LEGO Chinese Traditional Festivals 80116 Trotting Lantern

Set 80116 Trotting Lantern depicts a festive lantern and belongs to the Chinese Traditional Festivals theme. Released in 2024, it contains 1295 pieces and presents a decorative build connected with traditional Chinese celebrations.

The model sits within Chinese Traditional Festivals, a theme focused on customs, objects and scenes associated with Chinese celebrations. Trotting Lantern is best understood as a festive display piece, rather than a conventional building, vehicle or location based playset.

The set contains 1295 pieces and 5 minifigures. The provided French Amazon title refers to a compatible LED lighting kit and does not describe the official contents of the set.

This set is aimed at builders who enjoy display models, seasonal arrangements and collecting within Chinese Traditional Festivals. In that theme it can be placed as a built ornamental object, complementing more scene based festival sets while keeping a distinct focus on the lantern itself.

Inventory of set 80116

The inventory of set 80116 lists 1,295 pieces, spare parts excluded: 251 different lots (one shape in one color) for 176 part shapes. The box also contains 36 spare parts, for small elements that are easy to lose.

Colors of set 80116

Main color: red, making up 32% of the parts, followed by pearl gold (18%) and bright light orange (10%).

Part types

Most common parts in set 80116

148 of the 176 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 80116

8 part shapes in set 80116 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. Counting colors, 9 lots in the set are not found in any other set.

Rebuilding set 80116 from another set

Share of the parts of set 80116 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 80116 within its line

With 1,295 pieces, set 80116 ranks #8 out of 32 Chinese Traditional Festivals sets in our database, which have an average of 786 parts. Among the 571 sets released in 2024, it ranks #62.