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General Discussion => Other Discussions => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: BlakPilar on August 20, 2011, 09:23:46 pm

Title: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: BlakPilar on August 20, 2011, 09:23:46 pm: Hmm? Do ya?
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: annoyingcalc on August 20, 2011, 09:24:36 pm: Yes my brother 5yrs old has them
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: thepenguin77 on August 20, 2011, 09:25:17 pm: I've used them, I just didn't know what they were called.
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: NecroBumpist on August 20, 2011, 09:30:32 pm: I haven't the slightest clue :)
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: BlakPilar on August 20, 2011, 09:32:01 pm: D: Shame... What a shame...
Spoiler For what they are:
Huge ass Legos.

Also, I like your location haha.
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: Juju on August 20, 2011, 09:33:09 pm: Oh god yes I do. I know what they are. Do I feel old?
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: Darl181 on August 20, 2011, 10:51:13 pm: Yay, duplo blocks!

You know, there's also quatro blocks, those are even bigger O.O
http://www.toys-games-store.com/images/LEGO-Quatro-Bucket-B0001A869G-L.jpg
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: annoyingcalc on August 20, 2011, 10:52:13 pm: Does anyone use legos?

Yay I am not in the negative post ratings!
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: yunhua98 on August 20, 2011, 10:54:21 pm: congratz annoyangorange!

yup, I know them. I remember donating a bunch of them last year.
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: NecroBumpist on August 20, 2011, 10:56:40 pm: After finally googling them, I can say I know them. I just can't remember the name :-\
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: Hayleia on August 21, 2011, 04:27:40 am: I am a big fan of toys since I am 6 years old. Of course I know Duplos :D
(but I don't have any)
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: Kjelddy on August 21, 2011, 05:44:34 am: OFC I know duplos who doesn't :P(tbh I still have some lying down somewhere :P)
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: Loulou 54 on August 21, 2011, 07:26:05 am: Yes ! :D I have some of them.
I played a lot with LEGO. :)
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: TIfanx1999 on August 21, 2011, 07:27:51 am: Yes, why do you ask?
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: Spyro543 on August 21, 2011, 08:16:29 am: <?php
   $NormalLegos = 0 ;
   $Duplos = 0 ;

   $NormalLegos ++ ;
   $Duplos -- ;
?>

Spoiler For Spoiler:
I'm learning PHP. :P
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: BlakPilar on August 21, 2011, 09:34:18 am: Quote from: Darl181 on August 20, 2011, 10:51:13 pm
Yay, duplo blocks!

You know, there's also quatro blocks, those are even bigger O.O
http://www.toys-games-store.com/images/LEGO-Quatro-Bucket-B0001A869G-L.jpg

Why Lego? WHY?

Quote from: Art_of_camelot on August 21, 2011, 07:27:51 am
Yes, why do you ask?

Discussion going on in the IRC. :P
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: mrmprog on August 21, 2011, 11:01:11 am: Yay for lego! I used to play with them a lot, a long time ago.
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: fb39ca4 on August 21, 2011, 12:54:19 pm: Yeah, they are twice the size of lego blocks in each dimension. I remember having some but IDK where they are now :(
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: BlakPilar on August 21, 2011, 01:00:21 pm: I have many boxes of Legos, and I'd use them, but they're in my abyss of a closet.

I also have a huge box of Linkin' Logs!! :D
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 21, 2011, 02:23:25 pm: I never got to play with them as I was too old when we discovered them, but I saw them often when I was kid.

There was even another spinoff of the duplo blocks for a while in the late '90s which had a similar name, but I don't think it was called Quatro here. The bricks were even bigger than Duplo, tho, so maybe it was the same thing.

EDIT: Actually they were called Lego Primo. Afterward they were renamed to Lego Baby but they've been discontinued, I think.
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: NecroBumpist on August 21, 2011, 02:33:34 pm: (http://cache.lego.com/2057/images/shop/BBMF/BBMF_Image4_331x270.gif)

Just another way that the older you get, the less fun you can have.
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: Eeems on August 21, 2011, 02:35:03 pm: Haha, I'm pretty sure there was another level as well in there somewhere
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 21, 2011, 02:38:05 pm: Were there 4x2 duplo/quatro bricks, btw? Someone could almost try getting LOADS of those bricks for cheap somewhere and build some sort of giant structures with them.

