Ninjago: Masters Of Spinjitsu TV Show Thread

[Master_Data]

Chen's back, so does anyone think we'll see Skylor again? (I really liked that Skylor figure from S6, so the relationship between her and her father would be a great opportunity to rerelease her)

[gamejutzu]

Chen's back, so does anyone think we'll see Skylor again? (I really liked that Skylor figure from S6, so the relationship between her and her father would be a great opportunity to rerelease her)

Skylor's been in every season since her debut.

A larger role this time? Eh, I don't know. I guess she will appear since her father is, but I dunno what else she'll actually do.

There's speculation floating about that she's in Airjitzu Battle Grounds.

Edited April 28, 2016 by gamejutzu

[Master_Data]

Skylor's been in every season since her debut.

A larger role this time? Eh, I don't know. I guess she will appear since her father is, but I dunno what else she'll actually do.

There's speculation floating about that she's in Airjitzu Battle Grounds.

That would be amazing if true! Hopefully she'll have a bigger role.

[gamejutzu]

That would be amazing if true! Hopefully she'll have a bigger role.

I wish the same.

However, LEGO has some weird plan for what figs are in which sets. However, we can be certain that at least one new or exclusive figure will be included with the set, if Skylor isn't present. Everyone loves Skylor's new outfit, i'm sure they'll release it eventually.

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There's no instrumental version of the Rebooted main theme. Anyone want to try and ask for it? They might be busy with stuff...

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Now that I think of it... Nya's samurai to ninja transition seemed... off to me.

What if she spent a season as not a samurai or ninja, but as "Nya"? She would make an outfit for herself with the mini-mask, and go around with her nick daggers. Here, she would run away and wonder, trying to discover herself, maybe even running into Ronin.

Just a thought. Would be cool though.

Edited May 2, 2016 by gamejutzu

[Master_Data]

New webisode: How the Ninja Defeated the Great Devourer.

Not entirely canon, but, then again, none of these shorts are...Still, Brotherhood Workshop did a great job on the animation!

[gamejutzu]

New webisode: How the Ninja Defeated the Great Devourer.

Not entirely canon, but, then again, none of these shorts are...Still, Brotherhood Workshop did a great job on the animation!

Brotherhood Workshop did this? No wonder. These are the first actual good Ninjago stop motions I've seen. The rest are like 2 fps (with a million views) or just average.

The story's pretty much canon, but the stop motion isn't. Wouldn't be surprised if BW don't watch Ninjago.

Edited May 3, 2016 by gamejutzu

[Lyichir]

Brotherhood Workshop did this? No wonder. These are the first actual good Ninjago stop motions I've seen. The rest are like 2 fps (with a million views) or just average.

The story's pretty much canon, but the stop motion isn't. Wouldn't be surprised if BW don't watch Ninjago.

Eh... the story takes some liberties (Ninja of Poison?). But I doubt that's because Brotherhood Workshop didn't do their research—it seems to be more the case that these shorts are meant to represent a child's retelling of the story, hence the occasional inconsistencies and embellishments.

[Master_Data]

LEGO writes the script, Brotherhood Workshop animates.

[gamejutzu]

Eh... the story takes some liberties (Ninja of Poison?). But I doubt that's because Brotherhood Workshop didn't do their research—it seems to be more the case that these shorts are meant to represent a child's retelling of the story, hence the occasional inconsistencies and embellishments.

I realllly doubt LEGO would look so deep into a miniseries of stopmotions. Are they expecting adults have in depth discussions about this stuff online?

... Wait

XD but really, even if BW read up on the wiki or whatever, why would they even bother making inaccuracies? This isn't a tall tale. And why would they call Lloyd the ninja of poison? Wouldn't that just lead to misinformation abut the character?

Kids already go around with inaccurate statements on the show (___ is ____ _____...), a video like this would only create more.

LEGO writes the script, Brotherhood Workshop animates.

Exactly what I thought. My best theory is that LEGO didn't want this to be show accurate (hence the original gi and the "city"). But the question is, why? The story isn't extremely complex, in fact if they used the original plot it could have impacted the target audience better. My only explanation is LEGO just being LEGO (like the Ninjago inaccuracies in Lego Dimensions), I guess.

Edited May 5, 2016 by gamejutzu

[DuckBricks]

I realllly doubt LEGO would look so deep into a miniseries of stopmotions. Are they expecting adults have in depth discussions about this stuff online?

