We had just gotten some Ninjago Time Blades and a Wizard’s hat, so the boys wanted this set’s main character to be a Time Wizard. He stands on top of a tower with large rotating blades crackling with ice lightning that power portals to different dimensions. These doorways are found all over his tower. One has a giant dragon head with rock crystals in its jaws. Paco built a heavy swinging door with a pink flask as its hinge. There is a small water corridor at the bottom guarded by Orion that links the tower to Nya’s Waterfall. Among the Time Wizard’s basement clutter is a silver key that unlocks a forgetten door.

Matti likes making books out of stacked square jumper plates, an idea he got from the Galileo Ideas set. So we built a bookshelf into the Wizard’s office on the third level. To make this bookshelf extra magical, we included a thick book with dragon eyes and multi-colored potions. We had fun building the wizard’s busy desk, which had crystals, an inkwell, a map, and a stein of butter beer cluttered over it. The Time Wizard also has a ghostly assistant to watch over his workspace.

He was also fascinated when he discovered that the anchor piece fits into a stud shooter. We found a place in the basement to place his anchor launcher where it would guard the Wizard’s chest that hides treasure and a gilded time hourglass.