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DUPLO | Home » » » LEGO DUPLO LEARNING | | | | | | WARNING:| CHOKING HAZARD -- Small parts. Not for children under 3 yrs. |
| | | Description: | | It has never been more fun to learn numbers! With bright, colorful numbered bricks, children will learn 1 to 10 without even knowing it! Includes great play starters, like the DUPLO child figure, dog and wagon, provide endless hours of learning through building fun! Also features inspirational building booklet. | | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 15.04 inches | | Product Width:
| 3.7 inches | | Product Height:
| 10.31 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.78 pounds | | Package Length:
| 14.9 inches | | Package Width:
| 10.2 inches | | Package Height:
| 3.8 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.8 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 21 reviews |
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64 of 64 found the following review helpful:
 Great Duplo Add-On, But Not the Best Starter SetFeb 01, 2010
By goonius
My 2 year old daughter received this Duplo set for her birthday. Overall it's a nice set with a lot of pieces, but it all depends on what you're wanting to do with Legos. Do you want to build? Or play matching games? Do you already own a whole slew of Legos and now you're looking for some novelty pieces? If so, then this set would definitely fit the bill.
This set is great for novelty pieces, like the double-decker four peg pieces which each have a number or corresponding number of items. They would be great fun for playing little number games with (my daughter is still a little on the young side of this, but this may be neat later). This set also contains one cute little person who can be made to attach standing, or laying, or sitting on any Lego piece, and his pal, a dalmation dog. My daughter loves the dog. There is a single window, and a little standard Lego car. The white fence is a great novelty piece too.
The problem with this set (or advantage depending on your perspective) is that there are too many novelty pieces, and too few basic building pieces. This set is sorely lacking in the rectangular pieces which are so necessary to building just about any structure. The novelty pieces are pretty cool, and I imagine as we amass more basic Lego bricks, we'll have a whole new appreciation for the novelty pieces, but the bottom line is that if you are wanting a building set, I would start with something more basic than this.
I think one area in which Lego has gone astray is in adding too much to a lot of their sets in an effort to make them more educational, or less centered on the classic (boring?) building aspect of Legos, which was/is in fact the most educational part anyway. And besides building is fun. That said, I think this set does sit comfortably astride the line between overkill in that department and being just simple enough to have multiple practical uses.
For anyone new to Legos, or who is balking at the $25 price tag, I think it is worth mentioning that the ABS plastic used by Lego is quite safe and durable, and that many basic Lego bricks are still manufactured in European countries, which is pretty outstanding when you consider how big the company is. That, of course, is another reason to stick to basic block sets. All sets that have the more fancy pieces are going to contain parts manufactured in China, and this set is no exception. I think the countries listed on the back of the box were China, Mexico, Hungary and Germany, if memory serves. However, of China-made toys, Lego has one of the cleanest records of all those tested with XRF technology by the Ecology Center - which is better than could be said of a lot of toy companies. Bottom line: I think you can have a bit more faith in the integrity of Legos than of a lot of toys on the market. But that's just my opinion.
Anyway, I wouldn't necessarily pass up this set. The possibility for games with numbers is cool, the novel pieces are nice, and there are a few basics like the car, but I would recommend at least one basic Duplo block set and a large baseplate being in your collection before adding this one.
11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
a great addition to basic bricksSep 11, 2010
By Mrs. Leeann E. Wisdom
I originally got my son the duplo box of 71. We had fun, but it was hard to make more than one thing at a time and hard to make a good house.
This set was the perfect compliment to it and filled up the rest of the 71 box.
I love the pictures and numbers and so does my son.
The cute additions (dog, flowers, fence, window, boy) are great for imaginative play, and it's nice to have an extra train car to hook up to the other one from the 71 box.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Surprisingly goodDec 31, 2010
By sofia
when i purchased this lego for my almost 2 years old baby, i didn't think it would be this nice. the pieces are big enough for his age, and he loves the little dog and man, and the car, which is nice to find all in one box. It has great educational potential, since it allows to match the numbers with their correspondent amount of little fun figures. Colors are great, it looks pretty durable, and i hope my little one will enjoy it for a long time.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Pleasantly SurprisedDec 31, 2010
By Joanne Markov
"JoAnne Markov"
We love Duplos around here, though we try to stick to the more basic sets rather than specialty ones (the train series being the big exception). As such, we weren't planning on buying this, but it was given to our nearly three-year old son for Christmas. He has been pulling out the numbered blocks and their picture counterparts frequently, and it has proven helpful in teaching him numbers to correspond to the counting he has long been able to do.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Great for small kidsDec 29, 2010
By Grumpy
"joyrider"
My nephew loves to play with it. It's child friendly as the blocks are big unlike the usual Lego. The best part of it is that my nephew is having fun while learning...
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