- Acting for Two: Like Will Ferrell in The LEGO Movie, Jackie Chan appears in both animated and live-action, as the voice of Master Wu, and the actor of Mr. Liu.
- Actor-Inspired Element: The duel between Master Wu and Lord Garmadon incorporates some of Jackie Chan's Signature Style, as he worked as both a cast member and a fight choreographer on the movie.
- Box Office Bomb: Budget, $70 million. Gross, $59 million (domestic), $123 million (worldwide). Notably the first box-office bomb from WB's current animation studio. As a likely consequence of this, no one from Ninjago appears in The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part, which does supplement the return of the original's main characters with cameos of supporting characters from The LEGO Batman Movie and Unikitty!.
- Cross-Dressing Voices: Lloyd is voiced by a woman in the Japanese version, Eriko Matsui, who also voiced him in his TV show incarnation. Strangely, this also applies to Cole in the same dub, who is voiced by Fuko Saito, again being the same actress as in the show.
- Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: For some reason, a plot description of the movie is 'completely' different from what actually happens in in it, mentioning the character of Ronin from the show, the elemental masters, skeletons, and ghost warriors, all references to the TV series.
- Dawson Casting: Actors in their 30s-early 50s voice high-schoolers.
- Enforced Method Acting: Dave Franco started crying
while recording some of Lloyd's dialogue to Garmadon, and these emotionally raw takes made it into the final film. - Franchise Killer: This movie's failure was the first in a series of dominoes that ended the LEGO movie series. It led to Warner Bros. cancelling two more planned LEGO spin-offs (a sequel to The LEGO Batman Movie and a standalone movie called The Billion Brick Race) in order to focus on Looney Tunes and Hanna-Barbera movies. The only LEGO movie that remained in production was The LEGO Movie 2, which managed to earn back its budget but was still seen as a disappointment, causing Warner Bros. to terminate the series.
- The Other Darrin: Due to the film's recording being based in the United States, all of the characters have been recast.
- Only taking The LEGO Movie spin-offs into account, it doesn't sound like Dave Franco voiced Lloyd during the first time the character spoke in one, the 2014 short Enter the Ninjago.note
- In the Japanese dub, Master Wu, despite being voiced by Jackie Chan in the original version, is not dubbed by Hiroya Ishimaru, Jackie Chan's official voice actor in Japan, but by a very different voice actor this time (Kazuya Ichijō). This is the first time in basically decades that someone else other than Ishimaru has done the Japanese dub of a movie starring Chan. The store clerk in the live action segments is voiced by Ishimaru, however.note
- The Latin American Spanish dub is similar, as Arturo Mercado is Jackie Chan's semi-official voice actor in Mexico, but Carlos Segundo (best known as Piccolo) dubbed Chan's role in this movie. Also, Alejandro Villeli (the voice of Master Wu in the series) only did his voice in two teasers - for unknown reasons, he wasn't called again unlike most of his castmates.
- In the Italian dub, Davide Perino voices Lloyd instead of Andrea Di Maggio. He is the only character whose voice actor is not the one from the TV series.
- Similar to LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2, the video game adaptation replaces everybody with non-union British talent, due to the then-ongoing American voice actor union strike. As a result, the cutscenes that use footage from the movie has the dialogue redubbed by the British actors for the characters in the footage as well for consistency.
- Release Date Change: Warner originally announced a September 2016 premiere, before pushing it back to September 21, 2017 in favor of The LEGO Batman Movie.
- Role Reprise:
- In the Latin American dub, Humberto Solórzano (Lord Garmadon), Carlos Hernández (Kai), Jaime Alberto Carrillo (Jay), Enzo Fortuny (Cole) and Roberto Mendiola (Zane) reprised their roles from the TV series.
- In the Italian dub, everyone but Lloyd has the same voice actor as in the TV series.
- In the Japanese dub, everyone has the same voice actors as in the TV series, except for Garmadon, who is now voiced by Kōichi Yamadera instead of Kazuya Ichijō note , and Misako "Koko", who is now voiced by Miyuki Sawashiro. The latter case can be explained by the movie having a different take on Misako's character.
- So My Kids Can Watch: Michael Peña accepted the role of Kai due to his son's love of the Ninjago TV show.
- Spoiled by the Merchandise: Misako's combat capability is spoiled in the second wave of the toyline based off the film, freely showing her off helping the heroes. Pictures of her Lady Iron Dragon minifigure appeared before the movie premiered.
- Throw It In!: The cast improvised several jokes, including Garmadon's phonetic pronunciation of Lloyd's name.
- Troubled Production: Nothing confimed yet, but noticing the crew is based on three directors (Only one was interviewed), six producers, six screenwriters, seven story writers and five editors, one could tell it had a very messy production.
- According to an animator who claims to have worked on this film (in the pinned comment here), there was a problem that the story changed several times during the development of the film. This could be backed up by one of the directors, Charlie Bean, who stated here that this movie went through several iterations and versions before it could make it to the final version.
- According to an animator who claims to have worked on this film (in the pinned comment here
- Voices in One Room: The main cast recorded their dialogue together (which is actually pretty rare for animated theatrical films with celebrity voice actors), in order to get a feel of the characters' dynamics and interactions.
- What Could Have Been: One early draft had the ninjas traveling back in time to try and prevent Garmadon from being bitten by the Great Devourer in the first place.
- You Look Familiar: Dave Franco voiced one of the construction workers in the first LEGO Movie, Wally.
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