

Did the theme change have any effect on the set, or how it was approached? Getting to work on it was a dream come true!īoth previous NINJAGO City sets were part of THE LEGO® NINJAGO® MOVIE™ line, while this latest set is part of the NINJAGO Legacy line. My amazing design team made that disappear quickly though and now I look back on designing 71741 LEGO NINJAGO City Gardens as an extremely joyful time. Wanting to make sure I designed a worthy addition to this world we had been building, I put quite a lot of pressure on myself. Naturally, there are high expectations from both NINJAGO fans and the AFOL community on a set of this calibre.

There are very few sets that have created similar universal excitement, so getting to design the third in this beloved line of modular sets was of course amazing and at the same time very daunting. When it came out, my friends were so excited for it that we all bought one each and met up and built them together, ending up with 5 or 6 cities on the same table.

Markus: The LEGO® NINJAGO® City set was a phenomenon. Was there a sense of pressure when it came to creating a successor to these sets? New Elementary: Hello Markus, congratulations on the set! The previous two LEGO® NINJAGO® City sets (70620 Ninjago City and 70657 Ninjago City Docks) both also received considerable praise upon release.
