Ninjago

The Temple Bounty

The next great Ninjago flagship, packed with clever tricks and a big shelf presence.

4.5/5

Set 71848 · 2025

Pieces2,388

Minifigs6

Year2025

Set number71848

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The verdict

If you love the Ninjago ships and you want the current flagship, this one's an easy yes.

It's a genuinely fun 2,388-piece build with a gear-driven sail mechanism, hidden interiors, and a secret computer that folds out of a table, plus six figures to crew it. Just go in knowing it's a $200 set with a chunk of stickers, and it eats a lot of shelf space once it's done.

Best for: Ninjago fans who want the current flagship ship as a display centerpiece

The full review

Right, let's talk about the Temple Bounty, because if you've followed Ninjago at all you know a new flagship ship is a big deal. This is the latest in that long line of famous Bounties, the airship that Wyldfyre ends up captaining in the Dragons Rising show, and this LEGO® set gives you a 2,388-piece version with a display stand baked in. It's the kind of set that turns a shelf into a scene. Sails, layered decks, a proper hull, the works. The community clearly agrees too, with a Brickset rating sitting around 4.5 out of 5 across dozens of votes, which is high for a licensed play set.

What makes it fun isn't just the size, it's how much is going on. There's a gear you turn to open and close the sails, roofs and floors that lift away so you can actually get your hands inside, a little sushi bar tucked in the cabin, and a table that folds up to reveal a secret computer. There's even a translucent reveal blade the ninja share that uncovers a hidden map on the captain's table. It's playful in the way the best Ninjago sets are, and it never feels like you're just stacking bricks to hit a piece count.

Now the honest bit. This is a $199.99 set, and it sits right up near the top of what Ninjago asks for. For that money, the sticker count stings a little. Several reviewers pointed out that spots which really should've been printed parts are stickers instead, and at this price that's a fair gripe. The other thing nobody warns you about is scale. This thing is roughly 58cm long and pushing 49cm tall, so once it's built you need to actually have somewhere to put it. It's not a set you casually shove on a crowded shelf.

So who's it for? If you're a Ninjago fan who wants the current headline ship as a centerpiece, or you're building out a fleet next to older Bounties, grab it and enjoy it. Kids will love the play features, and older builders will appreciate the techniques hiding in the hull. If you're just after piece-count value or you're tight on display space, this probably isn't the one to stretch for. But as a fun, feature-packed flagship that looks the part, it more than earns its spot, and with retirement locked in for mid-2026 it's not going to hang around forever.

The parts story

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

The build runs across 17 numbered bags, and it's paced like a proper adventure. You start with the hull and that lower structure, which gives you the satisfying skeleton early, then work up through the decks and cabins where all the hidden interior stuff lives. The clever bit is how the roofs and floors are engineered to lift away cleanly, so you're constantly building sections that have to look good and also come apart for play. The geared sail mechanism is the standout technical moment, a little gearbox that actually drives the rigging, and there are enough NPU (nice part usage) tricks in the shaping of the hull to keep experienced builders grinning. It's challenging in a good way, well-structured, and never a slog.

On parts, the headline pieces are the sails and the big curved hull elements that give the ship its silhouette, plus the printed captain's table and that translucent reveal blade that uncovers a hidden map. Six minifigures round it out: Nya, Zane, Cole, Wyldfyre and Jay crewing the deck, with Zarkt as the villain, and two of the figures are exclusive to this set. The part-count value is decent at roughly 8.4 cents per piece against the $199.99 RRP, though a good few of those parts are big shaped elements rather than useful small bricks. And yes, the sticker sheet is the sore spot, since at this price a chunk of those decorated surfaces really deserved to be printed.

Fun facts

01The Temple Bounty is the newest entry in Ninjago's long line of Bounty ships, and in the Dragons Rising show it's the airship Roby gifts to Wyldfyre after she helps save his life.
02The set is big by any measure, standing about 49cm tall, 58cm long and 26cm wide once it's built, which is why the included display stand is genuinely useful.
03All the ninja share a single translucent reveal blade that uncovers a hidden map on the captain's table, a neat little gimmick baked into the play features.
04Its show design deliberately echoes the Legacy Destiny's Bounty, right down to reusing the same door design, tying the new flagship back to the classic ship fans grew up with.