What a great name for a bad guy.

Red snappa!

...Sorry, my WoW days leaked through for a second.

Edit: Looked up the source of that ol' proto-meme to refresh my memory after over a decade. It does not hold up. YIKES. Guess some things are better left forgotten.

Ah, the most classic Ninjago. Sadly, before my time, I only really got into it at the end of Rebooted/Tournament of Elements.

I loved ninjago spinners and I hate that they're all expensive and inexplicably hard-to-find these days.

snappa-head

@Monopoly said:
"Looking back at them, the spinner sets were really quite poor value for money.

Chima’s Speedorz were far better in that regard, with an actual build to accompany the gimmick."

I have to disagree. The price per part may have been worse, but the Ninjago spinners made for better toys.

Lore's gonna be a bit quick tonight:

Long ago, in the land of Ninjago, two races lived in peace. The Humans and the Serpentine. One day war broke out between the races. The Humans won the war, and the Serpentine's five tribes were split apart and sealed in underground tombs.

The Fangpyre were the red and white adder-like Serpentine. Sealed beneath a graveyard, they had the largest and most exquisite of the five tombs. Fangpyre's venomous bite had the amazing power to turn anything into a snake. If the object was inanimate, it would spring to life and become covered in green scales. If it was alive it would slowly mutate into a reptilian form.

During the first season of the show, Lloyd Garmadon attempted to release the Serpentine to conquer to world and live up to his father's expectations. The Fangpyre were the second tribe he released. They staged a notable raid on Ed and Edna (Jay's parents)'s junkyard where they created most of the vehicles the Serpentine would use for the rest of the show.

Snappa was a Scout-Class Serpentine, the lowest possible rank. As with other Scout-Class Serpentine, he has more of his tribe's secondary color than their primary and uses a standard minifig head+snake hood rather than a custom molded head.

What are the bricks for, out of curiosity?

@Loerwyn said:
"What are the bricks for, out of curiosity?"

There were several game cards that instructed you to build stuff onto your spinner, supposedly to help you knock other players off their spinners or keep your minifigure on yours.

I have this, but without the cards consider it incomplete.

Pretty snappy name, though.

@ra226 said:
"Very tasty! (sorry, watched UHF recently...)"

Classic!
"Weaver! You soooo stupid!"

Being a huge Ninjago fan at my core, gotta love the original spinners. Cheap way to get some minifigures and cool trading cards. Only ever got Garmadon's on the aftermarket.

The "spinning" never interest me so I consider this a very expensive way to build an army.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Spritetoggle:
Proto-meme? You know the word “meme” was coined in 1976, and was not considered by the author to be an original concept even back then."

Yup! I meant more in terms of it being a spreading, evolving joke not too many years before meme became the ubiquitous internet buzzword that it now is. I could be misremembering the (lack of) overlap however. 2006 was a while ago now.

I have a Snappa from he 2012 Jay's Storm Fighter. The january spinners were a great improvement, but it wasn't until the transparant ones that the theme became amazing! They were subsequently discounted the next spring and I scooped up a few I liked most. Good times :)

The 2012 redesign of the spinners have loads of connection points and were a great improvement over the 2011 ones. You now have three holes underneath for blades, daggers or snakes to be mounted underneath (they appeared in booster packs). And there's the spinner tops/crowns that add visual flair as well as slight all-round protection. The other spinner top from this specific winter wave has survived all the way to today actually. You can see them on the boosters on Jay's upcoming mech!

@Loerwyn You can build a rudimentary card stand for them (which you can then use as a target). They can also be used to raise your spinner, as the bottom is just a boat stud and you can put stuff in between. The 1x2 bricks can also make two small shields on the edge of the spinner or one larger one. As the main objective is to knock someone else off their spinner before they knock you off, balance actually matters.

The cards decide what you can use or have to do as a challenge. I recall it being fun as there's actual skill and some creativity and experimentation involved.

