Jay comes with a cool spinner mechanic, but $9.99 for 72 pieces with basically no resale floor is a tough sell unless your kid is deep in the Ninjago phase.
The parts alone are worth about 48% of the MSRP — the basis for this C- price read.
Figures aren’t in the price read yet — that’s an estimate until we price them for real.
OverpricedYou're paying well above the parts' value — $5 of parts for a $10 price.
FiguresThe price read counts the bricks; the figures add an estimated $3 more (real figure pricing coming).
The Spinjitzu Slam sets had a fun gimmick — launch your ninja into a target and watch it scatter — but the execution here is thin. Jay is the draw, and the minifig is solid, but the build itself is barely a warm-up. At $9.99 this should feel like a no-brainer impulse buy; instead it feels like LEGO® charging full rate for half a set. The spinner mechanic is more toy than building experience, which splits the audience awkwardly — builders won't be satisfied and display collectors have almost nothing to work with. It's the kind of set that lives in a kid's collection for a week before getting cannibalized for parts. If Jay is your kid's favorite ninja it has a moment; otherwise this one's easy to skip.