Ninjago

Micro NINJAGO City

A whole skyline of nostalgia squeezed into one small box.

Brick Rated Score

3.8/5

Set 40703 · 2024

Pieces339

Minifigsn/a

Year2024

Set number40703

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The verdict

I opened this one expecting a cute little throwaway extra, and instead I got a genuine tribute to the original NINJAGO City, just shrunk down to fit in my palm.

The bridges, the stacked pagoda roofs, the market clutter, it's all there in miniature, and building it feels like flipping through a highlight reel of a decade of Ninjago sets. It will not replace the big city builds on anyone's shelf, but as a bonus build or a shelf filler next to them, it earns its spot. I'd tell a longtime Ninjago fan to grab it if they ever see it offered, and tell everyone else not to go out of their way chasing it down.

Best for: Longtime Ninjago collectors who want a nostalgic microscale nod to the original city sets

The full review

What it is

I'll be straight with you, the first thing that struck me about this one was how much city LEGO's designers crammed into such a small footprint. Micro NINJAGO City is built to echo the sprawling, stacked-up look of the original NINJAGO City sets from a decade of the theme, just rendered small enough to hold in one hand. Little bridges connect little rooftops, tiny market stalls huddle under tiny awnings, and the whole thing reads instantly as the place, which is the hard part of any microscale build.

The catch

Here's the honest part. This was released as a gift-with-purchase promotional set tied to Ninjago's anniversary year, not a normal shelf item, so it never had a retail price of its own and you could not simply walk into a store and buy one on a whim. That means value is a strange question to ask about it, since nobody paid cash for it directly. It also comes with zero minifigures, which is a real absence in a theme built entirely around its ninja characters, and on its own, without the nostalgia of having owned the bigger city sets, it can feel like a nice gesture rather than a must-have build.

Who it's for

If you have loved NINJAGO City in any of its full-size forms over the years, this is a lovely little way to keep that skyline around in a fraction of the space, and it is a genuinely fun, fast build for an evening. If you are new to the theme or you need minifigures and full detail to feel satisfied, this one is not the set that will convert you, and you are better off putting your money toward one of the mainline city sets instead.

The parts story

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

Building it feels less like assembling a set and more like assembling a memory. The instructions walk you through the city in sections, a bridge here, a pagoda tower there, a cluster of market stalls after that, and each little vignette clicks together fast since nothing in a 339 piece microscale build is allowed to be complicated. It is the kind of build you can finish while half-watching something on TV, but the payoff at the end, seeing the skyline silhouette come together, is worth the short attention span it asks for.

The standout here is less about any single rare piece and more about the trick of scale itself, familiar NINJAGO City shapes rebuilt with tiny slopes, tiles, and brackets doing the work that big archways and stacked plates did in the full-size versions. It is a fun study in how far LEGO's designers can compress a beloved location before it stops reading as that location, and this one holds together right at the edge of recognizable and clever.

Fun facts

01The set was released as part of LEGO's celebrations around Ninjago's tenth anniversary, arriving as a promotional gift-with-purchase rather than a standalone retail item.
02It is a microscale tribute to the sprawling NINJAGO City sets that have anchored the theme's biggest releases since 2014, including NINJAGO City (70620) and NINJAGO City Docks (70657).
03At 339 pieces, it is small enough to build in a single short sitting, a deliberate contrast to the thousand-plus piece scale of the full-size city sets it pays homage to.
04The set includes no minifigures, keeping the focus entirely on the architecture and skyline of the city itself.