That Kai dragon must be one of the worst designed Ninjago sets.
However Sea dragon looks magnificent and regall.
Shame we havent got underwater King minifigure.
As ususal the most interesting character is ommited...

Not bad. They’ve done quite a few good ones, but I don’t know if I’ll pick any up.

Aquanauts coping and seething at the moment

Just had another look, and absolutely love how the graphics on Lloyd’s mech match the stepped armour plates.

The Ultra Sonic Raider is beautiful

So... SCUBA-ninjas.

Right.

The Hydro Bounty reminds me of the Sword of the Ocean from the LXG movie. One of the few good things about that movie...

Looks like it’s time to bring my Aqua Raiders out of retirement!

Love the Water Dragon, definitely planning on picking it up. Will probably get the Lloyd mech and maybe the Temple too, but it depends on what else I want this year. The other sets all look good too, though I feel like the head on Kai's dragon is too small.

Nice use of the big cargo bay doors from 10283 as the glass ceiling on the Bounty. I think they might be the side walls too, but it's hard to tell from this angle.

Amazing! These sets are really nice. That Sea Dragon is especially magnificent and I'm very excited for another Ultra Sonic Raider. Thanks for the news!

I usually don't follow Ninjago, but some of these are top notch. I may have to look into acquiring some of them. New headpieces are neat. The colors work well. The dragons look solid.

Are those transparent 10283 Space Shuttle bay doors in the 71756 Hydro Bounty?

Love the Hydro Bounty!

I really don’t like the snake headed guys having feet, like a reverse mermaid.

these are beautiful sets. the only 2021 Ninjago sets I really wanted to get were the 10th-anniversary sets but with these water sets, I just can't resist.

especially the Hydro Bounty and the water dragon.

the city and bounty are an instant buy.
Not sure about the waterdragon...want it for the parts; but it looks off for some reason

I think 71754 has a flapping wing function, and it seems to be looooooooong!

Everywhere is the form of the cockpit of a set of 71736!

The head molds on the wyrm in the temple set remind me of Liopleurodon. I suspect we'll get one in the Jurassic world sets.

These are awesome. I'm a big fan of underwater LEGO themes and Ninjago, so this is right up my alley.

Snakes with swim fins. Awesome!

Not a Ninjago guy, but im intrigued by those dual molded cockpit pieces.

Does anyone else find it odd that they'd make a submarine and give it a glass roof so when you're underwater you can look up? At the sky? No? Just me? 'Kay.

I just built the boulder blaster a couple weeks ago and was thinking that the windscreen piece would go great on a submarine. I was right they look awesome.

I wonder if the fact that each ninja gets their own personal mini-sub, means that they'll all be able to dock inside the main bay of the Hydro Bounty? There probably isn't enough room for them all, but it's interesting to have them split up between different sets like they almost always do with some type of collectible weapon.

@legomaster65 said:
"I wonder if the fact that each ninja gets their own personal mini-sub, means that they'll all be able to dock inside the main bay of the Hydro Bounty?"

I was wondering something similar, but my first instinct was to hope for some kind of 'form-up' function, maybe like the Nova Corps Star Blasters from the Marvel MCU, but your idea makes a lot mores sense :)

My only minor worry is that there only seems to be four mini subs in the range, and that might activate my IPOC (Irrational Pursuit of Completeness)...

This first photo of Fire Dragon 71753 makes it tricky to really 'get' the shape of the dragon, but I think it might be a similar form to 70908 Batman's Scuttler.

I don't think I can justify buying another red Ninjago dragon, but I totally understand the whole "red=cool, fire=cool, Kai=cool"-metric at work in most Ninjago waves. I wonder if sales of Kai-based sets really are significantly better than those of the other ninja.

@ComfySofa IPOC must be pretty frustrating, especially when Ninjago creates variants of some of the Ninja in a particular style but not all of them. I mean, here Nya is getting an NRG variant when most of the others got theirs...nine years ago. I would be interested to hear about that Kai set sales thing too; I personally don’t feel the character warrants all the attention he gets, just because he’s the red guy.

Are they FINALLY giving Nya the focus and her own Dragon? I sure hope so!

Funnily enough I've been on and off thinking of a water themed Ninjago line and I guess the official designers are on the same wave(heh)length! :D

@ComfySofa:
I noticed that, too. I see red (Kai) in 71755, white (Zane) in 71754, and both black (Cole) and jade (La-Loyd) in 71756. Nothing for Jay or Nya, though arguably Nya shouldn't need one.

@SearchlightRG:
I see a funky watery looking character in 71754 and 71755 who looks absolutely nothing like the four NRG variants. Is that what you're referring to? If so, I don't even see the point, since the existing four NRG outfits all share a similar design aesthetic. This looks like they came up with a completely original design and slapped the NRG name on it because it's one that they hadn't used for Nya previously. Then, for the core four, who already got NRG minifigs, that kind of shuts them out of getting minifigs in the same style, because they already have their NRG forms.

