Random set of the day: Condrai Copter Attack
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 70746 Condrai Copter Attack, released during 2015. It's one of 48 Ninjago sets produced that year. It contains 311 pieces and 3 minifigs, and its retail price was US$29.99/£24.99.
It's owned by 3,377 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 $80.90, or eBay.
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Tournament of elements is one of the best Ninjago seasons, and it had some of the best sets in the theme too.
Chen! That guy was hilarious.
Welcome to Ninjago, where we have...
The only 4 established tribes of snakes (the later tribes were "somewhere else" I guess)
Purple snakes
Time-travel snakes
One specific pirate snake
One specific bleached snake
Fire snakes
Underwater snakes
CORE snakes (whatever the heck those are)
Basically it's a whole lot of snakes and not a lot of creativity
@WolfpackBricksStudios said:
"Welcome to Ninjago, where we have...
The only 4 established tribes of snakes (the later tribes were "somewhere else" I guess)
Purple snakes
Time-travel snakes
One specific pirate snake
One specific bleached snake
Fire snakes
Underwater snakes
CORE snakes (whatever the heck those are)
Basically it's a whole lot of snakes and not a lot of creativity "
So you're saying movie franchises with only humans as villains aren't being creative?
@WolfpackBricksStudios said:
"Welcome to Ninjago, where we have...
The only 4 established tribes of snakes (the later tribes were "somewhere else" I guess)
Purple snakes
Time-travel snakes
One specific pirate snake
One specific bleached snake
Fire snakes
Underwater snakes
CORE snakes (whatever the heck those are)
Basically it's a whole lot of snakes and not a lot of creativity "
I'm waiting for the Skeletal Snakes to show up. Yes, these guys have a bone aesthetic going on, but it's just guys with Snake skulls. I'm waiting for Ninjago to go to space, and out there is this Cosmic Four Armed Skeletal Snake that's like the precursor to the Great Devourer or something like that.
@MCLegoboy:
These are just humans dual-classing their snake cosplay with their skeleton cosplay. And some punk/goth makeup.
@WolfpackBricksStudios said:
"Welcome to Ninjago, where we have...
The only 4 established tribes of snakes (the later tribes were "somewhere else" I guess)
Purple snakes
Time-travel snakes
One specific pirate snake
One specific bleached snake
Fire snakes
Underwater snakes
CORE snakes (whatever the heck those are)
Basically it's a whole lot of snakes and not a lot of creativity "
I generally like whatever rogue's gallery the Ninjago heroes have to fight *this* year, but I agree, they do tend to go back to the "evil snakes" well quite often.
It's been a few years since the CORE snakes (those were the orange ones, weren't they?). I imagine we're overdue.
The OG Skylor fig set! Wonder if the Dragons Rising team is planning on bringing her back anytime soon.
“What will our aesthetic be?”
“Purple and bones.”
“Rad!”
@MCLegoboy said:
" I'm waiting for Ninjago to go to space, and out there is this Cosmic Four Armed Skeletal Snake that's like the precursor to the Great Devourer or something like that."
Funny you should say that... In the episode 'Project Arcturus', the ninja *do* go to space to try to stop the nindroids retrieve the Golden Weapons.
But that's not all...
Project Arcturus was originally meant to set up for season 4, which was originally going to be a space season. I'm not sure why they scrapped it, but they ran with ToE instead, and I'm so happy they did.
For as far as Tournament of Elements sets go, this is one of my least favourites. 'Ancient temple' and 'helicopter-plane' don't mix all that well IMHO. At least it has three good minifigs including the original and only Skylor for quite a while. But other than that I'd rather have seen more of the actual tournament, which only had one set that was not even sold in my country.
Last year's sets at least had more tournament-focus with an entire modular system for the smaller sub-assemblies.
@WolfpackBricksStudios said:
"Welcome to Ninjago, where we have...
The only 4 established tribes of snakes (the later tribes were "somewhere else" I guess)
Purple snakes
Time-travel snakes
One specific pirate snake
One specific bleached snake
Fire snakes
Underwater snakes
CORE snakes (whatever the heck those are)
Basically it's a whole lot of snakes and not a lot of creativity "
1: there were 5 tribes from the start. The 5th just had one survivor because he ate his brethren when they were entombed (yes, this is Pythor's backstory). So the purple snakes are part of the main tribes.
2. The bleached snake is also just Pythor, who is one of the purple snakes.
3. The pirate snake is a hybrid from two of the main tribes (at least the green Venomari).
@Maxbricks14 said:
" @WolfpackBricksStudios said:
"Welcome to Ninjago, where we have...
