LEGO Classic 10696 Medium Creative Brick Box

LEGO set 10696, Medium Creative Brick Box, is a creative brick box from the Classic theme, released in 2015. It contains 484 pieces and is not built around a fixed scene, but around open building and repeated recombination of parts.

Set 10696 belongs to the Classic theme, a range focused on basic bricks, simple model ideas and open ended building. Medium Creative Brick Box does not depict a licensed setting, a single vehicle or a specific building, but provides a general parts selection for varied construction.

The emphasis is on a pool of reusable elements that can be assembled, altered and taken apart as the builder develops different ideas.

This set is suited to free play, introductory building practice and expanding the parts available for other Classic creations. In a collection, it is best understood as a versatile brick box rather than a display model, with value coming from its usefulness across many possible builds.

Inventory of set 10696

The inventory of set 10696 lists 484 pieces, spare parts excluded: 184 different lots (one shape in one color) for 92 part shapes. The box also contains 11 spare parts, for small elements that are easy to lose.

Colors of set 10696

Main color: black, making up 12% of the parts, followed by light bluish gray (8.7%) and white (7.2%).

Part types

Most common parts in set 10696

92 of the 92 part shapes in this set have their own page on Setopedia, with their colors, element numbers and the other sets that use them. See all LEGO parts

No part in set 10696 is exclusive: each one is found in at least one other set, which makes replacing a lost element easier.

Rebuilding set 10696 from another set

Share of the parts of set 10696 found in each of these similarly sized sets, counting shape, colour and quantity:

No similarly sized set goes above 40%: the model relies on a little-shared assortment, most of which has to be gathered piece by piece.

Size of set 10696 within its line

With 484 pieces, set 10696 ranks #34 out of 67 Classic sets in our database, which have an average of 620 parts. Among the 448 sets released in 2015, it ranks #83.