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A Look Back at the History of Ninjago - Part 5
 Tuesday, January 19th, 2021 at 10:34pm by Andrew, BZPower News ManagerWe've made it to the home stretch of our Ninjago history lesson! Today we're starting in 2019 and ending on... today! We've got some more great concept art and prototype sets to look at, so let's not delay. Read on to finish up this trip down memory lane. 2019
Ah yes, LEGO Brawls, that game they made that, much like LEGO Builder's Journey, very few people played because it's only on Apple Arcade. Apparently there's a bunch of Ninjago characters in it along with minifigs from other themes.
Here's some concept art that's worth checking out! We've got Sensei Wu in an early draft of his 2019 outfit as well as the character who would become Akita, here named Kitsune.
Continuing the concept art train we have a draft of the snake god as well as a storyboard showing off Lloyd's mech in action. This really makes me want to catch up on the TV show! 2020
Oddly LEGO didn't have much to share from this past year, just the box of one of the larger sets. I'm as bummed as you are. 2021
While most of the pictures here of 70727 X-1 Ninja Charger are just stock images from the original release, the last one shows off a bunch of sketch models that led to the final set. Those three-wheeled iterations are wild and would have been a lot of fun to see in the finished model. Also, don't forget to check out our review of the Legacy version of this set!
Again, most of the images we received of 70747 Boulder Blaster are just the final promotional art from the original set, but we did get one prototype model. I love seeing the Hero Factory minifig legs in gold there - it makes me feel like it's 2014 again!
Interestingly enough, LEGO chose to send images of 71738 Zane's Titan Mech and not 70737 Titan Mech Battle. The prototype design looks like it's for the new set as well and not the original. I like seeing that the knees were part of the design from the beginning!
We're wrapping things up by looking into the future. LEGO recently revealed some of the upcoming jungle-themed sets, and now we have some key art to go along with it. It's a really interesting design for a villain and I'm hoping that statue appears in a set! We've made it through a decade of Ninjago - great job everyone! I'd like to once again thank BZPower's Ambassador Tufi Piyufi and the LEGO Community Team for making this trip possible. It's still hard to believe that Ninjago is turning ten years old - it feels like it's both still brand new and that it's been around for forever. LEGO has said that the theme is an 'evergreen' now, so don't expect it to go away anytime soon -here's to ten more years!
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