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In terms of structural parts of the buildings themselves, this is correct, but the leaves of the potted plant in front of Market Street and the tree in front of Fire Brigade both extend out past the curb, so I'm not 100% sure whether this is in fact a hard and fast rule. Outside of the Creator Expert theme, some similar sets that break this rule in even more noticeable ways are Ninjago City and Ninjago City Docks. But of course, these can get away with this because the front and back of the buildings overlook waterways rather than roads, and most overhangs along the adjoining sides are both hinged and high up enough not to collide with adjacent buildings. It's kind of interesting to me to compare the differences between the Ninjago City sets and the Creator Expert Modular Buildings. In some respects, the Modular Buildings follow stricter rules: for example, they are all designed so their height can be expanded with additional middle floors, which requires staircases to begin and end in the same place, while the Ninjago City sets do not require or so far even allow for this option. But in other respects, the Ninjago City sets have more design restraints: they have to match not only the level of the water and "Old World" walkways, but also the raised "Street" level walkways. This means that the total height of the two-story "Old World" buildings is basically fixed, whereas the height of the Modular Buildings' stories varies freely from one building to the next.

Last year's Arctic sets were not particularly unrealistic, though? The vast majority of it pretty closely resembles stuff that exists in the real world, and a lot of it isn't even all that cutting-edge anymore: Fan powered ice glider: https://newatlas.com/lotus-deploys-unique-concept-ice-vehicle-to-the-antarctic/9849/ Walking excavator: http://www.unusuallocomotion.com/pages/locomotion/walking.html Excavators with giant saws: https://www.nationalattachments.com/excavator-attachments-and-products/rock-saws/ Overland train: http://www.unusuallocomotion.com/pages/locomotion/letourneau-land-trains.html Mobile research station: https://www.bas.ac.uk/polar-operations/sites-and-facilities/facility/halley/ The main thing I have yet to see a real-life equivalent of is the manned transport quadcopter in #60193. But even then that's not really much more "unrealistic" than a moonbase would be — they're both things that may not actually exist, but certainly could in the not-so-distant future.

A fairground set seems like a pretty reasonable guess. We also haven't heard if there will be any new "Out of the Vault" sets for 2019 like the Taj Mahal or Vestas Wind Turbine. Most of the recently re-released/updated D2C sets we've seen from both Creator Expert and Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series have been around 9 or 10 years old. If that pattern continues, some promising contenders for re-releases or updates in 2019 would be Emerald Night or Imperial Flagship. I would personally lean towards Emerald Night as the most likely candidate for a Creator Expert re-release, both because it ties in better with other recent sets/themes, and because one of the big things the original did was help prove to AFOLs the benefits of the new Power Functions system. An updated version this year could do the same for its successor, Power Functions 2.0/Powered Up. Of course, LEGO could make a controversial move like they did with the Death Star and release an updated version of Tower Bridge, which only just retired on the LEGO Shop site in Europe and hasn't even been retired from the one in the United States!

Agreed. In general, themes like Speed Champions tend to be aimed at older builders than City or Friends (generally starting at around 7+ for the smallest sets rather than 5+), and consequently tend to use smaller pieces on average. Now, some people love this, because they find small detail elements much more versatile than big chunky ones. But by comparison, other people would rather get a bigger model for their buck even if it has a lower piece count, and feel almost tricked or cheated by the large number of small parts like 1x1 and 1x2 plates, tiles, and slopes in many of today's sets and themes. While 75890 has more than twice as many parts as 60239, which makes the price per piece seem a lot more impressive, you're still being charged a 50% higher price for a car that's the same width and height, and only about two studs longer. For some people the greater versatility of the parts and more challenging building experience are enough to justify that cost, but for others they are not. For my part I don't care too much for Speed Champions OR City, because I'm not much of a motorhead, and am generally drawn towards character-driven fantasy themes rather than real-world, modern-day themes. But purely in terms of building level I'm generally a lot more drawn to 7+ themes like Ninjago, Legends of Chima, Elves, or Nexo Knights than 5+ themes like Castle or Pirates. Mind you, this doesn't strictly inform which themes I buy. I've bought a few Friends sets that I was particularly impressed with, and my love of the Unikitty theme's characters is enough to largely outweigh any concerns about its decidedly simplistic building level. But there's no doubt that I tend to get more enjoyment from building more advanced sets, even when that means the pieces themselves and/or the finished models are smaller than I might get in a City or Friends set with a similar piece count.

