70640 S.O.G. Headquarters is a Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu - Sons of Garmadon set that released in 2018. It includes Spinjitzu Masters Lloyd, "Snake Jaguar", Ultra Violet, Nails, Skip Vicious, the Oni Mask of Hatred, a gold, ripcord-activated spinner, Skip Vicious' Oni Bike, and the S.O.G. Headquarters, with a prison cell, a large door, a workshop, and a number of obstacles for the aforementioned spinner.
LEGO.com description[]
Crash into the S.O.G. Headquarters with the Lloyd Spinjitzu spinner and claim the Oni Mask of Hatred, with this action-packed LEGO® NINJAGO® set. The dojo features spinning weapons, movable sides and an Oni Bike to attack the spinner. Unleash the spinner to knock over rivals or the ATM and to smash through the dojo entrance to release the Oni Mask of Hatred element. This building toy also has 5 minifigures, including Zane as his undercover persona, Snake Jaguar.
- Includes 5 minifigures: Lloyd, Snake Jaguar, Ultra Violet, Nails and Skip Vicious.
- S.O.G. Headquarters features movable sides for action play, an explode-function entrance with the Oni Mask of Hatred element and a ramp, spinning blade, spinning wheel with an attachment point for a minifigure, spinning hammers, ATM, ‘Sons of Garmadon' sign element, and a bike workshop with an Oni Bike.
- Spinjitzu spinner features a buildable LEGO® brick handle, spinner element with minifigure capsule and a rip cord.
- Place a minifigure in the capsule, attach the spinner and pull the rip cord to spin or roll.
- Grab the handles on each side of the dojo to attack the spinner.
- Use the spinner to smash through the dojo entrance and release the Oni Mask of Hatred element.
- Attach the Oni Mask of Hatred transformation element to the Ultra Violet minifigure to make her even more evil!
- Weapons include Lloyd's shurikens, Snake Jaguar's 2 katanas, Ultra Violet's 2 sai, Nails' katana and Skip Vicious' katana and crowbar.
- Snake Jaguar minifigure is new for January 2018.
- Recreate and role-play epic scenes from the NINJAGO® Masters of Spinjitzu TV show.
- This building toy is suitable for ages 8-14.
- S.O.G. Headquarters measures over 5” (13cm) high, 12” (32cm) wide and 8” (21cm) deep, and 27” (71cm) wide when opened out fully.
- Oni Bike measures over 1” (4cm) high, 4” (12cm) long and 1” (3cm) wide.
- Spinjitzu spinner (without rip cord) measures over 5” (14cm) high, 3” (8cm) wide and 1” (3cm) deep.[1]
Designer's notes[]
"Designing a LEGO set that works both as a great action toy and a great play set is not an easy task. That was also the case with this set.
Lot of the work went in to figuring out how to create a play space that worked with the new spinner, figuring out how it could have different activators so no matter how you shot in the spinner something happens.
As a kid I always made small challenges for my self when i was playing with my toys. I tested my toy cars frequently to see what car role the longest crashed the hardest etc. This set i designed with this in mind. It lends itself great to the idea of playing by you self with the spinner and see if you can hit the things or knock over the bike or run through the doors.
The Small bike was created as a collaboration between Dimitrios and me as a fun one day build challenge."[2]
Trivia[]
- This set is first seen in the episode "Snake Jaguar."
- The set bears some resemblance to another set, 70590 Airjitzu Battle Grounds—namely with its area-like design and the inclusion of a spinner (two Airjitzu ones in 70590 Airjitzu Battle Grounds and a Spinjitzu Masters one here).
- Spinjitzu Masters Lloyd, Zane's "Snake Jaguar" disguise, and Ultra Violet are exclusive to this set.
- Nails and Skip Vicious are also exclusive to this set, but their appearances are very similar to Chopper Maroon and Luke Cunningham respectively.
- While the other five ninja had their Spinjitzu Master figures included in their Spinjitzu Master spinner sets, because Lloyd's spinner set is a Movie set, his Spinjitzu Masters suit is included here.
- As a reference to Cole's high school clothes outfit from the Movie Collectible Minifigure series, the set has a sticker on it that translates to AC/DC, which is almost exactly the same.
- The set is built to resemble a miniature pinball machine.
- This is the only Sons of Garmadon set to include a Spinjitzu Masters spinner.
- Peculiarly, Skip Vicious is shown to have gotten the 3rd biggest bike out of all the physically released S.O.G. bikes, as Ultra Violet, who also appears in this set, has a higher status of power.