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“As I saw my small neighborhood disappear and a new city show up on a horizon, I realized I had witnessed the Merge firsthand. The moment all the mysterious realms I had only heard about merged with Ninjago for reasons no one's been able to figure out.”
Arin


The Merge: Part 1 is the first episode of the first season of Ninjago: Dragons Rising.

Synopsis[]

After a mysterious event known as "The Merge" shuffles the universe, an aspiring Ninja teams with a smart techie to navigate a new and unfamiliar world.

Cartoon Network Asia: One year after 'The Merge,' Ninja-fan Arin and his friend, Sora, risk everything to save the life of a hunted young dragon named Riyu.[1]

Extended: It’s been one year since The Merge when all 16 realms united and the Ninja disappeared. Arin is a self-taught Spinjitzu amateur living in Crossroads, a blended community, with his inventor friend, Sora. They enter their mech in a race that’s interrupted by a young dragon named Riyu being pursued by dragon hunters from The Imperium. Sora bonds with Riyu and discovers latent elemental powers, Arin and Sora are rescued by Lloyd, the Green Ninja.[2]

Plot[]

Snapshot 205

Arin witnesses The Merge

Arin, an ordinary young boy and fan of the ninja narrates how he always wanted to become one and help protect Ninjago. While practicing on his house gate with his parents watching, strange cracks in the sky suddenly appear and open portals with images of other realms before the portals' presence causes many objects and people to be pulled up, Arin included. As he was pulled along the debris, he was suddenly saved by Lloyd before seeing the other ninja helping others caught in the catastrophe. After they were brought to safety, Arin asks Lloyd to find his parents, and he complies before the Destiny's Bounty and Jay's mech head for the portal, only for it to immediately disappear and a shockwave to occur.

Snapshot 263

Lloyd's mask lands on Arin's hands

Upon the shockwave's fade, Arin finds himself in a field with little debris, and an unfamiliar city in the distance, which led to one thing: all the realms merging together. Concerned, Arin turned to try and find his parents, but gets no response, and Lloyd's ninja mask lands in his hands.

Several years after what was called The Merge, Arin became determined to carry on the Ninja's legacy, believing they were gone. Currently, he was in a junkyard, explaining the events to some dogs as well as wearing Lloyd's mask while his friend Sora was looking for parts, until she manages to find them, just as Security Bots catch them, but they manage to subdue them with Sora reprogramming them to dance, and they leave a pie as payment for the junkyard owners.

Snapshot 212

Arin and Sora overlooking Imperium

Returning to Ninjago City's greatest neighborhood, the Crossroads, which had been built for all of the realm's creatures to live individually. Arin and Sora live in a penthouse, where it was revealed they were using the parts to participate in the Mech Master 5000, both of them hoping to use the prize money to fund their dreams. Meanwhile, in Imperium, Rapton reports to Ras about the Claws of Imperium's latest dragon capture, with the latter telling him his overconfidence is a weakness, which he disbelieves before looking at the cage containing their capture.

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Mr. Frohicky accepts the pie

The following morning, Arin and Sora arrive at the track, where Arin bribes the registrar, Alfonzo Frohicky, with a pie to participate in the race, unaware that rival racer Kreel has a Whack Rat remove a component from their racer. Back in Imperium, Rapton sees one of the dragon cages shaking before it opens, revealing a baby dragon, who makes his getaway. At the racetrack, Sora and Arin take out the competition to reach Kreel and intend to use their booster, only for a blast to occur, knocking Kreel's racer down, and Arin and Sora discover it was the dragon, who is being chased by the Claws of Imperium. Abandoning the race, Arin and Sora move to rescue the dragon before the early sabotage on their racer, knocks them off the bridge. As they fell, the dragon faces Sora before passing something onto her, which made her hands glow pink and touches the pieces of the racer. As the hunters ponder on their fate, the racer, now a mech, rises up, before taking them down. Before they could escape, however, Ras appears, knocks them out and orders Rapton to imprison them.

Snapshot 165

Lloyd to the rescue

On route aboard a train, Arin and Sora review their situation with Arin still skeptical about the Ninja's survival, until they hear noises and the hatch on the ceiling coming off, revealing their savior: Lloyd.

