How many pieces does the Storage Bucket have?

It contains 260 pieces in 26 different elements and colours. No minifigures are included.

Which colours are in it?

Mainly red, yellow, blue and black.

Anyone who likes free building and wants a stock of standard bricks, including as an add-on to existing sets.

Universal Building Set Basic

LEGO® Storage Bucket

The Storage Bucket (1619) from 1986 is a Universal Building Set from the Basic range. It holds 260 pieces in four primary colours, has no minifigures, and is made for free building.

Set number: 1619
Year: 1986
Pieces: 260
Minifigures: 0
Theme: Basic
Different parts: 41

What can I build with it?

Parts list 41

As BrickLink list (XML)

Import on BrickLink: Wanted → Upload, upload the file (or paste its content), pick a Wanted List and add the parts.

Description

A bucket of possibilities

There is no model on the box that you are meant to copy. This is a bucket of bricks that you assemble however you like. It was a common approach in the eighties, and it still works today because it sets no rules. With 260 pieces you have enough stock for a few houses, vehicles or animals. The bucket also doubles as storage, so after a play session everything goes back into one place instead of being scattered around the room.

Four primary colours

Red, yellow, blue and black form the palette, which are exactly the colours people associate with classic building bricks. The parts list contains only 26 different elements, so across 260 pieces most of them appear many times. That helps with free building: repeated basic shapes such as standard bricks and plates combine easily, and walls or towers come together quickly. For details like windows or wheels you will need to get creative or borrow parts from elsewhere.

No instructions, no figures

No minifigures are included. If you want people in your scenes, add them from other sets or build your own characters from bricks. The lack of fixed goals makes the bucket especially interesting for younger builders who are still learning how bricks hold together. For collectors it shows what the Basic range looked like: simple quantities, few shapes and plenty of room for ideas. It also makes a good base for a collection, because the bricks fit with those of any other set.

Parts list and ideas

All 260 pieces and their colours are listed on this page. The “What can I build?” tool can show which sets your collection could produce once you add these bricks. Because only a few shapes occur, the bucket mainly boosts your count of standard bricks. If you work on larger models and keep running short of basic bricks in one colour, this is the kind of set that supplies exactly what is often missing from your supply.

FAQ

How many pieces does the Storage Bucket have?: It contains 260 pieces in 26 different elements and colours. No minifigures are included.
Which colours are in it?: Mainly red, yellow, blue and black.
Who is the set for?: Anyone who likes free building and wants a stock of standard bricks, including as an add-on to existing sets.

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