Random set of the day: Spitta
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 9569 Spitta, released during 2012. It's one of 48 Ninjago sets produced that year. It contains 20 pieces and 1 minifig, and its retail price was US$9.99/£7.49.
It's owned by 1,717 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you should find it for sale at BrickLink, where new ones sell for around $11.20, or eBay.
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It's not polite to spit. Air your grievances. Say it, don't spray it.
Quick Lore!
Snake People!
This one spits hallucinagetic venom!
Quick Lore!
This is one character you don't want to say shh to, just in case.
Ninjago 2012 was great but I never got any spinner sets opting for other sets like 9440, 9444 and 9442
This RSoD almost made me do a 9569 take.
I'm not into spin-jit-su, but I remember this year. Villain vehicle designs were amazing snake builds like 9443, 9445, 9447, 9455, 9457. I'm working on replicating a similar design. I've finished the snake head but I need to build a bike or a speeder to fit it.
@Lego_lord said:
"I'm not into spin-jit-su, but I remember this year. Villain vehicle designs were amazing snake builds like 9443, 9445, 9447, 9455, 9457. I'm working on replicating a similar design. I've finished the snake head but I need to build a bike or a speeder to fit it. "
I was thinking, how many snake vehicles could they make? Helicopter, motorcycle, truck, mech, check, check, check, check.... oh? A wrecking ball crane? Not on my snake vehicle bingo card.
Funny story, about a year ago I found the minifigure to this set randomly lying on the floor in the Australia Zoo carpark! Another bonus, he had the exact legpiece of Acidicus, and in pretty good condition too!
What about Swallowwa?
@MCLegoboy said:
"It's not polite to spit. Air your grievances. Say it, don't spray it."
His grievances include his tribe being locked in a tomb for forty years. His spitting, while impolite, is somewhat understandable.
Really want to see the NPU of that spinner and decorating piece.
Transparant spinners are the best colors!
2012 spinners are the best design!
Transparant neon green!
Therefore, a fine one as far as spinners go. It also helps that Venomari don't appear much in smaller sets if you're not Lasha from 9562 or 6447. And there's Lizaru in 9557.
The next set to have a Venomari is 9449 Ultra Stealth Raider (also Spitta), followed by the flagship set 9450 Epic Dragon Battle.
Spitta later returned in the Legacy set 70667.
The lore for this guy by the way is that his huge teeth constantly drip venom. That's why he wears flasks under them on his belt. That way he can sell it to others in his tribe if they ever can't produce enough!
Sounds like something orks in Warhammer would build.
@Maxbricks14:
A lot of minifigs were exclusive to spinners, and several others were simply not worth buying on Bricklink when price plus shipping was about the same as the spinner set (and you didn’t get all the other non-spinner parts thrown in).
@SearchlightRG:
Most people just sue for massive amounts of money, these days.
@Ridgeheart:
So…Droolerth?
@ICAbricks said:
"Spinjitzu is just Speedorz without rizz"
I think you meant that the other way around
The original 2 waves of spinners were the best (the original and then the Serpentine-era spinners with the improved design). Shame they ever discontinued them. Personally, I feel like all the attempts to make new gimmicks haven't worked out nearly as well—they should've just continued to keep iterating and improving on the design.