Always preferred the serpent dudes that had actual moulded head pieces; once like this just kind of look like they're doing snake cosplay

@StyleCounselor said:
" @ra226 said:
"Very tasty! (sorry, watched UHF recently...)"
Classic!
"Weaver! You soooo stupid!""
That movie is so stupid, but it's absolutely delightful.

@Spritetoggle:
But that’s exactly what “meme” has always meant. Except for the internet thing.

@MCLegoboy said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
" @ra226 said:
"Very tasty! (sorry, watched UHF recently...)"
Classic!
"Weaver! You soooo stupid!""
That movie is so stupid, but it's absolutely delightful."

Amen, brother.

@NotProfessorWhymzi said:
"on the twenty-second day of Christmas, Huwbot gave to us...
humanoid snake-a-spinning,
Norse god of thunder,
catapults, round 2,
a short-lived transport system,
yellow sub-a-swimming,
a lovely Chinese fortress,
a snappy vintage Caddy,
a Green Army polybag,
a sweet Technic street bike,
a Southern robot bear,
a red mobility scooter,
Baby's First Dragster,
totally not a spyplane,
a chunky vintage choo-choo,
catapults-a-flinging,
Secret Agent Mater,
a green truck-a-crashin',
A FIVE DOLLAR DIGGER!
a brightly colored dragster,
Third Moon of Endor,
a very basic set,
and a shiny Hobbit set..."

Third moon? I always thought it was just “Forest moon.”

Man, it’s been a long time since we got any Fangpyre or Constrictai figures.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Spritetoggle:
But that’s exactly what “meme” has always meant. Except for the internet thing."

I am well aware. Perhaps I was leaning too much into the internet side of things, instead of speaking more generally. Sorry about that, communication isn't always my strong point.

I like to think I have at least a layman's understanding of memetics.

...Which probably means I actually understand it less than that.

Ended up being the last NINJAGO set I bought for many years. Until I bought some new ones this year! It was about time.

@SearchlightRG said:
" @NotProfessorWhymzi said:
"on the twenty-second day of Christmas, Huwbot gave to us...
humanoid snake-a-spinning,
Norse god of thunder,
catapults, round 2,
a short-lived transport system,
yellow sub-a-swimming,
a lovely Chinese fortress,
a snappy vintage Caddy,
a Green Army polybag,
a sweet Technic street bike,
a Southern robot bear,
a red mobility scooter,
Baby's First Dragster,
totally not a spyplane,
a chunky vintage choo-choo,
catapults-a-flinging,
Secret Agent Mater,
a green truck-a-crashin',
A FIVE DOLLAR DIGGER!
a brightly colored dragster,
Third Moon of Endor,
a very basic set,
and a shiny Hobbit set..."

Third moon? I always thought it was just “Forest moon.”

Man, it’s been a long time since we got any Fangpyre or Constrictai figures."

"Third moon of the Endor system", also called the "forest moon of Endor", alias the "sanctuary moon", - all of them are correct. (We actually had this debate when the set was up as RSOTD.)

Back when Ninjago named all of the antagonists and gave backstories to them rather than a bunch of nameless goons. There was a two-page spread in the Ninjago DK book about this guy. Speaking of books, the Snappa minifigure was also in an activity book that Brickset doesn't list.

@StyleCounselor said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
" @ra226 said:
"Very tasty! (sorry, watched UHF recently...)"
Classic!
"Weaver! You soooo stupid!""
That movie is so stupid, but it's absolutely delightful."

Amen, brother. "

Utterly deserving of its cult classic status! To this day, my wife and I joke about making a run to Spatula City.

Thanks for answering my question @Ignore_Me and @Binnekamp !

SIGH...how faaaaaaar the line has come from this point, but it proves the adage:
Crawl before you can walk,
Walk before you can run,
Run before you can fly...

Don't know where Ninjago is "now" (what does come after 'fly'..?), but it's completely knocked down nearly every barrier put in front of it...and even 'The Movie' wasn't its fault: fans wanted a 'Ninjago' movie, instead getting a 'Lego Ninjago Movie' (same 'names', none of the 'heart')...