The only 4 established tribes of snakes (the later tribes were "somewhere else" I guess)
Purple snakes
Time-travel snakes
One specific pirate snake
One specific bleached snake
Fire snakes
Underwater snakes
CORE snakes (whatever the heck those are)
Basically it's a whole lot of snakes and not a lot of creativity "
So you're saying movie franchises with only humans as villains aren't being creative? "
Snakes! Why'd it have to be snakes?!
@Brickalili said:"“What will our aesthetic be?”
“Purple and bones.”
“Rad!”"
I know at least on Bricksetter who'd definitely agree that that was a great aesthetic, at least as far as the purple went.
@alLEGOry_HJB2810 said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
" I'm waiting for Ninjago to go to space, and out there is this Cosmic Four Armed Skeletal Snake that's like the precursor to the Great Devourer or something like that."
Funny you should say that... In the episode 'Project Arcturus', the ninja *do* go to space to try to stop the nindroids retrieve the Golden Weapons.
But that's not all...
Project Arcturus was originally meant to set up for season 4, which was originally going to be a space season. I'm not sure why they scrapped it, but they ran with ToE instead, and I'm so happy they did. "
You're... *happy* that a space season and line got scrapped? I've never been so tempted to block someone... j/k
@TheOtherMike said:
" @Brickalili said:"“What will our aesthetic be?”
“Purple and bones.”
“Rad!”"
I know at least on Bricksetter who'd definitely agree that that was a great aesthetic, at least as far as the purple went.
@alLEGOry_HJB2810 said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
" I'm waiting for Ninjago to go to space, and out there is this Cosmic Four Armed Skeletal Snake that's like the precursor to the Great Devourer or something like that."
Funny you should say that... In the episode 'Project Arcturus', the ninja *do* go to space to try to stop the nindroids retrieve the Golden Weapons.
But that's not all...
Project Arcturus was originally meant to set up for season 4, which was originally going to be a space season. I'm not sure why they scrapped it, but they ran with ToE instead, and I'm so happy they did. "
You're... *happy* that a space season and line got scrapped? I've never been so tempted to block someone... j/k"
I like Classic Space and its children... I just don't think Ninja and Space mix well ;)
@TheOtherMike said:
" @Brickalili said:"“What will our aesthetic be?”
“Purple and bones.”
“Rad!”"
I know at least on Bricksetter who'd definitely agree that that was a great aesthetic, at least as far as the purple went.
@alLEGOry_HJB2810 said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
" I'm waiting for Ninjago to go to space, and out there is this Cosmic Four Armed Skeletal Snake that's like the precursor to the Great Devourer or something like that."
Funny you should say that... In the episode 'Project Arcturus', the ninja *do* go to space to try to stop the nindroids retrieve the Golden Weapons.
But that's not all...
Project Arcturus was originally meant to set up for season 4, which was originally going to be a space season. I'm not sure why they scrapped it, but they ran with ToE instead, and I'm so happy they did. "
You're... *happy* that a space season and line got scrapped? I've never been so tempted to block someone... j/k"
Look at it this way: it might have set a precedent and anything space-adjacent might have been lumped in with Ninjago.
All this 'snake talk'...and nobodies brought up 'clown snakes'...although I guess we're too late for a Ninjago/Batman crossover :)
Should be noted: I have the set, as it's the "First" set with Skylor...I use quotes as looking up Skylor-sets lists 70651: Throne Room Showdown set with her first...even though it came out AFTER this set...:)
@StyleCounselor said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
" @WolfpackBricksStudios said:
"Welcome to Ninjago, where we have...
The only 4 established tribes of snakes (the later tribes were "somewhere else" I guess)
Purple snakes
Time-travel snakes
One specific pirate snake
One specific bleached snake
Fire snakes
Underwater snakes
CORE snakes (whatever the heck those are)
Basically it's a whole lot of snakes and not a lot of creativity "
So you're saying movie franchises with only humans as villains aren't being creative? "
Snakes! Why'd it have to be snakes?!"
Damn, why didn't I think of that!
@Maxbricks14 said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
" @WolfpackBricksStudios said:
"Welcome to Ninjago, where we have...
The only 4 established tribes of snakes (the later tribes were "somewhere else" I guess)
Purple snakes
Time-travel snakes
One specific pirate snake
One specific bleached snake
Fire snakes
Underwater snakes
CORE snakes (whatever the heck those are)
Basically it's a whole lot of snakes and not a lot of creativity "
So you're saying movie franchises with only humans as villains aren't being creative? "
Snakes! Why'd it have to be snakes?!"
Damn, why didn't I think of that!"
I hate snakes, Jaques!
@alLEGOry_HJB2810 said:
"I like Classic Space and its children... I just don't think Ninja and Space mix well ;)"
On the contrary, ninja pair with robots, and robots always mix with space.
@brick_r:
I mean, I _made_ snake-clowns several years ago. Does that count?