LEGO Technic 42024 Container Truck

LEGO Technic set 42024, Container Truck, depicts a container lorry built in the mechanical style associated with the Technic theme.

Set 42024 belongs to the Technic theme and represents a truck used to carry a container. Its subject fits the line’s long running interest in utility vehicles, where the frame, bodywork, and technical construction are more central than character based play or licensed storytelling.

The model is built from 948 pieces, using typical Technic parts such as beams, axles, connectors, and panels to form the truck, cab, and container.

It suits builders interested in trucks, transport equipment, and Technic construction. The finished model can be used for play or displayed with other Technic vehicles. Within the theme, it sits naturally among road haulage and work vehicle subjects, offering a different emphasis from racing cars or fantasy based models.

Inventory of set 42024

The inventory of set 42024 lists 948 pieces, spare parts excluded: 121 different lots (one shape in one color) for 98 part shapes. The box also contains 13 spare parts, for small elements that are easy to lose.

Colors of set 42024

Main color: light bluish gray, making up 25% of the parts, followed by black (22%) and blue (15%).

Part types

Most common parts in set 42024

96 of the 98 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 42024

One part shape in set 42024 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. Counting colors, 2 lots in the set are not found in any other set.

Rebuilding set 42024 from another set

Share of the parts of set 42024 found in each of these similarly sized sets, counting shape, colour and quantity:

Set 42043 Mercedes-Benz Arocs 3245 supplies 72% of them: enough to build a good part of the model before filling in the rest piece by piece.

Size of set 42024 within its line

With 948 pieces, set 42024 ranks #106 out of 443 Technic sets in our database, which have an average of 658 parts. Among the 478 sets released in 2014, it ranks #24.