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Trivia[]

  • Arin shows himself to have skills in cooking, being a pastry chef who can bake Snowberry Pies which he often uses as payment.
    • The fact that one of the scenes shows Arin using a pie as payment to Mr. Frohicky confirms the first of Kevin Burke's April Fools spoilers.[3]
    • It's likely that this aspect of Arin's character is based on his voice actor, Deven Mack, who is also known for baking pies.[4][5][6][7]
    • Mack ad-libbed Arin's line about raccoons getting to eat the pie.[5]
  • The Destiny's Bounty was remotely controlled by P.I.X.A.L..[8]

Cultural references[]

  • Ras' line, "Your overconfidence is a weakness, Rapton" is similar to what Luke said to Palpatine in Return of the Jedi, in which Luke says "Your overconfidence is your weakness."

Continuity[]

Errors[]

  • In the shot of his face after grabbing Lloyd's mask at the beginning of the episode, Arin has his teenage design rather than his child design, as he has scars on his face. stubbled sideburns, and his eyes are smaller.
  • The extended description of the episode and Cartoon Network Asia says the time skip after the Merge was one year. But it was said by the characters that it was years ago.
  • Nya's mole is missing during Arin's narration of the Merge.
  • Jay appears to be missing his freckles during Arin's narration of the Merge.
  • When LEGO released the episode in Korean on their YouTube channel, it did not have finished animation, as Lloyd wore the Core/Dojo suit at the end of the episode, instead of the regular suit.

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Translations[]

Language Name
Chinese (Simplified) 大融合:上集
Chinese (Traditional) 融合上集
Czech Sloučení, první část
Dutch De Versmelting, Deel 1
Finnish Yhdistyminen: Osa 1
French La Fusion : Partie 1
German Die Verschmelzung: Teil 1
Hungarian Egyesülés, első rész
Indonesian Penggabungan: Bagian 1
Italian La fusione: Parte 1
Polish Fuzja: Część 1
Portuguese A Fusão: Parte 1
Spanish La fusión (Parte 1)
Turkish Birleşme: 1. Kısım

References[]

Ninjago: Dragons Rising episodes
Season 1 1. The Merge: Part 1 · 2. The Merge: Part 2 · 3. Crossroads Carnival · 4. Beyond Madness · 5. Writers of Destiny · 6. Return to Imperium · 7. Mindless Beasts · 8. I Will Be the Danger · 9. The Calm Inside · 10. The Battle of the Second Monastery · 11. The Temple of the Dragon Cores · 12. Gangs of the Sea · 13. Wyldly Inappropriate · 14. The Last Djinn · 15. They Call It Doom · 16. Land of Lost Things · 17. The Administration · 18. Absolute Power · 19. We Are All Dragons · 20. The Power Within
The Elemental Mechs 1. What the Mech? · 2. The Mech Master · 3. A Pain in the Mech!
Season 2 21. The Blood Moon · 22. Shattered Dreams · 23. Beyond the Phantasm Cave · 24. Force From the East · 25. The Spell at the Waterfall · 26. To Mysterium · 27. Fugitives From Madness · 28. Secrets of the Wyldness · 29. The Forest of Spirits · 30. Rising Ninja · 31. The Shape of Motion · 32. Enter the City of Temples · 33. They Gather for the Feast · 34. Inside the Maze · 35. United We Fall · 36. Truth and Lies · 37. The Sword Shatters · 38. Clues and Suspects · 39. The Final Game · 40. Elements of Betrayal
Return to the Wyldness 1. Queen of RAGE! · 2. Into the lava! · 3. A maze of reflections · 4. Time to get Red
Wyldfyre's Stories 1. My Camera Roll · 2. Draw With Me · 3. 3 Things I Wish I Knew About Dragon Eggs! · 4. Dragon Translator · 5. An App to Track Feelings · 6. Meditation or Meltdown · 7. Bye-bye Bone · 8. Lessons I Learned in the Wyldness
Wyldfyre's Voice Notes 1. Why am I doing this · 2. So what now? · 3. I AM RAGE · 4. Desperate measures · 5. Big news! · 6. Who am I? · 7. Finding Wyldfyre · 8. Ready to return!
Season 3 41. TBA · 42. TBA · 43. TBA · 44. TBA · 45. TBA · 46. TBA · 47. TBA · 48. TBA · 49. TBA · 50. TBA · 51. TBA · 52. TBA · 53. TBA · 54. TBA · 55. TBA · 56. TBA · 57. TBA · 58. TBA · 59. TBA · 60. TBA
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