Ninjago

Micro NINJAGO Docks

A tiny harbor that packs the whole city vibe into your palm

Brick Rated Score

3.6/5

Set 40704 · 2024

Pieces275

Minifigsn/a

Year2024

Set number40704

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The verdict

I love how much personality got squeezed into something you could set on a coffee coaster.

The crane actually pivots, there is a little boat bobbing at the dock, and someone thought to add balloons drifting overhead like it is festival day in Ninjago City. It will not blow anyone away as a display centerpiece on its own, but as a companion piece next to the bigger Ninjago City builds it earns its little patch of shelf. Get it if you already collect the micro city sets or you want a quick, cheerful build with your kid on a rainy afternoon.

Best for: Ninjago City micro-build collectors who want the harbor piece to sit next to their bigger sets

The full review

What it is

This one is a companion to the bigger Micro Ninjago City wave, and it is exactly what it sounds like, a harbor scene shrunk down to fit in two hands. You get a little boat at the dock, a crane that actually swings, and a scatter of balloons overhead that gives the whole thing a festival feeling rather than a sterile miniature. I genuinely smiled putting the crane together, it is a small mechanism but it works, and that kind of tiny functioning detail is what makes microscale builds worth doing at all.

The catch

I will be straight with you about what this is not. It is not a big display piece, it will not anchor a shelf on its own, and there are no minifigs riding along, so if you wanted a ninja standing on that dock you will need to borrow one from another set. It also was not a normal shop purchase, LEGO handed this out through the Insiders Rewards program in 2024, which means the people who missed that window are now paying resale prices for what is, at its core, a modest 275 piece build. That math will bother some collectors more than others.

Who it's for

If you already have the larger Micro Ninjago City set or any of its neighbors, this is a nice, cheap looking way to round out the harbor district, and it is a genuinely fun ten minute build to hand a kid who wants to finish something start to finish in one sitting. If you are hunting for a standalone Ninjago centerpiece with minifigs to play with, skip this one and put your money toward a proper play set instead.

The parts story

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

Building it is fast and light on your hands, which is honestly part of the charm. There is no long sorting slog here, you are moving quickly from a flat baseplate to a recognizable little dock scene, and the crane subassembly is the one moment where you slow down and pay attention because the pivot has to sit just right to swing freely afterward.

The standout pieces are the small mechanical ones doing outsized work, the crane arm and its pivot point, plus the little boat hull that reads instantly as a boat despite being built from only a handful of parts. The balloon cluster is a nice bit of microscale trickery too, giving vertical interest to what could have been a flat little diorama. At 275 pieces there is not much filler, most of what is in the box is doing visible work in the final scene, which is the right way to build a set this small.

Fun facts

01It was distributed as a LEGO Insiders Rewards exclusive starting in April 2024 rather than sold as a normal retail set.
02It belongs to the Micro Ninjago City subtheme, arriving as a companion to the larger 40703 Micro Ninjago City set that LEGO promoted earlier the same year.
03The finished model measures roughly 10 by 10 by 6 centimeters, small enough to sit on a coaster.
04It ships with zero minifigures, which is unusual even for a small gift set and a point Brickset members frequently note in their comments.