Ninjago City (70620) - We Need Money!

Ooops, we forgot to fill our wallets! That won't do - Ninjago City is just like any other business operation. Money makes the world go around and without it, there will be no crab, no comics or anything else. Lucky for us, there is a full functioning ATM here that spits out $100 bills.

And it really does spit them out. While testing it, I was able to get the machine to dispense the bills forcefully, launching $100 bills across our Lego building table. Talk about having money thrown at you!

Appearance-wise, Lego has nailed this (again). It looks just like the regular ATM's that you and I are accustomed to seeing. There is the keypad where you put in your card, enter your password, etc. as well as the large screen where you can view your information. And towards the bottom of the machine is the slot where your money will be dispensed.

Here is a close-up of the machine as it is dispensing it's $100 bills. The bills are kept loaded magazine-style in a slot behind the machine. The slot is capable of holding up to 13 bills, so you can have quite a bit of fun dispensing bills before having to reload the machine. Reloading is a pretty simple task as the whole ATM can be removed very easily to access the service area behind it.

The mechanism that allows dispensing is also simple, yet ingenious. It's really just like a long skinny finger that slides on a rail. There is a rod on one end that is shaped exactly like the dispensing slot. By sliding the green piece from right to left, this rod is pushed into the wall where it contacts a bill and slides it out through the dispensing slot of the ATM. You can see the red rubber band that helps the lever to retract after each dispense.