LEGO Ninjago Magazine Issue 139: Dragon Lloyd and the Form That Started It All

The foil pack taped to this cover holds a figure with an unusually strong claim to being the anchor of its whole sub-series: Draconus Form Lloyd, golden katana included, catalogued as L0002201. Every other Dragon-form ninja the magazine line has handed out — Jay one issue earlier, Nya later in the run — exists downstream of him. In NINJAGO: Dragons Rising Season 4, the Draconus Form is Lloyd's own True Potential, and the rest of the team can only reach it through their connection to him. Which makes the gift in LEGO Ninjago magazine issue 139 the source figure of the set rather than one more variant in a queue.

Cover art for LEGO NINJAGO Magazine Issue 139. Image via Mags Direct / Immediate Media, under licence from the LEGO Group.

The Short Version

• Issue: 139, headlined "Spinjitzu Showdown!"
• Foil pack: L0002201 Dragon Lloyd — Draconus Form Lloyd with a golden katana
• Second extra: a collectable holo card, the second one issued in this run
• UK on-sale: from the start of April 2026
• Publisher: Immediate Media, a UK newsstand exclusive
• What followed: the Earth Monster foil pack in the next instalment

Why the Draconus Form Matters Here

Season 4 spends real screen time establishing that this transformation belongs to Lloyd. He unlocks it after the Ritual of Unrooting and turns up mid-fight at the tree house hideout in a shape nobody on the team recognises. Later, in Imperium, he blasts out a wave of Life that opens the form up to Zane, Jay, Kai and Nya; Cole reaches it afterwards. That sequence is the reason the magazine line could run a whole string of Dragon-form ninja gifts at all, and it's why Lloyd's version is the one that reads as the origin point on a shelf rather than an entry in a colour swap.

Practically speaking, that gives you a clean collecting thread. If you already picked up Dragon Jay, the Lloyd figure isn't a duplicate of the same idea — it's the one the others were derived from, and displaying the group without it leaves an obvious hole in the middle.

The Holo Card Sellers Forget to Mention

Issue 139 also carried a collectable holo card, the second in a short sequence the line started running alongside the foil packs. This is the detail worth pinning down before you buy second-hand. The cards aren't a permanent fixture of the magazine, plenty of listings don't photograph them, and a fair number of sellers genuinely don't know one was in there. A copy without the card isn't the same object as a complete one, and if you're building a run rather than a display shelf, it's the difference that will bother you later.

Between the Covers

Underneath the covermount, issue 139 runs the format Immediate Media has held steady for years: a self-contained NINJAGO comic, a double-sided pull-out poster, stickers, and a block of puzzles, code-breaking pages and character activities pitched at the current cast, plus competitions. None of it assumes you read the previous instalment, which is why these still work as a standalone purchase for a younger reader as easily as a checklist entry for an adult collector.

The comic remains the quietly undervalued part. These strips aren't collected into graphic novels or reposted online, so an intact copy is the only realistic way to read them a few years down the line. That's a genuine argument for keeping the magazine rather than stripping the foil pack off and binning the rest — a habit more common than most collectors admit to.

How Hard Is It to Find Now?

Harder than the release date suggests. This was a UK newsstand exclusive, never sold through LEGO retail channels and never reprinted once the print run cleared. Newsstand distribution also returns and pulps unsold copies instead of warehousing them, so the surviving supply is only what collectors and specialist stockists deliberately held back during the on-sale window. Mags Direct, one of the main UK routes for single copies, has already sold through on this issue.

Buyer's-guide read: if you want the figure alone, loose Draconus Form Lloyd figures circulate on their own and are easy to identify from photos. If you want the issue, you're shopping for something scarcer — magazine intact, foil pack still sealed and attached to the cover, holo card present. Decide which one you're actually after before you start searching, because the two trade at very different levels of difficulty and sellers routinely photograph one while describing the other.

Start Your Search Here

Check our LEGO Ninjago collection first to see what's currently in stock, then work through the wider LEGO magazines archive for other UK-exclusive issues worth closing gaps on. If importing these is unfamiliar territory, our LEGO Ninjago Magazine guide explains how it works and what to expect on arrival. And whenever you find a listing for LEGO Ninjago magazine issue 139, ask for one photo showing the foil pack still fixed to the cover and the holo card alongside it — that's the version worth paying attention to.