Name: Desert Lightning
Brand: LEGO
SKU: 70622-1
Rating: 77 (6 reviews)

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Recommendations

Avoid 60%

A review is considereded a recommendation when its score is above the reviewers median score or if it's explicitly said so in the review. Read more in our article about recommendations.

Price Per Part (PPP)

better

Average PPP for System in 2017 is 0.11. PPP for this set is 0.1, which is better.

All prices are in $USD, adjusted for inflation. This set is compared to other sets categorised as System. Read more about this in our article about price comparisons.

PPP is a guide, not a rule, and affected by the type of parts included. A set containing small generic parts generally have better PPP than one containing larger specialized parts.

Price Per Minifig (PPM)

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Average PPM for System in 2017 is 16.03. PPM for this set is 6.95, which is better.

All prices are in $USD, adjusted for inflation. This set is compared to other sets categorised as System. Read more about this in our article about price comparisons.

PPM only takes the number of minifigs into account and discards everything else. It's a guide, not a rule.

Review breakdown

Scored reviews

LEGO Recommendation: meh 4.6 / 5 → 92 / 100

amazon.com Recommendation: meh 4.6 / 5 → 92 / 100

ttpm Recommendation: no 4 / 5 → 80 / 100

Brickset Recommendation: no 3.6 / 5 → 72 / 100

Vaderfan2187's Blog Recommendation: no 2.4 / 5 → 48 / 100

Unscored reviews

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Set information

Set ID: 70622-1
Name: Desert Lightning
Parts: 201
Minifigs: 3

Retail price (USD):
Original: 19.99
Inflation adjusted: 20.85

Price Per Part (USD):
Original: 0.10
Inflation adjusted: 0.1

Price Per Minifig (USD):
Original: 6.66
Inflation adjusted: 6.95

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LEGO

Recommendation: meh 4.6 / 5 from 5 reviews

Aside from the stickers, I enjoyed putting this set together. The new protagonist armor is metallic colored and well designed. I also like the new ninja uniforms, but miss that Jay doesn't have his signature silver armor right arm. It seems the TV series is well behind toy production, so I have no idea what is going on, but I'm having fun thinking about what might be happening. Set 70624 Vermillion Invader seems to have a larger iteration of the single tread tank vehicle in this set, and I'm curious if it starts small and grows.

This score from LEGO is an aggregate of 5 reviewers. The snippet above represent only one of them.

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amazon.com

Recommendation: meh 4.6 / 5 from 55 reviews

My 7 year old thinks this motorcycle is awesome, and it is. The baddie uni-track tank/motorcycle thing is also cool and fun to drive around.I just noticed the Amazon listing says Nexo Knights, but this is Ninjago and looks just like the pictures. I'm not sure if this changed since I bought it, or if I only looked at the picture of the box.

This score from amazon.com is an aggregate of 55 reviewers. The snippet above represent only one of them.

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ttpm

Recommendation: no 4 / 5

This is going to be a fun way for fans of the LEGO Ninjago TV series to play out the "Hands of Time" storyline, which is all about controlling time. With this set, fans can control the action and get creative recreating scenes from the show or making up their own adventures for Jay.

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Brickset

Recommendation: no 3.6 / 5 from 1 review

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Vaderfan2187's Blog

Recommendation: no 2.4 / 5 by Vaderfan2187

I am incredibly let down by this set. The play features are lacking, the vehicles don't look great, and the figures are average (as they appear in other sets). The price is alright I guess, but there are other sets at this price point which are definitely better.

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