Ninjago

Land Bounty

Nine minifigures, a rolling ninja HQ, and one snake queen worth fighting.

Brick Rated Score

4.1/5

Set 70677 · 2019

Pieces1,189

Minifigs9

Year2019

Set number70677

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The verdict

This one surprised me with how much it packs in for the money.

You get a big rolling ninja base with a detachable flyer, a hidden quad bike, and nine minifigures including the fantastic snake queen Aspheera, which is a genuinely loaded lineup. It's aimed squarely at kids who want to play out battles, so if you're after a display piece or clever engineering you'll find a few of the functions a bit pointless. But as a play set it earns its keep.

Best for: Ninjago fans and kids who want a big playable base loaded with minifigures

The full review

What it is

The Land Bounty is a mobile ninja headquarters, and the name is a lovely nod to Destiny's Bounty, the ninja's famous flying ship. In this stretch of the story the team is grounded, so instead of a sky vessel you get a hulking land cruiser that rolls on chunky wheels with gold rims. It's a big LEGO® set, measuring around 50cm long and 22cm tall, and it has real presence on a shelf or a living room floor. What makes it sing is everything crammed inside and on top: a dual cockpit, a little dojo with weapon racks, a buildable arcade game, a teapot tucked away, and a rear compartment that hides a 4x4 quad bike. There's even a detachable flyer that pulls off the top with its own sails and foldout boosters. For a kid, this is basically a whole playset in one box.

The catch

The honest part is the price and the practicality. At its original 130 dollars it was never cheap, and the functions are a mixed bag. The steering works, the shuriken slicers spin, and the spring shooters fire, but a few of the moving elements are motion for the sake of motion. The flyer's engines swivel around and look purposeful, yet they don't drive anything, and with pilot seats on both the truck and the flyer it's not always obvious what's meant to do what. A few reviewers flagged this exact thing, and I get it. The interior also feels a touch bare once you've swung all the panels open. This is a play set first and a piece of engineering second, so if you came for slick Technic wizardry, temper your expectations.

Who it's for

Who should grab it? Anyone who loves Ninjago and wants a big, busy base with a generous cast of characters. Nine minifigures is a lot, and Aspheera alone, with her mummified snake-sorceress look, is a standout that people specifically hunt for. If you have a kid who acts out battles, this thing will get played to pieces in the best way. If you're a display-focused adult builder chasing clean lines and meaningful mechanics, you'll probably admire it more than love it. It retired at the end of 2020 and has climbed hard on the secondary market since, so a sealed one is now more of a collector's buy than a casual pickup. As a loaded, playable set, though, it's an easy one to recommend.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

The build breaks into satisfying chunks. You start with the chassis and the steering linkage, which gives you an early hit of that gears-actually-turn feeling, then work up through the body panels, the interior room, and finally the detachable flyer on top. Kids in the official test group followed the instructions comfortably, and the pacing keeps things moving without long stretches of the same repeated step. The flyer is the most interesting section to assemble because of the foldout wing and booster mechanism, and the hidden quad bike in the rear is a nice little palate cleanser near the end.

For parts, the draw here is variety and minifigures rather than a single showpiece mold. The nine figures are the real treasure: the four Forbidden Spinjitzu ninja (Kai, Jay, Nya and Cole), Master Wu, and then the villains, Aspheera, Char, and two Pyro Vipers, all new for this 2019 wave. Aspheera's printing is genuinely lovely and she's the part collectors chase. Beyond the figures you get gold-rimmed wheels, printed sail textiles, plenty of gold accent pieces, and a good spread of Technic gears and connectors from the steering and function work. At just under 1,200 pieces for its original price it landed as solid value, and now that it's retired the part-out and sealed values have both jumped, which sweetens the whole thing considerably.

Fun facts

01The name is a play on Destiny's Bounty, the ninja's iconic ship, reworked as a land vehicle because the team is grounded during the Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu story.
02This set marked the toy debut of Aspheera, the mummified snake sorceress villain, who has since become one of the more beloved characters in the whole Ninjago run.
03It packs nine minifigures, an unusually generous count for a set at this size and price.
04Land Bounty retired around the end of 2020 and its value has climbed well over 100 percent on the secondary market since then.