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  1. mantax
    The next Legacy magazine includes Tournament Kai and a Wolf Mask Warrior. I've actually thought that this could be the case for the tournament ninja, especially now when the regular magazine in the latest issue has Zane with the Arc dragon from the 2025 sets. That does feel like a great thing since the regular one could give us more of the 2025 minifigures, and the Legacy magazine should have most of the tournament ninja, but sadly I don't expect there to be Nya, since she's never been in any of these for some reason(even Pixal had one). Now there might be some information for who could be in the regular magazine. As some of the new cards show the ninja with magazine style weapons that have never been seen before, and the cards are made by the same company behind the magazines, so I expect that these could be future magazine minifgures. These include: Evil Jay, s3 Zane, Kai and Arin.
  2. mantax
    That was one of the less interesting sets from the summer wave for me personally, but this does sound quite fun, and with this there would finally be an evo mech for Jay. Also I'm not really a fan of the Dragonian village, so this would be a great way to get Rogue. The price doesn't feel good, but we don't have the images yet. So that can easly change, just like how the Arc dragon looks ok for the price, when it is less then 900 parts for 100. From the in-hand video I love Thunderfang even more, he looks so eye catching on that table, and also how he would be in the show sounds even better. He appers to be an actual character, who I would also expect to speak. Now this might have actualy sold me on the set, but I would wait to se him in the show to see if he is an actual great character there. Misfortune feels like a fun elemental power to see how it could work in the show, since there are plenty of posibilities for that. Like for example one of the ninja vehicles randomly having an malfunctioning when going near Zarkt.
  3. mantax
    Both of these march sets are quite solid in my opinion. The arc dragon is very unique for ninjago, and that I absolutely adore about it. From the commerical I wasn't that much a fan of the design of it, but after looking at more images of I have to say that it looks great. A new recolor of that storm blade piece is nice, and I love how it has a place for a minifigure in each of the heads. I've actually was expecting there to be a set to integrate the spinner for the villains in one of the summer sets, but I didn't expect it to be here, and that is nice, since it helps to justify the price a bit more. What also justifies the price are the 8 minifigures. But Zane's ultra combiner mech is a must have for me, and 2 minifigures from that set are here, plus Drix and Wyldfyre are in a $10 set, so after that there are just 3 minifigures that I'm interested in here. So with that I won't get this, but I would say that the $100 price seems fine with the size of the dragon, the side builds and minifigures. So I would say that this is a great set, but personally it's not really for me. Also it's great to have this small side builds to combine with the dragonian village to make it feel a bit more like a village. Thunderfang overall feels like a great set, it's always great to get a dragon for the villains, and this one feels very unique. It does share a lot of the design from Jiro, but there is also plenty of unique features that this one has. It's more beast/creature like with the extra eyes and the skiny build, so that's great for an evil dragon. The minifigure selection in this looks great with the exclusive Arin. There's also Tyr, but he is just a regular dragonian, but with different horns, that I kinda expected, but still it's not too great. The price(which I'm not sure if it's going to be, since it's 75 Brickmerge , but fateful says it's 70) looks great for what you get, but I'm a bit uncertain if I'd get this or not, so I'd wait for the summer wave to help me with that. Also Fateful said that Thunderfang can use shatterspin to create a huge tornado. So I'm interested on how that could look like in the show, because if he does the same moves as the other characters that did shatterspin,then that would be quite fun.
