Why? Because while many of you simply purchase new elements individually, many also enjoy building official sets. So which new sets have the most new elements? We developed the table below to show this, both in terms of quantity as well as overall percentage. So if you like to buy sets knowing they'll contain parts you don't have, use our table as one of your purchasing factors.
Note: we define 'new elements' as being either:
- completely new moulds, or signficantly altered
- existing moulds in new colours (also known as 'recolours' or 'colour changes'),
- printed parts.
List of LEGO® sets from July and August 2020 and their quantities of new parts
A bumper list as it covers two months, and high percentages of new elements thanks to LEGO Super Mario!Key to columns
- 'Quantity Parts' shows the full part count of a set, which you're used to seeing.
- 'Quantity New Parts' shows how many of those are new. Say a set was completely old stuff apart from just 1 new mould but 8 of them were included: this column would therefore say '8'.
- '% Quantity New Parts' shows the above values as a percentage. I feel this gives you a sense of the 'value' of the set, regardless of its size or price, by indicating what proportion of its elements you will not already own.
- 'Elements' shows the number of unique pieces in the set, whether new or existing.
- 'New Elements' shows how many of those are new. e.g. in the earlier example this would say '1'.
Click any column header to sort the table.
| Set | Quantity Parts | Quantity New Parts | % Quantity New Parts | Elements | New Elements |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10277-1 Crocodile Locomotive | 1278 | 76 | 6 | 215 | 14 |
| 43179-1 Mickey Mouse & Minnie Mouse Buildable Characters | 1738 | 166 | 10 | 421 | 33 |
| 792007-1 Haunted Worker | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 40429-1 Ninjago World | 440 | 3 | 1 | 139 | 3 |
| 40386-1 Batman | 115 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 0 |
| 40391-1 First Order Stormtrooper | 151 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 0 |
| 40431-1 BB-8 | 171 | 6 | 4 | 68 | 2 |
| 75317-1 The Mandalorian & The Child | 295 | 13 | 4 | 123 | 8 |
| 71363-1 Desert Pokey Expansion Set | 180 | 33 | 18 | 70 | 15 |
| 71365-1 Piranha Plant Power Slide Expansion Set | 217 | 67 | 31 | 78 | 31 |
| 71360-1 Adventures with Mario Starter Course | 233 | 57 | 24 | 114 | 37 |
| 40474-1 Build Your Own Monkey King | 24 | 2 | 8 | 18 | 2 |
| 42112-1 Cement Mixer | 1161 | 8 | 1 | 128 | 2 |
| 42114-1 6x6 Volvo Articulated Hauler | 2193 | 19 | 1 | 237 | 9 |
| 71372-1 Cat Mario Power-Up Pack | 11 | 4 | 36 | 9 | 3 |
| 71371-1 Propeller Mario Power-Up Pack | 13 | 4 | 31 | 11 | 3 |
| 31200-1 The Sith | 3404 | 890 | 26 | 30 | 7 |
| 30385-1 Super Mushroom Surprise Expansion Set | 18 | 7 | 39 | 15 | 7 |
| 71370-1 Fire Mario Power-Up Pack | 11 | 4 | 36 | 9 | 3 |
| 71366-1 Boomer Bill Barrage Expansion Set | 132 | 19 | 14 | 70 | 13 |
