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Birds in Lego Duplos
One of the things we often make out of Duplos are birds. We’ve made everything from penguins to chocobos, with varying levels of stability. My duck on legs from Kid K’Nex pieces was less stable than some. Since you can’t get the same level of precision in Duplos as you can with standard Legos, birds [...]
Legos for …Robots
I feel pretty lukewarm about the controversial Lego Friends line (Legos for girls). While I think it’s awesome that many of the pieces out of the sets can be used with other Legos to make very cool things, I’m still not thrilled with the company’s presentation of the new line. I think some of their [...]
Dragon in Lego Duplos
When I first started buying Lego Duplos for Lana I was a bit bummed: It turned out I had just missed the wave of Duplo sets that had to do with medieval themes and dragons. I found one of the pre-molded Duplo Dragons on eBay, and mentioned to Sean that I was thinking about buying [...]
Butterfly in Lego Duplos
For this Christmas I ordered some Duplos directly from the Lego site, and was able to get something that wasn’t available in retail stores yet, a set called Creative Cakes. The set has candle pieces and some unusual shapes (curved pieces) that I thought would be great in building some castles and critters. Also it [...]
Reboot
This New Year’s I’m doing something I’ve wanted to do for a long time, and giving this blog a reboot. I’ve explored so many topics here over the past five(+) years, and I’d like to re-explore them – and also refocus and refine. I hope this symbolic purging will help spur me to start posting [...]
