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| I have the stove brick and two of the sink bricks from this set. I also have two Duplo 1x2x2 bricks with a telephone, and one 1x2x2 brick with a bucket of water, all in Maersk blue. Russell (...) (23 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.duplo, lugnet.general)
| | | | | Re: LEGO stops DUPLO
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| (...) ...which in turn would impact on new sales. Duplo is very popular, but this is probably not reflected in he sales LEGO sees. Also, Duplo is probably more physically durable than System - same ABC, but more robust bricks, no fine parts, no (...) (23 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.duplo)
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| (...) I think that's a big part of the problem for Lego, there is a big second hand market for Duplo for precisely those reasons: It's very expensive new (significantly cheaper of late but still expensive overall), and once the kids grow out of it (...) (23 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.duplo)
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| Can anyone else confirm this story? My 19 month old daughter loves her Duplo bricks. She often gets frustrated with other toys and figures because they don't fit together! I can't imagine Lego dropping Duplo for another "system" of toys for (...) (23 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.duplo)
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| (...) Although the compatibility of Duplo with System has been emphasised by LEGO, in practice, they are seperate entities. Next to no Duplo elements appear in System (there's a Duplo cradle in 2002 Belville IIRC), and no System elements appear in (...) (23 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.duplo)
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| (...) Hmmmm, suspected this would be the case after the press release a couple of months ago: see (URL) and article linked off it. While I have seen in my local area that Duplo has lost it's popularity over the past couple of years, and often think (...) (23 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.duplo)
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| (...) "It's the end of the world as we know it...." -John <searching for my sackcloth and ashes> (23 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.duplo)
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| "Arne Lykke Nielsen" <arln@wanadoo.dk> wrote in message news:Gw277I.Ixq@lugnet.com... (...) DUPLO! My 2 1/2 year old won't be too happy ... and neither will I, as it'll mean she'll want to play with my "proper" LEGO more often! I don't know how (...) (23 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.duplo)
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| It has just been annonced on the Danish News, that Lego has stopped making DUPLO. A new concept for the 2-6 year old children, Explorer, will be introduced this autumn. No more DUPLO?!? My 3 year old niece will be devastated, she loves her DUPLO! (...) (23 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.duplo) !!
| | | | | Maersk blue in Duplo
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| Hi all, I just acquired set 2756 via eBay, and to my big surprise it turned out to be in Maersk blue (color matching completely my Maersk sets). Does anybody know, if other sets, Duplo or System, comes with bricks in this rare color (apart from the (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-02, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.duplo, lugnet.general)
| | | | | Re: Identifiying some Duplo
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| (...) What you have is most of set 2920 the DUPLO Toolo Dump Truck released in 1994 (the Lugnet database is wrong about the release date). In fact if you add a 2x2 red brick, a 2x4 red brick, a Toolo screwdriver and a DUPLO Toolo construction worker (...) (23 years ago, 30-Apr-02, to lugnet.duplo)
| | | | | Re: why duplo
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| Tony Hafner <hafhead@PANTSplanetquake.com> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: Gv6u1q.5EK@lugnet.com... (...) not from my nephews but from the short lived legoland park at sierksdorf around 1974. surf here (URL) and scroll down to the elephant. i'll see if (...) (23 years ago, 26-Apr-02, to lugnet.duplo)
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| (...) I would love to see pictures (ldraw or real) of any of their creations. I am very interested in serious integration of System and Duplo. (crossposted with followups set to lugnet.duplo) -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com (23 years ago, 26-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.duplo)
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| (...) Ooo, Toolo. Mmmm. :) Steve (23 years ago, 22-Apr-02, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.cad)
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| Great job Tony! I think I'll spotlight this one... -Harvey (23 years ago, 20-Apr-02, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Maybe Toolo? Cheers, Ralph (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Um, yeah... I think I lost the... uh... (...) You, sir, should stop now. (...) The real ones say DUPLO, though older ones say LEGO. The LDraw ones say "LDRAW", and I believe that's for copyright reasons. -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com (23 years ago, 20-Apr-02, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.cad)
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| (...) an Ldraw Lady Blacktron? For shame, Hafhead...! Looks great to me, although it is also true that I have zero real world Duplo to compare to. I especially like the trans colors. The trans colors are so candy-like it makes me want to reach right (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.cad)
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| Here's a small scene, a sample of things to come: (URL) The last image is done with trans-colors. No, those parts don't exist in those colors. I was just trying to show the internals of the parts better. Next priority: Eggs! -- Tony Hafner (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.cad) !!
| | | | | My DUPLO® train website is born
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| There may not be much, but it's a start... (URL) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo)
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