... Wait

XD but really, even if BW read up on the wiki or whatever, why would they even bother making inaccuracies? This isn't a tall tale. And why would they call Lloyd the ninja of poison? Wouldn't that just lead to misinformation abut the character?

Kids already go around with inaccurate statements on the show (___ is ____ _____...), a video like this would only create more.

Exactly what I thought. My best theory is that LEGO didn't want this to be show accurate (hence the original gi and the "city"). But the question is, why? The story isn't extremely complex, in fact if they used the original plot it could have impacted the target audience better. My only explanation is LEGO just being LEGO (like the Ninjago inaccuracies in Lego Dimensions), I guess.

My only justification is that the kids forgot parts of the script as they were saying it, hence the inaccuracies, and LEGO just went with it.

[Lyichir]

I realllly doubt LEGO would look so deep into a miniseries of stopmotions. Are they expecting adults have in depth discussions about this stuff online?

... Wait

XD but really, even if BW read up on the wiki or whatever, why would they even bother making inaccuracies? This isn't a tall tale. And why would they call Lloyd the ninja of poison? Wouldn't that just lead to misinformation abut the character?

Kids already go around with inaccurate statements on the show (___ is ____ _____...), a video like this would only create more.

The point is to represent the storyline as an actual kid would understand or experience it (hence the kid narrator). These videos are meant to be brief, humorous summaries of the previous story, not anything with any impact on the actual canon, so taking a few liberties isn't going to cause mass confusion except among fans who decide to take it too seriously. There's nothing particularly "deep" about that—it's just taking a child's hyperactive, slightly inaccurate explanation of the Ninjago story and adding stop-motion visuals. It's not a new idea of Lego's either—they did the exact same thing with Star Wars a few years back.

[gamejutzu]

the exact same thing

I wouldn't go thaat far. I interpreted the video as a summary of Star Wars in general. And besides, there weren't any real narration inaccuracies, that more or less sums up the general Star Wars story.

And besides, the title tells you that this will be a speedy summary, so of course some things will be skipped over. That video described two trilogies, and the Ninjago video summed up a season.

I guess I can see where you're getting at with that, but I wouldn't say the link between the two makes them carbon copies or anything. You do have a point though, with the visual changes, but compared to the visual innacuracies Star Wars made versus Ninjago, Ninjago isn't the same. "Ninjago City" is a village with the Airjitzu Temple filling in as the random building Garmadon Killed the Devourer on. The ninja aren't in proper uniform, Lloyd and Nya aren't there, etc.

Plus, the kid summarizing is talking fast, it's kinda hard for a stream of words like that to be recorded in one take. I think there was a script. (that wasn't written by him... ??)

Edited May 7, 2016 by gamejutzu

[Mandate]

Haven't watched the Star Wars shorts in ages, but wasn't it more of a case that they were putting a humorous spin on the events rather than outright changing what happened?

Then again this show is a car crash in slow motion when it comes to accuracy, so it's not like sticking to the lore even matters anymore.

[AyliffeMakit]

https://twitter.com/LEGO_Group/status/731110899419860992

A poster of sorts!

[PenPlays]

https://twitter.com/...110899419860992

(snip)

A poster of sorts!

Beautiful poster.

How long until the younger part of the internet thinks that the tagline "Time to close the circle" means the end for Ninjago...

Spoiler Alert:

It's not.

[Ashnflash]

Could this mean time travel!?

[Takanuinuva]

If you look at the left of the picture. You can see Cole's 2016 vehicle.

And I don't think time to close the circle means the end of Ninjago. I think it means that all the ninja now have a season where they were they were the main character. Hence closing the circle on showcasing each character.

Kai was Tournament of Elements

Zane was Rebooted

Jay was Skybound

Lloyd was Year of the Snakes

Nya was Possession

And now Cole is Rise of the Villains

[gamejutzu]

Look at the moon.

Awfully familiar, right?

The yin and Yang symbol. Looks like we know our main antagonist.

Also, the two continents of Ninjago are the yin and yang symbols as well.

Could close the circle, mean that Yang wants good and evil to be together?

