Destiny's Shadow has the bones of a cool villain ship, but LEGO® charged flagship money for a mid-sized build — and that's the set's whole problem in one sentence.
Is the price fair?DThirty dollars for 361 pieces and three figs is a D for a reason — you feel the gap.
Will you love it?B-The ship's look delivers more than the build does, but Ninjago fans will still enjoy it.
Holds its value?C-Retired without a fanfare and the secondary market treated it accordingly.
True ValueD
$132
Street price
$87
Parts value
66%
Ratio
The parts alone are worth about 66% of the street price — the basis for this D price read.
What you get
Plain bricks
$31
Printed & detailcalc
$4
Functional piecescalc
$14
Figures (×3)
$38
Premium you pay
Premium over parts
$45
OverpricedYou're paying well above the parts' value — $87 of parts for a $132 price.
The Full Take
The Shadow is a legitimately menacing design — dark colors, angular lines, and a silhouette that reads 'villain' from across the room. Three minifigs for thirty bucks is where things start to wobble, though, because the build itself wraps up fast and doesn't leave you with much to show for the price. For Ninjago fans in 2017 this scratched the itch, but the set was always a few pieces short of feeling premium. The play features are decent without being inventive — a couple of flick-fire missiles and a hatch, nothing that'll surprise a kid who's built a few sets. On the shelf it holds its own, but it's not a centerpiece. If you find it discounted it makes a lot more sense; at full MSRP it was a tough sell then and an even tougher one now.