| 71373-1 Builder Mario Power-Up Pack | 10 | 5 | 50 | 8 | 4 |
| 40414-1 Monty Mole & Super Mushroom Expansion Set | 163 | 19 | 12 | 83 | 15 |
| 31197-1 Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe | 3341 | 1233 | 37 | 27 | 7 |
| 71376-1 Thwomp Drop Expansion Set | 393 | 32 | 8 | 159 | 15 |
| 31198-1 The Beatles | 2933 | 963 | 33 | 35 | 10 |
| 31199-1 Marvel Studios Iron Man | 3167 | 1020 | 32 | 35 | 9 |
| 71368-1 Toad's Treasure Hunt Expansion Set | 464 | 88 | 19 | 196 | 44 |
| 71364-1 Whomp's Lava Trouble Expansion Set | 133 | 18 | 14 | 56 | 13 |
| 71377-1 King Boo and the Haunted Yard Expansion Set | 431 | 56 | 13 | 144 | 18 |
| 71362-1 Guarded Fortress Expansion Set | 468 | 102 | 22 | 193 | 41 |
| 41258-1 Vibe City Concert | 503 | 20 | 4 | 226 | 10 |
| 21323-1 Grand Piano | 3662 | 67 | 2 | 346 | 10 |
| 40381-1 Monkey King | 175 | 2 | 1 | 57 | 2 |
| 80014-1 Sandy's Speedboat | 393 | 8 | 2 | 190 | 8 |
| 80015-1 Monkie Kid's Cloud Roadster | 658 | 32 | 5 | 230 | 16 |
| 80016-1 The Flaming Foundry | 1424 | 13 | 1 | 426 | 4 |
| 76167-1 Iron Man Armory | 257 | 7 | 3 | 113 | 6 |
| 60260-1 Air Race | 139 | 7 | 5 | 89 | 7 |
| 40423-1 Halloween Hayride | 147 | 4 | 3 | 77 | 4 |
| 854049-1 Pumpkin & Bat Duo | 130 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 0 |
| 60272-1 Elite Police Boat Transport | 165 | 4 | 2 | 107 | 4 |
| 60273-1 Elite Police Driller Chase | 178 | 4 | 2 | 87 | 4 |
| 60274-1 Elite Police Lighthouse Arrest | 188 | 18 | 10 | 108 | 9 |
| 75280-1 501st Legion Clone Troopers | 284 | 22 | 8 | 127 | 11 |
| 75281-1 Anakin�s Jedi Interceptor | 247 | 3 | 1 | 100 | 2 |
| 75283-1 Armoured Assault Tank (AAT) | 285 | 10 | 4 | 121 | 9 |
| 75284-1 Knights of Ren Transport Ship | 595 | 7 | 1 | 184 | 7 |
| 71369-1 Bowser's Castle Boss Battle Expansion Set | 1010 | 101 | 10 | 346 | 49 |
| 71367-1 Mario's House & Yoshi Expansion Set | 205 | 26 | 13 | 114 | 22 |
| 75288-1 AT-AT | 1267 | 31 | 2 | 290 | 17 |
| 75291-1 Death Star Final Duel | 774 | 6 | 1 | 242 | 4 |
| 71374-1 Nintendo Entertainment System | 2646 | 106 | 4 | 517 | 41 |
| 75293-1 Resistance I-TS Transport | 931 | 17 | 2 | 217 | 9 |
| 75286-1 General Grievous�s Starfighter | 487 | 26 | 5 | 139 | 9 |
| 71361-5 Bullet Bill | 25 | 5 | 20 | 16 | 4 |
| 71361-7 Eep Cheep | 26 | 7 | 27 | 19 | 5 |
| 71361-6 Bob-omb | 22 | 11 | 50 | 17 | 8 |
| 71361-1 Paragoomba | 24 | 7 | 29 | 16 | 6 |
| 71361-9 Urchin | 27 | 15 | 56 | 15 | 7 |
| 71361-4 Buzzy Beetle | 16 | 6 | 38 | 11 | 5 |
| 71361-3 Spiny | 20 | 6 | 30 | 11 | 5 |
| 71361-10 Peepa | 18 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 3 |
| 71361-8 Blooper | 20 | 3 | 15 | 14 | 3 |
| 71361-2 Fuzzy | 29 | 11 | 38 | 15 | 5 |
Note how the LEGO Art sets have high 'Quantity New Parts' because of their size but comparatively low 'New Elements', whereas LEGO Super Mario have lots of new elements.
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I'm a fan of this! Easy to see which sets have the largest number of new stuff.
