Mandate

I wasn't even thinking about the elemental dragons, but who knows. I still wish that the elemental dragons had been physical dragons enslaved and/or hidden on Chen's island. As far as we know, aren't the original four dragons are the only dragon(s) in existence? The problem is that they haven't done that, possibly won't do that, and doing that will make it even worse because then we'll have yet another interpretation that conflicts with everything else. Assuming that this is just the fault of pre-production phases and isn't going any further, it's better to just continue having the seasons internationally the same and pretending the problems never happened to begin with, rather than trying to fix the problem when it's too late. Why would Apple users want to rejoice? After all, they're still using Apple products

The Underworld was physically sealed, but there are still alternative ways of getting in (or out) using dragons or the realm crystal. Besides, they managed to get out of the Underworld during All of Nothing, what's to stop them from doing it again? Other than their obsolescence, of course.

It's a very convoluted story. You see, in America the pilot episodes (being Way of the Ninja, The Golden Weapon, King of Shadows and Weapons of Destiny) were considered episodes 1, 2, 3 and 4, but not season 1, resulting in season 1 episode 1 Rise of the Snakes being the "true" first episode. Meanwhile, in CN US I believe these four episodes were condensed into one "movie", simply titled "Way of the Ninja", but still not season 1. Over here in Australia, "Way of the Ninja" was seen as season 1 in its entirety, in spite of this Rise of the Snakes was still called episode 1. If you think that's ridiculous; it does not stop there. You see, in America episodes 1 (Rise of the Snakes) through 13 (Day of the Great Devourer) were considered season 1, while episodes 14 (Darkness Shall Rise) through to 26 (Rise of the Spinjitzu Master) were considered season 2. Here in Australia (and many other countries) episodes 1 (Rise of the Snakes, not Way of the Ninja) through 26 were seen as season 2. The result of this is a mess of epic proportions, "missing" episodes and a near-confusing continuity that was not "fixed" until Rebooted showed up, being season 3 for everyone, everywhere unless you were one of the unlucky people that was confused about the continuity and saw the pilots as season 1, episodes 1 through 13 as season 2 and episodes 14 through 26 as season 3, in which case you would think that Rebooted was "season 4". Fortunately, the fanbase eventually realized what was going on and no one calls Rebooted season 4. However, these shenanigans are starting again. Over here I've seen disc copies of both the Tournament of Elements and Possession labeled as "Season 4" on the box art and even collections of them in one box as "Season 4". Unless the Hageman brothers were referring to season 6 as the second season for next year or the first of 2017 (both unlikely), the continuity of the seasons is getting screwed over again. Which is a shame, because we had just gotten past it too It could just be the production stages, that script was written more than a year ago after all, but it's still a bit worrying. No. No more dead characters coming back. Samukai died, Julien died, Pythor died, Wu died (momentarily), the Overlord died, Garmadon died (again, momentarily), Pixal died, Cryptor died, Mindroid died, Zane died, the Overlord poofed, the Anacondrai Generals died, Clouse died, Garmadon died again (for "real" this time), Chen died, the entire army of cultists died, that one ghost that drove a motorbike died, Cole died, Garmadon died again, then Morro died again, etc. Nearly everything mentioned on this list has returned since its death. Debate them if you will, this show still has a problem with beating a dead horse so hard it comes back to life only to die moments later from the fatal beating it has just recieved. That would be great. As much as Julien's return was out-of-place (worth it for the pay-off though), seeing things such as the Skulkin getting their vehicles from him were ways that sewed the lore together and explained things in a way that made the franchise better.

Samukai has been gone for three, four or five (they screwed up the continuity of seasons again) seasons now, and for four whole years. It's a bad idea to bring back a character that's been gone for that long, and had little relevance in the first place, because it's only going to shine light and how crazy the story is getting with loose ends. If it's a dream, then I guess it could work. However, this was a first draft of the script written more than a year ago, they wouldn't have been allowed to release this if it had any meaning to it. If it did, they would have released the clip itself like they did exactly one year ago today when we saw the beginning of season 4 and the only part of Kai VS Karloff we ever got to see. Why do I have the awful feeling I'm going to be proven wrong when the new season comes out?

