NINJAGO: Masters of Spinjitzu

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Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu
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Running time:

Pilot Episodes:
Episode 1/2: 30 min.
Episode 3/4: 20 min.
Series:
1-26 about 21 min.

First released/aired:

US: Jan. 14, 6:00 PM EST
Ger: Jan. 23, 1:15 PM March: 8:30

Theme:

Ninjago


Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu is a TV series released in 2011. The first two episodes were aired in the US on Cartoon Network, in Germany on SuperRTL and in Finland on Nelonen. The show is about the popular LEGO theme, Ninjago. Four ninja- Kai, Zane, Cole, and Jay must defeat Lord Garmadon and the evil Skulkin army, with the help of Sensei Wu and Kai's sister Nya. The first season was split into two parts, Way of the Ninja and King of Shadows. When it was released on DVD it became four episodes (Way of the Ninja, The Golden Weapon, King of Shadows, and Weapons of Destiny). The theme song is "The Weekend Whip" by the band The Fold. The Fold has also done Born to be a Ninja and Ninja Go!. Season two had 13 episodes, and followed the ninjas' quest to stop the evil Serpentine. The third season continued with the ninja training the green ninja to defeat Lord Garmadon once and for all. Music and sounds are done by Jay Vincent and JAM Music and Effects.

Episodes

Main Article: List of Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu Episodes

Pilot Episodes (4 episodes) of the show features an aging ninja master, Sensei Wu, struggling to train four young Ninja in the ways of an ancient battle art called Spinjitzu to defeat his evil brother Lord Garmadon, ruler of the underworld, and stop him from gaining The Four Golden Weapons, which would make his power limitless.

Season one (13 episodes) The first part focuses on Garmadon's young son Lloyd Garmadon, who has released an ancient evil: an army of snakes called the Serpentine. The four ninja must stop them from uniting to unleash The Great Devourer, a huge snake with the power to consume all of Ninjago and a bite that can turn people evil. Also, the Serpentine hold Lloyd as a hostage, and Lord Garmadon has agreed to aid the ninja in rescuing Lloyd and stopping the Serpentine.

Season two (13 episodes) features the Ninja training Lloyd to become the chosen one destined to defeat Lord Garmadon. Meanwhile, the Dark Lord forms an alliance with the Serpentine and, with the Golden Weapons in his possession, attempts to prevent his son from fulfilling his destiny. In the meantime, several forces of evil are unleashed such as ancient pirates of the Destiny's Bounty and the formidable "Stone Army", of which the Ninja must protect Ninjago from becoming plundered. The second part is planned to air in Asia before airing in America.

Series misconception

It is often said that the pilot episodes and Mini-Movies are the series first season. The original first and second season's were considered there seasons two and three on Xfinity TV guides. However, this has recently been changed to the original numbers.

Cast

Pilot Episodes/Mini Movies

Season 1

Season 2: Part One

Settings

Pilot Episodes

Series

  • Darkley's Boarding School For Bad Boys
  • The Fire Temple
  • Glacier Barrens
  • Jamanakai Village
  • Mega Monster Amusement Park
  • Monastery of Spinjitzu
  • The Mountain of a Million Steps
  • Ninjago City
    • Arcade
    • Subway Station
    • Town Square
    • Grand Sensei Darreth's Mojo Dojo
    • Doomsday Comics
  • Sea of Sand
    • Anacondrai Tomb
    • Ed and Edna: Scrap n' Junk
    • The "Formerly Lost" City of Ouroboros
  • Birchwood Forest
  • Crashcourse Canyon
  • Toxic Bogs
  • Wildwood Forest

Trivia/Goofs

Pilot Episodes

  • In the sets, Kruncha has a monocle, a grey cloth and grey helmet. But, in the series he is lacking the monocle, and now wears a red cloth, a black helmet and has a cracked tooth.
  • In the sets, Samukai has a black chest plate, but in the show, he has brown.
  • The Floating Ruins appear to be Nunchucks of Lightning themselves. There are two round towers, (handle) and a chain linking them together. They even have lightning surrounding it.
  • In the episode "The Golden Weapons", Nuckal loses a tooth biting a donut-shaped rock. However, when he is seen later inside the Caves of Despair, all of his teeth can be seen in perfect condition.
  • In "King of Shadows", when the ninja fall down when they reached the Frozen Wastelands, if you look closely, Jay has on his dragon suit.
  • In "King of Shadows", Chopov can be seen banging Cole's drum in one shot. But, soon after Samukai says "To the Fire Temple!", the drum has disappeared.
  • In "Weapons of Destiny", when the ninja are crossing to the underworld, Cole has on his DX outfit on, but in one scene when they show Cole screaming, he has on his original outfit on, but when they show him again, he is in is DX again.
  • In "Secrets of the Blacksmith" before Jay does Spinjitzu, he is in his first ninja suit, not his DX suit. But in later versions of this movie, they corrected it.
  • Usually when the ninja are in their DX outfits on, it is skin colored, not gold like in the sets, but in "Flight of the Dragon Ninja", they have gold.
  • In "The New Masters of Spinjitzu" Mini-Movie, when Kai gets awoken, he is in his Ninja Suit. But in earlier of the movie, he was in his pajamas.Once Kruncha says 'I don't think this is going to work,' Kai is back in his pajamas.
  • In "An Underworldly Takeover", when Garmadon puts on Samukai's helmet, it is the same helmet in the 2012 Lord Garmadon sets. This happens again in "Never Trust a Snake". They might have took the helmet from the pilot episodes away because it is impossible if he took the helmet from Samukai and it looked like the new helmet and had the old helmet in the pilots and then had the new helmet in the series.

