How many pieces does Trash Chomper have?

The set contains 389 pieces across 111 distinct part types.

How many minifigures are included?

Trash Chomper comes with 3 minifigures for a chase-style scene.

Why does the vehicle look so mismatched?

The set follows the improvised, scrap-built look of the original LEGO Movie world, where vehicles are designed to look deliberately cobbled together.

The LEGO Movie

Trash Chomper

Trash Chomper is a vehicle set from the original LEGO® The LEGO Movie line, made up of 389 pieces and 3 minifigures. Rather than smooth bodywork, it leans into a scrappy, cobbled-together look built from spare-part shapes, matching the film's visual style. With only 111 distinct part types, the model relies heavily on repetition, fitting the improvised construction style of that movie world.

Set number: 70805
Year: 2014
Pieces: 389
Minifigures: 3
Theme: The LEGO Movie
Different parts: 111

What can I build with it?

View the official building instructions at LEGO® ↗

Parts list 111

As BrickLink list (XML)

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

Spare parts (12)

These extra parts come with the set in case one gets lost.

Minifigures 3

Gordon Zola fig-0022094 pieces × 1
Garbage Man Grant fig-0022104 pieces × 1
Garbage Man Dan fig-0022114 pieces × 1

Description

A vehicle built from scrap and improvisation

Trash Chomper depicts a vehicle that looks assembled from whatever was at hand rather than built to a tidy plan. That improvised look is a core design idea across the original LEGO Movie world, where vehicles and structures deliberately read as mismatched and makeshift. Mechanical touches such as rollers, grabbers and a roughly finished chassis reinforce the sense of something patched together rather than engineered, setting it clearly apart from a typical City vehicle. Placed next to a standard model, the contrast between rough improvisation and clean symmetry is obvious immediately.

Few shapes, plenty of repetition

With 111 distinct part types across 389 pieces in total, the shape variety is relatively low, which suits the set's overall approach: instead of many specialist pieces, Trash Chomper reuses basic shapes repeatedly, shifting their colour and arrangement to build up the improvised look. For builders who enjoy spotting recurring patterns, or who collect parts in bulk for their own projects, that repetition is a useful side effect of this unusually styled set.

Colours between industrial and organic

Light bluish grey, black and dark bluish grey form the vehicle's mechanical base, while green appears as a fourth colour for organic or plant-like accents, echoing the colourful, often chaotic visual language of the film. That mix of muted greys with a noticeable green presence makes the set a clear outlier within a wider collection, standing apart from straightforward vehicle or building sets from other themes.

Three minifigures for a chase scene

The 3 included minifigures suit the action-heavy, slightly chaotic tone of the film series and work well for chase or escape scenes built around the vehicle. Builders who already own other sets from the first LEGO Movie wave can slot Trash Chomper into that collection comfortably, since both the colour palette and construction style are designed to match. The full parts list on this page covers all 111 shapes and how often each appears.

FAQ

How many pieces does Trash Chomper have?: The set contains 389 pieces across 111 distinct part types.
How many minifigures are included?: Trash Chomper comes with 3 minifigures for a chase-style scene.
Why does the vehicle look so mismatched?: The set follows the improvised, scrap-built look of the original LEGO Movie world, where vehicles are designed to look deliberately cobbled together.