It is, but seeing as everything its seemingly light-based blade touches goes "poof" it's a lightsaber.

I wouldn't call the humor "good" at all. The jokes seemed pretty cheap to me, about as much as I was expecting from a kids show. Can't believe that Lance's weapon is just a cheap knock-off lightsaber, instead of a hard-light lance or something similar.

Collectibles unlock new characters. Getting all the collectables in the first level unlocks Jay, in the second unlocks Kai, and so on. Game seems a little glitchy and unfinished, either I'm worse at games than I thought or the first level is unfinished.

Ewwww... I had a feeling this was by the same team that made Chima, and somehow they didn't even manage to meet my already low standards. Boring, one-dimensional characters, lifeless animation with no weight to it, cheesy dialogue and way too much "NEXO this!" and "NEXO that!". Is this the new Hero Factory? I must admit, I initially laughed when they did the "power up" scene at how corny it was (reminded me of Power Rangers), but by the end I actually kind of liked it. Kids will probably eat this up, but I honestly hope the next adventure of the Nexo Factory Rangers is at least a little bit more well done. I think the problem here is that this is just a super-glorified commercial. It's not an actual "episode" per se, but rather something more like taking a guy that's never heard of the Halo franchise and then shoving them into the fifth level of Halo 5 and expecting them to follow along with all the crazy stuff that's just happened. I'm still willing to give them a (very small) chance for the TV show, I've seen a lot of people say that the final season of Chima (which I never saw) was very good. I just hope this isn't demonstrating the general tone of the line, I don't think I can tolerate 8+ episodes of this.

I keep them on display until the next wave of sets, usually. The ones not on display are in storage and I like to keep them intact whenever possible, the Australian heat is disastrous on sets even weeks old. We were talking about Shadow of Ronin, not Nindroids, and I'm not sure what you're getting at with Marvel Superheroes either. If the actors for the show genuinely weren't available at the time of production for Nindroids (and by extension, they weren't in SoR for consistency reasons), then that is a valid reason to choose different actors for the characters in order to create the game. LEGO and CN? Pretty sure you mean Wilfilm and TT games, and neither group does. In order to create a game based off of a very particular set of events (in this case, The Surge to Enter the Digiverse) you can't just simply transfer the cutscenes into the game and call it a day, sometimes things need to be explained outside of these cutscenes and there absolutely must be dialogue inside the levels. If the actors from the show weren't available, it would be media suicide to release a game where characters were voiced by multiple, very different sounding voice actors. I'm not sure what you're getting at on that final note, though.

But who is going to buy the box set for Kai other than NINJAGO fans? The City fans won't - most of them seem to hate NINJAGO. The Chima fans won't be either, and most certainly not the DC fans. Best case scenario one or two might actually display Kai now, but the average person won't be going out of their way to buy the box just because that one character looked pretty cool. It's a very conflicting decision too, because they've both chosen to be more accurate to the show and also less accurate by making the addition of printed legs, and as a collector of NINJAGO that really annoys me because if I swap out the printed legs for normal legs I don't have the full figure on display, but if I do have the full figure on display as LEGO intended is going to clash with the same versions of Zane and Lloyd, as well as the annoyance that they made a change that did not have to be made, and the collectible value of the figure has been diminished for it. The faces were fine, it was the cartoony expressions and graphical limitations of the two worst mainstream platforms to play games on.

Since when did Shadow of Ronin alter the faces of the characters? Sure, the acting was Kirsten Stewart quality but they didn't change anything about their faces. I'm glad they didn't go with the show design for Kai's new face, his "Agent Chase" grimace was far too expressive. I would have liked it more if they he still had his grumpy face on, but having him smile works too. He actually does.

Why do they need to? As long as they're stupid changes like Nya's face or the weird alteration to Lloyd's face they did in Rebooted, it's perfectly fine. It's still a pointless addition to an otherwise flawless (unless you liked Kai's scar) figure.

I really like Kai's new face, but did they have to give him printed legs? It'll be easy to swap them out, but it was pretty pointless to give Kai printed legs when he didn't have any with that armor.

The movie is nearly two years away. We've got no reason to believe they will change her face back, so it's entirely possible it will stay.

