The Realm of Shadows

The Realm of Shadows
Information
Air date	2015
Written by	Dan & Kevin Hageman
Directed by	Michael Braithwaite and Graeme Haddon
Episode guide
Next	"The Portal of Peril"

Chronological order
Previous	The New Ninja
Next	Season 6: Skybound Infamous

The Realm of Shadows is a play featured at LEGOLAND in Malaysia. It takes place between Possession and Skybound. It focuses on Clouse, who has survived the destruction of the Cursed Realm that resulted in the deaths of nearly all of its prisoners. With his allies gone, Clouse schemes to end Ninjago through his own sinister means, with the ninja embarking on a journey to stop his plans.

Plot

Kai and Nya are seen training when a teapot of Traveler's Tea appears as well as a mysterious egg. Kai then drops the egg and it hatches into Bandit, a young YinYang Dragon. Then Clouse is seen in a shadowy temple and has somehow escaped the Cursed Realm, and is planning to plunge Ninjago into darkness by using Bandit to complete a spell. Clouse tasked his Shadow Minions to capture Bandit. Kai and Nya are seen following Bandit when the Destiny’s Bounty appears and they board it. Lloyd, Cole, Zane, and Jay then appear. Zane tells them it is a YinYang Dragon.

The ninja take out their Elemental Blades as the Shadow Minions start attacking. The Shadow Minions take Bandit away, so Nya suggests that they jump off the bounty. Kai asked someone from the audience if they have a parachute underneath their sun hat, then blames that person for making them jump off the bounty, then Kai and Nya jump off of the ship and fall through some kind of rift into the Realm of Shadows. They find a trail of Bandit’s shed scales and follow it, also deducing it is Clouse behind all of it. They find the trail ends at the shadowy temple, and press down on three pressure locks and it opens the door, releasing a flood of water which Nya directs away from them. They hear the ceremony starting and they run into the temple. As Clouse starts the ceremony, they try to free Bandit but he refuses because he was turning into a Shadow Dragon. They fight off some Shadow Minions and encourage Bandit enough that he turns into a Light Dragon. The temple turns to crystal and Clouse runs off. Bandit starts flying around and the rest of the ninja appear. They find out the Traveler's Tea was destroyed and are stranded there. They then realize if they all combine their Spinjitzu, they will return home. They combine their Spinjitzu and then return home as planned.

Appearances

Characters

Cast

• Clouse - Scott McNeil
• Cole - Kirby Morrow
• Jay - Michael Adamthwaite
• Kai - Vincent Tong
• Lloyd Garmadon - Jillian Michaels
• Nya - Kelly Metzger
• Wu - Paul Dobson
• Zane - Brent Miller

Locations

• Ninjago
  • Toxic Bogs
    • Shadow Temple

Trivia

• The show was confirmed by Dan and Kevin Hageman on Twitter to be canon with the TV show.
  • Despite this, there are some inconsistencies with the TV show:
    • Zane does not appear in his titanium form.
    • Cole does not appear as a ghost.
    • The Elemental Blades appear in this show and Lloyd and Nya each have one of their own, despite the fact that they disappear after Legacy of the Green Ninja, and Lloyd and Nya never had Elemental Blades.
    • The ninja used Spinjitzu to return to Ninjago. It is unknown how they used the Tornado of Creation since the Golden Weapons were still in the Golden Armor until March of the Oni.
    • Clouse still has the Book of Spells, despite it being burned already in "The Corridor of Elders."
    • A shrunken Pythor is seen in the background, despite him being restored to his original size by Arcturus in "The Corridor of Elders."
  • Tommy Andreasen said the play is "Canon-Ish" and that fans should "Only really trust the TV show." He also said "It works-ish" and is "Kind of" canon.
  • If canon, this is the first confirmed canon installment to have major inconsistencies with the TV series, followed by the Mother Earth comic from 2020.
• Bandit is a rare dragon called a YinYang Dragon, which depending on how it's raised, will grow up to a Light Dragon or a Shadow Dragon. The Shadow Dragon adulthood path is the one in which Clouse plans to use to plunge Ninjago into Darkness.
• Nya states that Traveler's Tea is rare.
• The original voice cast reprises their roles in the show.
• The ninja wear their Honor robes despite the play debuting over a year before "Day of the Departed."
• This is the first appearance of the Honor robes.
  • Tommy Andreasen explained, "The suits were designed as a 'greatest hits' version. The story takes place before Dark Island and DoD."
• An advertisement for the Possession referred to this as "THE SPECIAL 11TH EPISODE" and "THE LOST STORY."
• On the posters, Kai uses the face of Lloyd DX from 5004076 Minifigure Gift Set.

Videos

Ninjago- The Realm of Shadows - What Makes a Ninjago?

LEGO + Lego Ninjago

Gallery

The Shadow Temple