Ninjago

Ninja Dojo Temple

Eight minifigs, a three tier temple, and honestly one of Ninjago's best value bases.

Brick Rated Score

4.2/5

Set 71767 · 2022

Pieces1,396

Minifigs8

Year2022

Set number71767

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The verdict

This LEGO® set gave me that old feeling of opening a proper base full of little rooms to fuss over, and for a hundred dollars with eight minifigs it's a genuinely fair deal.

The tiled roofs and red stockade doors look the part, and the whole thing plays hard. It isn't flawless, a couple of rooms sit empty and the shooters are fiddly, but as a Ninjago home base it's one of the strongest I've handled. If you want a display centerpiece with zero playroom mess, look elsewhere.

Best for: Ninjago fans and kids who want a full home base packed with figures to play out

The full review

What it is

There's a specific joy in a LEGO® set that hands you a whole building with little rooms to arrange, and the Ninja Dojo Temple leans right into it. You get a three tier temple standing over twelve inches tall and twenty one inches wide, with a training floor, Master Wu's tearoom, an armory, and Pixal's workshop tucked inside. The look is what won me first. Those sweeping tiled roofs and the red stockade front doors with gold throwing stars for doorknobs read instantly as a proper dojo, not a generic box with a ninja sticker slapped on. And then there's the minifig count. Eight figures in one set is a lot, and you get the ninja core of Lloyd, Kai, Cole and Nya, plus Master Wu and Pixal, both exclusive to this set, plus snake baddies Cobra Mechanic and Boa Destructor with their little rammer to smash into the walls.

The catch

I'll be straight with you about where it wobbles. For all the rooms, some of them are bare in a way that only imagination fills. The chamber behind the collapsing wall, where the snakes start their invasion, is basically empty, and it does feel like a gap the designers ran out of budget for. The whole temple is on the thin side too, which honestly helps you reach in and grab figures, but it means there's no proper staircase running between floors, so the levels feel a touch disconnected. Pixal's workshop looks lovely until you clip the roof on and can barely get your fingers to it. And those power blast shooters, the ones the box makes look so satisfying, are genuinely temperamental. You might need actual ninja hands or a small kid's fingers to fire them cleanly, and if you're the type who wants play features that just work, that'll nag at you.

Who it's for

So who should grab this one. If you or a young Ninjago fan wants a real home base to run stories through, with a big cast already in the box and rooms to defend, it's an easy yes and the value is right there at roughly seven cents a piece. It plays beautifully once you accept the fiddly bits, and it retired back in late 2023, so prices on the secondary market have climbed and it won't get cheaper. If you're after a still, pristine display piece with dense detail in every corner, this isn't quite that, the play focus shows in the empty spots. But as a lively, figure heavy Ninjago temple that actually invites you to knock walls down and stand them back up, it earned its keep with me.

The parts story

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

The build runs like a playset should, in floors. You start at the ground level with the training area and work up through the rooms to the roofs, and it moves at a friendly clip without ever feeling like padding. There are some nice touches along the way, the roof tiling gives you that satisfying repeated rhythm, and the red stockade doors are a genuinely new part in that color, showing up here for the first time. It's a thin structure by design, so you're never buried in wall thickness, and that keeps the pace light. The snake rammer is a quick, fun little sub build that breaks up the temple work.

On pieces, this is the year LEGO rolled out its redesigned stud launcher, and this set uses it in both flavors, the studded and anti stud version and the one with a 3.18mm bar so minifigs can hold it. Beyond that it's surprisingly light on recolors, which parts hunters should know going in, this is more a build for figures and playable structure than a rare element goldmine. Where the value really lands is the ratio. Around 1,400 pieces and eight minifigs for a hundred dollars at retail works out to just over seven cents a part, and with three of those figures exclusive to the box, the fig value alone makes the sticker feel fair before you've clicked a single brick together.

Fun facts

01The red stockade style front doors appear for the very first time in this set, opening onto brick built accents with gold throwing stars used as doorknobs.
02Both Master Wu and Pixal are exclusive to this set, part of why its eight minifigs carry so much of the value.
03It arrived as part of Ninjago's Mission Banner Series, rewarding kids with a collectible banner once they defeat the snake invaders.
04Released January 2022 and retired in December 2023, it has since climbed over twenty percent above its original hundred dollar price on the secondary market.