Category:Duplo

1968: Patent submission, edited image [image info]

Lego Duplo.

1971 promotional text:

For very small children - "Duplo"

So that very small children can play with Lego, we've made "Duplo" - big Lego bricks that they'll find easy to handle and take apart - even if they're only 2 years old. You can, of course, use Duplo with ordinary Lego bricks.

They fit together perfectly. You can put four ordinary 8 stud bricks on either side of a Duplo brick.

Children still enjoy Duplo bricks when they get older and have built up a Lego collection. They can use them on larger models so they don't run out of ordinary 8 stud bricks.

Duplo is now available in three beautiful boxes. Set no. 510 contains different coloured Duplo bricks. The larger sets - nos. 512 and 513 - also contain wheeled base plates for building cars, trains and animals which can be pulled along.