including shipping this is how much i got them all for
book 1, bought in december: 13.48 usd off thriftbooks (good quality, no noticeable marks)
book 2, bought in january: 20.78 usd off thriftbooks (good quality overall, a bit of writing on inside cover)
book 3, arrived today: 41.09 usd off abebooks (quality VERY used, former library book, but still completely readable. some tiny white scuffs on most pages and a few pages are held in with clear tape. the actual price of the book was only 8 usd but i got it shipped from the uk.)
so in total: 75.35 usd, or 103 cad.
the one thing i have to say about these books as like. an explanation for why they're so hard to find? they did NOT need to be 3 whole hardcovers. half the pagecount of EVERY BOOK is just screencaps from the show recapping previous seasons. so the actual amount of content that makes up the graphic novel portion couldve easily just been 1 or 2 books or smaller comics.
but anyway for someone whose biggest ninjago brainrot revolves around skybound and is writing a fic that rewrites the events of the dark island trilogy, i am extremely happy to have physical copies of these books
These were supposed to be frames for the start of an animation I was gonna make but then went “yeahhhh, no I don’t have motivation for this womp womp” (morro-centric animation too SOBS)