LEGO City 60196 Arctic Supply Plane

LEGO City 60196, Arctic Supply Plane, depicts a supply aircraft used for polar missions in the City Arctic line.

Arctic Supply Plane focuses on logistics within a polar expedition setting, a familiar subject for City Arctic. Rather than presenting a fixed base, the set centers on air transport and the movement of people and equipment across an arctic environment.

Its main build is a substantial aircraft model, supported by mission related elements that allow a supply and exploration scene to be arranged.

It is suited to builders who want to expand a City Arctic display with an important air vehicle, while still keeping strong play value. Among sets from the same subtheme, it functions as a logistics and transport entry, complementing ground vehicles and field exploration crews.

Inventory of set 60196

The inventory of set 60196 lists 707 pieces, spare parts excluded: 243 different lots (one shape in one color) for 197 part shapes. The box also contains 24 spare parts, for small elements that are easy to lose.

Colors of set 60196

Main color: black, making up 24% of the parts, followed by light bluish gray (17%) and orange (16%).

Part types

Most common parts in set 60196

178 of the 197 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 60196

One part shape in set 60196 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.

No similarly sized set supplies more than a quarter of its parts: set 60196 relies on a little-shared assortment.

Size of set 60196 within its line

With 707 pieces, set 60196 ranks #90 out of 723 City sets in our database, which have an average of 306 parts. Among the 457 sets released in 2018, it ranks #57. That is 2.3 times the average City set size.