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Blockville Update #13 – Ninjago District Expansion

Wednesday, 3rd April 2019 By Caz

Since my last Blockville update, I have been working hard on my Ninjago District expansion, which lives in another part of the house to the rest of my city. Putting the official LEGO Ninjago City and Docks sets together in a row with my own MOCs of Benny’s Space Bar and the Pit Stop Diner provides this front view of the development. By adhering to the unofficial Ninjago Water Baseplate standard proposed by The Brothers Brick, it enables me to build many diverse models which will fit seemlessly together in pretty much any order that I like, while their foundations and upper street levels will match up perfectly. The models are sitting on a trolley on wheels, with a board on top which will accommodate an area of 3.5 baseplates by 4.5 baseplates, or around 35″x45″. I currently have an area a couple of plates smaller than 2.5 by 4.5 baseplates filled up, so there is room for expansion.

Filed Under: Blockville Updates, Ninjago District Expansion Tagged With: airgitsu market, airjitsu temple, benny's space bar, ninjago city, ninjago city docks, pit stop diner

Ninjago: Ninjago City (70620)

Sunday, 4th February 2018 By Caz

I got home from Bluewater yesterday very excited. Not only had I found some great items on the PAB wall, I also had the lovely Ninjago City (70620) to build! There are a LOT of bags, but I set them all out on the table and sat down to begin.

Ninjago City -All The Bags
Ninjago City -All The Bags

I will show you a picture at the end of each bag’s worth of parts, so you can see how progress went. At the end of bag 1, I was really impressed with the “under water” technique of putting various plates on the baseboard to give you variations in tones in the water. It’s going to look great when the tiles go on top!

Ninjago City Bag 1 Done
Ninjago City Bag 1 Done

By the end of Bag 2, those tiles were on and looked great. Plus the little boat to float on top was also complete. I liked the technique for the bamboo jetty too.

Ninjago City Bag 2 Done
Ninjago City Bag 2 Done

By the end of Bag 3, the foundations of the bridge were taking shape nicely.

Ninjago City Bag 3 Done
Ninjago City Bag 3 Done

Bag 4 finished and Sweep the little garbage robot is complete, the bridge arch spans the canal and the two ground floor shops are looking good.

Ninjago City Bag 4
Ninjago City Bag 4

Bag 5 gave us some columns to support the first floor shops, and the start of the elevator shaft at the back.

Ninjago City Bag 5 Done
Ninjago City Bag 5 Done

Bag 6 brought us to the end of the first book of instructions (there are three!), with the top floor of the Old Town done. I particularly liked the techniques for making the small overhanging roof sections on each module – all different and all very creative.

Ninjago City Bag 6 Complete
Ninjago City Bag 6 Complete

Bag 7 gets the Crab Shack well under way, one of the bigger builds on the second floor. It has a fun play feature with the grill which can be turned from the rear to cook the crabs!

Ninjago City Bag 7 Done
Ninjago City Bag 7 Done

Bag 8 was familiar as this was the section I had helped to build at the London AFOLs Meetup last month. It makes the tiny but incredibly detailed Comic Book Store and behind-the-scenes structure for the clever ATM mechanism – which can be loaded with 13 $100 bills!

Ninjago City Bag 8 Finished
Ninjago City Bag 8 Finished

Bag 9 finished off the front of the Crab Shack and poster storage area in front of the elevator shaft:

Ninjago City Bag 9 Complete
Ninjago City Bag 9 Complete

Finally, by the end of Bag 10, the raililngs are done, along with the advertisements and the half upper storey of the Comic Book Shop – which had some great SNOT techniques for making the shop sign.

Ninjago City Bag 10
Ninjago City Bag 10

With that stage topped off, Bag 11 started the Gift Shop section on the next floor up. It carries an eclectic mix of stock, but I’m sure it’s what the citizens of Ninjaco City need! It’s also good to see the revival of the big curved trans clear window piece (2572) which hasn’t been in a set in that colour since 2009!

Ninjago City Bag 11
Ninjago City Bag 11

Anyway, onwards and upwards… To Bag 12, which provided the parts to build the erratic cherry tree growing out of an abandoned room next to the gift shop, and the sideways-snot window façade on the front side of the elevator shaft.

Ninjago City Bag 12
Ninjago City Bag 12

Bag 13 – unlucky for some? Well not for Lloyd Garmadon and his mum, as this provided the pieces to make their tiny, intricate apartment, which perches atop the cherry tree room.

Ninjago City Bag 13
Ninjago City Bag 13

Next up (literally) is the start of the rooftop and Sushi Restaurant – mainly giving us the structures which will be build upon for the main part of the floor:

Ninjago City Bag 14
Ninjago City Bag 14

Bag 15 and the fabulous Sushi Conveyor is finished! I loved it when I saw it at the London AFOLs meetup, and I love it even more now I’ve actually built it for myself. In fact, I think it’s probably my favourite feature having done all the others – and there are many highlights to this set.

Ninjago City Bag 15 Complete
Ninjago City Bag 15 Complete

And finally, after at least 10 hours of building over 2 days, it’s done! Bag 16 tops off the roof with a little loo, some signage and a mad communications tower.

Ninjago City Compete - End of Bag 16
Ninjago City Compete – End of Bag 16

Well, what can I say. I hate the over-use of the word awesome, but it definitely is an under statement for this set. It had so many different techniques and little details to delight as you were building. While it might not be the LEGO set with the most pieces, I’m pretty sure it’s the one with the most different elements. There was a huge variety of pieces in the set, and a mind-boggling number of bags to open and sort, but the clear instructions made it a hugely enjoyable experience.

I have now populated the City with a few extra minifigs from my collection, to make it a bustling metropolis.

Crab Shack Customers Arrive
Crab Shack Customers Arrive

Spot anyone you know here?

Sushi Restaurant Is Popular!
Sushi Restaurant Is Popular!

With rumours of another big Ninjago-themed set coming in the summer of this year, (Ninjago Dockyards 70657) which will apparently connect to this model via the Technic pins on the base, I’m really excited to see where this theme is going. Let’s hope the new set is as good as this – although it’s a very hard act to follow.

Filed Under: Ninjago Tagged With: 70620, modular, modular building, ninjago city, snot

Meetup: London AFOLs January 2018

Monday, 8th January 2018 By Caz

We had a fun evening at the London AFOLs meetup today, where we did a team build of the awesome Ninjago City (70620). Each table got a selection of parts bags and the relevant instructions to put together their own bit. The folks I was building with got parts of the second floor above the balcony.

London AFOLs Jan18 Ninjago City
London AFOLs Jan18 Ninjago City

I had seen photos of the set before, and thought it would be a great one to own. But having seen it in person now, I really want one. It’s spectacular! My favourite bit (loads to choose from) was the working sushi conveyor on the roof.

London AFOLs Build Ninjago City Sushi
London AFOLs Build Ninjago City Sushi

Each month the club has a swaps box where, if you bring along some bricks you no longer need, you can take out something which takes your fancy. I put in some larger pieces which I wasn’t sure I would need for my own builds, and picked out these bits for my own use:

AFOLs Swaps Box Swag - Jan '18
AFOLs Swaps Box Swag – Jan ’18

Filed Under: Meetups Tagged With: collaborative build, euston, london afols, ninjago city, sushi, swaps box

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