LEGO Ninjago 2023 Discussion

[a guy from somewhere]

1 hour ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

Another fragment got revealed, this time with Lloyd and a new female character (hard to tell if she's a friend or foe tho).

Also, someone posted a screenshot of the LEGO Kids website with a tangline New Show Rising in and a 50-day countdown (as of today), over a cosmic-looking silhouette and the Ninjago logo.

Didn't manage to find it on the website tho, if someone does they could share the link here.

The website won’t work on my end, apparently it’s a US one so I wonder if it’s region locked? Anyways, seems June 1st is our release date for the new series, which coincides perfectly with the sets release (in Europe anyways, sorry folks across the great pond). There’s also multiple “locked” trailers on the page, I saw a  screenshot of it, and there’s 3 characters in shadow stood infront of some shadow rift stuff behind it. One of the characters is the cat girl figure we see in the 3rd fragment. 
 

Speaking of which, I don’t know how I feel about this. From my point of view, it seems that these fragments aren’t all “scattered across the web” and actually available to find, but are actually being kept hidden until about 2 or 3 o’clock in the afternoon (UK time) where they are just randomly thrown out on some obscure social media page tied to Lego. Just doesn’t feel like the ARG they are trying to promote. 
 

On the other hand, this is really amazing. Lego themselves are building hype up, they are interacting with the community, the show runner is very open on the show as a whole (not saying Tommy wasn’t, just not to the extent that Doc is doing now). The hype is real, and I honestly believe that we won’t be getting any set news until they get officially revealed. No leaks, no descriptions. I think the inner ring of leakers (Brick clicker, Falconfan, Promobricks) will stand back and watch this all happen, and I’m all for it. Really can’t wait to see the sets now. 
 

As for the fragment itself, there’s a weird cat girl that actually looks kinda cool with the armour and scar detail on the face, I’m assuming this is Sora from the leaks. Pretty interesting. Lloyd is unexciting, seen as we have seen his full suit already. 
 

Over all, I’m very happy with the direction Ninjago is going in, especially after the mess of crystalized. This looks great, and it seems a new fragment is added in every 2 days, so we will wait for Thursday to come round and see what we get. Hopefully it’s Cole, I’m really anxious if he will have a black mask or not. I’m expecting them on Saturday to get the 3rd and final fragment, along with a trailer for the new show, and then on the Sunday if we get really lucky, we will see set images, like what we got with Lego friends where they had the massive ambassador party and reveal. 

Edited April 11, 2023 by a guy from somewhere

[THELEGOBATMAN]

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq5x5Z-t9-R/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

I'm really curious tho, because from the looks of it, the poster won't fit more than four more characters, now that we have just two fragments left.

I'm pretty sure that's Kai right under Lloyd, but what about the other ninja? We know Zane will be getting a dedicated set, and the other two Ninja will appear, at least in the beginning.

I'm really curious to learn more about this show. They are doing a great job building up the hype.

[Agent Kallus]

My Dragon power cole from my magazine subscription was missing his entire torso. I'd there a way to enter magazine sets on missing pieces? 

[THELEGOBATMAN]

Oh, and the name of the new show is (most likely) Ninjago Rising (or Ninjago: Rising, time will tell).

When you zoom to the word Rising on the countdown website, the letters perfectly fit the ones in the Nya poster fragment.

Edited April 11, 2023 by THELEGOBATMAN

[Killian]

5 hours ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

 new female character 

There's no way we'll get a minifig that awesome in the Ninjago theme

[Classic_Spaceman]

On 4/10/2023 at 3:04 PM, untitled said:

Btw, why do you think the ninja has such a face print on that leaked minifigures? It looks like their avatars from S12, but the season is unlikely to be video game related. Then why do they have these "masks"?

Maybe some kind of HUD? 
 

On 4/10/2023 at 3:06 PM, a guy from somewhere said:

My guess is its a new power or "foresight" thing, as Nya doesnt have it in the poster. Hopefully its actually something in the show and not just for the sets.

Neither does Arin. I doubt that it is power or foresight-related, since it looks technological; Ninjago powers are always depicted as glowing or crackling energy. 
 

8 hours ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

Another fragment got revealed, this time with Lloyd and a new female character (hard to tell if she's a friend or foe tho).

She looks catlike and seems to be wearing either black or dark blue. Maybe a Formling from the Never-Realm? 
 

