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Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
« Reply #15 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
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Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
« Reply #16 on: August 21, 2011, 11:01:11 am »
Yay for lego! I used to play with them a lot, a long time ago.
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Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
« Reply #17 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 :(
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Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
« Reply #18 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
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Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
« Reply #19 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.
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Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
« Reply #20 on: August 21, 2011, 02:33:34 pm »


Just another way that the older you get, the less fun you can have.
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Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
« Reply #21 on: August 21, 2011, 02:35:03 pm »
Haha, I'm pretty sure there was another level as well in there somewhere
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Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
« Reply #22 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.



Bricks were bigger for young children so they avoid swallowing them.
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Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
« Reply #23 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 :) ?
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Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
« Reply #24 on: August 21, 2011, 02:42:45 pm »
I think they're also bigger to accommodate underdeveloped motor skills :P
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Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
« Reply #25 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.
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Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
« Reply #26 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.
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Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
« Reply #27 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
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Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
« Reply #28 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.
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Re: Do you know what Duplo blocks are?
« Reply #29 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.
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