LEGO City 60420 Yellow Construction Excavator

LEGO City set 60420, Yellow Construction Excavator, depicts a yellow construction excavator within the Construction branch of the theme. Released in 2024, it contains 633 pieces and fits among the work vehicles and building site subjects of City.

Its subject is a yellow construction excavator, a familiar public works vehicle that suits building sites, roadwork layouts and other urban service scenes within the City setting.

The characters are a construction worker with dark orange shirt, dark bluish gray legs and red hard hat with ear protection, a construction foreman in a black suit with white hard hat, and a construction worker in a reddish orange jacket with red hard hat and ponytail. The build focuses on the machine, with the cab, arm and bucket forming the recognisable excavator profile.

The set is suited to City builders who collect construction equipment, stage worksite play, or add vehicles to an urban display. Within the Construction range, it serves as a main work vehicle and can be placed alongside other site vehicles, workers and accessories from the same theme area.

Inventory of set 60420

The inventory of set 60420 lists 633 pieces, spare parts excluded: 219 different lots (one shape in one color) for 183 part shapes. The box also contains 27 spare parts, for small elements that are easy to lose.

Colors of set 60420

Main color: black, making up 34% of the parts, followed by dark bluish gray (16%) and light bluish gray (13%).

Part types

Most common parts in set 60420

164 of the 183 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 60420

2 part shapes in set 60420 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.

Rebuilding set 60420 from another set

Share of the parts of set 60420 found in each of these similarly sized sets, counting shape, colour and quantity:

No similarly sized set goes above 27%: the model relies on a little-shared assortment, most of which has to be gathered piece by piece.

Size of set 60420 within its line

With 633 pieces, set 60420 ranks #112 out of 723 City sets in our database, which have an average of 306 parts. Among the 571 sets released in 2024, it ranks #159. That is 2.1 times the average City set size.