ReplyDeleteSince you asked, here are a few ways to make it even better:
1. It might be easier if you labeled the second-to-last column "unique elements". (Since technically the # of parts and # of elements in a set is the same).
2. Are you able to include a column for # New Parts/Moulds?
—Tom Alphin, https://brickarchitect.com
Yes, it is tricky to come up with nomenclature when everyone has different interpretations of these synonyms! Plus, it has to be pithy enough not to crowd the table cell. I like 'unique' though
DeleteI wouldn't say rereleases are irrelevant to builders. I designed a MOC on LDraw using only parts that I knew _existed_, but then when I went to start building it, I discovered that dark-purple 2x2 corner plates had become so rare that they were listing between $3-5 each. I'd incorporated at least a dozen into the design, and immediately had to start tweaking the design to cull that number as much as possible. I was able to get it down to four, and just couldn't eliminate those from the design, but it meant I could affordably create two versions of the same MOC (Holley Shiftwell from Pixar's Cars 2, in her regular form and her flying mode).
ReplyDeleteFast forward just a few years, and they come out with Joker's Notorious Lowrider, which reintroduced that element with a fresh supply. Prices took a while to come down, but eventually got down below 10% of their previous price. So, parts that have been in production for several years and just have a random gap year before coming back might be no big deal, but a one-off release that returns to production after the supply has been depleting for several years can often be a bigger deal than the actual _new_ parts, especially many of these unique prints that will likely never see use outside of their original purpose. However, that would be a lot harder to incorporate into a spreadsheet like this. How do you determine which are the "valuable" reissues vs the mundane ones? Even a part that's affordable may simply just not be available in the quantities someone needs for a project. There was originally one set that came with a caramel 1x2 brick, which was used to fill the saddle on Bullseye from the Toy Story theme. A guy in my LUG needed something like 40,000 of them to build the Guardian Building in Detroit, and there just weren't that many available to buy until they used them as the main component in the modular City Hall.
The problem is, that a new Element ID on an existing part doesn't automatically means it's an old part that gets reused. There are cases where parts getting a new EID even within the same year. The assignment seems to be more based on internal processes at the LEGO factory.
DeleteThe real problem is that its very easy to determine if an element has never been produced before, but not if a repeat element will suddenly throw supply/demand out of whack. But it definitely happens, and when it happens there may be builders out there with projects that have been waiting for that moment.
DeleteNow, when you say they're changing the EID within the span of a single year, are you talking about Set A releasing in January with one EID, and Set B releasing a few months later with the same part using a different EID, or are you referring more to Set A is still on store shelves with one EID when Set B launches with a different one?
If it's the former, maybe there's a running change in the element, either involving a mold change or switching the material used to form the part. If it's the latter, if the set is nearing its end of run, the EID may already have been retired (assuming they ran out of stock at the factory) while the set is still on sale, and a new set may have called that part back into production before we ever really see it go away. Or there's always the possibility that someone goofed and assigned a duplicate EID because they didn't realize that part already had one assigned to it.
Very interesting list! Especially surprising to me is how smaller sets often seem to have a greater percentage of new elements, given that each new element makes up a greater portion of the set's contents.
ReplyDeleteOne aspect that would probably be impractical to include in a list of this type given its variability and propensity to change as new sets are introduced is the "rarity" of elements. Often when I buy sets, the choices I make are informed not just by how much of the set is new to me, but also by how much of the set is difficult or impossible to obtain elsewhere. For instance, a minifigure or printed part that only appears in one set is a bigger priority to me than one who appears in many sets released at the same time, even if both figures are equally "new".
That is a bit of a holy grail isn't it. I recall seeing some comments from Huw on Brickset about it recently but can't recall where? We have indeed been dabbling in automated lists of 'how many sets does every element in this set come in', but at this stage it is for our internal article research use only.
DeleteThis is awesome! Would love to see a new colors/recolors on bricks by set like this grid view!
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