LEGO Ideas and CUUSOO 21342 The Insect Collection

LEGO Ideas set 21342, The Insect Collection, depicts a brick built selection of insects designed primarily as a display model.

The Insect Collection brings a natural history subject into LEGO Ideas and CUUSOO. It fits the character of the theme, where fan originated concepts are developed into official sets, often focusing on distinctive display subjects rather than conventional action based play settings.

Its build is centred on organic shaping, surface detail and visual contrast suited to an insect collection.

This set is best understood as a display and collection piece for builders interested in nature subjects and careful brick built forms.

Inventory of set 21342

The inventory of set 21342 lists 1,111 pieces, spare parts excluded: 313 different lots (one shape in one color) for 185 part shapes. The box also contains 65 spare parts, for small elements that are easy to lose.

Colors of set 21342

Main color: black, making up 19% of the parts, followed by tan (15%) and dark tan (9.7%).

Part types

Most common parts in set 21342

179 of the 185 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 21342

4 part shapes in set 21342 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, 6 lots in the set are not found in any other set.

No similarly sized set supplies more than a quarter of its parts: set 21342 relies on a little-shared assortment.

Size of set 21342 within its line

With 1,111 pieces, set 21342 ranks #44 out of 94 LEGO Ideas and CUUSOO sets in our database, which have an average of 1,279 parts. Among the 518 sets released in 2023, it ranks #62.