Season 1

  • In "Can Of Worms", when Kai says, "The Hypnobrai might screw the plan up," he had Zane's pink outfit.
  • In one version of the episode , the video game the ninja are playing is LEGO Battles: Ninjago. In another, they are playing a video game that is really an edited version of a scene from the first season episode, "The Golden Weapon".
  • Also, in Episode 1, "Rise of the Snakes", Zane whips but it is Cole's voice.
  • In "Home", Zane is in the refrigerator talking to Kai, but in another version, he left a note in the refrigerator. Also, Kai has different dialogue in the two different scenes.
  • Most of the Fangpyre vehicles are seen in the series, except the Fangpyre Mech.
  • The location within Ninjago city where the Serpentine group together seems to be a train station; there are 3 trains, a platform, tracks, a hall where the passengers depart and enter, etc.
  • In the episode "Never Trust a Snake ", Kruncha and Nuckal are seen tied up at Darkley's Boarding School For Bad Boys by Lloyd Garmadon and Pythor P. Chumsworth. Cole agrees to let them go if they leave Ninjago, "or else" although the two are seen three more times in the series.
  • Students at the boarding school wear a uniform similar to the ones worn by students from Harry Potter, and the uniforms also have a Skulkin symbol in the upper right.
  • When the Monastery was burned down, Zane said, The training equipment, gone!, then Jay said, All our video games, GONE! However, the training equipment and video games where later seen aboard Destiny's Bounty. Although, those could have been new ones (Note differences in the two versions).
  • In Episode 5, "Can of Worms", Snikes are seen in the acid bogs with the Venomari.
  • The game that Cole likes ("Sitar Legend") is a spoof of "Guitar Hero".
  • In the episode Tick Tock, Zane turns on his humor switch and starts singing an unusual song. The song he was singing could be identified as a real song from 1899.[1]
  • In the episode Tick Tock, when the ninjas shout "NINJAGO!" to attack the Treehorns, Kai, Jay, and Cole do not have their golden weapons but when they stop spinning all the ninjas have their golden weapons.
  • In "The Royal Blacksmiths", Kruncha and Nuckal are seen in the audience, even though in "Never trust a Snake" they are warned to stay out of Ninjago.
  • In Snakebit, when Jay says to Nya that he has to go on a long walk to his parent's junkyard, hinting that she can go alone with him, Kai says "Of course we'll go, buddy!" with Cole's voice, then Cole says, "I could use a break," with Kai's voice.
  • In Episode 8, "Once Bitten, Twice Shy", Nya is wearing her dating outfit. But when she is stuck on the roller coaster, she has her original outfit.
  • The song "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" was parodied in Episode 9, "The Royal Blacksmiths", with the parody's title being "My Poison Lies Over the Ocean", a song The Treble Makers sing.
  • When the Great Devourer is awakened, the ninja rush to Ed 'n Edna's Junkyard, where they find plans for a vehicle of massive size to make the Ultra Sonic Raider.
  • In "Once Bitten, Twice Shy", on the roller coaster, Jay has a suit on. Then after he unlocks his full potential he has on his ZX suit.
  • In episode 13, half of Zane's face is destroyed by The Great Devourer, leaving his machinery visible. In a later scene, his face is back to normal, though missing an eyebrow. Later, his face's machinery is again visible.
  • In the episode "The Green Ninja" Pythor tells two Bytars and a Chokun to go underground and stop the ninja, but when they come out, there are 2 Chokuns and a Bytar instead of 2 Bytars and a Chokun.
  • In the episode "Once Bitten, Twice Shy", you can see the Falcon at the beginning of the episode standing at the table.
  • When the ninjas leave the room, the falcon is gone. However, he may have flown off, even though it never showed him.
  • In the episode "Royal Blacksmith" Cole states the Ninjago Talent Competition was organized by Clutch Powers.
  • Many times, Kai speaks with Cole's voice, and Cole sometimes speaks with Kai's voice.
  • In "All of Nothing", Sensei Wu says they will go to Torch Fire Mountain to destroy the fangblades forever, but in "The Green Ninja", the Fangpyre fangblade seems to be lava proof. Although, it is possible that Torch Fire Mountain is the only volcano hot enough to melt them, due to the fact the tour guide from "The Rise of the Great Devourer" says it the hottest place in Ninjago.
  • In "The Green Ninja", when Sensei Wu returns, he says, "Jay, did you say the Falcon was programmed?", but it was Zane who said it.
  • Ouroboros is named after an ancient snake symbol.
  • In Once Bitten, Twice Shy, the old man who tried to get in Jay's bathroom was seen in the ghost train being sprayed by Venomari.
  • In Tick Tock Sensei Wu said that the great devourer bit Lord Garmadon and made him evil. However, Sensei Wu was not turned evil when the Great Devourer ate him in Day of the Great Devourer. This is probably because the Devourer swallowed him whole.
  • In Once Bitten, Twice Shy, Skales is seen with his old arms from when he was a warrior on the computer screen in Destiny's Bounty.
  • Starting in Once Bitten Twice Shy, the Serpentine start using weapons more often.
  • In "Day of the Great Devourer", while Nya is flying the Destiny away from the pursuing great Devourer, Zane says that the percentage of getting through Crashcourse canyon (of which they are heading towards) unharmed is an extremely small percentage, to which Nya replies, "Never tell me the odds!"; which is a reference to Star Wars.