7 hours ago, a guy from somewhere said:

As for the fragment itself, there’s a weird cat girl that actually looks kinda cool with the armour and scar detail on the face, I’m assuming this is Sora from the leaks. Pretty interesting. Lloyd is unexciting, seen as we have seen his full suit already. 

I am not sure that those are scars; she has two on each side of her face, and they look the same on both sides. They also look like whiskers, continuing the cat motif (similar to Akita's red markings). I definitely think that she is a Formling. 
 

[Classic_Spaceman]

All three fragments here. 
 

On 4/9/2023 at 4:46 PM, Killian said:

Wait... Is Ras an animal?! Is he from Chima? 

Ras definitely has a moulded animal head, not just a mask. With the reveal of the new catgirl (likely Formling) character, I actually think that you could be right!
I can see the Ninja teaming up with people from the other 15 realms who were brought together through the Merge (Ras from Chima, Catgirl Formling from the Never-Realm, new Elemental Master from the Cloud Kingdom). We may even see the return of Faith and the (now-former) Dragon Hunters. 
 

Edited April 12, 2023 by Classic_Spaceman

[Classic_Spaceman]

9 hours ago, Fire-Ninja said:

https://www.lego.com/en-us/kids/campaigns/new-show-rising

The character on the left is Arin, the one on the right is probably the catgirl, and the one in the centre appears to have Nelson's hair. 🤔
 

[Rolyat24]

5 hours ago, Killian said:

There's no way we'll get a minifig that awesome in the Ninjago theme

I don’t know, we’ve had some pretty great minifigs before from Ninjago. Akita and NRG Nya come to mind immediately, but there are surely other great ones too.

 

Speaking of Akita, I think others are correct that Sora will be a formling. Hoping this means Akita will show up in the show! 

[Natant16]

14 hours ago, Rolyat24 said:

I don’t know, we’ve had some pretty great minifigs before from Ninjago. Akita and NRG Nya come to mind immediately, but there are surely other great ones too.

 

Speaking of Akita, I think others are correct that Sora will be a formling. Hoping this means Akita will show up in the show! 

I've always been a bit disappointed how they dropped Akita. Hopefully they do something with her now

[a guy from somewhere]

The next fragment is found! Legos Instagram story has revealed it, sadly nothing new apart from the confirmation of “rising” as one of the words, there’s another above it. No clue what it could be. Kai and Ras are shown on the poster, but we have seen both before in the magizine leak.

[THELEGOBATMAN]

So I guess the only Fragment left is the middle one, with the rest of the title and no characters.

So the poster includes: Lloyd, Nya, Kai, Arin, Sora (?), and Ras. This presents plenty of questions.

What about Jay, Zane, and Cole? Is Arin one of the Ninja? Is Sora a supporting character, or also a Ninja in making? Is Ras the main villain? If so, why is the other leaked antagonist named Raz? And if he's not, why include him on the poster?

[a guy from somewhere]

9 minutes ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

So I guess the only Fragment left is the middle one, with the rest of the title and no characters.

So the poster includes: Lloyd, Nya, Kai, Arin, Sora (?), and Ras. This presents plenty of questions.

What about Jay, Zane, and Cole? Is Arin one of the Ninja? Is Sora a supporting character, or also a Ninja in making? Is Ras the main villain? If so, why is the other leaked antagonist named Raz? And if he's not, why include him on the poster?

Agreed, this is very strange, with wayyyy more questions than answers. I’m hoping we see the other 3 ninja on the top fragment behind the writing, anyone got any ideas on what it may be? I’m hoping we get a trailer or something today, as it’s been a while and if my prediction is true with the main trailer being revealed alongside the final poster fragment, we need another trailer. There’s 4 videos on the ninjago page, 2 locked and 2 unlocked. The 2 unlocked are the April 1st teaser and the April 5th teaser and if we are getting a trailer for the final fragment and full poster reveal, where does the 3rd video come into this? 

When put together the lower word is almost certainly “rising” and the letters above it in the 4th fragment are an o,n and s, with maybe a G at the start. So “______gons rising”? I’ve seen the idea of dragons rising be thrown about, me and my brother discussed it, and it seems a decent possibility. Dragons play a large role in the sets, there was a massive one in the April 1st teaser, and dragons were mentioned in the 2 truths 1 lie from the creators. 

