- “Hahaha! What a delightful surprise! More competitors for my tournament of elements!”
Elements of Surprise is the third playable level in LEGO Dimensions based around Ninjago.
Story Mode Plot[]
Shortly after the events in Springfield, Batman, Gandalf and Wyldstyle arrive at Master Chen's Arena in the Ninjago World during the Tournament of Elements and interrupt a combat between Jacob and Eyezor. Seeing the newcomers as new candidates to take part in the tournament, Master Chen sends the elemental masters to fight them. The first one is Griffin Turner who is defeated with a treadmill, then Gravis who is defeated by the use of the Shift mode and finally Karlof who is defeated by the use of a Fangpyre wrecking ball with a magnet. Master Chen sees this as cheating and tries to punish them with a trap door, only to fail several times as he keeps pressing the wrong buttons. Then a rift opens and Lex Luthor arrives in his power armor at the arena looking for the Staff of Elements, but Chen (having had enough surprise challengers) denies and escapes through a trapdoor, being followed by Luthor and the heroes.
They then arrive at Chen's underground cavern maze along with Luthor. After finding their way through the maze and fighting with Chen's men, the trio find the Elemental keystone in Clouse's snake's room, then Saruman appears with the Anacondrai Serpent, taking the keystone and using it to control the snake to fight the heroes with its enhanced powers. At the end, Saruman and the snake are defeated and the wizard is sucked by a portal as the heroes obtain the keystone and proceeded to find Luthor and Chen.
They find Chen cornered by Luthor in the Anacondrai Temple. The trio defeats Luthor who is sucked through a portal by an angry Lord Vortech, but before the heroes can process this the Staff that fuses with the Elemental keystone and Chen takes it as he prepares to attack the heroes as punishment for cheating with the powers of ice, lightning, earth and fire, but is defeated and also sucked in a portal to Foundation Prime. Gandalf grabs the staff of elements and the trio enters the portal back to Vorton.
On Foundation Prime, Vortech confronts Luthor about his failure to collect the foundation element in Ninjago, but the villain claims that he should have warned him about Batman and his friends being there. Vortech realizes that his plans might actively be sabotaged by the heroes, and he concludes that in that case he should better put some traps for them.
On Vorton, the elemental keystone is put back in the Gateway. The staff is left on Vorton since the heroes sense that it might be important as Luthor must have had a reason to obtain it.
Walkthrough[]
Citizens in Peril[]
P.I.X.A.L. is stuck in a cage in the battle with Lex Luthor and Master Chen in Master Chen's Arena. In order to reach her, you must drill through a wall behind either one of the bosses with a character that has the Drill Ability, and then repair her with a character that has the Fix-It Ability.
Rule Breaker[]
- 100,000 Studs
Abilities needed to complete the Level 100%[]
- Tow Bar Ability
- Portal Gun Ability
- Spinjitzu Ability
- Super Strength Ability
- Tracking Ability
- Drill Ability
- Fix-It Ability
Transcript[]
Main article: Elements of Surprise/Transcript
Trivia[]
- The name of this level appears to be based on a Ninjago Tournament of Elements episode, The Forgotten Element, in which Kai says to Master Chen “Hey, Chen! You forgot one element. The element of surprise!”.
- The quest The Tournament of Elements is a shorter version of this level, specifically based on the Tournament of Elements portion.
- This level has the most bosses in any year 1 level, with the 3 elemental masters at the start, then Saruman, Lex Luthor, and Master Chen at the end, totaling in 6.
- This is the first chapter where they retrieve a foundation element.
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