LEGO City 60081 Pickup Tow Truck

Released in 2015, the set contains 209 pieces and includes 2 minifigures for a roadside assistance scene.

Set 60081, Pickup Tow Truck, belongs to LEGO City and is categorized under City, Traffic. Its subject is a road service vehicle, placing it among the everyday urban models used to represent traffic, breakdowns, and vehicle recovery.

The build focuses on a pickup-style tow truck, a compact service vehicle suited to city road scenes. Without additional sourced details, the set can be described as a vehicle-based build with figures for play scenarios.

It is suited to builders who want to expand a LEGO City layout with service vehicles rather than buildings or fixed road structures. For display, it can sit naturally in a street, garage, or traffic scene. Within the Traffic range, it occupies the role of a specialized roadside support vehicle, helping to add a specific incident or service activity to an urban collection.

Inventory of set 60081

The inventory of set 60081 lists 209 pieces, spare parts excluded: 100 different lots (one shape in one color) for 88 part shapes. The box also contains 12 spare parts, for small elements that are easy to lose.

Colors of set 60081

Main color: light bluish gray, making up 15% of the parts, followed by white (14%) and black (14%).

Part types

Most common parts in set 60081

82 of the 88 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 60081

One part shape in set 60081 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 60081 from another set

Share of the parts of set 60081 found in each of these similarly sized sets, counting shape, colour and quantity:

No similarly sized set goes above 28%: the model relies on a little-shared assortment, most of which has to be gathered piece by piece.

Size of set 60081 within its line

With 209 pieces, set 60081 ranks #362 out of 723 City sets in our database, which have an average of 306 parts. Among the 448 sets released in 2015, it ranks #183.