With Cartoon Network's 'Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu', LEGO has kids wondering when they can get their paws on the to-be-revealed green ninja figure, spinner and other toys. So who will wear the green, and do they deserve it?

Yeah, so I dig LEGOs. Oh, quiet — you like ‘em too. But with a now seven-year-old in the house, it’s LEGOs, LEGOs everywhere. And, of course, there are these Ninjago LEGOs around. Thankfully we aren’t talking about a knee-high stack of Spinjitzu game cards around, but there’s enough of the other stuff. So when it was revealed that there was a new Ninjago animated series on Cartoon Network,we naturally let our son watch the first episode. Then we thoughtfully neglected to let him in on the fact that it was a series and that there were more episodes. What? It’s just a big commercial, right?

As part of this new series, the LEGO folks are building up the mystery of who this fifth, green-clothed ninja will be. Sensei Wu — the leader of the Ninjago gang — made mention in the show’s pilot episode that someone would “rise up to become the green ninja.” Of course, each of the ninja boys — Cole, Jay, Kai and Zane — think they are going to be that person, because supposedly that green ninja will be more powerful in some way.

To be honest, I don’t really care who the green ninja is or really anything about him. But as I dug around a little for the heck of it, I became a bit intrigued.

I brought up the green ninja thing to my son and asked him who he thought it’d be; he said Zane. Huh, not someone new? Then he told me one of his friends thought it’d be Jay. After some Googling, I found that it was pretty even across the board on opinions of who the green ninja would be, if it was in fact going to be one of the existing ninjas. Most, however, seem to think the green ninja is going to turn out to be Lloyd Garmadon, son to the Ninjago arch enemy, Lord Garmadon.

There’s some decent supporting evidence I’ve found as to why Lloyd Garmadon would be the green ninja, even if he is completely against the ninja at this point and is son to an evil dude. He wears a green number 5 on his shirt, for one, and he’s Sensei Wu’s nephew. There are sites that show new toys coming out this summer that indicate a “Lloyd DX” spinner, where Lloyd is wearing green regalia, but I haven’t found a clear enough image to prove that to be entirely true. The unofficial LEGO wiki “Brikipedia” also comes right out and indicates “it has been confirmed that he will become the Green Ninja,” but it is not cited.

The one clue as to who the green ninja is not, however, is in the character’s eyebrows. Yes, eyebrows. If you look at the official image above, and then look at pictures of each of the other Ninjago characters, none of them match those above. However, there are two people who do. One is Lloyd Garmadon; the other: Nya.

It’s unlikely the green ninja is Nya, Kai’s sister, mostly because she has eyelashes that don’t appear in the image above. Also, there’s note she’s a new character called “Samurai X,” though I know nothing about that. However, I argue she’s the most deserving character of the bunch. She’s proven she has adequate skills, is already good-natured, and is a much-needed female addition to the official “stars” of the Ninjago sets. My son was telling me that a girl friend of his didn’t play with Ninjago because “they’re boy toys.” Wouldn’t it be in LEGO’s best interest to make Nya an official ninja, like she deserves to be?

Clearly I spend too much time on ridiculousness. Maybe you do too, and you can go ahead and vote below if you’ve read this far.

Photo Credit: LEGO