  4. mantax
    There are some new information on the summer sets, I found them on brickmerge, so they should be legit. 76970 - 339 pcs 7+ 76972 - 286 pcs 6+ 76973 - 582 pcs 7+ 76975 - 199 pcs 5+ 76976 - 984 pcs 8+ They don'y really give us that much information, and with Jurassic you can expect that this could be all we will know untill the official reveal(but let's still hope that this won't be the case) This also feels like how the movie waves usually look like, so for that comparison I even added the sets from the dominion wave that match these type of piece counts: 76975 - $20 Atrociraptor chase, 76972 - $35 Blue and beta dinosaur capture , 76970 - $50 Plane ambush, 76973 - $100 T-rex and atrociraptor breakout, 76976 - $140 Giganotosaurus set(it does also match with the previous 2 Jurassic world movie waves ). So with that this definitely is for Rebirth
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    With only the prices it wasn't too clear as what to expect from these sets, now the piece counts help a lot with how these sets can be like. I feel like the amount of pieces for Rontu feel fine for the ninjago dragon standards, since only the source dragon had less then 10 cents per part. Egalt was 532 pieces with a small side build, and this is nearly 400 parts, so I think she would scale great with Egalt. The ninja combat vehicle has even less parts then The Combo Vehicle, But in that one 64 parts were just treads, so with some large parts this might not look too bad. Lloyd's mech jet has similar number of parts as Zane's Combiner Mech, so that makes me even more excited about this set. And also with that there could be a small build for the villains, as I would really want there to be a small mech for the Dragonians, because so far we had a small villain mech for all of the Dragon Rising waves. The diorama set has a great Price per part, but it probably would have a lot of small parts, and it might feel a bit small for the price, just like the Dragon stone shrine. That shows how PPP isn't that important to decide if a set has great value. Now the new Bounty sounds even more promising for me. this one has more parts then the movie Bounty, and that one was huge with so much details. But I'm not too sure on what details there could be inside, since this is said to be an Evil Destiny's Bounty with 2 dragon heads, which is most likely for the F5. If it was a regular bounty there could have been just some regular rooms for the ninja just like in the previous one, but with so much more included. I mean for the Forbidden Five there could still be some like beds or stuff like that, since them being evil doesn't mean that they can't still function like regular people. But I also see there being maybe a side build, which would either be a flying vehicle for the ninja just like in Misfortune's keep(but with that many parts it would be lot better that that Lloyd flyer thing). Or there might be a temple side build as the name might suggest.
  6. mantax
    The next magazine will include Tournament Ras, but not how anyone could have ever expected him to be. He's got the head with pink stripes instead of red, and for some reason the large trans red claws on the back from the Wolf Mask Warriors. Before even with all these stuff it still would have been nice to get him for cheap, but now this just doesn't feel worth it, since you can get the full Tournament Ras in a $20 set. Also with this they could have included the Wolf Mask Warrior with the claws, and not the General who isn't even canon. But I don't find that to be that bad, since they gave us all of the climber suits, so I don't mind the magazines after that being quite weak.
  7. mantax
    Zarkt is going to be in the march wave, then Kur and Rox would be in the summer wave. And that does make the perfect sense to introduce 2 members each for the bigger waves, and then the march wave has only 3 sets, so with that there's just one F5 member introduced.
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    I really would have preferred for the summer set names to be revealed a bit later. Since this day is already very exciting because of the set images, and then the names would have made a different day better, that really is too much stuff to get excited about for just one day. Just when I thought the previous summer wave was expensive, this wave just tops that by a lot. I would only hope that the piece counts on these aren't too small for the price. But I'd say that the fact that there are that many big sets isn't bad, since there is a bigger chance for the F5 members to show up, and that is my second main goal for this year(Zane's combo mech took the nr 1 spot, since it is just too good for me to not get it) The Guardian dragon and temple diorama has to be the set that cought my eye the most. I absolutely loved the Dragon stone shrine, and dragons are my favorite type of ninjago set. This set combines both, so this set sounds amazing so far. After all this time Lloyd finally gets a jet, and not just a regular one this is said to be a transformer. I'm interested on how they could make that work at a $100 price point. Rontu was my main set prediction for the summer wave, so I absolutely adore the fact that she does get an actual set. The price might feel cheap at first, but Egalt had 532 parts with a small side build, so Rontu would have over 400 parts which would fit great with the $45 price point. The name Fire knight mech doesn't really give us much information, so that might be the set that I'm the least excited about at least for now. The ninja combat vehicle is a very generic name, so it could be a lot of things. I can see it being another type of combo vehicle, or it could be like the Land bounty, or maybe something like the Big trucks from the Agent's themes. Temple bounty doesn't sound like a name for a evil Destiny's bounty, but we did get some details on how it would look like, so it has to be that. $200 feels crazy for a non D2C ninjago set, but we don't know the piece count, so it might be similar to the previous bounty but they just made the price higher. From the name I could also see there being a temple side build, which would then explain the price. Also with that price I would hope that there are all of the F5 in this set, or at least without Drix, since you can get them quite easly. What is also interesting about these sets is that Rogue(Jay) looks to be against the F5. So I would be interested to see how he could work.