Season 2: Part One

  • In the episode Darkness Shall Rise, Kai's ZX mask is missing the top piece in one scene.
  • In the end of Darkness Shall Rise, Sensei Wu says "I feel a great disturbance in the force", a quote from Star Wars.
  • In the Ninja's apartment in Darkness Shall Rise there is a Royal Blacksmiths poster above the sink.
  • In the episode "Pirates vs. Ninja", when Jay says that they saved the city from the Great Devourer, he has Cole's voice.
  • In the same episode, when Lloyd chops the boards and the floor, you can hear Cole saying "that was the power of the Staff of Quakes", this is a mistake because it is called the Scythe of Quakes, not the Staff of Quakes. This has been used on the Ninjago website, too. They called it the Staff of Light and the Staff of Earth. Also, when you hear Cole's voice saying "that was the power of the Staff of Quakes", if you look closely, you can see Jay's mouth moving instead of Cole.
  • Yet again, in the same scene mentioned above, Sensei Wu appears in a corner when the Camera Pans Out.
  • In "Double Trouble", Slithraa can be seen on the Black Bounty without any markings on his head or torso.
  • Bizzaro Kai is not listed in the credits for Double Trouble like the other Bizzaro Ninjas.
  • In the credits for Double Trouble, Bizzaro Zane is spelled "Bizarro", the original way of spelling Bizarro's name.
  • In the episode NinjaBall Run, Kai's suit changes to his first variation in one scene.
  • In "Ninjaball Run", Lasha asks Lord Garmadon if he is going to use the Mega Weapon. However, when the camera switches to another angle, it is Spitta who is speaking.
  • In "Ninjaball Run", the Ultra Sonic Raider splits into its flight mode, just like its model set does.
  • In the same episode, if you look hard at the ninja at the starting place when they first showed Ninjaball Run, they have their first variation on.
  • In "Child's Play", Lloyd's suit suddenly has ZX shoulder armor after he becomes older.
  • In "Child's Play", at the comic store, one kid is wearing an alien clinger hat, one is wearing the Robot's helmet from the Minifigures line, and one is wearing a classic red Space suit.
  • In "Child's Play", the Grundal's full name Dromaeosaurid Theropod Grundalychus would scientifically make the creature a raptor dinosaur.
  • In "Child's Play", Zane says Nindroids don't dream. Yet in "Never Trust a Snake", he has a dream about the Green Ninja.
  • The Ninja have not been seen around Ninjago City since "Child's Play", as they got back the Destiny's Bounty. It can be assumed they left behind the Dojo, their apartment, and the Ultra Sonic Raider.
  • The Plot for "Wrong Place, Wrong Time" is entirely based off the the movie trilogy "Back To The Future.". As such, a number of references are made:
    • Sensei Wu sighs "Great Scott", a line from "Back To The Future".
    • Lloyd dissipates in the picture of him and the Ninja, a result of the end of his existence, yet another reference to "Back To The Future".
  • In "Wrong Place, Wrong Time", the city of Oroubouros appears to be intact despite being both stated as destroyed by the Serpentine in "Darkness Shall Rise", and quite truly annihilated by the Great Devourer.
  • Since the Mega Weapon was responsible for the incidents causing Lloyd to become older, its destruction in "Wrong Place, Wrong Time" should have meant the Lloyd would become a child again in the future, but this did not occur.
  • A new episode hasn't aired for 2 Weeks. One can question whether "Wrong Place, Wrong Time" was the Season Finale.

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Pilot Episodes:
Episode 1/2: 30 min.
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