LEGO Technic 42080 Forest Machine

LEGO Technic set 42080, Forest Machine, depicts a forestry machine intended for handling wood and logs.

Set 42080 sits within the working vehicle side of the LEGO Technic theme.

The build emphasizes visible mechanical structure, a defining feature of Technic models. It includes vehicle elements such as a chassis, cab, articulated boom and grabbing tool.

The set can work as a display model or as a play model for forestry work scenarios. In a Technic collection, it belongs with other specialised working machines, alongside construction, transport and handling vehicles, while offering a forestry subject that is less common than road cars or trucks.

Inventory of set 42080

The inventory of set 42080 lists 1,003 pieces, spare parts excluded: 160 different lots (one shape in one color) for 136 part shapes. The box also contains 16 spare parts, for small elements that are easy to lose.

Colors of set 42080

Main color: black, making up 26% of the parts, followed by light bluish gray (23%) and red (9.4%).

Part types

Most common parts in set 42080

122 of the 136 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 42080

One part shape in set 42080 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, 5 lots in the set are not found in any other set.

Rebuilding set 42080 from another set

Share of the parts of set 42080 found in each of these similarly sized sets, counting shape, colour and quantity:

No similarly sized set goes above 48%: the model relies on a little-shared assortment, most of which has to be gathered piece by piece.

Size of set 42080 within its line

With 1,003 pieces, set 42080 ranks #99 out of 443 Technic sets in our database, which have an average of 658 parts. Among the 457 sets released in 2018, it ranks #34.