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Any confirmation on if reem is going to be the ghost in the fire truck set too, or just the castle? Can’t tell if it’s 2 forms of the same guy or 2 different characters with how blurry the truck pics are.

It’s likely this will be another new location, not the underworld. The show seems to be trying to really flesh out the number of locations it has to work with the past few seasons.

Given how the seasons have been going lately fire focused on Kai, ice focused on zane (in a way, but thematically atleast), prime empire focused on jay, and MoM focuses on cole, with setting to match each characters element, I’m confident that one of the next 2 seasons will be a nya focused, water based season, and one will be a lloyd based season likely staying more in ninjago city (most of his major arcs have revolves around the city) and involving garmadon somehow.

My guess is they’re whatever faction of ghosts was around when Vaughn was still alive. Given the number of “great”’s before grandpa when Parker recognized him, he seems to have been a ghost hunter before lady e would’ve been around, it’s likely he fought SOMETHING back then other than just one or two random ghosts that happened to break through the veil. [spoiler] If I’ve got the wave figured out, which I think I do mostly, what will likely happen is: business as usual as the gang investigates a beachside prison. After taking down the ghost, they test out jb’s new sub, where they find another portal to the hidden side and that staff in some undersea ruins. Vaughn is released, and joins the team, and they go to meet jb, testing her new truck during some kind of town fair along with that tv robot, when they are all attacked by the slenderman type ghost and the knight-esque black ghosts. They escape, head to the castle Ruins where Vaughn stopped the threat the first time, which is likely also the source of the ruins underwater, and fight the ghostly threat before it can do something relating to the moon or space, given the important looking observatory on the castle. Likely use an eclipse to merge the hidden side and reality if I had to guess. Depending on the intent of the line, either the story is wrapped up there or the ghost manages to unleash enough of its chaos that we lead into wave 4. [spoiler]

These sets look amazing! While I can see the comparisons to ninjago in a few of the sets, I really feel like there is a lot of difference in everything but the small bike. Honestly the style of the theme feels fresh and new. Honestly if it reminds me of anything it’s not ninjago, it’s the LEGO movie lines! Just because it’s got elements of sci fi doesn’t make it bad. The character design is wonderfully cartoony and expressive, the builds feel like chunky sci fi awesomeness, the structures included in a few sets will be a wonderful little addition to the theme and will hopefully be paired with some more substantial buildings in future waves, and man that cloud jet is just An incredible build! the huge stand out of the wave has to be that container ship! The opened form of it is absolutely awesome as a play set, and it manages to be cartoonish and exaggerated in proportion, but not enough that it would feel out of place in a city setting or on its own. this theme was also rumored to have a tv show coming, and if the art on the sides and top of the boxes is any indication, it will be a 2D animated series, not another cgi one!

I always just assumed his name was changed to Elton Douglas Diaz and the school set description was something they forgot to change, as happens occasionally. It’d still make sense for them to call him Douglas in the shorts, I mean I go by my middle name so it’s not that far fetched. and his whole minifigure is great as like a spaceship mechanic, I swapped his cape for one of those grey respirators from apocalypseburg, and gave him one of the ghostbusters 2016 proton packs mounted sideways as a welding pack, and a helmet with the LEGO movie 1 secret police visor, and now I’ve got him working as an asteroid based mechanic.

Hey if it is him, it shows that Lego’s been listening to fans who have wanted both more character variety and more of a connection to monster fighters. And the car looks like it’d have suspension and maybe steering, which would continue this waves trend of being better stand-alone sets outside the app game.

Aside from the glowing parts, which could just be ghost stuff, the car feels very monster fighters too, maybe wave 3 will include a bit of crossover in the same way as the ghost in the stunt plane set is a former adventurers baddie?

Oh, haven’t seen 13 yet, thanks for the heads up! I just meant that 11 was the only new one out when they made the tweet about the main event

So, idk if it’s been mentioned but the people behind the web series have said there’s 10 more shorts for this year (presumably 11-20, even though 11 was already released at the time) and then the “main event” for 2020, so I think that lends some credence to that book or whatever from a while ago that claimed there was a tv show, and confirms that the next wave won’t be the series end, as falcon fan said i know that’s more media discussion then sets, but the existence of the media 99% confirms more sets so I think it’s worth mentioning

If you look at the feet, he’s also wearing sneakers. I’m 99% sure it’s a modern interpretation of the story.

That ones great for steampunk, also maybe check out jb’s hair from hidden side, it’s messy inventor hair with goggles, even if you may have to take a sharpie to it to make the goggles silver.

It’s not real, unfortunately. the mechanic, The character pictured above, uses nindroid parts to upgrade himself in the show, so his hat re-uses the design of the nindroid headwrap’s mechanical eye. You could theoretically make that head by cutting apart a bowler hat part and a nindroid head wrap part and gluing the necessary parts together, but it’s a lot of work to do. That character has been appearing more frequently in the last few seasons, so they’ll likely make him eventually.

