43 Fun Facts About Ninjago

The ninja of Ninjago fight using a spinning martial art called what?

The word mashes together 'spin' and 'ninjitsu', and it was designed to look great as tornadoes of lightning on TV.

Which ninja is the Elemental Master of Fire and wears red?

Kai is the red Ninja of Fire; his Golden Weapon is the Sword of Fire, and his younger sister Nya later becomes the Water Ninja.

Jay, the Blue Ninja, is the Elemental Master of what?

His weapon is the Nunchucks of Lightning, and he was adopted and raised by Ed and Edna Walker.

Cole, the Black Ninja and Elemental Master of Earth, has a well-known weakness for what food?

Cole's weakness is cake: the Black Ninja's sweet tooth is a running joke across the series, and his Golden Weapon is the Scythe of Quakes.

What secret about Zane, the White Ninja, was hidden even from Zane himself?

Zane is a nindroid: in the Season 1 episode 'Tick Tock' he finds his own memory switch and learns his creator Dr. Julien built him; he later returns as the Titanium Ninja.

Before becoming the Water Ninja, Nya secretly fought alongside the team under what identity?

She is Kai's younger sister and a mechanic who builds the ninja's vehicles; P.I.X.A.L. later takes over the Samurai X armour.

Lloyd Garmadon is the legendary Green Ninja and Elemental Master of what?

Lloyd is the Elemental Master of Energy, which he fires as green blasts; as the Golden Ninja in Season 2 he briefly wielded the full Golden Power of the First Spinjitzu Master.

When Lloyd first appears in Season 1, what does he want to be?

His childish schemes are foiled by the four original ninja before he is reformed and discovers his destiny.

Lord Garmadon is which of these to Master Wu?

He is cleansed of evil after the Overlord's defeat and even becomes a sensei to the ninja for a while.

The skeleton army from the Underworld that the ninja fight in the pilot episodes is called what?

The Skulkin are the skeleton army of the Underworld; Garmadon sends their four-armed king Samukai to seize the four Golden Weapons of Spinjitzu in the pilot episodes.

The Serpentine, villains of Season 1, are made up of how many snake tribes?

Five tribes: the Hypnobrai, Fangpyre, Constrictai, Venomari and Anacondrai; Lloyd unseals their tombs, and Pythor, last of the Anacondrai, later unites them.

What is the title of the first full season of Ninjago, which aired in 2012?

Season 1 is Rise of the Snakes (2012): Lloyd unleashes the Serpentine, and each of the original four ninja unlocks their 'true potential'.

In Season 3, Rebooted, the Overlord returns as a computer virus and builds an army of what?

Nindroids: the Digital Overlord has Cyrus Borg's factories mass-produce Nindroid soldiers led by General Cryptor, and the season centres on Zane.

Ghost villain Morro, who possesses Lloyd in Season 5, was the first student of which teacher?

Wu: Morro was Master Wu's first student, a boy who hoped to be the Green Ninja; rejected by the Golden Weapons, he died seeking the Tomb of the First Spinjitzu Master and returned as a ghost.

Nadakhan, the villain of Season 6, Skybound, is what kind of creature?

Nadakhan is a djinn: the Sky Pirate captain of Misfortune's Keep grants three wishes to anyone who asks, twisting each one, after escaping the Teapot of Tyrahn where he was imprisoned.

The Sons of Garmadon, a biker gang in Seasons 8 and 9, want to resurrect Garmadon using three of what?

Three Oni Masks, of Vengeance, Deception and Hatred, which the gang, led by the Quiet One (Princess Harumi), unites to resurrect Lord Garmadon.

Which beings, holders of the power of creation, did the Oni fight in Season 10?

The Dragons had the power of creation and the Oni the power of destruction; both Wu and Garmadon have Oni heritage.

In Season 12, Prime Empire, the ninja enter what to face the villain Unagami?

A video game: Prime Empire is an arcade game whose AI, Unagami, pulls players inside; the season centres on Jay, and Unagami is revealed as creator Milton Dyer's abandoned project.

The Time Twins Acronix and Krux, villains of Season 7, command an army called what?

The Vermillion: snake warriors hatched from the Great Devourer's eggs who assemble into suits of armour; Acronix and Krux use them to build a time machine and rewrite history.

The ninja's flying ship headquarters is called what?

The ninja's headquarters is the Destiny's Bounty, a sailing junk that flies on rocket boosters; it has been wrecked and rebuilt several times over the series.

The Ninjago theme launched in which year?

Ninjago launched in 2011: the first sets and the first two pilot episodes arrived that January, and the full series followed in 2012.

LEGO originally planned to end Ninjago after how many years?

