LEGO Make & Create 6166 Large Brick Box

LEGO set 6166, Large Brick Box, is a brick box from the Make & Create theme released in 2007. With 410 pieces, it provides a general building assortment for free construction and includes a figure with medium blue torso, blue overall and blue cap.

Large Brick Box belongs to the Make & Create theme, a line focused on open ended building rather than a single fixed model. Set 6166 is not tied to a story licence, and is best understood as a supply of bricks for simple buildings, vehicles, characters or scenes made according to the builder’s own plan.

For a general brick box, the main interest is the range of elements and their ability to work with other LEGO sets.

This set suits builders who want free play, extra parts or material for personal creations. In a collection, it sits within Make & Create as a practical parts set, less defined by a display scene and more by its usefulness as reusable building stock with a simple included figure.

Inventory of set 6166

The inventory of set 6166 lists 410 pieces, spare parts excluded: 117 different lots (one shape in one color) for 55 part shapes. The box also contains 3 spare parts, for small elements that are easy to lose.

Colors of set 6166

Main color: white, making up 19% of the parts, followed by red (18%) and yellow (18%).

Part types

Most common parts in set 6166

51 of the 55 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

No part in set 6166 is exclusive: each one is found in at least one other set, which makes replacing a lost element easier.

Rebuilding set 6166 from another set

Share of the parts of set 6166 found in each of these similarly sized sets, counting shape, colour and quantity:

Set 6053 My First LEGO Town supplies 84% of them: enough to build a good part of the model before filling in the rest piece by piece.

Size of set 6166 within its line

With 410 pieces, set 6166 ranks #52 out of 86 Make & Create sets in our database, which have an average of 543 parts. Among the 194 sets released in 2007, it ranks #56.