LEGO Technic 42151 Bugatti Bolide

LEGO Technic set 42151 represents the Bugatti Bolide as a buildable racing car model.

Set 42151 translates the Bugatti Bolide into the LEGO Technic building system. Rather than being a minifigure based car, it is a licensed technical model, using structural elements and body panels to suggest the shape, stance, and mechanical character of a racing car.

Its construction relies on beams, pins, axles, connectors, and shaped panels, which is typical for Technic vehicle sets. The finished model presents a low cockpit, angular bodywork, and known mechanical functions including steering and a piston engine.

The Bugatti Bolide 42151 suits display, careful handling, and vehicle focused Technic collections. Within the theme, it sits as a medium sized licensed car model, with emphasis on the building process and mechanical layout rather than figures, scenery, or accessory based play.

Inventory of set 42151

The inventory of set 42151 lists 905 pieces, spare parts excluded: 150 different lots (one shape in one color) for 116 part shapes. The box also contains 18 spare parts, for small elements that are easy to lose.

Colors of set 42151

Main color: black, making up 59% of the parts, followed by light bluish gray (10%) and red (10%).

Part types

Most common parts in set 42151

110 of the 116 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 42151

3 part shapes in set 42151 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, 4 lots in the set are not found in any other set.

Rebuilding set 42151 from another set

Share of the parts of set 42151 found in each of these similarly sized sets, counting shape, colour and quantity:

Set 42162 Bugatti Bolide Agile Blue supplies 95% of them: enough to build a good part of the model before filling in the rest piece by piece.

Size of set 42151 within its line

With 905 pieces, set 42151 ranks #111 out of 443 Technic sets in our database, which have an average of 658 parts. Among the 518 sets released in 2023, it ranks #86.