LEGO Technic 8052 Container Truck

LEGO Technic set 8052, Container Truck, depicts a container truck within the Technic theme.

Container Truck sits in the LEGO Technic theme as a transport vehicle rather than a racing car or a licensed subject. Its focus is the form of a truck intended to carry a container, which fits Technic’s emphasis on structure, connectors, axles and visible mechanical construction.

The build is based on typical Technic elements such as beams, pins, axles and structural components.

It is suited to builders and collectors who want a Technic vehicle with a practical transport theme. It can be displayed with other Technic vehicles or placed in a collection focused on trucks, service vehicles and logistics related models within the broader Technic range.

Inventory of set 8052

The inventory of set 8052 lists 686 pieces, spare parts excluded: 100 different lots (one shape in one color) for 84 part shapes. The box also contains 10 spare parts, for small elements that are easy to lose.

Colors of set 8052

Main color: black, making up 30% of the parts, followed by light bluish gray (26%) and blue (21%).

Part types

Most common parts in set 8052

82 of the 84 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 8052

One part shape in set 8052 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.

Rebuilding set 8052 from another set

Share of the parts of set 8052 found in each of these similarly sized sets, counting shape, colour and quantity:

Set 8297 Off-Roader supplies 65% of them: enough to build a good part of the model before filling in the rest piece by piece.

Size of set 8052 within its line

With 686 pieces, set 8052 ranks #154 out of 443 Technic sets in our database, which have an average of 658 parts. Among the 227 sets released in 2010, it ranks #36.