Among the 10 new LEGO NINJAGO® sets launched in January this year, the 71,786-like Ice Dragon with 999 yuan and 973 parts is undoubtedly the largest one.
Most of the parts in this set are built for Ninja Zan to build an ice dragon. The head of the Cold Ice Divine Dragon is a molded part, and the whole body is pure white as the main color, and some transparent blue and gold parts are embellished as details. Instead of using plastic cardboard or cloth parts to make wings as before, they were built with huge transparent parts and had a very cool design all over the body.
Outer box
The Ice Dragon is also a 2-in-1 set, and from the back of the box, we can see that the parts that form the Ice Dragon can also be put together into a mecha. Do you prefer the Ice Dragon, or do you prefer mecha?
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After opening the package, we can see that the set contains 9 numbered parts bags and an envelope with instructions and stickers, and the parts bag looks mostly white at a glance.
Minifigures
There are five minifigures in the set, Zhan, Pixal, Bone King, Bone Knight and Bone Warrior. Zane wears a white outfit, his arms and head parts are titanium, and his robot details are printed on his chest. The printed expression is hidden under the hood, but the expression of anger can still be seen through the eyebrows. His weapon is a golden sword.
Pixal's body, torso and legs have very detailed printed details. Her outfit in this set is an updated version of the Samurai X outfit, with more armor. This minifigure head part is printed with a double-sided emoji with a smiling face on one side and a serious expression on the other. Her weapon is a sword.
The Bone King minifigure is the same as the other NINJAGO® minifigures from 2023, with a red torso printed with clothing details and some chain motifs, and a ragged black cloth cape. He wears a black helmet with white crossbone ornaments. His weapon is a white bone sword, which is in the white skeleton weapon bag like the other white bone weapons.
The body torso of the White Bone Knight also has iron chain prints on its torso. But he has an extra yellow-green jaw part than the White Bone King, which makes him look aggressive and threatening. He wears a shoulder armor with a clip on the back that can be mounted on a flag with a green skull on the sticker. The minifigure has a white bone axe as his weapon.
The last minifigure is our Bone Warrior, with bandage details printed on his torso and a bone sword as a weapon.
Finished product scene
In addition to building minifigures and dragons, the set features small scenes, starting with a crab-shaped bone robot with spring-loaded missiles, the only helper for the three villain minifigures, which is a bit pathetic. Another small scene is a small building, similar to the torii torii gate in Japan, but with some additional white bone decorations.
These two extra scenes try to add to the playability of the set, but they don't really work much because they're so small compared to the ice dragons.
Ice Dragon
As for this Ice Dragon, it measures 46cm long× 42cm wide × 18cm tall, which is much larger than the other two Zan's dragons. It comes in a white and light blue color scheme with some pearl-gold parts on the toes, horns and wings.
Shenlong's full body range of motion is very good, and it uses spherical links and ratchet joints on some joints to build almost every movable part of the body. Interestingly, this dragon does not have only two sets of legs, but an additional group in the middle, for a total of three sets of six legs. The ratchet joints of the six legs are attached to the body for strong support and stability, and the ball joints are used at the ankles, so you can also flexibly perform some naked foot activities.
The head of the dragon is a new molded part with printed eye and pattern details, the head is used on a spherical link on the neck, and a hinge is used at the neck. This design is common to some other NINJAGO® creatures, and the two golden horns on the back of the dragon's head look very powerful.
The tail of the dragon also uses two spherical links, which have a great degree of flexibility, and a large pearl-gold sword is installed at the end as a tail, which seems to be a common practice for some other NINJAGO® creatures.
The wings of the dragon are transparent light blue sword parts, with two on one side, also used spherical links.
From a top-down perspective, you can see the contrast between the two pairs of wings and the body of the dragon, as well as the overall shape of the dragon, which is not only huge in size but also very handsome.
Back on the back of the dragon, two reddish-brown plate parts are used as saddle seats, where two minifigures can be placed to drive the dragon, and behind the seats are two standing banners with stickers on them.
One thing to note when playing is that some parts are fragile, and some parts are easy to fall off when touched. I had a lot of parts falling off while handling it and taking pictures. These include gold parts on the toes, light aqua-green scales on the back, and some white parts on each leg. When picking up the dragon, you should also pay attention to dragging the wings, and the links between the wings and the body are also easy to fall off, because they are only clamped on it through a simple cross shaft.
Since this Ice Dragon is a 2-in-1 set, in addition to the Dragon, we can also build a mecha warrior. The only problem is that if you've already built a dragon, you'll have to take it all apart to build a mech warrior. It's the equivalent of tearing down and starting over, which involves using all the building block parts in all nine parts bags. I don't have time to rebuild it, you can see what the mech warrior looks like from this picture.
Summarize the comments
This dragon has a very large size and also has good mobility. Thanks to the more playability offered by the 2-in-1, a set can be built multiple times to complete at least two different official models, although their styles look somewhat similar.
Dragons look cool and are fragile in some places. Overall, LEGO NINJAGO71786 Zen's Ice Dragon is a great set for kids to keep them entertained.
This 71786 Ice Dragon has 999 parts and 5 minifigures. Age positioning 10+, the official price is 999 yuan, the size of the Shenlong is 46cm long× 42cm wide × 18cm high.
*Original text from: thebrickfan