Good thought actually! Here are the component parts on Brickset: https://brickset.com/parts/design-40144 https://brickset.com/parts/design-40145 https://brickset.com/parts/design-59895 It could also be a neat way to attach wheels to some type of Technic-based steering or suspension!

I think "not having the same charm" is entirely subjective, and that sense of "charm" often depends heavily on nostalgia for one's own childhood themes than anything else. Mind you, the Classic Space, Space Police, and Blacktron themes originated before I was old enough to enjoy them, I DO think they have some strengths that other Space themes lack by virtue of having each been re-imagined at least once over the years. In other words, they represent sort of a longer tradition/heritage that I can respect even having not lived through their initial debut. But in terms of my own overall preferences, I think Spyrius is much stronger than Blacktron thanks to having a really solid, coherent conceptual foundation (spies specializing in robots and flying saucers), a more dynamic color palette, and more interesting character designs. And I won't deny that part of this preference is a nostalgic bias for themes that were a big part of MY childhood… though for what it's worth, I don't feel like Exploriens and UFO hold up nearly as well in hindsight as far as the actual builds and character designs are concerned, even though they were favorites of mine back in the day. Back in the days of Space Police III, I spent extensive time thinking about and trying to build or conceptualize what re-imagined versions of Blacktron, M:Tron, etc. would be like. But one of the real hurdles I had to deal with is that those themes weren't really as clearly defined as Space Police. Every incarnation of Space Police had a clear objective in the galaxy (policing space crimes), a clear relationship to other co-existing factions, and a unified gimmick (futuristic prison pods). By comparison, M:Tron's objective (emergency response and rescue) was not nearly as obvious from the sets themselves, to the point that a lot of AFOLs who grew up enjoying those sets were never even aware of it! And its core gimmick/play feature, magnets and magnetic containers, are neither obviously related to that objective, nor really practical using modern parts. As for Blacktron? While for the most part it seems pretty clear that they were a shady network of intergalactic spies much like Spyrius, and designers have already done a brilliant job revamping the Blacktron minifig design language with Rench, the Space Villain, and the Evil Mech, the sets' only especially consistent gimmick/play feature was modularity, which showed up in so many subsequent themes that it no longer feels very special or distinctive to Blacktron at all! Ultimately, compared to Space Police, which manages to remain distinctive/recognizable for what it is even when its color scheme, logos, and design language change COMPLETELY from one incarnation to the next, the nostalgia for a lot of these other Space themes is so heavily tied to their color scheme, logos, and design language that their actual conceptual strengths are rather dubious. Their popularity is based not only in nostalgia, but in nostalgia for some of the most superficial aspects of their identity. I think that could be pretty plausible. I mean, for a while I thought that even getting a whole "LEGO Space Movie" spin-off might be a very real possibility, although I don't know that it would be as great an idea now, considering that The LEGO Movie 2 seems to be employing a lot of the kind of space exploration tropes that I would have expected to see in a LEGO Space Movie. But a theme and/or TV series starring Benny and his friends exploring the stars together? That could have quite a lot of promise! Probably not as a "big bang" property like Ninjago or Nexo Knights, but perhaps as a smaller project like Unikitty or Mixels. Benny has a sort of manic energy that kids love whether or not they know anything at all about Classic Space outside of the LEGO Movie franchise, and that positions him well as the centerpiece of a cast of both literally and figuratively colorful characters. Such a series could benefit greatly from an episodic structure with a blend of action and lighthearted silliness, like Buzz Lightyear of Star Command or Duck Dodgers. Something of a side-note: I would LOVE to see Benny and Unikitty show up in a Duplo set, sort of like the adorable preschool Emmet and Lucy figures in https://brickset.com/sets/10895-1! A LEGO Movie 2 Duplo set featuring Benny might also be a great proving ground for Duplo space sets in general, which have been remarkably scarce compared to Duplo town, castle, or pirates sets (licensed and non-licensed alike).

I mean, since the creature heads in question are themselves molded, there's no reason LEGO couldn't use them with molded creature bodies. The new Ninjago Golden Dragon head even has a similar style of jaw hinge as the LEGO Castle dragons, which is a first for Ninjago. With some of the licensed parts, I do have worries that they might be IP-locked, which would prevent LEGO from using them in in-house themes like Castle. But I guess there's no way of knowing for sure until we see whether or not they show up in other themes.

