Name: Wu's Battle Dragon
Brand: LEGO
SKU: 71718-1
Rating: 88 (7 reviews)

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Recommendations

Indifference 71%

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Price Per Part (PPP)

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Average PPP for System in 2020 is 0.12. PPP for this set is 0.06, 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 2020 is 18.04. PPM for this set is 10, 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 4.63 / 5 → 93 / 100

Just2Good Recommendation: yes A → 90 / 100

Brickset Recommendation: meh 4.1 / 5 → 82 / 100

Unscored reviews

JANGBRiCKS Recommendation: meh

Little Brick Root Recommendation: yes

The Brothers Brick Recommendation: meh

Brickset News Recommendation: meh

Set information

Set ID: 71718-1
Name: Wu's Battle Dragon
Parts: 321
Minifigs: 2

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

Price Per Part (USD):
Original: 0.06
Inflation adjusted: 0.06

Price Per Minifig (USD):
Original: 10.00
Inflation adjusted: 10

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Recommendation: meh 4.63 / 5 from 16 reviews

This is a pretty cool, unique lego set. My two boy's, who are ten and five years old, absolutely LOVE Lego's. And they have really enjoyed this "Battle Dragon" set. It let's their imagination goes crazy and they have hours of fun playing as ninja's! This was easy to build. My boys and I always sit and build their Lego sets together. They love building legos and love seeing their creation come to life. I have to say that me and my lego loving boys definitely approve of this Lego set!! You can't go wrong with this either. It would be great for any Lego fan and any fan of Ninjago.

This score from LEGO is an aggregate of 16 reviewers. The snippet above represent only one of them.

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Just2Good

Recommendation: yes A → 90 / 100

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Brickset

Recommendation: meh 4.1 / 5 from 1 review

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JANGBRiCKS

Recommendation: meh by Jang

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Little Brick Root

Recommendation: yes by Christian

All in all this was a fun little set. I have some minor quibbles about the dragon, but those are really just the compromises of making the model at this scale. There is a lot of play value here and imaginative stories flow nicely from these models.

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The Brothers Brick

Recommendation: meh by Chris Doyle

Overall, this is a very solid set. Ninjago enthusiasts will want it for the Hero Wu figure, and as a cost-effective way to get a bad buy and the Ivory Blade. Fantasy fans will love the dragon, and the purple goblin will appeal to army builders. Part-seekers will be happy with lots of fiddly detail bits and useful connection elements. And at only an expected $20 price point, it feels like a good value for any of those viewpoints. Personally, I like it enough to already be eyeing a second copy at full retail.

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Brickset News

Recommendation: meh by CapnRex101

This model appears exceptionally elegant and incorporates fantastic articulation, taking full advantage of its comparatively lightweight design. My only significant issue with this model relates to its wings, which appear rudimentary beside the detailed body. I think brick-built wings would have been more appropriate in this context as they could have been fairly small.

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