[Exetrius]

Oh, lemme just copy the part about the phrase that I said in the sets discussion thread to here:

-snip-

"It is time to close the circle" Such an interesting phrase! A circle forms when the beginning of a line meets the end. But what is the beginning here? Is it the first disturbance of 'The Balance', that led to the whole chain of events after it? Is it that Wu choose his students, who will now become the masters and take their own apprentices? Is Cole the last one to fulfill his duty, maybe? Man, this makes me so curious!!!

Last but not least: I wonder why Wu's symbol and Yang's symbol are the same. And if we will get the lantern in that beautiful trans orange...

Maybe Yang is the First Spinjitzu Master, possesed by the Overlord...

[gamejutzu]

Oh, lemme just copy the part about the phrase that I said in the sets discussion thread to here:

Maybe Yang is the First Spinjitzu Master, possesed by the Overlord...

I doubt it, as everyone knows who Yang is. Besides, TFSM is shown with a braided ponytail and Wu's beard.

I still think it's more like joining the two halves of Ninjago.

Edited May 14, 2016 by gamejutzu

[Tobias_Jay]

The whole 'circle closing' may also have something to do with imbalance with the realms. The Cursed Realm being destroyed caused Djiinjago to fall. Maybe Djiinjago falling means another realm will fall and it could be a domino effect. Perhaps closing the circle means restoring whatever balance is causing the realms to collapse. Just a theory.

[MasterofElements]

I was analyzing the newest poster yesterday, and came to a few conclusions. Each enemy faction is represented in some sort of way on the poster. For example: Cryptor and the Nindroids are represented in the form of Borg Tower. Morro and the Ghosts are represented by their "Yin/Yang Emblem" on the moon (this is located on the ghost warriors' backs). Sensei Yang is represented by his floating temple. Chen and his Anacondri are represented the path of lanterns heading to Ninjago. In Season 4, Chen did not go directly to New Ninjago City. It was not a straight path towards victory. Chen took the outer cities, which split up the Ninja. Just as Chen's plan, the path of lanterns are not a straight line. Kozu and the Stone Army are represented by the mountains of STONE and rock surrounding New Ninjago City. Mountains are hard and almost impenetrable (only to be moved by Lloyd ). Finally, we have the Samukai and the Skulkin. This one is a bit more of a loose guess. I assume that the tag-line "Time to Close the Circle" represents the Skulkin. They were the Ninja's first enemies, and now the circle is being closed, and they are coming again. Or it can be interpreted as that the Skulkin were their first enemies, and now they may be fighting their last.

[Exetrius]

I was analyzing the newest poster yesterday, and came to a few conclusions. Each enemy faction is represented in some sort of way on the poster. For example: Cryptor and the Nindroids are represented in the form of Borg Tower. Morro and the Ghosts are represented by their "Yin/Yang Emblem" on the moon (this is located on the ghost warriors' backs). Sensei Yang is represented by his floating temple. Chen and his Anacondri are represented the path of lanterns heading to Ninjago. In Season 4, Chen did not go directly to New Ninjago City. It was not a straight path towards victory. Chen took the outer cities, which split up the Ninja. Just as Chen's plan, the path of lanterns are not a straight line. Kozu and the Stone Army are represented by the mountains of STONE and rock surrounding New Ninjago City. Mountains are hard and almost impenetrable (only to be moved by Lloyd ). Finally, we have the Samukai and the Skulkin. This one is a bit more of a loose guess. I assume that the tag-line "Time to Close the Circle" represents the Skulkin. They were the Ninja's first enemies, and now the circle is being closed, and they are coming again. Or it can be interpreted as that the Skulkin were their first enemies, and now they may be fighting their last.

Wow man, all of that actually makes sense!

[sousmarineuse]

Dark island part 1

Visual book here

https://www.amazon.fr/LEGO-Ninjago-Dark-Island-Trilogy/dp/0316357022/ref=sr_1_2?s=english-books&ie=UTF8&qid=1463460658&sr=1-2&keywords=ninjago+dark

I don't know if there's a ninjago book topic, sorry.

[gamejutzu]

Dark island part 1

Visual book here

https://www.amazon.f...ds=ninjago dark

I don't know if there's a ninjago book topic, sorry.

Aww. It's really too bad that Nya has a blue tornado now, I thought the crimson and gold one was unique.

This book further proves my theory, that Ninjago and The Dark Island represent Yang and Yin, and close the circle may mean putting the two halves together.

Edited May 19, 2016 by gamejutzu