LEGO City 7900 Heavy Loader

LEGO City set 7900 “Heavy Loader” depicts a heavy construction vehicle with a construction worker. Released in 2006 under the Construction subtheme, it contains 348 pieces and belongs to the urban City setting focused on work sites and service vehicles.

Heavy Loader is part of the Construction branch of LEGO City, a theme area built around work sites, utility vehicles and public works scenes. Its subject is a heavy vehicle rather than a building, making it suited to expanding a construction area within a LEGO town layout.

The figure is described as a worker wearing blue overalls over a medium blue shirt, with a red hard hat and silver sunglasses.

This set is relevant for play layouts, display scenes and collections focused on LEGO City construction equipment. It can be placed alongside other City Construction vehicles to suggest an active work site. As a 2006 release, it represents one example of the theme’s ongoing treatment of municipal work and construction machinery.

Inventory of set 7900

The inventory of set 7900 lists 348 pieces, spare parts excluded: 113 different lots (one shape in one color) for 94 part shapes. The box also contains 16 spare parts, for small elements that are easy to lose.

Colors of set 7900

Main color: black, making up 28% of the parts, followed by yellow (23%) and light bluish gray (15%).

Part types

Most common parts in set 7900

86 of the 94 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 7900

One part shape in set 7900 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. Counting colors, 3 lots in the set are not found in any other set.

Rebuilding set 7900 from another set

Share of the parts of set 7900 found in each of these similarly sized sets, counting shape, colour and quantity:

No similarly sized set goes above 39%: the model relies on a little-shared assortment, most of which has to be gathered piece by piece.

Size of set 7900 within its line

With 348 pieces, set 7900 ranks #226 out of 723 City sets in our database, which have an average of 306 parts. Among the 192 sets released in 2006, it ranks #73.