Published on February 28, 2009

Lego Duplo sets give children hours of story building fun as well as challenging them to be creative. Whether it’s a basic Duplo Brick set, classic Thomas the Tank engine sets or a Bob the Builder set, the little ones love their Duplos!

Lego Duplo Toy Building Sets - Perfect Toys for Toddlers to Five Year Olds

Lego is a Danish toy company that has its beginnings in the 1930’s. Originally, and still based in Denmark, the brand has been acclaimed worldwide for its line of construction toys. In 1934 the products, as well as the company, officially became known as Lego. The Lego toy building bricks come with various themed and designed series of sets. Most of these sets cater to a particular age group. One of the well known series is the Lego Duplo line.

The Lego Duplo bricks are well built and nontoxic. The larger pieces allow toddlers to use the bricks and blocks with their own little hands. Building instruction manuals come in every box set. If the instructions are lost, any parent or older child can visit Lego online and get guides in helping the children build their three dimensional designs.

The Lego Duplo sets are specially made for toddlers with ages ranging from 18 months to 5 years. The Lego pieces’ size is eight times larger in volume than the average Lego brick. The dimension is also twice the height, length and width of the conventional Lego blocks. The concept was first introduced in the year 1969, available in only four basic colors: red, white, blue and yellow. Throughout the years, the collection has evolved to different Lego brick sets including train sets, dinosaur lairs, farm and ranch themes and more. Lego Duplo has also partnered with popular children’s program and cartoon franchises such as Bob the Builder from the famous TV series. These four feature Bob, Scoop and all Bob’s friends. The Thomas & Friends series of toy sets are very popular as a result of partnering with the famous Thomas the Tank product line.

Lego Duplo is certainly one of the best selling toy collectibles for younger kids of all time. The eleven sets in the Lego Bricks series are often cited as being among the all time best selling toys for children ages 2 to 5 years old! This is where the kids can begin getting their building experience. There are three different sized Brick Box sets and other basics to get the beginning brick inventory as well as city, farm, and zoo settings and buildings.

Other Duplo series of sets include:

Lego Ville is the largest of the Duplo series with 31 sets making up everything a person would expect to find in your average town.
Duplo Castle series consists of only three sets but these include such exciting things as a fire breathing dragon and a knight on a horse.
Duplo Dino also has three sets that come with different dinosaurs and cave men.
Duplo Trains sets are favorites with the youngsters and the eight sets include everything from the Train Starter Set to the Deluxe Train Set and everything in between.
Princess Castle sets are perfect for the family’s little princesses with a pink castle, royal stables. A prince and even horses and a princess with real hair to comb.

Once the kids experience Lego Duplo toys they will be eager to move on to more challenging Lego projects. They can have years of fun using these wonderful toy building bricks!