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Monday, January 16th, 2012

Birds in Lego Duplos

Red Duplo Bird

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 [...]


Monday, January 9th, 2012

Dragon in Lego Duplos

Duplo Dragon (premolded kid knex wings)

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 [...]


Monday, January 2nd, 2012

Butterfly in Lego Duplos

lego duplo butterfly and cake

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 [...]