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LEGO Read & Build = Good Stuff

Like many others I wasn’t very thrilled about the Lego Friends line (essentially Barbie LEGO). This new idea, however, is pretty awesome. Lego Read & Build is a combination of a short cute storybook with blocks. As you read the book, you are instructed to build the simple Lego Duplo creatures. We’ve gotten a caterpillar [...]

Posted on December 8, 2012 || No Comments
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Red Car in Lego

I think there’s actually a piece missing off the spoiler by the time I was photographing it, but apparently it zipped really well around the house so I’m pleased I got this much.

Posted on October 25, 2012 || No Comments
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Duplo Compared to Traditional Lego

Some of you may be wondering about the compatibility between Lego Duplo blocks and traditional Lego blocks. You’ve probably already heard they are compatible, but you’d like to know how compatible. I’ve collected a few images of our own blocks to help show you. Lego Duplo blocks are twice the length, twice the width, and [...]

Posted on May 8, 2012 || 2 Comments
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Turtle in Lego Duplo

We’ve made several Duplo turtles over the last couple years, but this one is the most recent, and fairly representative of the way the others were built except maybe a layer smaller. You can also put the head on a swivel block, but it’s a little weird. Now if we had some sort of slide-out [...]

Posted on April 16, 2012 || 2 Comments
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Whale in Lego Duplo

I’m not sure what the inciting factor was, but Lana has been interested in whales recently. So she and Sean decided to make one out of Duplo blocks. I thought it turned out pretty fantastically.

Posted on February 20, 2012 || No Comments
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