There’s also a wood dock made with brown Technic pin connectors, and jumbled stone stairs for the sidewalks.
The new 2×2 half tile elements are put to excellent use, interspersing double-long cheese slopes to make wood siding. The cleaning robot Sweep has a small domicile on the ground floor. In the right corner there’s also the base of the prominent front column, cleverly locked into a 45-degree angle. Here we can also see the basic foundations for the buildings, which occupy an even tinier footprint on this already small baseplate. This technique of plates beneath tiles has long been employed by fans, but has always required too many pieces to find its way into an official set.
Some steps call for placing more than 70 of the tiles at a time, which isn’t difficult but does require careful attention to match the pattern, which has the tiles interspersed with trans light blue 1×1 plates. All told, you’ll place 219 water tiles. Two entire bags are dedicated to trans light blue 1×2 tiles, with more sprinkled in other bags. A deep black channel runs through the middle of the canal, making extensive use of wedge plates laid angle to angle. Onto the base a layer of plates are applied to give subtle color to the water. The city sits on a dark grey 32×32 baseplate a remarkably humble footprint for the third-largest LEGO set. Each instruction book opens with an introduction to the level and brief character biographies for the minifigures. The Godzilla-inspired film poster for Return of the Brick Separator, featuring a monstrous brick separator menacing the city, is absolutely magnificent.īook 1 is for the Old City, which is the first two stories and the base. Nevertheless, the art here is superb, and many of these decorations are among my favorites LEGO has ever produced. The comic shop’s sale window decoration is a perfect example of why stickers are always inferior to printing no matter how scrupulously applied, a sticker will never look as good on a transparent window as printing. I’d estimate I spent at least 30 minutes of the build time tediously applying stickers to tile after tile, carefully ensuring each decal is centered and lint- and bubble-free. It’s no secret I’m not a fan of stickers, and that’s no different here. Two enormous sticker sheets will plaster every available space with decorative text or ornamentation. Ninjago City is nothing if not well-decorated.
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There’s also an interview with the movie director, and a translation guide to Ninjago’s faux script-something fans had long ago worked out, though it’s nice to see it confirmed and the rarely-used letters translated. In total, they span 533 pages.īook 1 opens with an extensive introduction to the set and setting, including designer interviews, ala the Ultimate Collector’s Sets.
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The covers show a sepia-toned image of the set, with the corresponding segment in full color. There are three instruction manuals, one for each level of Ninjago City. In the below photo, the inner boxes aren’t even open yet. Consequently, you’ll need to open both boxes and then sort the nearly 50 bags before beginning. Annoyingly, the inner boxes are unmarked, though I discovered one contained the bag numbers 1-5, and the other bag numbers 6, 7, 8, and 10 (but not 9). The bags are numbered 1-15, and each number has at minimum three bags.
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Inside the outer box are a multitude of numbered parts bags, a sealed bag with the instruction manuals and sticker sheets, and two smaller boxes, each large enough to be a standard 1,000-plus-piece set in their own right. One side panel pictures the 17 named minifigures (the two manikins aren’t shown), while the back shows an exploded view of the city’s three main levels and their play features. The boxīefitting the set’s part count, the box is a massive affair, weighing in at 13.8 lbs. Nico will be familiar to readers of this site, having graced our pages many times for his personal creations. Several designers were responsible for translating the concept art into brick form, but Christopher Leslie Stamp and Nicolaas Vás took the lead. The Ninjago City set builds on the work of the as-yet-unreleased The LEGO Ninjago Movie, and is a partnership of the film designers and LEGO’s model designers. 16 for $299.99 USD, and will be available to everyone Sept. 70620 Ninjago City will be available to VIP members in the LEGO Shop Online and in LEGO stores Aug. The primary locale in The LEGO Ninjago Movie, which opens September 22, Ninjago City is an Eastern-inspired cyberpunk city, brimming with action and loaded with hidden details. From left, Senior Editor Chris Malloy and Founder and Editor-in-Chief Andrew Becraft with 70620 Ninjago City
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