LEGO Technic 42076 Hovercraft

LEGO Technic set 42076, Hovercraft, depicts a hovercraft built in the mechanical style associated with the Technic theme.

Hovercraft sits within LEGO Technic, a theme focused on vehicles, structures and construction methods that make mechanical form part of the model’s identity. The subject is a hovercraft, a vehicle type that differs from the road cars, trucks and construction machines often seen in the theme. That gives the set a more specialised transport profile.

The set uses 1020 Technic pieces, including the beam, axle, connector and panel based building language typical of the range. The model’s hull shape, surrounding skirt area and propulsion related sections help communicate the hovercraft subject while keeping the build within the functional Technic style.

This set suits builders looking for a Technic vehicle outside the most common land based categories. It can be used for play or displayed alongside other Technic transport models.

Inventory of set 42076

The inventory of set 42076 lists 1,020 pieces, spare parts excluded: 140 different lots (one shape in one color) for 103 part shapes. The box also contains 13 spare parts, for small elements that are easy to lose.

Colors of set 42076

Main color: black, making up 39% of the parts, followed by light bluish gray (16%) and blue (13%).

Part types

Most common parts in set 42076

102 of the 103 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 42076

One part shape in set 42076 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 42076 from another set

Share of the parts of set 42076 found in each of these similarly sized sets, counting shape, colour and quantity:

Set 42082 Rough Terrain Crane supplies 66% of them: enough to build a good part of the model before filling in the rest piece by piece.

Size of set 42076 within its line

With 1,020 pieces, set 42076 ranks #97 out of 443 Technic sets in our database, which have an average of 658 parts. Among the 457 sets released in 2018, it ranks #29.