It's only outdated by the fact that it needed to be built from a kit and that it uses wood.  With the flook of cheap ARF's that has occured in the last two decades the folks that just wanted to fly stopped buying kits.  And those that enjoy building didn't generally buy kits in the first place.  So that's why it's hard to find such things now.


As a design it's still as good as it ever was.  Which means that while its performace likely can't match most of the nicer and very pricey glass bagged stuff it will likely outdo most, if not all, of the soft molded foam models.  But having said that it's still a case of matching what you want in a model to your slope.  Heavy and strong to suit big lift large area slopes to smaller and lighter to suit light lift slopes.  If the Ninja fits in size and weight wise to what is normally flown at your area then you'll enjoy the model.