The new sets sound great, can’t wait to see what style the fire truck is. If it’s relatively modern I may mod it up into a “real ghostbusters” style vehicle. also, just picked up the subway station and while I can see why some people have complaints, I love the set! The function looks great in motion and I love that it can fit a figure inside for the whole motion and not just one mode. Add a great little display for the figures, and those nice ghost parts (I was lucky enough to get the solid ones!) and it’s one heck of a set for 30 bucks. Definitely worth the price if you’re on the fence!

It’s a racing game in context, likely the game has a bunch of ninja vehicles as playable cars, if multiple people pick one vehicle, multiple will show up. Bit of a missed opportunity to have multiple color schemes on them like some games do, but cool to see

Something I noticed, look at the legs of the leaked figure closely, it seems to be wearing sweatpants and Vans style sneakers! It was mentioned before that it may be a modern fantasy theme, and with the supposed AR Element, could this possibly be set in an urban, city style environment? That would certainly make it different than most of what we get from ninjago, nexo, HS etc. which rarely have modern city areas Actually represented in the brick.

off topic, but the spider-man included in the spidey vs venom set is actually the parker industries spider armor mk. 4, one of the most recent designs that was made by peter in his adult life while he was head of parker industries, which was a huge tech company in the comics for a while. during that time he actually did have a few vehicles, including a blade runner-esque car that transformed into a spider themed mecha. it didnt look like the one in the sets, but still, theres justification. on nexo knights, i disagree about the "reuse of canned sets" thing, but i do agree that they probably planned one more wave, considering all that was missing. did anything show up in the app that wasnt in any sets?

as far as im aware, the blade cycle and icemobile are actually a 2 pack.

as far as we know so far, these sets are from a set of 4 specials that will come in between hunted and whatever the oni season will be called, which is being made to celebrate ninjago hitting 100 episodes. these are likely either totally unrelated to the story and are just throwbacks as part of celebrating that, or the story will involve flashbacks or time travel in some way.

i see overwatch being around for a good while, because no matter what they do, theres something for everyone in the game. you want apocalypse stuff? western? Asian temples? high tech cities? industrial bases? hover-limos? giant robots? castles? huge flying ships? all of that is available in the game, and all of it has minifigs to go with. every wave could conceivably include new versions of any character they want, since every character has a ton of skins for different environments, and the game has a huge fan community and is an extremely popular e-sport. there' tons of stuff in there for people who love Lego, people who love over watch, and people with a casual interest in either. plus, for people who dont really collect lego or play overwatch but enjoy building things, this theme will introduce a ton of new minifig parts and accessories.

I’d love to have one with a bunch of little stalls on the bottom, the tv station and maybe a flower shop or something and the first part of the robot hotel on the second floor, some kind of reference to the tv show like Chen’s noodles or something and the second part of the robot hotel on the third floor, and the head of the robot hotel on the “roof” section, with some kind of small build of ninjago tower at the top with swappable flags for garmadon and ninjago city.

Yeah, I’ve got all the official sets other than the mecha shark, they are great builds and a good size, I’m just building the bigger ones to be displays and to bring to conventions. The concept art book is good, but doesn’t have much detail on the final models from the movie, ie: half the pages on Zane’s tank are taken up by toy model prototypes and sketches of other possible vehicles. Where did you find the quake mech for that price btw? Can you post up a pic of the head? Sounds awesome! Thanks for the tip with xon67, I’ll shoot a message over to them. And yeah I don’t have nearly enough or the right parts in the right colors for the shark mech, so I’m skipping out on that one

hey, been a while since i've built anything major, but i've finally figured out what i'm going to do for my next moc series. i'd like to build upgraded, full-scale versions of the crazy vehicles from the ninjago movie, as the released sets each seem to be roughly half the size of the movie versions. unfortunately i'm running into an issue in finding reference images of them. the concept art book has some good stuff in it, but stuff like cole's mech in the book isn't the final one (it has a brick built wheel) and the garma-mecha-man isn't represented in its brick form like, at all. any google searching i have done has nearly entirely lead me to pictures of the toy versions, not the movie versions. i'm looking for any screenshots, current mocs or in progress shots, or production shots that are available for these, or any tips you guys could give me on doing them. i'm starting off with the ice tank, so shots of that are the most helpful for now

Also, blue building has a wrap around walkway and staircase done in the same style as the second floor of the first set, meaning the front of this does face the back of the original city set, and presumably there’s gonna be detail around the back of this to match up with the front of the city for that reason.

Look at the bottom of the build, where the boat is. It’s got the water tiles! That means this thing IS on a base plate, and thus will connect! Hopefully there’s some good detail on the back and good figs, and hopefully it’s closer to a 250$ or 200$ than the city set, but this seems like a solid add on area to an already amazing set