Ooh, lovely throne! That said, the gentle convex curves seem kind of peculiar given the otherwise spooky look of the build. Even the Elves theme with its much softer and more comfortable aesthetic, Ragana Shadowflame's throne in https://brickset.com/sets/41180-1/ and Cronan Darkroot's in https://brickset.com/sets/41188-1/ felt much more spooky and aggressive. While you seem to be doing a wonderful job keeping to more of a 90s aesthetic than those sets' spike pieces would allow, I do think it might be a slight improvement to swap the curve pieces for straight slopes to give the throne a more angular look. It's a shame there aren't any 1x2 concave curve elements like the ones Fright Knights used so often for its roof shapes… those would also be a nice way to really communicate the Fright Knights design language. By the way, is the lighting in this interior picture built into the model (e.g. with transparent yellow windows or a yellow light brick), or is it just the ambient color of the lighting in the room where you took the photo? It's definitely very spooky!

I'm a little confused by your math… This year has four $10/€10 Spinjitzu sets and two $20/€20 Spinjitzu sets. When I read your post I was worried there was some international price discrepancy shenanigans going on, but the total for the Spinjitzu sets on the dutch LEGO Shop site still comes out to €80, not €90. But yeah, you're right that it definitely goes to show what a good value the Monastery is as a character pack.

Ninjago has had a pretty nice track record when it comes to putting a full team of ninja in many of its larger sets. Temple of Airjitzu, Temple of the Ultimate Ultimate Weapon, and Destiny's Bounty have all six ninja, while Ultra Sonic Raider, Ultra Stealth Raider, and Dragon Pit have four original members of the ninja team (Kai, Zane, Cole, and Jay), with the corresponding versions of the two newer recruits (Lloyd and Nya) appearing in sets like Samurai X Cave Chaos, Throne Room Showdown, and Oni Titan. Of course, I also don't mind when sets like the various spinners/fliers make it easy to get a matching team of ninja individually at a considerably lower total cost. But up until this year's Spinjitzu sets, those sets often had big, expensive functional elements (like the spinners with ejector function and weighted ring in 2011–2012, or the wheel, propeller, and wing elements in 2015–2018) that substantially reduced the number of useful pieces you got for that price.

Nya does have a new face print in this year's sets! I suspect we'll continue to see head prints updated periodically, particularly with new faces for promotional figs like the Stone Armor Kai, Jay, and Cole figures we saw in the past. I feel like Zane's new design has had quite a few non-smiling faces between the movie, Season 8, and Season 9 sets: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3626cpb1894 https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3626cpb1907 https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3626cpb2029 https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3626cpb2056 That said, it is frustrating that his new hair design, as much as I love it, introduces several inconveniences. He's the only ninja who can't use a double-faced head for both his hooded and hoodless variants, the only ninja who is still missing his new hair piece in the correct color (for his titanium variant, anyway), and for some reason, even the single-faced variants appearing in non-movie sets like the Zane Kendo Pod and S.O.G. Headquarters strangely omit the printing for his "fade" that was present on his unmasked minifigures for the LEGO Ninjago Movie. Spinjitzu Slam sets sound interesting, though the names don't tell us much about what new gimmick they'll introduce. I suspect they'll have some kind of more specialized functional elements than the current ones, though, since they seem to have considerably lower piece counts for presumably the same $9.99/$19.99 price. Maybe some sort of launcher?

I'm not super surprised they didn't give him one, considering one of the earliest episodes starring Aaron was pretty much all about how he's basically too laid back to get scared about most things (basically the polar opposite of Jay from LEGO Ninjago, lol).

