I always preferred Nexo Knights to Ninjago. I wish they still made the series

Not Bey Blades.

Don't let it rip!

Nice, a set from my favorite theme

Oh man, just seeing the OG Ninjago spinners makes me shed happy tears. Had this one.

@RaiderOfTheLostBrick said:
"Oh man, just seeing the OG Ninjago spinners makes me shed happy tears. Had this one."

Never used those, how do you make them spin? there is nothing in the Photo for such purpose.

@thor96 said:
" @RaiderOfTheLostBrick said:
"Oh man, just seeing the OG Ninjago spinners makes me shed happy tears. Had this one."

Never used those, how do you make them spin? there is nothing in the Photo for such purpose. "
Different set but same idea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEgT9EsiKIM

I got this because of the new color for the basic ninja costume in blue.

I don’t feel that arena would really stop the spinners escaping so can I assume shoving your opponent out was a win condition?

It's hard to imagine that this theme would go on for at least 15 years!

@Brickalili said:
"I don’t feel that arena would really stop the spinners escaping so can I assume shoving your opponent out was a win condition?"

I never owned this set (outside of one I had for sale once), but I did build myself an arena like this. The spinners are quite low to the ground (a boat stud and the edges flare up at a slight angle) and they have a heagy metal ring in them. This height holds them in. It also helps that they have a lot of centrifugal force, so they don't make erratic movements at first and only move around wildly when they slow down.

I actually build the arena because I wanted to try out the ones I did have, but it was hard to get two to hit each other without an arena for them to be bouncing around in. At least, when I tried it alone, which required spinning both oponents quickly after each other.

"Instant Spinjitzu: just add spin and jitzu".

Look, I get that it works as a playset, but that's mainly because the functional principle is "throw two things into each other, see which is the last one standing". You could - and probably have - done this with paper spinners, or sprockets, or sawblades, or rocks, or siblings, or god forbid the wooden tops Meemaw and Peepaw gave you out of some misguided hope to get you to play outside.

Judging purely by the plastic, was there really worth twenty of your finest 2011 Dollarpounds there?

@Binnekamp said:
" It's hard to imagine that this theme would go on for at least 15 years!

@Brickalili said:
"I don’t feel that arena would really stop the spinners escaping so can I assume shoving your opponent out was a win condition?"

I never owned this set (outside of one I had for sale once), but I did build myself an arena like this. The spinners are quite low to the ground (a boat stud and the edges flare up at a slight angle) and they have a heagy metal ring in them. This height holds them in. It also helps that they have a lot of centrifugal force, so they don't make erratic movements at first and only move around wildly when they slow down.

I actually build the arena because I wanted to try out the ones I did have, but it was hard to get two to hit each other without an arena for them to be bouncing around in. At least, when I tried it alone, which required spinning both oponents quickly after each other."

Interesting. I assumed their weight and bulk would have made them too heavy to have been contained by an arena that insubstantial, especially when at full spin. Sounds like they have the same weakness as a Roomba though!

Wait a minute, did they try to start a Collectable Card Game too? Now I need to find what other sets came with those cards.

@B_Space_Man said:
"Wait a minute, did they try to start a Collectable Card Game too? Now I need to find what other sets came with those cards. "

The cards were part of the spinner combat.

@Crux said:
""Instant Spinjitzu: just add spin and jitzu".

Look, I get that it works as a playset, but that's mainly because the functional principle is "throw two things into each other, see which is the last one standing". You could - and probably have - done this with paper spinners, or sprockets, or sawblades, or rocks, or siblings"

You forgot friends on the list. Both lego and real

BEYBLADES, BEYBLADES!

@Crux said:
"Judging purely by the plastic, was there really worth twenty of your finest 2011 Dollarpounds there?"

“Judging purely by the plastic…” - so, leaving out not only the paper game cards, but also the hunks of metal built into the spinner bases to give them heft?

@Blondie_Wan said:
" @Crux said:
"Judging purely by the plastic, was there really worth twenty of your finest 2011 Dollarpounds there?"

“Judging purely by the plastic…” - so, leaving out not only the paper game cards, but also the hunks of metal built into the spinner bases to give them heft?"

Yes. I'm not Tony Stark, nor is this a Yu-Gi-Oh forum. I have no interest in scraps of metal or cardboard, good sir and/or madam.

Did no-one notice how broken this early combat system really was? Let's say your character has a large sword or long spear, and then you spin it against an opponent who only has a short knife (or even nothing at all!). When your spear hits the other guy, it's *your* fighter that gets twisted out of the spinner and loses, while the opponent who made *no* weapon contact wins. Shouldn't it really be the other way around?

@axeleng said:
"Did no-one notice how broken this early combat system really was? Let's say your character has a large sword or long spear, and then you spin it against an opponent who only has a short knife (or even nothing at all!). When your spear hits the other guy, it's *your* fighter that gets twisted out of the spinner and loses, while the opponent who made *no* weapon contact wins. Shouldn't it really be the other way around?"

Been saying that for years. Being able to add stacks of bricks to the perimeter was the first thing you could do to increase your chances of winning besides declaring your forego a weapon and fight barehanded.