Editorial gift guide
Best Building Sets to Outgrow LEGO Duplo
"Best Building Sets to Outgrow LEGO Duplo" is one of ToyVidZone's editorial gift guides — a hand-picked, lightly-opinionated reading list rather than an algorithmic ranking. The guides are built from the same catalog that powers the rest of the site, so every recommendation in this guide links to a full brand page, age-band page, or video collection you can dig into.
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Lego is a brand of plastic construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. Lego consists of variously coloured interlocking plastic bricks made of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) that accompany an array of gears, figurines called minifigures, and various other parts. Its pieces can be assembled and connected in many ways to construct objects, including vehicles, buildings, and working robots. Assembled Lego models can be taken apart, and their pieces can be reused to create new constructions.
Lego Duplo is a core product range of the construction toy Lego by The Lego Group, designed for children from 1+1⁄2 to 5 years old. Duplo bricks are twice the size of traditional Lego bricks in each of their three dimensions, making them easier to handle and less likely to be swallowed and choked on by younger children. Despite their size, they are still compatible with traditional Lego bricks.