If the mini-doll had not existed, who's even to say that LEGO Friends would have been enough of a knockout success to justify expanding the portfolio of girl-targeted products so much further in so short a time? Also, considering that Nexo Knights was developed as a new take on Castle and there's usually only one new incarnation of LEGO Castle every three or four years, I don't really think it's realistic to act as though a theme like Elves would have necessarily been developed using minifigures if the mini-doll had not existed. What's more, I also feel like AFOL complaints tend to be framed relative to expectations. If there hadn't been any mini-doll to begin with, I can't imagine Castle fans would have enthusiastically accepted the other "girly" characteristics of LEGO Elves because "at least it's not using a new doll like figure", any more than they were willing to accept the "jellybean knights" of Knights' Kingdom II because "at least they're not high tech cyber knights". So even if an Elves theme with traditional minifigures sounds tolerable to you in hindsight (as can be said for a lot of "I might have enjoyed _____ just fine if it had been less _____" sorts of comments), I don't think the wider AFOL community is too likely to simply accept a theme that defies their expectations because it could hypothetically have been even further from what they actually wished to see. I imagine most of us have at least a few sets, themes, or subthemes even within our preferred genres that we have skipped for being even just mildly underwhelming compared to our expectations, and later ended up kicking ourselves for not getting when we had the chance!

Beautiful! I love how cuddly and round it is! Great parts use for its tummy. I'm also amazed by the quality of your photography. I had to double check to make sure it wasn't a render because the lighting and seamless backdrop looked almost too perfect!

Ninjago was the first to have a full TV series with multiple full seasons, but in 2010 LEGO Atlantis had a 44-minute TV special, and LEGO Hero Factory had a 4-episode mini-series (with additional 22-minute and 44-minute TV specials from 2011 onward). As far as non-broadcast animated content goes, Fabuland had both named characters and a direct-to-VHS stop-motion series back in the 80s, and Bionicle had four direct-to-DVD movies from 2003 to 2009. Also, for what it's worth, nearly every theme that's had an ongoing TV series has had three or four years of sets, even if the show didn't continue for the entirety of that time. It's not as though shorter-lived stuff like Power Miners, Atlantis, Pharaoh's Quest, Monster Fighters, and Ultra Agents has been getting that same level of upfront investment. I also don't see how it makes sense to think LEGO is "wasting" money on stuff like foam role-play toys. If these things weren't making enough money to break even then LEGO wouldn't make them. And while those might not have much value to us AFOLs, to the kids buying the foam role-play stuff they're just toys, same as the sets themselves. I have a hard time imagining that kids who grew up on Classic Space wouldn't have been thrilled at the idea of having life-size versions of the classic space helmets, jetpacks, and accessories in order to BECOME the courageous space explorers you usually only got to interact with in miniature! I mean, the Adventurers theme stuck with the same main protagonists for several years across comic books, picture books, online interactive comics, trading cards, etc. And there was even an actual pitch for a LEGO Adventurers animated TV series, even if it didn't end up actually getting produced. The Pirates theme also managed to stick with some of its same named characters in the long term, even though it had even less in the way of media. Even Jim Spaceborn, the Classic Space character whose ultimate published presence only ever extended to a couple comic books, was at one point envisioned as a possible star for a LEGO TV series! The way I see it, the only reason there wasn't the kind of consistent, multimedia presence for these characters like you're describing is that before Bionicle, the vast majority of LEGO marketing and licensing was pretty much a total mess, with different countries' marketing departments coming up with their own set and character names (hence most of the Adventurers characters having 3 or more different names), and rarely any kind of story bible or style guide to ensure consistency between different marketing campaigns or licensed media. Plus, in the 80s and 90s LEGO was still employing the foolhardy approach of trying to handle pretty much everything in-house: compare the feeble and short-lived "LEGO Publishing" brand that published LEGO Castle and Space comics in the 80s to the much greater success LEGO has had with Ninjago books and comics licensed out to other publishers like Scholastic, Dorling-Kindersley, Papercutz, Ladybird, etc. Turning to licensing partners who specialize in producing TV series, movies, books, and video games has been a MUCH safer and more reliable strategy for them. Compared to companies like Hasbro that had been in the storyteliing biz for decades, LEGO just didn't have those kinds of skills in their wheelhouse before the 2000s. The fact that LEGO themes today have a stronger media presence isn't because they can't succeed without one, it's because LEGO is finally in a position to do the things they only dreamed of achieving back in the 90s.