That should have come as no surprise, LEGO is becoming notorious for needlessly reusing heads, but this is just plain ridiculous. The Samurai-gear variant was perfectly usable, or even the face they used in wave 2 from just last year. I hope we don't see the "new" one next year as well...

That's... actually really sad to me. I detest Lloyd's current face, and I absolutely HATE Nya's new face, but it's kind of sad that we're probably never going to see the original prints for the characters in NINJAGO sets again.

But we never actually saw her in a casual situation. The first time we see Skylor she's wearing her normal robes and a hood, everyone else is wearing their "combat gear" too. Skylor is quick and flexible, it makes sense for her to bring something similar to a ninja gi for fighting match. I haven't seen that scene in a while, but what why would the staff absorb her accumulated powers too? If it really is supposed to do that, then that would mean Chen is quite a fair bit dumber than he already appears, not exactly the face of an underground fighting tournament and noodle empire. Pretty sure that was a regular bow, not a crossbow.

...when were the ninja wearing casual clothes? In the entirety of the Tournament, the ninja only wore casual clothes before they were invited to the Tournament. She originally wore a hood before the Tournament even began, and then she replaced it later with the hood of a ninja gi likely for combat purposes. I would recommend you look into how budgets are spent. Lots of stuff gets left on the cutting room floor because of deadlines or lack of resources. When? What difference does it make if she lost them eventually? She still had every known element under her command for a relatively significant amount of time. Also, no Chen wasn't, the plan to use Skylor's power only came into being when the Staff was broken and everyone's powers went back to their owners. Whether or not all of her other powers would have disappeared is unknown, most likely case scenario it wouldn't have because otherwise the entire Tournament was a complete waste of time. So, what's your point? I've already said she's more powerful than Lloyd. Lloyd's basically been the worst "Chosen One" ever. On a side-note, I had forgotten how awful that scene was. That's not a *rule* though, because it's never been explicitly stated anywhere that that is the case. Chen is theatrical, for all we know he only used one power at a time to rub it into Lloyd that he couldn't do a thing. Still no evidence for it.

It's an article of clothing. You're reading way too far into this. I don't remember her ever using a crossbow in the show. Again, they're clothes. Some people dress up like Naruto or Link from Legend of Zelda to their classes. Kai wearing the green ninja gi in episode 10 didn't make him the green ninja, and Skylor wearing a gi in a very Japanese-inspired culture doesn't necessarily mean she's a ninja or an assassin. Karloff's an aeronautical engineer, and he's wearing samurai armor bulkier than anything Nya ever used. Doesn't make him a samurai. She had the touch, she had the POWAAAAAAAAH!* Skylor had absorbed everyone's powers before Chen completed the spell. Which was how he was able to complete the spell. *very lame Transformers joke Completely unconfirmed, and I'm not even sure if they hinted at that.

I'm sorry, I must have missed something, since when has Skylor been an assassin? Lloyd's green energy + the four main elemental powers = "Golden Energy". Skylor was carrying around every elemental power we know of at one point, which is vastly more powerful than the Golden Weapons. I was wrong on the part of her not dying from that power being a plot hole of some kind (Lloyd did it, who's to say no one else can?), but it is a bit worrying that a noodle chef could be running around Ninjago with ultimate power.

She's a weeaboo ( ) lady that runs a noodle shop and wears a gi. She's not "anything" really (so to speak), she's not a ninja or a samurai, she's just Skylor. She doesn't really need to be anything else at this point. She didn't have an elemental dragon. We won't know if her powers did return for a while yet, the spell was reversed but whether or not that means someone's running around with the power of the Golden Weapons and somehow not dying remains to be seen

Nya had to jump through all sorts of hoops to become a ninja. Skylor doesn't get to show up for five seconds, be completely and utterly useless in the long run, and then leave and be called a ninja for it.

Thanks for permanently tainting my view of Wu and Misako. She still isn't. NO.

Sorry, sarcasm is a bit hard to detect on the internet sometimes. And yes, I probably should have

It really, really isn't, there's a reason why I wasn't being serious when I wrote that. edit: Might as well compile every silly suggestion I probably would have made about who Jay's father is here.