But this is just one of the problems you end up with when you start out with evenly-matched characters, add one to the mix a few years later, and then another one some time after that. Where the first group has already advanced through several "levels", you're left with the choice of having new characters auto-advance to the same level (thus skipping all the previous forms), or having to work through all those previous forms at an accelerated rate so you don't skip any steps.

The former isn't realistic, as the other characters couldn't get where they are today without learning all the associated lessons and techniques (even though, like the Karate Kid, those "all-powerful" techniques immediately get rendered powerless in the very next chapter). The latter isn't very exciting, as you either condense years' worth of lessons into a Cliffnotes format that renders them meaningless, or you take years to catch up and basically sit on the sidelines until you do.

@SearchlightRG said:
" @ComfySofa IPOC must be pretty frustrating, especially when Ninjago creates variants of some of the Ninja in a particular style but not all of them."

Oh it's maddening sometimes, and yes, especially in the often hap-hazard world of Ninjago sets :) I find myself not buying any if I can't have all... weirdly it affects mostly the buying part, not so much the building and playing aspects.

@SearchlightRG said:
"I personally don’t feel the character warrants all the attention he gets, just because he’s the red guy."

He wouldn't do so well in a Ninjago/StarTrek crossover...

@PurpleDave said:
"I noticed that, too. I see red (Kai) in 71755, white (Zane) in 71754, and both black (Cole) and jade (La-Loyd) in 71756. Nothing for Jay or Nya, though arguably Nya shouldn't need one."

Hmm, the mini subs look identical except for two coloured pieces per side, a couple of stickers, and the two weapon heads. I'm hoping to be able to moc Jay's and even Nya's relatively easily to get a full fleet to escort the new Bounty. That should satisfy the completionist in me :)

I've got plans for a modified Ultra Stealth Raider 70595 in which everybody on the team gets their own sub-vehicle to pilot :D

@ComfySofa:
So how does that work with these guys:

https://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?pg=1&q=deepstone+%2Dlightning+%2Dshoulder&catLike=W&catString=759.949&sortBy=N&sortAsc=A&catType=M&v=1

Looking them over, all five of the guys have weapons tucked into their belts. Nya doesn't. All five of the guys have black outfits. Nya's is dark-red. All five of the guys have black shoulder armor. Nya has gold. Four of the guys have belts, straps, and mask in their primary color. Cole has dark-bley because black wouldn't stand out against a black outfit. Nya has dark azure. All five of the guys have octagonal logos on their chests with a kanji character in the center, four of which match the color of their belt. Cole has the same thing in orange. Nya has a circular logo featuring a wave. Cole is kinda the odd one out from the five guys because his elemental color isn't what they used for his accent color, and his chest logo is bordered by a completely unrelated color, but Nya...she's literally wearing her original Ninja outfit with gold shoulder armor. No, seriously, the prints are the same, and Bricklink even catalogs the torso and legs as being the same prints.

Or look at the DX minifigs. The core four came out at the same time and had (mostly) matching designs. Cole was once again the odd one out as his dragon was the only one with a different shape for its head. But then they did the Target cubes and released a DX La-Loyd. The head was a different shape, the accent colors on the head didn't match the look of the other four, it's the only DX outfit that shows two forelegs, and it has a different style of mask.

As for the mini-subs, in the Bounty set, Kai and Zane in scuba gear have the weapons from their mini-subs clipped to their guns, and Cole has something similar to his in the Sub Speeder set. That makes it easy to figure out the weapons for the Jay/Nya mini-subs, because they are also in scuba gear with gold weapons clipped to their guns (the sai is fine by itself, but the spike probably needs a handle like Cole's drillbit). Where you're likely to have a problem is those triple-curved slopes that form the sides of the hulls appear to be printed, and I don't see anything similar for Jay/Nya in any of the sets.

Am I the only one seeing some sort of "computer-Wu" inside the front cupola of the Hydro Bounty ?

One of the best Ninjago waves in a while, in my opinion, which is saying a lot given how great they all are!

@PurpleDave that is indeed who I am referring to. That variant of Nya is officially referred to by the descriptions on the site that released these images as "NRG Nya". To my mind she's probably closer in feel/spirit to last year's Spinjitzu Burst figures, which only half the Ninja received and she was not one of the lucky few. However, the time to introduce a true NRG Nya would probably have been six years ago when she was first made a member of the team. Still, maybe we'll get lucky if Lego does a set featuring the Preeminent next year...

@ComfySofa indeed. Fortunately such a crossover seems highly unlikely, both due to the differing tones of the two franchises and the fact that last I heard Star Trek was pretty chummy with Mega-Bloks. Then again, it may only be a matter of time before Ninjago gets a space wave...

@yellost the Hydro Bounty's minifigures include two "Wu-Bots", presumably automated crew for the Hydro Bounty given that the majority of the Ninja probably don't have the first clue about how to drive a submarine. Images of the back of the box also indicate that a section of the Bounty can turn into a small mech, which I would expect one of them will pilot.

@SearchlightRG:
The six Ninja are also too busy scuba diving and tooling around in those mini-subs to be bothered with trying to maneuver the giant sub around underwater obstacles. Unless that's why Jay and Nya don't have mini-subs...