Review : 70609 Manta Ray Bomber

Because it takes a few baddies to stand up to this bunch of pretentious young ninjas with their robots of all kinds, today we are talking about the set The LEGO Ninjago Movie 70609 Manta Ray Bomber, with its 341 pieces, its 4 minifigs, and its public price of 29.99 €.

If you've watched the movie trailer closely, you already know that this stingray seaplane bomber with a Zodiac on its back is actively participating in the invasion of Ninjago City. It is the basic flying machine which comes in excess to darken the sky of the city.

First observation, the thing actually looks like a manta ray. The designers did the job, and whether from the front or from above, we find the curves and the expression of the batoid that everyone knows.

We add to that a color that gives it a military aspect without seeming to touch it too much, a few stickers with numbers and that's enough to create an army of mechanized flying fish.

The presence of the Zodiac on the back of the craft seemed incongruous to me at first. But that was without counting on the fact that these infamous shark-men can thus go hunting for the nice frightened civilian in the port of Ninjago City and knock them out with the on-board cannon after having destroyed half of the city by dropping their bombs. colored. A good point for the playability.

The machine seems to me here faithful to the version of the film and that is a good thing. No excessive narrowing or massive simplification. The spring rifles are really well integrated in the mouth of this bomber and the machine is easily handled.

On the minifig side, we get the young Ninja Cole, the frightened nice civilian Shen-Li with his yoke and two buckets, and two villains: one Great White and Shark Army Gunner. It's enough to have fun.

As usual, too bad for the difference in color between the arms and the upper torso at Cole's. Yellow on a black background, it's yellow less yellow ...

Those who want to build a fleet of flying rays will have a few copies of Cole to sell to amortize the investment. The other minifigs can still be used to create a large army. Regarding Shen-Li, it seems that we all have a double somewhere ...

There is nothing here to philosophize for hours but this set does the job. So I say yes for this box, it is above all a good way to get something to tickle at a reasonable price. The LEGO Ninjago Movie mechs by spraying them with bombinettes disguised as bees before zigzagging in a Zodiac in the canals of Ninjago City. An entire program.

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