  9. mantax
    The sets look great, Even the 4+ set is the best we had ever gotten. Zane's mech - I expected it to be just the Jay mech with some small changes, but It actually is a lot different from it which is great. An exclusive Zane is nice to get in a set like this. There's the previous Wyldfyre there, but she doesn't have the armor piece. Maybe it's not exactly how I wanted, but I guess it's at least something. I will probably get this set, unless there's a set I like from the summer wave that has Drix, then I don't think I'd get this. Lloyd's Race Car - It really doesn't seem bad at all. From the piece count I expected it to be quite small, but this looks good for the price. But the back of it is very basic, but it's a fine compromise. It's also weird that this set gets the new lloyd while the $20 dragon doesn't. Also I like the fact that it looks like a F1 car, we didn't get anything space related this year, but at least we will get this for next year. But still I don't need another lloyd car, so while the set is good it's still an easy skip for me. Kai's storm rider mech - I was thinkng about getting this before, since I do love a unique concept for this theme. But at $50 with 3 minifgures and 333 pcs it's a terrible deal, especially when the Ras and Arin jet is at the same price point. Ras and Arin's storm jet - It's fun that it can seperate into 3 vehicles, and it does look great, but I'm not sure if I'd get it. Zane's ultra Combo mech - I was uncertain about this set, but I can easly say that this set is just amazing. You don't have the rebulit the vehicles to combine them, which is a very nice surprise for me. The other problem that I had with this set were the minifigures, but with 1 more dragonian and Cole(who looks the best out of the new ninja) this feels great. And now that is the set that I want the most from the wave. But now I'm not 100% certain on that, since the summer wave sond great, but also it's going to be very expensive.
  10. mantax
    Regarding the official reveal of sets, I've seen it being said somewhere to be on the 2nd december. That does make sense, since the 2024 sets, and 2022 sets were revealed on that day too. The other set waves were revealed on november, so with that I don't expect them to be revealed later then that day. My biggest hope for this reveal is for Wyldfyre to have a new minifigure, since she's been the exact same for 2 waves already(Sora at least had some small changes to her s1 outfit for this wave).
  11. mantax
    The next ninjago magazine will include Master Lloyd. I don't really see a reason for anyone to not get the Jay's mech battle back set, and with that I don't see anyone being interested in this magazine that is a bit more then half the price of that set. The only positive are the weapons, since they use those green energy parts from Lloyd's elemental mech.
  12. mantax
    The new images of Lloyd's dragon don't really give us much, since it's a very small set. But I'm still a big fan of this set, and I will most likely buy it. What I find more interesting are the descriptions of the Dragonian village and Lloyd's race car. In the dragonian village there is a character called Rogue, who could be Jay or a new character, from what Mind was saying, I'd expect that to most likely be Jay. For the Lloyd car we still don't know the other minifigure, but now this set will not be 30, but 25, which is great.
  13. mantax
    It's great to know that more Transformers sets are coming, especially that we finally get a Decepticon, and I hope that they will continue. I'd say that soundwave makes the most sence to be next one, because of him not having a too complicated transformation, and he is still very recognizable, with his face even being based on the decepticon logo. Now for the actuall set I'd expect him to be a bit smaller then Optimus, with around 120-140 pcs including a gun and maybe 2 cassetes, which I would be interested on how they could make them transform, since that would be quite complicated. The price I'd see being on the same rule as bumblebee with only a bit less then 10 ppp.
  14. mantax
    A villain Destiny's Bounty does sound quite interesting. I don't have a Destiny's Bounty yet, so this new set does get my interest. Especially if it's a Forbidden 5 one, since my main goal for this year is to get all the members, and this I might even have at least 3. But we don't know the price or piece count, so I'll wait for that to maybe get more excited about it. I could see this being a bit cheaper then the regular Bounty at like $120/30.
