>>9483022Look at all of the new Ninjago sets carefully and you'll notice they're all BIG NINJA VEHICLE/DRAGON/MECH versus forgettable snakes that sometimes have even more forgettable vehicles. The largest vehicle the snakes get is a one-seater helicopter that doesn't have any play features outside of the spinning rotor you'd expect a helicopter to have, while the Ninjas get a goddamn Megazord.
Ninjago's biggest flaw is that the Ninjas always get a cool new robot or dragon or race car or maybe even a new version of the Destiny's Bounty each wave, while the Villains are stuck with either some smaller vehicle that's bundled with a huge-ass Ninja thing or the villain of the theme's lair. Of the 60 sets Ninjago sets listed on S@H right now there's only one set where the villains get a larger vehicle than whatever the Ninja's got (71748 Catamaran Sea Battle). Hell outside of the very early years when they did Spinjitsu releases of the skeleton dudes I don't think they've ever released a Ninjago set that didn't have at least one Ninja shoehorned in.
Meanwhile in Exo-Force the robots were an arguably equal (If not stronger) force compared to the humans that not only had similarly-sized robots but also huge-ass superweapons like this and the Mobile Devastator. That balance between the Good Guy sets and the Bad Guy sets is something Lego's lost over the last couple of years, but this newest Ninjago theme really exemplifies it.