[a guy from somewhere]

New season is confirmed to be called “dragons rising”

 

Someone has been digging about in the source code of the ninjago official website. Kinda sad it’s spoiled but it’s interesting nonetheless.

[Classic_Spaceman]

On 4/13/2023 at 10:50 AM, a guy from somewhere said:

New season is confirmed to be called “dragons rising”

 

Someone has been digging about in the source code of the ninjago official website. Kinda sad it’s spoiled but it’s interesting nonetheless.

Source code also gave us the "Ninjago United" name, though. 🤔
Perhaps the show is being renamed to "Ninjago United" (which makes sense given the Merge), and the season title is "Dragons Rising". 
 

[a guy from somewhere]

5 hours ago, Classic_Spaceman said:

Source code also gave us the "Ninjago United" name, though. 🤔
Perhaps the show is being renamed to "Ninjago United" (which makes sense given the Merge), and the season title is "Dragons Rising". 
 

This seems likely, although I can’t imagine why Doc has been so heavily against the word “United” on Twitter, it seems he doesn’t want that mentioned. Wether he is hiding something or just knows we are flat out wrong, that remains to be seen. 
 

Here’s something else that’s been playing on my mind: do we think Arin is an elemental master? What element could he have? 
We still are yet to tie up the wind element plot line that Tommy teased way back in 2021, it’s the last elemental loose end that we are yet to see a proper ending for (I guess the time twins are one as well but since their power is now the time blades, I’m not really counting them). 
 

Edited April 15, 2023 by a guy from somewhere

[Classic_Spaceman]

2 hours ago, a guy from somewhere said:

Here’s something else that’s been playing on my mind: do we think Arin is an elemental master? What element could he have? 
We still are yet to tie up the wind element plot line that Tommy teased way back in 2021, it’s the last elemental loose end that we are yet to see a proper ending for (I guess the time twins are one as well but since their power is now the time blades, I’m not really counting them). 

I doubt it; one of the hints in the 2-truths-1-lie was that the Cloud Kingdom will be getting an Elemental Master, and Arin seems to be from Ninjago. I do think that the Elemental Master that emerges from the Cloud Kingdom will have the element of wind, though. 
 

[a guy from somewhere]

So, not much happened yesterday. We got the 5th fragment, but it didn’t actually complete the poster, and in typical Lego fashion they revealed the name too early. Dragons rising. Speaking of dragons, the fragment only shows a sand blue baby dragon, which the part itself has just leaked on Instagram. I’m gonna be honest, this is my favourite specialised mold/animal. It looks amazing. The right combo of cute and terrifying. Hopefully we get more trailers and content in the coming days, I’m not sure what will happen now that the fragment hunt is over. 

[Agent Kallus]

I like the baby dragon, do we think we'll see it in different colours and print designs or that this is the only one? 

[a guy from somewhere]

22 minutes ago, Agent Kallus said:

I like the baby dragon, do we think we'll see it in different colours and print designs or that this is the only one? 

Considering he’s on the poster and appears to be one of the 4 silhouetted characters on the countdown page (on the far left) he seems to be a pretty important part of the season. I don’t think we will get other colours, at least for this season, but I wouldn’t rule it out. One thing I’ve realised is as core this winter wave used last years suits and molds, that means almost (The bone army had a couple new parts) all of the mold and print budget for the year was given to the summer, which explains why we are getting all these amazing new characters, prints and molds. Super excited!

[ToaDraco]

I love the baby dragon piece! Hopefully it comes in lots of colors and prints.

[Lemerbrix]

Can someone provide a link to the baby dragon piece?

[a guy from somewhere]

9 minutes ago, Lemerbrix said:

Can someone provide a link to the baby dragon piece?

Check ridexninjagoleaks on Instagram, we can’t post leaks. Eurobricks doesn’t like that I’m afraid. 

Edited April 16, 2023 by a guy from somewhere

[Lemerbrix]

50 minutes ago, a guy from somewhere said:

Check ridexninjagoleaks on Instagram, we can’t post leaks. Eurobricks doesn’t like that I’m afraid. 

Thanks, just saw the part, Love it!

[THELEGOBATMAN]

So... what happens now? Are we getting the full poster? A trailer? Sets reveal? Kinda confusing.

The baby dragon piece looks quote literally perfect. Such an incredible mould.