 | | Duplo-name confirmed to be reborne —Arne Lykke Nielsen
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| | | TLC has confirmed, that the name DUPLO is to be re-launched for pre-school bricks. The change from DUPLO to Lego Explore has costed the company about a billion Danish Kroner. The article (in Danish!): (URL) Copenhagen (21 years ago, 2-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.duplo) !!
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| | | | | Re: Duplo-name confirmed to be reborne —Bryan Kinkel
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| | | | | From Lego: (URL) Company is positive about its pre-school business with plans to introduce twelve new DUPLO products this year and the launch of the new QUATRO brick. The new QUATRO brick is eight times larger than a traditional DUPLO brick and (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.duplo)
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| | | | | | | Re: Duplo-name confirmed to be reborne —Scott Lyttle
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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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| | | | | | | Re: Duplo-name confirmed to be reborne —Mark de Kock
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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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| | | | | | | | Re: Duplo-name confirmed to be reborne —Todd Lehman
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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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| | | | | | | | Re: Duplo-name confirmed to be reborne —Luis Baixinho
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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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| | | | | | | | Re: Duplo-name confirmed to be reborne —Carlo Ottolina
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| | | | | | | (...) Yes. (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.duplo)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Duplo-name confirmed to be reborne —Scott Lyttle
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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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| | | | | Re: Duplo-name confirmed to be reborne —Dave Lovelace
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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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| | | | | | Re: Duplo-name confirmed to be reborne —John Gerlach
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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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| | | | | | Re: Duplo-name confirmed to be reborne —Dave Lovelace
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| | | | (...) Shya. Not lately. --D (21 years ago, 5-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.duplo)
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