Well, Pirates is something of an exception among those themes you listed, since it had tie-in picture books and comics featuring named characters. And it's preposterous to act as though telling stories featuring already-named characters is "unimaginative" — let alone as though kids who buy sets featuring named characters are somehow prevented from creating their own original characters to play with as well. I've seen way more fan art and fan fiction from kids and adults alike for themes like Ninjago and Bionicle than I've EVER seen for themes that offer a supposed "blank slate" like City, Castle, and Pirates. And frankly, taking known characters and creating new stories about them is how many of the world's most well-known myths and legends (such as those of Hercules, King Arthur, Anansi, etc) took shape. It's a tradition nearly as old as storytelling itself. Furthermore — telling kids stories is how they learn the tools and techniques to get better at creating their own stories, just as giving kids building steps teaches them tools and techniques that can help them improve their own LEGO creations. How many filmmakers do you think there are who grew up never watching other people's movies, or authors who grew up never reading other people's books? It's foolish to think that kids attempting to recreate the stories they've heard elsewhere means that their creativity is being stifled. By interpreting existing stories and characters on their own terms, they learn to better understand what it is about these stories that makes them so enticing. And sure, kids are bound to hear stories elsewhere that they can incorporate into their LEGO play. But making storytelling a PART of the LEGO themes kids enjoy helps teach them how LEGO builds can reinforce the story they're meant to support. Classic Space or M:Tron sets might have been just fine as toys, but the same "blank slate" principle that is often seen as creatively freeing also means that they communicate very little actual meaning. And being able to visually communicate meaning is one of the most necessary skills for becoming an effective designer. By comparison, the Ninjago storyline isn't something fundamentally separate from the sets. In many ways, even without the TV series to provide context, the sets clearly communicate the scenarios they present. And by building and playing with sets that have this strength of communication, kids learn the skills to incorporate stronger visual storytelling into their own creations. None of this is to say that there isn't a place for more open-ended themes… the perennial strength of the City theme proves that "blank slate" characters are far from obsolete. But it's always frustrating to hear older LEGO builders frame their frustrations with current sets as kids having less intelligence or good taste or creativity than previous generation did. It's no different from the way uptight old curmudgeons have always turned up their noses at the younger generations who don't enjoy the same types of music, books, movies, or sports as their elders did. It's possible to wax nostalgic for the type of things YOU preferred as a child without making ignorant, demeaning generalizations about the sorts of things today's kids enjoy or the intelligence/taste/creativity of the kids themselves.

Neato! I'd like to try something like this sometime with capes, and also with softer fabric materials. One of my big motivations on my part is that in the first two years of LEGO Elves, all of the four main Elves got both a short cape and a long cloak with hood… except for Farran, the Earth Elf. The hood I could potentially customize with paint, but the cape is trickier since those use a softer material even than the usual one used for capes or pirate sails. Anyway, your customs are AWESOME and I can definitely imagine a lot of LEGO fans making great use of custom sails like this — not just to replace or complement the existing pirate sail patterns from classic sets, but also perhaps to create new sail shapes and patterns to expand their fleets!

I think they're nice and fun, and I see why they're popular, but they're rarely ones I specifically seek out unless they have some kind of special significance to me. For example, I got the Shark Suit Guy because a shark is my school mascot, and in Series 18 my twin brother and I got the Brick Suit Guy and Brick Suit Girl, respectively (these are actually the latest blind bag figures we got besides the Unikitty series). In general, though, my collectible minifigure purchasing has declined since the earliest few series, since during those years I did a lot more impulse shopping than I do now and could more or less complete a series by picking them up a few at a time. Lately the only series I've bothered to complete have been for the LEGO Movie and its spin-offs. Otherwise, I tend to only buy a few or none at all, often driven by what characters are cutest or which have the most useful parts for sigfigs or general modern-day settings. For example, several series ago I bought the Dino Tracker specifically for her cargo pants. And mind you, with those criteria, future purchases on my part could very well include costumed characters if they had a useful combination of facial features, or a useful hair color and style! In particular, I've been looking for a face with both glasses and freckles so my girlfriend can update her sigfig, but there are currently only two, neither of which looks quite right for her. A calico cat costume could also be fun since in real life I own a calico cat kigurumi that I really enjoy. ^_^

Best I can tell, the ships on the far left and right actually use 32086, which is neither an actual Classic Space mold nor a current one. The nearest current equivalent is 28782, which is noticeably different. The windscreens of the ships in the background are harder to identify. Did anybody see that Target.com has plushes/"buddy pillows" of some of the characters? Currently only listing Emmet, Unikitty, and Sweet Mayhem, but I saw at least one photo on Instagram from a brick-and-mortar Target store that had Lucy/Wyldstyle and Warrior Kitty as well! They're very cute!

