LEGO Technic 8109 Flatbed Truck

LEGO Technic set 8109, “Flatbed Truck”, depicts a flatbed truck in the functional building style associated with Technic.

Set 8109 belongs to the Technic theme and focuses on a road service vehicle. The flatbed truck subject suits Technic’s emphasis on structure and mechanical building, with the model defined by the vehicle itself rather than by a character driven setting or licensed story context.

Its build is centered on the truck, including the cab, the flatbed area and the technical assemblies needed to represent a working utility vehicle.

Flatbed Truck is aimed at builders who collect or use Technic vehicles, especially service trucks and mechanical road models. It can work as a display model, a hands on Technic build or part of a broader Technic vehicle collection. Within the theme, it sits with function led models rather than figure based playsets.

Inventory of set 8109

The inventory of set 8109 lists 1,115 pieces, spare parts excluded: 162 different lots (one shape in one color) for 124 part shapes. The box also contains 18 spare parts, for small elements that are easy to lose.

Colors of set 8109

Main color: black, making up 37% of the parts, followed by light bluish gray (22%) and blue (12%).

Part types

Most common parts in set 8109

123 of the 124 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 8109

One part shape in set 8109 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 8109 from another set

Share of the parts of set 8109 found in each of these similarly sized sets, counting shape, colour and quantity:

Set 8110 Mercedes-Benz Unimog U400 supplies 64% of them: enough to build a good part of the model before filling in the rest piece by piece.

Size of set 8109 within its line

With 1,115 pieces, set 8109 ranks #82 out of 443 Technic sets in our database, which have an average of 658 parts. Among the 276 sets released in 2011, it ranks #14.