The fold have been a huge part of my childhood and is sad seeing them go now, but I suppose it is the end of an era. I have just listened to the crystalized whip and it is amazing. The last part is bloody great. We will also be getting the soundtrack albums starting in fall, which I’m happy to hear. I wish them the very best of luck in their next part of the journey. As Wu said: “Endings will always come. All we can do is fight to make them good ones”.

Agreed, I feel like theres a line that we are about to cross where whatever they do, they will not be able to surpass the amount of hype we have had in the past few days. There will probably be hype, but not the greatest amount of hype.

I thought legocon was canceled this year? Also didn't it used to happen in July? Ive seen a (what I thought at least) baseless theory that the sets where pushed back to July 1st for everywhere. As the show is coming June 1st though I doubt this will happen. If the sets are going to have their own little ninjago day and reveals the trailer, the markets and the mainline sets all in one day, they had better hype up the event or tease it because currently, hype is at 1/10 for these sets. Yes, we probably do sound a bit entitled (me included) but everything has been so perfect, a fresh start, amazing sets, trailers and teasers for the show and lego just kinda dropped the ball without telling a soul. Patience is a virtue eh? Anyways, time for me to hit the sack, as im assuming most of us UK guys are. Hopefully tomorrow we get something. Id be happy with a poster or something with a blacked out outline of a set at this point, just to kickstart the hype cycle.