  15. mantax
    From the first impresions the Ras and Arin's storm jet looks really great, but I have some issues with it. I'm kinda dissapointed in the fact that first we only knew that it was a Ras jet, and now it's mostly an Arin jet with just a small part of it being for Ras. I don't really have that much of an issue with that, since the jet does look absolutely stunning(the more I look at it the more I like it), and vehicles for the new ninja are always welcome. However what I dislike about it are the minifigures. We get the same Ras from the previous wave, he was only in massive sets so at least it's a great way to get him, but still I already own him so I don't really care for that personally. There is the new Arin, but he's got the mask that was also used on Sora in the Zane's Combo mech. And that makes the new 2 part mask exclusive to Thunderfang. A full dragonian is nice(since there have been so many sets with the one with mohawk who might not even be canon to the show), but I was expecting for there to be one of the Forbidden 5 or at least one more dragonian. Now Ras has the weird dragon glider thing, at first I thought that the large purple blade pices were connected to it, but they are actually connected to the 2nd pair of jet wings, so that looks even more funny. But I would say that in a good way, the main jet is just amazing, so I don't mind there being something a bit goofy. Also I expect that Ras can go to the 2nd cockpit, since he doesn't have his armor, and if he was only going to be on that dragon then he could have still had it. I would hope that the back section can also detach, and I do kinda see a way for that to work. Overall I'd say that this is the best looking set of the wave so far, however the minifigure selection just isn't great(especially at $50). With that we only haven't seen Lloyd's race car and The small Zane mech, and my only hope with that would be that there will be a new Wyldfyre, since she's been the exact same in the 2 previous waves(Arin and Sora at least got some different versions of their s1 outfits in the other waves).
  16. mantax
    I can easly say that is the best legacy magazine that we ever had. While we did have minifigures from the D2Cs before, they were paired with a lot less interesting minifigures. I personally care more for Mech Zane, since he is the only Mech ninja that I'm missing, because his torso isn't on pick a brick. While I'll say that the set he comes in is great, however it's just yet another Kai mech which isn't too intersting for most fans of the theme.
  17. mantax
    I was a huge fan of the How to train your dragon series with the 1st movie being my favorite animated film of all time. And I also really enjoyed the previous shows. Now I'm not that much into the franchise, It's been a long time since I saw the films, and I also did like the 3rd movie, but I wasn't that into it compared to the other films. But I'm still interested in getting sets from the franchise, if they are based on the animated version, but if they're based on the live action one, then I'm not too sure about that. My biggest problem with it is that there have been so many dragons now from the Ninjago theme(especially since now they became like the main thing in the new show), so that would be just getting more of the same thing again. It's not too bad, since the dragons from that theme have all been really great now, but I have quite a few of them, and there are at least 2 2025 ones so far that I'd also want to get. Now regarding Ninjago. There is a new plastic wing pieces from the 2025 sets, and I feel like they will be perfect for the dragons from this series. that might also confirm that the theme will actually be happening, since it's a piece this perfect for that being introduced the same year. There are also smaller wings from this year, which I could also see being used. But I don't see them using most of the heads, since they would be way too big. But so far we don't know anything except that the theme will exist, so I'd wait until there is more information.
  18. mantax
    First we got Morro return, and now a Ninjago movie that is live action got announced. I'm very excited for it especially because of it being live action. It might be a weird decision, but I love when there's something done that we haven't seen yet. And that also means that lego does care about Ninjago and that the theme is doing good so far for it to be one of the 4 new lego movies. I'm also interested as on what would it be about, and I do see some options for that: 1. A live action version of the story from the pilots, or the story from s1 - s2(but that might be too much content for just one movie). 2. Something completely new with the characters from the show, but done in a unique way, So basicaly just like The Lego Ninjago Movie. 3. It's a part of the main ninjago canon, and it would we some side story inbetween some seasons(The most likely would be before DR and after s15). I expect that they would make sets from it, because it would be weird if they didn't. So it would be interesting to see the ninja having regular skin colors
  19. mantax
