LEGO Ninjago Magazine Issue 135: Why Frak's Ninja Debut Breaks the Foil-Pack Mold
The last two LEGO Ninjago magazine issues gave collectors more of what they already had: a hooded Forbidden Five villain in issue 132, a fire-elemental reskin of Kai in issue 133. LEGO Ninjago magazine issue 135 breaks that pattern. Instead of another variant of a character already on shelves, it hands over a minifigure of Frak — the Serpentine hybrid who spent Dragons Rising Season 2 as an outsider before becoming Lloyd's newest ninja student in Season 3 — paired with a bonus build tucked into the same foil pack.
Cover art for LEGO Ninjago Magazine Issue 135. Image via Brickheads Toy Company / Immediate Media, under license from the LEGO Group.
Meet Frak: The Ninja Team's Newest (and Strangest) Member
Frak Slitherbottom isn't a background character padding out a foil-pack lineup. He's Arin's childhood best friend, the current Elemental Master of Quake, and — after washing out of Lord Ras's Wolf Clan for refusing to wear a Wolf Mask — the first Serpentine ever to train under Lloyd, Kai, and Cole as a ninja. That backstory shows up in the design: orange scaled skin, a lime crest at the back of his head, and the same elongated Serpentine head mold worn by the snake warriors, paired with a grey-and-lime ninja gi built around a hooded mask. It's a build with more in common with the snake warriors he grew up around than with the ninja he now fights alongside — which is exactly the point.
LEGO Ninjago magazine issue 135 pairs that minifigure with an additional bonus build, making this a two-toy foil pack rather than the single-minifigure format most issues use. For anyone tracking the Elemental Masters roster piece by piece, Frak — an admirer of Cole's fighting style and the only Serpentine currently on the ninja team — is a distinct addition, not a repaint.
What's Inside: A Dragons Rising Season 3 Comic, Puzzles, and a Poster
The double-sided poster included with Issue 135. Image via Brickheads Toy Company / Immediate Media, under license from the LEGO Group.
Beyond the foil pack, LEGO Ninjago magazine issue 135 follows the format Immediate Media has used across the line's run: a self-contained comic set within the Dragons Rising Season 3 timeline, a spread of ninja-themed puzzles and code-breaking challenges, a double-sided poster, and activity pages built around the current cast. You don't need to have read issue 130 to follow issue 135 — each one is written to stand on its own, which is part of why the magazine still works as an entry point for newer NINJAGO fans as well as a checklist item for collectors filling gaps in a longer run.
Why Issue 135 Belongs in a Dragons Rising Collection
Immediate Media prints LEGO Ninjago magazine issue 135 exclusively for the UK newsstand market, and it was never packaged as part of a mainline LEGO retail set. Once a print run clears out, that's it — no reprint, no guaranteed restock, and no promise a specific foil pack turns up again down the line. Add in the two-toy pairing of Frak's minifigure and its bonus build, plus his status as the ninja team's newest — and only Serpentine — member, and this issue carries more collector weight than a straightforward reskin. Anyone piecing together a full Dragons Rising-era Elemental Masters lineup will find issue 135 an efficient single pickup: one foil pack, two builds, and a genuinely new character rather than another variant.
Bring Issue 135 Home
If Frak's debut has a spot on your want-list, start with our full LEGO Ninjago collection to see current stock, then browse the broader LEGO magazines archive for other UK-exclusive issues worth tracking down. New to importing these? Our LEGO Ninjago Magazine guide walks through how the process works. Between a genuinely new addition to the ninja roster and a solid Dragons Rising comic, issue 135 earns its spot on any NINJAGO shelf.