The official announcement is due later but at least one retailer was in a hurry to present the LEGO set 71741 Ninjago City Gardens and we therefore have some official visuals of this second modular extension of the set 70620 Ninjago City (2017), after the reference 70657 Ninjago City Docks marketed in 2018.

In the box, 5685 pieces and 19 minifigs including one a version "Golden"by Sensei Wu with its display which will join the other minifigs responsible for celebrating the 10 years of the range distributed in several 2021 new products in the range. Public price for France: 299.99 €, VIP preview availability scheduled for January 14 2021. We will talk about this big box again on the occasion of a "Review ".

(Visuals via the Certified Store Bricksworld.com)

Forward for a new collaboration between LEGO and a clothing brand: After LEVI'S and Adidas, it's the HYPE brand's turn to present a whole collection of clothes in the colors of the Ninjago range. On the program, t-shirts, sweatshirts, sweatpants, swimsuits and a few accessories like backpacks and a cap.

For those who do not know it, HYPE is a brand born in 2011 following a design competition won on facebook and which since then has successfully marketed its own creations as well as licensed products thanks to various various collaborations. : Disney, Jurassic Park, Call of Duty or The Simpsons.

The new LEGO Ninjago collection resulting from the collaboration between the two brands consists of 28 products for adults and children which will go on sale from January 14 on the official LEGO online store and from January 15 on the brand's website JUSTHYPE.co.uk.

To sell us the adult-streetwear-rebel-a-little-gangsta-but-not-too-too-much-side of the collection, LEGO and HYPE are going there with a marketing campaign that uses the visual codes of many others brands that operate in this niche: a few containers, cleverly studied lighting and mannequins with suitable postures do the trick and erase the childish side of the Ninjago universe thanks to a staging worthy of a Damso clip.

Some of the designs on offer that integrate the Ninjago universe in an almost subtle way seem "wearable" to me, but the tastes and colors are indisputable and it's up to everyone to judge. The mere presence of the HYPE logo on these garments will be enough anyway to motivate many potential customers accustomed to creative risk-taking and the brand's relatively reasonable pricing policy.

Anyway, I remember that this is perhaps the first time that I see a collab between LEGO and another brand that does not just surf on the combination of basic colors / studs / minifigs and which tries for some of the pieces in this new collection an integration a little more artistic and modern than usual. HYPE grabbed the Ninjago license, visually adapted it to current streetwear codes and in my opinion it's more successful and less crass than when adidas and LEVI's did the reverse a bit lazily.

It is in the pages of an official Canadian catalog currently circulating on social networks that we discover the first visual of the LEGO set 71741 Ninjago City Gardens, the big box of 5685 pieces and 19 minifigs which will complete the two portions of the megalopolis already on the market: the sets 70620 Ninjago City  (2017) et 70657 Ninjago City Docks (2018)

The catalog confirms a sale from January 14, 2021 with a VIP preview which will precede global availability scheduled for February 1, 2021. Estimated public price in France: € 299.99.

We will talk about this box again very soon on the occasion of a "Review ". Clutch Powers is in the set, just that suits me.

(With brick set)

Fans of the LEGO Ninjago range will be happy to discover some of the sets expected for January 1, 2021 thanks to the posting of visuals by the Dutch brand. Van der Meulen.

The large sets expected in this range are not yet referenced and it is necessary for the moment to be satisfied with the nine boxes below with the usual small products of call always so creative and several sets Legacy which pay a "strong tribute" to the set 70727 X-1 Ninja Charger marketed in 2014, as a set 70747 Boulder Blaster (2015) or even in the set 70737 Titan Mech Battle (2015). In each of these boxes, a collector minifig with a small display to celebrate the 10 years of the range.

We now know the character who will be included in the cover of the next edition of the Ninjago character encyclopedia: It is Nya in version Future.

The minifigure will be exclusive to this edition of the book and will therefore not be available in an official set. I'm not a huge fan of the Ninjago universe so I don't really have a clue how important this outfit is to the fans. I'm sure the specialists will be able to tell us more in the comments.

As with each new edition, this non-exhaustive 224-page encyclopedia will bring together a selection of around 200 characters with various anecdotes and others. facts. The book can also be useful for minifig collectors who would like to know which set a specific version of a character appears in.

This new version entitled LEGO Ninjago Character Encyclopedia New Edition to be released in March 2021 is already on preorder at Amazon for just under 20 €. You will also find the two previous editions there along with their respective exclusive minifigs: Jay in his outfit Techno Silverstone and a copy of Starfarer for the 2016 version and Lloyd ZX (Green Ninja) with the 2012 edition:

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