    The dragonian village just leaked, and it confirms that Morro will return. The set on it's own feels very weak to be called a village, but that was expected with that type of piece count. I'm the most interested on what's that thing with large blades on the front. There's also a falling bridge function, just like in that small 2015 tournament set. So that feels like a nice detail since now it will be 10 years since that set came out. The minifigures maybe explain the price a bit, since $40 sets usually don't have over 4 minifigures. The new Morro looks great(especially with that transparent arm) I'm the most interested to see his interactions with Euphrasia. We also have a new Jay or maybe it isn't, since he is using the same hat piece as that last unknown F5 member, so maybe that one also has a blue color scheme and thunder powers, but that might be too much of a coincidence. So with that we still haven't seen the 2 last F5 members, and we have 2 sets with unknown minifigures. So it now makes the most sense for them to be in the Ras jet and Lloyd car. I also found that there are some price changes to some of the sets. They are from Brickmerge and only in Euros, so maybe in other places it's different. Lloyd's pull-back car is 25, Thunderfang Chaos dragon is 75, Arc dragon is 100, and the Kai jet is 50(that one really doesn't feel good now)
  20. mantax
    I don't see them doing Roby, since he's just a regular guy, and he would look weird in a magazine. There definitely won't be the wolf warrior with claws, since we got the general who is just that, but with an armor piece. But I do see them doing Tox or Mr pale, since they would fit perfectly to the legacy magazine, which always gave us a minifigure from the previous big D2Cs Also I kinda start to think that maybe they could give us the tournament suits in the legacy magazines. That is because we got the wolf general, and then the 2 last climber ninja, and Jay is said to come in November, so then maybe we could get the 3 new ninja and some villains, and after that we could get the 2025 minifigures.This year we did get the wolf warrior and then more s1 minifigures, but the tournament suits would fit great with legacy. But still that is just a speculation, and we only got half the mech ninja so far, so I guess we will see about that later.
  21. mantax
    I'm not sure if Morro would actually return, but what we do know is images of 2 F5 members and the Arc dragon. So first is maybe Drix, they have very bug like appearance, while Zarkt has a new hat piece and the main thing on him are golden chains. I'm a big fan of the fact that they are so different from Nokt and Rox, and it makes me want to collect them all. The Arc dragon looks great, especially if it's going to be $80 as rumored. I don't really have much more to say about it, it's just another great ninjago dragon, but with a unique design. But I'd say that I personally like the Storm dragon a bit more.
  22. mantax
    I believe that is just her s1 suit, since you can see the same details on the sides of the torso. Overall this minifigure selection feels kinda lame with it's 5+ minifigs when you compare it to the storm dragon, which is $30 cheaper. But this feels more like a set that you get for the build. With Nokt also being in this set makes sense, since he is the most important out of the F5. And there are still plenty of sets for the other members to come in: Lloyd car, Ras jet, dragonian village, the arc dragon, and we have one confirmed in the Zane mech.
  23. mantax
    That is a set that really should have waited for the official reveal. Since from what I can see I'm not really a fan of it. But that could easly change if we get more images. A big version of Zane sounds really fun. But a problem that I might see with this is the fact that you would have to disassamble the model to build the other vehicles, since I can't really see how the legs or arms could combine to form the other vehicles, and in the previous combo mech it was very visible. But as I said before we don't have more images, so maybe it actually does. There also isn't that much details that say it includes a Sora vehicle, aside from some coral stripes on the cockpits for the car on the legs.
  24. mantax
    The storm dragon leaked, so some of the descriptions might not have been fake. We get a new Arin, but Sora is just from the Riyu set. there's also Nokt in this set, or maybe not I can't tell that much. The side build definitely attaches to the village, and I do like the color scheme for that, which is also the dragon's color scheme. I can't really see that much of it because of all the text, but so far I like what I see. It's also great that the dragon is on 2 legs, this really makes it an evil version of Jiro, which I Love. If it's going to be $70 as rumored then I might want to get this, since it would pair well with Jiro.
  25. mantax
    The Forest dragon feels quite solid at $20 and I might be interested in it. I also absolutely love the new Riyu recolor. What's weird about it is the fact that Lloyd doesn't use the new mask piece, and from what I can see he has the torso from his s1 suit. The mech rider is very unique, and I love that about it. We get our 3rd evo mech for kai, it does include more black on it then before, but I don't care about that that much since what I like about it is the jet part. It's also kinda weak that this set only has 3 minifigures, but the main build is solid and that's what I care about the most. We also got information on the zane mech. The mech is literally just the Jay mech. it should include a new zane, but it doesn't say that for Wyldfyre, so she might be reused from the previous waves. It also has one of the F5 - Drix with 2 sickles. This also might confirm that the previous descriptions were fake since that is a completely different Kai's storm rider mech.
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