Three years: LEGO planned to retire Ninjago after 2013's 'Final Battle' season, but strong sales brought it back with Rebooted in 2014.

The original Ninjago series ended in 2022 after how many episodes?

210 episodes: the original run covered fifteen seasons from 2011 to 2022, excluding the four pilot episodes and the Day of the Departed special; Dragons Rising followed in June 2023.

The 2023 Ninjago sequel series begins after what event combining Ninjago with the other realms?

The Merge: Dragons Rising opens after the Merge fuses Ninjago with the other realms; its aftershocks, the MergeQuakes, keep tearing the new world apart.

In the 2023 sequel series, which young dragon bonds with Sora?

Riyu is the young dragon Sora and Arin free from Imperium; Sora first believed her Technology power came from Riyu, until she learned it was her own.

Sora, the Elemental Master of Technology in the 2023 sequel series, originally comes from which place?

Imperium: Sora, born Ana, grew up in the dragon-draining kingdom of Imperium under Empress Beatrix and fled after seeing how it treated dragons.

What does the name P.I.X.A.L. stand for?

P.I.X.A.L. stands for Primary Interactive X-ternal Assistant Life-form; Cyrus Borg built her as his assistant, and she later took up the Samurai X mantle.

Who voiced Lloyd for the first seven seasons of the TV series?

Jillian Michaels voiced Lloyd from the pilot through Season 7; Sam Vincent took over from Season 8, when the character was redesigned after the movie.

In which year was The LEGO Ninjago Movie released in cinemas?

2017: The LEGO Ninjago Movie opened in September 2017, seven months after The LEGO Batman Movie, as the third film in the LEGO Movie franchise.

Which martial arts star appears in live action in The LEGO Ninjago Movie and voices the ninjas' master?

Jackie Chan plays the shopkeeper Mr. Liu in the film's live-action bookends and voices Master Wu; the rest of the cast is voice only.

In The LEGO Ninjago Movie, the 'Ultimate Weapon' turns out to be a laser pointer that summons what?

A real cat: the laser pointer summons Meowthra, a live-action house cat that rampages through the brick-built city of Ninjago.

Who voices Lloyd in The LEGO Ninjago Movie?

Dave Franco voices Lloyd; Olivia Munn voices his mother Koko, and Michael Peña and Zach Woods voice his teammates Kai and Zane.

Who succeeded the Hageman brothers as Ninjago's head writer from Season 9?

Bragi Schut took over as head writer from Season 9, Hunted, after Dan and Kevin Hageman's run, and led the writing through the end of the original series and into the 2023 sequel.

Which run of the show introduced the 11-minute episode format and a new, more stylised animation look?

Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu (Season 11, 2019) moved to 11-minute episodes and a new animation style, pitting the ninja against the sorceress Aspheera and then the Ice Emperor of the Never-Realm.

The final season of the original series, released in 2022, was called what?

Crystalized (2022) closed the original series: the Overlord returns as the Crystal King, the ninja are jailed in Kryptarium Prison, and Nya returns from the sea.

The two 22-minute pilot specials that launched the TV series aired on which US channel?

Cartoon Network premiered the pilot in the US in January 2011; the two 22-minute specials were later split into four 11-minute episodes.

Production of the original series moved to WildBrain Studios in which country for its last five seasons?

Canada: from Season 11 the series was animated by WildBrain Studios in Vancouver, replacing the Danish studio that had made the first ten seasons.

In October 2024, which studio was announced as developing a live-action Ninjago film?

Universal Pictures: the live-action Ninjago film was announced in October 2024, with Dan and Kevin Hageman, the TV series' original writers, attached to write the script.

What is the name of Ninjago's fictional written language, seen on in-universe signs?

Ninjargon is the made-up script on signs and scrolls across Ninjago; each Ninjargon glyph stands in for a Latin letter, so fans can decode the signage.

In the movie, Lloyd's mother Koko was once a legendary warrior known as what?

Lady Iron Dragon: in the movie Koko, voiced by Olivia Munn, was once the warrior Lady Iron Dragon, who fought beside Garmadon before leaving him to raise Lloyd.

The Lego Ninjago Movie grossed roughly how much worldwide against a $70M budget?

It was the franchise's first box-office disappointment, taking $59.3 million domestically and $63.8 million elsewhere.

Which Copenhagen studio animated the first ten seasons of the series?

Wil Film, the Copenhagen studio founded by Erik Wilstrup, animated Ninjago from the 2011 pilot through Season 10, after which production moved to WildBrain.

Ninjago was a 'Big Bang' project built to double the sales of which earlier underwater theme?

Atlantis: LEGO's 2010 underwater 'Big Bang' theme was the benchmark Ninjago was built to double in 2011; Hydronauts was only a small 1998 Aquazone subtheme.