The Atlas Plate No. 258 Blueprint

LEGO® Mindstorms Sets

Mindstorms: 137 sets from 1996 to 2021, drawn as a blueprint of its 5 eras.

Includes Mindstorms sub-themes filed under Educational and Dacta.

Sets in the catalog
137
Catalog years
1996–2021
Eras
5
Catalog pieces
22,716

How to read this plate

  1. Each gear is an era of the theme, with more teeth the more sets it holds, from 8 to 40: LEGO's own Technic gear sizes.
  2. The gears mesh in the order the eras came, and each turns at its true ratio to the first.

Painted in Mindstorms's own bricks: the colours its parts use far more often than the rest of the catalog does, on Light Gray.

  • Blue 1.6 times as common
  • Dark Turquoise 1.9 times as common

Mindstorms, era by era

  1. Era 1 of 5

    RCX

    1998–2008 34 sets Open its plate

  2. Era 2 of 5

    NXT

    1996–2014 45 sets Open its plate

  3. Era 3 of 5

    EV3

    2013 13 sets Open its plate

  4. Era 4 of 5

    WeDo

    2008–2016 20 sets Open its plate

  5. Era 5 of 5

    Other Mindstorms sets

    1999–2021 25 sets

Every Mindstorms set

Browse all 137 sets in our catalog, including sub-themes

Field notes