LEGO Ninjago #9561 Kai ZX Review

Theme: Ninjago
Name: Kai ZX
S/N: #9561
Year: 2012
Pieces: 21
Minifig: 1
Price: RM34.90, USD9.99, GBP7.49

Cardboard

No idea what to call to call this, since it is not a box and not a polybag, guess I just call it cardboard. For the art, we got two blue snake printed on the green ninja themed art. You can see the spinner, the crown, the weapons and one of the card that you received from this set. The back advertise some other spinners set and the customization of your spinner.

Content

The set comes with spinner, crown, bag of bricks, cards and two sheets of paper which one of them teach you how to play and the other one, which I have forgotten what is it about. There are no instructions given on how to assemble your spinners and weapon as you can learn them from the packaging.

Accessories

The dragon sword attracted me to buy this set, since I thought I cannot find any of the sword in Bricklink, so I bought this set. Also one of the weapon parts are different with the one printed on the box art, the brown stick that is.

Minifig

We have Kai ZX here, this is the first time I own Kai ZX since I do not have the blade cycle. The torso was printed both side like other ZX minifigs, and the leg is printed too. I just like the shoulder guard which allows you to hold the katana, but in this case here, he got no katana other than the dragon sword which cannot fit in.

Spinner and Crown

Both the spinner and crown are printed with patterns that resemble their elements. Fine print I would said.

Here's some part to upgrade your spinner, if you have the card to do that, usually in booster pack? Not too sure about it.

Cards

Here's the card you will be getting and one of them is shiny one. Is more like randomly selected one compare to the booster pack. Frost Bite is the shiny one.

Completed model

No idea how to play with the cards plus we need an arena, otherwise is very hard to for those two spinners to touch each other and continue go close each other. Win or lose, is very much depends on your spinner, for this Kai ZX of mine, the spinner grip the minifigs tightly.

Playability: 6/10 If you have friend to play with you, then it should have some playability.

Building experience: -/- Learn to make your weapons.

Parts: 6/10 Nice minifigs, cards and weapons.

Value for money: 10/10 The price is around the same with the United States, so go grab it!

Overall: 7/10 Affordable and good quality minifigs.