And yeah Primo seemed similar in size to Quatro, but the top of the bricks were round.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3523/3927820386_8d88d84ecc_m.jpg)

Bricks were bigger for young children so they avoid swallowing them.
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: NecroBumpist on August 21, 2011, 02:40:41 pm: Quote from: DJ_O on August 21, 2011, 02:38:05 pm
Bricks were bigger for young children so they avoid swallowing them.

Wouldn't the bricks have to get systematically bigger so that they're harder to fit into the bigger mouths of older children :) ?
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: calc84maniac on August 21, 2011, 02:42:45 pm: I think they're also bigger to accommodate underdeveloped motor skills :P
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 22, 2011, 04:55:50 pm: Quote from: NecroBumpist on August 21, 2011, 02:40:41 pm
Quote from: DJ_O on August 21, 2011, 02:38:05 pm
Bricks were bigger for young children so they avoid swallowing them.

Wouldn't the bricks have to get systematically bigger so that they're harder to fit into the bigger mouths of older children :) ?
Maybe, but it's generally younger children that tend to put them into their mouth more. At a certain age they start knowing it's dangerous, in most cases.
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: willrandship on August 22, 2011, 04:58:01 pm: who wouldn't remember duplo blocks?

I bet quatro blocks were for people who wanted to have HUGE lego builds, kids or otherwise, not for the swallowing appeal.
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 22, 2011, 05:06:17 pm: Does duplo blocks still exists though? It has been since 1999 since I messed with Legos, but I wonder if they were discontinued since then.

And yeah Quatro would definitively be nice to do some huge builds. I myself would try getting loads of them if I had the money and space. :P
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: willrandship on August 22, 2011, 05:08:06 pm: Oh, yeah. Duplo blocks are a mainstay in nurseries, schools and dentists' offices around here. They're everywhere. We had a huge set, and I see them in wal-mart all the time. They come in those Cube-ish buckets.
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 22, 2011, 05:33:33 pm: Ok thanks for the info. I wasn't sure anymore. I personally never actually got any I think.
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: Eeems on August 22, 2011, 05:36:35 pm: http://duplo.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx
Also lego loses a ton of points for using a flash based website :/
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 22, 2011, 05:37:12 pm: Yeah I hate those sites, they're so slow and we can't even browse it at all if we don't have Flash installed...
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: ztrumpet on August 22, 2011, 07:00:59 pm: I have some Duplos. :) They used to keep me entertained for hours. Of course, Legos kept me entertained much more, and K'nex even more than Legos. I really enjoyed K'nex. :D
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: leafy on August 22, 2011, 07:02:34 pm: Duplos were good for putting Legos in. Or building frickin huge buildings ^^
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: Darl181 on August 22, 2011, 07:04:23 pm: I think at one point I had some of each (Duplos and Legos) in the same structure..I forget how I did it tho :(
I think there was some round piece that fit around the larger nub of the duplo and had 4 normal-size nubs on top or something.
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: ztrumpet on August 22, 2011, 07:04:56 pm: Quote from: Darl181 on August 22, 2011, 07:04:23 pm
I think at one point I had some of each (Duplos and Legos) in the same structure..I forget how I did it tho :(
I think there was some round piece that fit around the larger nub of the duplo and had 4 normal-size nubs on top or something.
Yup, you could do that. I remember doing it too. :)
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: chattahippie on August 22, 2011, 07:25:25 pm: The Duplo bricks were made to interconnect with Legos. The large stud on the duplo brick fits into the bottom of a 2x2 Lego brick
Title: Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
Post by: Loulou 54 on August 23, 2011, 07:09:32 am: Quote from: DJ_O on August 22, 2011, 05:06:17 pm
And yeah Quatro would definitively be nice to do some huge builds. I myself would try getting loads of them if I had the money and space. :P
haha yeah it would be fun ! xD