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In lugnet.quatro, Arne Lykke Nielsen wrote:
> In fact, the plastic is so soft, that the bricks have very little gripping
> power. That may be good for little hands to seperate them, but any average
> developed butterfly can get two bricks to seperate by a flick of its wing.
They were made out of a softer plastic for three basic reasons, according to my
Toy Fair showroom guide: less expensive parts (this is a big concern for toys
that are really only intended for a very small age-range, since parents won't
want to invest large sums of money into baby toys), no sharp edges (imagine a
little kid falling on a pile of them if they were hard ABS!), and so that really
young kids can disconnect them (remember, not only will really young kids have
less grip strength than adults, but those bricks are huge compared to the hands
they were intended for).
> For AFOL's thinking about using QUATRO as filler in Lego System MOC's, forget
> it. Softer plastic, a little difference in colors, low gripping power, it's
> just not going to work. Keep with DUPLO for filling.
QUATRO might still be useful for underlying support, but you'd still need to use
DUPLO to transition from QUATRO to System bricks because the QUATRO studs are
way too huge to lock into any standard System pieces. It'd be kinda like trying
to attach 1x1 System bricks to the top of DUPLO studs.
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| (...) I have these bricks, and I can say a kid is going to get hurt on them if they fall on them - sharp edges or not they will still do damage. I think the only bricks Lego has made that will not hurt if you fall onto them is the soft bricks they (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jun-04, to lugnet.quatro, lugnet.general)
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| Hi, Just got set 5356, the medium sized Quatro bucket. And it's correct, the bricks are made of softer plastic (and they look VERY MUCH like MB's pre-school bricks!). In fact, the plastic is so soft, that the bricks have very little gripping power. (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jun-04, to lugnet.quatro, lugnet.general)
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