What is the Connections Kit used for?

The LEGO® Serious Play® method, to make connections and networks between people, teams or systems visible.

How many pieces does the kit include?

2,448 pieces with 90 different elements, mostly in black, light bluish grey, red and orange.

Does it come with instructions for a fixed model?

No, the kit is designed for free, topic-driven building in workshops and doesn't include a fixed model or minifigures.

Serious Play

Connections Kit

The Connections Kit (2000431) is another tool for the LEGO® Serious Play® facilitation method, focused on making connections and networks visible. With 2,448 pieces and 90 different elements, it centres on parts designed to represent relationships between people, teams or systems. The full parts list with every colour is further down this page.

Set number: 2000431
Year: 2013
Pieces: 2,448
Minifigures: 0
Theme: Serious Play
Different parts: 90

What can I build with it?

View the official building instructions at LEGO® ↗

Parts list 90

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

Parts built for visible networks

The kit centres on elements designed to link separate models or model parts together, including long connectors, hinges and flexible pieces. In workshops, participants use these to show relationships between departments, communication paths or dependencies within a project, for instance. Unlike a regular set, there's no instruction booklet for a fixed model; the 2,448 pieces are meant for free, topic-driven building instead. As with the Identity and Landscape Kit, the method is the point, not a fixed building goal.

Fewer unique elements, more repetition

With 90 different elements, the part variety here is noticeably lower than in other LEGO Serious Play kits such as the Identity and Landscape Kit. That's because building connections relies heavily on specific part types, hinges and long connector pieces especially, so the kit includes large quantities of a few types rather than many variants. That works well for group workshops, where enough identical specialist pieces need to go round the whole table. The parts list on this page has the full breakdown, including exact quantities per part type.

A restrained, technical colour palette

Black and light bluish grey form the kit's neutral base, while red and orange serve as accent colours for highlighted connections or key nodes. Compared with kits featuring flashier special colours like chrome gold, this palette reads as more technical and restrained, fitting the abstract subject of networks and systems. The exact colour quantities, and how they map onto part types, are listed in the parts list further down this page.

Where the kit gets used

The Connections Kit is typically used alongside other LEGO Serious Play materials, often to map out relationships between models built earlier in a session. Common settings include team workshops, process analysis and strategy sessions, where the goal is to make connections between people, tasks or systems tangible. It's less suited to casual home building, since it includes neither minifigures nor a fixed target model, only parts meant for shared workshop use.

FAQ

What is the Connections Kit used for?: The LEGO® Serious Play® method, to make connections and networks between people, teams or systems visible.
How many pieces does the kit include?: 2,448 pieces with 90 different elements, mostly in black, light bluish grey, red and orange.
Does it come with instructions for a fixed model?: No, the kit is designed for free, topic-driven building in workshops and doesn't include a fixed model or minifigures.