Tales from the Monastery of Spinjitzu is a series of six videos from the LEGO website made to promote the Ninjago: Legacy sets. It is preceded by Season 9 and succeeded by Season 10. A team of painters is creating a mural of the ninjas' past victories, while the team train in the newly rebuilt Monastery of Spinjitzu and reminisce about the past.
The flashbacks are canon, but with some details being different than what actually occurred because they are fantasies, dreams, or visual augmentations.[1]
The ninja of LEGO® NINJAGO® are rebuilding the Monastery of Spinjitzu after it was burned down by the Hypnobrai tribe. To preserve the Legacy of Spinjitzu for generations to come, Master Wu is overseeing the making of a mural that depicts some of the most defining and epic moments in the history of Spinjitzu. Watch these all-new original stories to see how the ninja remember past LEGO NINJAGO adventures![2]
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It appears that the inconsistency between the designs used in the Legacy sets and how the events actually happened in the show is explained by the ninja remembering the past in an exaggerated way or having selective memory.
The movies are confirmed to be canon by Tommy Andreasen, explaining that "Two of them are set in present day. The other 4 all start and end in present day; however, the stories are memories, fantasies, dreams, visual augmentations which means they are saturated by the ninja's current state of mind and self image."[1]
Zane explains that the reason he and Kai look different than they actually did in a data log of a fight with Venomari taking place at some point during the first season is because it is a visual augmentation, and he has selective memory to make himself look cooler.
Lloyd looks and sounds like he currently does in a flashback that takes place after the second season because it is a dream. What remains consistent is that he does not have green eyes.
In Nya's flashback to her Samurai X days, she imagines the additions she would give to her mech if she had made it in the present, saying that she would have made it less bulky.
Jay's flashback to using the Nunchucks of Lightning in a fight against Pythor during the first season is a daydream.
This seems to contradict how Cole, Zane, and Jay kept their original designs in the previous pre-Season 8 flashbacks in "The Jade Princess," "Snake Jaguar," and "How to Build a Dragon" respectively. However, it can be explained because Cole didn't have a flashback in "The Weekend Drill," Zane's may have gotten his enhanced visual augmentation feature or decided to upgrade his memories to their old designs after the events of his flashback in "Snake Jaguar," and as mentioned above, Jay was daydreaming so the past was not meant to be fully accurate.
