LEGO Duplo 10979 Wild Animals Of Europe

LEGO DUPLO set 10979, Wild Animals Of Europe, depicts wild animals connected with a European natural setting.

Wild Animals Of Europe sits within DUPLO Town, a part of the DUPLO range that covers simple scenes from everyday surroundings. This set shifts the focus away from streets and buildings toward a natural European setting with wild animals, giving the subtheme a nature based subject.

Its format supports large, easily handled elements that can be rearranged during play, so the build is best understood as a flexible animal scene rather than a single display model.

It is suited to storytelling, animal recognition and simple role play. For collectors of DUPLO, it fits beside other nature and animal focused sets, while also broadening a DUPLO Town layout with an outdoor environment. As a display item, it works as a small configurable scene rather than a fixed model with a documented cast of characters.

Inventory of set 10979

The inventory of set 10979 lists 86 pieces, spare parts excluded: 50 different lots (one shape in one color) for 38 part shapes.

Colors of set 10979

Main color: lime, making up 20% of the parts, followed by light bluish gray (19%) and reddish brown (12%).

Part types

Most common parts in set 10979

16 of the 38 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

Exclusive parts in set 10979

6 part shapes in set 10979 appear in no other set in the catalog, most often printed elements, stickers or molds specific to the model. If one gets lost, you will need to look for it individually, for example on BrickLink, rather than in another set. Counting colors, 10 lots in the set are not found in any other set.

Rebuilding set 10979 from another set

Share of the parts of set 10979 found in each of these similarly sized sets, counting shape, colour and quantity:

No similarly sized set goes above 38%: the model relies on a little-shared assortment, most of which has to be gathered piece by piece.

Size of set 10979 within its line

With 86 pieces, set 10979 ranks #129 out of 522 Duplo sets in our database, which have an average of 69 parts. Among the 483 sets released in 2022, it ranks #372.