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(...) I thought the use of those prefixes goes waaayyy back to earlier times...like maybe latin? The main source of most of the romance languages? DU --- double/two QUAT - Four primo--perhaps coming from "prime" meaning "first"?? (or some (...) (21 years ago, 5-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.duplo)
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(...) Shya. Not lately. --D (21 years ago, 5-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.duplo)
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(...) Yes. (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.duplo)
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(...) maybe some guy at TLG are portuguese. DUPLO means "double" QUATRO means "four (4)" but PRIMO means "cousin" :) i think PRIMO means "first" in italian LBaixinho (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.duplo)
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(...) Hm...wonder if a 2 x 2 round brick will fit inside a Quattro stud? would be interesting if the quattro studs lined up with the tops of the creator buckets as well... Scott (21 years ago, 2-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.duplo)
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(...) I think LEGO QUATRO is a great idea! Smaller than PRIMO, yet bigger than DUPLO. And hopefully much more compatible with SYSTEM than PRIMO is. From the pictures, it looks like this is 4x the scale of LEGO SYSTEM (hence the "quat-") and 2x the (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.duplo)
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Hi, have a look at the 'Duplo again' press release. There are pictures of new sets - they contain photos of new fig forms. 1) Different legs 2) Hands with 'fingers' 3) Manga-ish eyes 4) Maybe also possibility of larger degree of freedom of hands and (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-04, to lugnet.duplo)
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(...) Hmm, sounds a lot like what PRIMO used to be....? Oh well, as soon as my wife and I have a little toddler, we'll be buying whatever toddler bricks LEGO will put on the market :-) /\/\ark "nop, nuffin' yet" de Kock (21 years ago, 2-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.duplo)
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(...) From another press release, about the second Mars lander landing on Mars: "Sandy Moondust is the second LEGO Minifigure on Mars. She and Biff will write a dairy during the journey to Mars, and in this way the exploration of space could be more (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.duplo)
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(...) Good grief. And the dumb just keeps on dumbering. --D (21 years ago, 2-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.duplo)
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