By the way, here's a link to my spreadsheet which I've updated with this info and converted some of the more interesting tidbits to a line graph/timeline: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Uvy5XSmGY_8Y9iPLYTtqNEsbbF0acRgY0MEhH1RMbhI/edit?usp=sharing

Well, BrickLink has now listed the Corner Garage's weight at 3035 grams/6.691 pounds, so not far from your estimate. That makes it the fourth heaviest Modular Building set after Assembly Square, Town Hall, and Green Grocer. Its 6.59¢ price per gram/$29.89 price per pound is definitely towards the lower end among the buildings to date, but that's still considerably lower than Detective's Office (7.15¢ per gram/$32.43 per pound), and not much higher than Brick Bank (6.19¢ per gram/$28.09 per pound) or Parisian Restaurant (6.13¢ per gram/$27.81 per pound). I can't say what that means for your purchasing decisions, but a price per gram that falls somewhere between the ones we saw from 2014 to 2016 doesn't seem to indicate any sort of slippery slope effect like you're worried about. If anything, it simply speaks to Downtown Diner being a comparatively good value for its time.

It kind of interests me also to see that this series is branded as part of the core LEGO Movie 2 theme, rather than a subtheme of Minifigures — much like how 4+ sets beginning in 2019 are branded as part of their core themes rather than subthemes of Juniors, or how the new Batman and Spider-Man sets are branded as IP-specific themes rather than as subthemes of DC and Marvel Super Heroes. Perhaps LEGO found that having IPs branded as subthemes of bigger, non-IP-specific themes was confusing people. If that's the case, then we can probably expect similar branding on other future licensed minifigure series, even those that don't include brick-built characters.

I dunno, I feel like the trailers and teasers we've seen spend about the same amount of time on Rex and the Apocalypseburg folks as on the Systar System and its inhabitants. Likewise, only 9 or 10 of the 25 sets revealed so far seem to have more feminine-coded than masculine-coded motifs and design language.

Well, Garmadon's Oni blood was a big part of what enabled the Overlord to manipulate him into bringing about his return, so there might be some connection there. I'm not saying that the Overlord's return is a sure thing, but if the Oni invasion did somehow bring about the Overlord's return, I don't feel as though it would be out of nowhere, nor that it would contradict any of what's been established in previous seasons.

I mean, I wouldn't say it would be entirely out of nowhere, since what allowed him to return to Ninjago back in Season 2 was Garmadon tipping the balance of light and darkness in Ninjago far enough in darkness's favor, and if what we've seen in the trailer is any indication, the return of the Oni themselves could potentially do that just as well as Garmadon himself did (whereas most other past villains haven't been as overtly darkness-themed or had the same specific ambitions of extinguishing the light that was the First Spinjitzu Master's legacy). Also, re: the season numbering discussion that was going on in the sets topic: In the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and I think most of Europe, the seasons are officially numbered as follows: Way of the Ninja (Pilot/TV Special) Season 1: Rise of the Serpentine (Episodes 1–13) Season 2: Legacy of the Green Ninja (Episodes 14–26) Season 3: Rebooted (Episodes 27–34) Season 4: Tournament of Elements (Episodes 35–44) Season 5: Possession (Episodes 45–54) Season 6: Skybound (Episodes 55–64) Day of the Departed (Halloween Special) Season 7: Hands of Time (Episodes 65–74) Season 8: Sons of Garmadon (Episodes 75–84) Season 9: Hunted (Episodes 85–94) Season 10: March of the Oni (Episodes 95–98) As of right now, I expect that there will be an 11th season, but it has not yet been named or announced. In the Danish DVDs, the pilot IS considered Season 1; however, in that numbering system, Rise of the Snakes and Legacy of the Green Ninja (episodes 1–26) are ALL considered Season 2, so from Season 3 onward the numbering is the same. The Australian DVDs also number the first couple seasons that way, but their season numbering is even stranger, because they consistently treat one year as one season: thus, they treat both Tournament of Elements and Possession (episodes 35–54) as Season 4, Skybound (episodes 55–64) as Season 5, Hands of Time (episodes 65–74) as Season 6, and both Sons of Garmadon and Hunted (Episodes 75–94) as Season 7.