Random set of the day: Ninja Master's Boat
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 3075 Ninja Master's Boat, released during 1999. It's one of 15 Castle sets produced that year. It contains 21 pieces and 1 minifig.
It's owned by 124 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you should find it for sale at BrickLink, where new ones sell for around $30.90, or eBay.
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Is this the First Spinjitzu Master?
@MCLegoboy said:
"Is this the First Spinjitzu Master?"
FSM does own a boat, it's possible
Ninja: (gasp) Master Wu!
Lloyd: You're alive!
Wu: Of course. I'm a ninja master, who lives life on the edge, and cheats death at every turn.
Jay: Wow!
Nya: Really?
Wu: No! I thought being dead would make you listen to me more. And I was right!
Yeah, you can't tell me that that's not Master Wu just a few centuries younger.
Put my crystal on my hat, now that's what I call a play feature.
If I follow on with @MClegoboy saying that this is Wu's dad then is his gem the realm crystal?
You'd think a Ninja Master would rate a bigger boat, something like 7416, maybe.
I didn't recognize this set at all, which is odd because I bought several Ninja sets, but the reason is because I have never lived in Japan. This was a Kabaya promotion, and never released elsewhere. Turns out, there were four Ninja sets in this promotion, and only one was available outside of Japan.
@TheOtherMike:
Large boats make you _weak_! Tiny boats teach you balance and dexterity!
I love the alternative build where he's wearing the jewel as a crown and wielding the oar against anyone who doesn't tell him that he's a pretty ninja princess.
Ninja: Has anyone ever tested you for senility?
Ninja Master: Only once.
Really miss this line, childhood fav.
Santa’s drunk.
@NotProfessorWhymzi:
Whatever floats your boat. Except boogie boards. Those aren’t boats.
Ninja master as part of the castle range... I'm confused?!?!?!
@kingalbino said: "Ninja master as part of the castle range... I'm confused?!?!?!"
Yes, the original Ninja line was incorporated as a Castle sub-theme. I don't really get it either, but, eh. It was the late 90s. Weird things were happening.
Master: "Someday...someday, I'll have a ship that flies...and four...no five...no SIX pupils..."...the REAL beginning...:D
Old brown is superior.
@Zordboy said:
" @kingalbino said: "Ninja master as part of the castle range... I'm confused?!?!?!"
Yes, the original Ninja line was incorporated as a Castle sub-theme. I don't really get it either, but, eh. It was the late 90s. Weird things were happening."
"Incorporated" is a strong word. Fright Knights (1997) was the final Castle subtheme to include minifigures from other subthemes as enemies; Ninja (1998–99) stood on its own and included a full set of factions (as did Knights' Kingdom I the following year).
Most compact version of the Destiny's Bounty yet!
@kingalbino said:
"Ninja master as part of the castle range... I'm confused?!?!?!"
Why? Ninjas were part of feudal Japan and they fought againt samurais, who resided in castles :)
Part of me questions why he’s got the gem in his hat, but another part points out that’s -exactly- the sort of thing I’d have done as a kid to pretend he was superpowered
A shame these small sets didn't make it to the international scene. It doesn't help that in the Netherlands the regular sets of the 2nd wave of Ninja didn't even appear in stores back then, making the sets with red ninjas super rare.
That ninja master was a nice figure for the time, otherwise only included in the monastery set.
"So, Sensei Proto-Wu, if the precious gem is stored on your head or on the barrel, what's IN the barrel?"
"Barrel is full of mirth. Is barrel of laughs, ha, ha."
"You know what, nevermind. Is there a different dojo around here?"
Those turn-of-the-Millennium era Kabaya sets fascinate me because that era was the height of my childhood and I would have been all over impulse purchase sized sets in my favourite themes. This guy, for example, would have been great--I absolutely wanted a sensei, but 3052 was not a high enough priority in the year when Adventurers was still on the shelf and Star Wars was first being released--the biggest second wave Ninja set I managed to get was 3050, which at least netted me the Emperor. So I would have snapped this up for sure if it had been on Canadian shelves.
But because this was pre-Internet, not only did I (obviously) not get it when it was only available in Japan, I didn't know it existed--and unlike some Kabaya sets, which I learned about fairly early in my Internet-browsing years, I don't think I ever saw this one until today.
I did pick up one of these figs a couple years ago. I "needed" him for a webcomic.
I think this guy should get his noggin looked at by a doctor. There's a strange glowing growth growing out of the top of his head!
"And as his diminutive boat spun out of control, Wu got an idea."
@Zordboy:
I don’t see what’s so hard to understand. Feudal Japan is technologically similar to feudal Europe. The people in charge lived in the Japanese version of castles. Armored warriors, sometimes on horseback, fought with swords, pole-arms, and bows. They weren’t as big on shields, but they had their own form of heraldry.
@Brickalili:
He’s having a lightbulb moment.
@Binnekamp:
I think it was just Kabaya’s voracious appetite for small sets. I had a friend who was living there in the early 00’s, when they did a SW promotion. They got the micro TIE Interceptor before anyone else. They were the only location to get the micro X-Wing before the color change in 2004. And they were the only place that ever got the micro Slave I in OT livery, which includes one exclusive print and a few exclusive recolors, so you can’t even really fake it from your parts collection.
Destiny's Bounty surely got a downgrade
Also @namekuji: Well of course he is, otherwise how else could he deal with:
-Being abandoned by his reindeer
-"Dealing" with a house under siege by mercenaries and a 'kill team'
-Coming to grips with "his past"
...seriously, watch "Violent Night"; it'll become your new Christmas favorite.:D