40705 Micro Ninjago City Gardens

Designer's notes[]

(Check out the notes on 40703: Micro NINJAGO City for more context on the development of Micro NINJAGO City as a whole~)

The third entry of the Micro NINJAGO City collection is another one that I didn't get to finalize, instead it was executed by the designer who designed the actual NINJAGO City Gardens, Markus Rollbühler (moriartus)

This is also the one that I think I can take the least credit of the final product, as so much has been changed from the original sketch model. Despite the actual set being much larger than the two NINJAGO City modules that came before it, we were tasked to make this microscale version to be roughly the same value as the other two as they are all meant to be redeemable rewards on Insiders, which is something I didn't account for when I created the sketch model of course, as a result Markus has to do his magic to bring this to life.

Structurally speaking, this one is also the most challenging to make in this scale, with the big empty space below the museum and also the detachable little island on the side. On the big version there's a lot more space to strengthen these parts but on this microscale version where everything is a plate or two thick, it became much more of a structural issue for Markus to solve - but of course he solved them nicely in the end, to no one's surprise haha^[1]

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