LEGO Ninjago Magazine Issue 136: Unwrapping the Spectral Dragonian Tyr
You know the ritual. Cover comes off the shelf, thumb finds the seam where the foil pack is taped down, and there's that half-second of resistance before it lets go. What tumbles out of LEGO Ninjago magazine issue 136 is a small pile of parts in colours that don't look quite right — pale, ghosted versions of a character design that ran through the back half of NINJAGO: Dragons Rising Season 3. Build it and you get Spectral Dragonian Tyr: the leader of the Dragonians, in the corrupted form the season put him through.
LEGO NINJAGO Magazine Issue 136 and its Spectral Dragonian Tyr foil pack. Image via BricksFanz / Immediate Media, under licence from the LEGO Group.
Turning the Pages: Comic, Poster and Puzzle Spreads
Before the foil pack, the magazine itself. Issue 136 runs the format Immediate Media has settled into across the line's long UK run: a self-contained NINJAGO comic set inside the Dragons Rising timeline, a double-sided pull-out poster, a block of ninja-themed puzzles and code-breaking pages, activity spreads built around the current cast, and a competition or two along the way. Nothing here assumes you read issue 135 first — each instalment is written to stand alone, which is exactly why these still work as a first NINJAGO purchase for a younger reader and as a checklist entry for someone filling out a longer run.
The comic is the part that quietly ages best. Magazine strips don't get collected into graphic novels or reposted online, so an intact copy is the only practical way to read them a few years from now.
The Foil Pack Up Close: Spectral Dragonian Tyr
Tyr is the Dragonian leader who welcomed Lloyd and his students to the tribe's village before the Forbidden Five corrupted him with a chaos-infused gem supplied by Thunderfang — a turn that put him on the wrong side of the hunt for the Prismatic Blades until he was freed of it. The foil pack in LEGO Ninjago magazine issue 136 captures him in that corrupted, spectral state rather than his ordinary appearance, pairing the elongated Dragonian head mould with the washed-out colour treatment the season used to signal chaos corruption.
That's worth pausing on, because it's the second time the line has gone to this well. Issue 131 delivered a Spectral Dragonian Warrior — a rank-and-file member of the same tribe. Issue 136 promotes the concept to the tribe's leader. Line the two up on a shelf and they read as a matched pair, which is not something you can say about most magazine minifigures released within a few months of each other.
How Scarce Is This One, Really?
Straight answer: scarcer than most, for reasons that have little to do with the plastic. LEGO Ninjago magazine issue 136 went on UK sale on 4 February 2026 as a newsstand exclusive — printed for the UK market by Immediate Media, never sold through LEGO retail channels, and never reprinted once a print run clears. Newsstand distribution also works differently from toy retail: unsold copies are returned and pulped rather than warehoused, so whatever survives past the on-sale window is what collectors and specialist stockists deliberately held back.
Then layer on the figure. Spectral variants are a narrow slice of the Dragons Rising roster, and this one is a named character rather than a generic tribe member. For anyone assembling the Dragonians as a group — or tracking the Season 3 leaders specifically — Tyr in his corrupted form is a gap a mainline retail set won't casually fill for you.
A Collecting Tip Worth Following
If you're buying second-hand, decide up front whether you want the figure or the issue, because they're two different things to shop for. Loose Spectral Dragonian Tyr figures circulate on their own and are easy enough to identify from photos. A complete copy — magazine intact, foil pack still sealed and attached to the cover — is the harder find, and it's the only version that keeps the comic and poster alongside the build. Sellers routinely photograph one thing and describe another, so ask for an image showing the foil pack still fixed to the cover before you commit.
One more practical note for run-builders rather than figure-hunters: issue 136 hands off directly to issue 137 and its Kur minifigure, and the two shipped closely enough together that stockists holding one frequently still have the other. If you're closing gaps, check for both in the same search rather than hunting them separately.
Track Down Issue 136
Ready to close the gap in your run? Start with our LEGO Ninjago collection to see what's currently in stock, then browse the wider LEGO magazines archive for other UK-exclusive issues worth tracking down. If importing these is new to you, our LEGO Ninjago Magazine guide walks through how the process works and what to expect. Spectral Dragonian Tyr isn't the flashiest foil pack the line has produced — but paired with issue 131's warrior, it's one of the few that genuinely completes something.