LEGO Creator 40220 London Bus

LEGO set 40220, London Bus, represents a London bus within the Creator theme, using a compact build focused on a recognizable urban vehicle.

London Bus is part of the Creator theme, where standalone models often focus on recognizable vehicles, objects, or everyday subjects. This set presents a London bus as a compact city vehicle, rather than a large scale or narrative based model tied to characters.

The contents therefore focus entirely on the vehicle and its overall appearance.

The set is suited to builders who enjoy small display models, city vehicles, or London themed subjects. Within Creator, it sits as an independent vehicle build that can be placed alongside other urban models without requiring a wider storyline, character cast, or licensed setting.

Inventory of set 40220

The inventory of set 40220 lists 118 pieces, spare parts excluded: 37 different lots (one shape in one color) for 32 part shapes. The box also contains 5 spare parts, for small elements that are easy to lose.

Colors of set 40220

Main color: red, making up 58% of the parts, followed by trans-clear (18%) and black (9.3%).

Part types

Most common parts in set 40220

31 of the 32 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 40220

One part shape in set 40220 appears in no other set in the catalog, most often a printed element, a sticker or a mold specific to the model. If it gets lost, you will need to look for it individually, for example on BrickLink, rather than in another set.

Rebuilding set 40220 from another set

Share of the parts of set 40220 found in each of these similarly sized sets, counting shape, colour and quantity:

No similarly sized set goes above 52%: the model relies on a little-shared assortment, most of which has to be gathered piece by piece.

Size of set 40220 within its line

With 118 pieces, set 40220 ranks #365 out of 543 Creator sets in our database, which have an average of 421 parts. Among the 459 sets released in 2016, it ranks #245. That is less than half the average Creator set size.