LEGO Duplo My First Set (5416)
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Toys and Games Reviews of LEGO Duplo My First Set (5416)
Customer Review: Good starter set
Summary: 4 Stars
I am a dad to an 8.5-month old boy and a former LEGO maniac. LEGO age ratings are historically meaningless and all the pieces on this set (even flowers) are large and cannot be swallowed. (Real manics treat minimum age rating as the age upon they should move up to the
As anyone familiar with LEGO and DUPLO would know, each piece is very high quality, practically unbreakable and very easy to clean.
The set comes in a large sturdy box, about twice as large it needs to be. Although that may not be so environmentally friendly, it doubles as a storage box for few other toys (particularly other DUPLO sets that comes in a paper box). My boy is currently more fascinated with the box than its contents.
I've looked at other starter DUPLO sets and frankly, none seemed all that interesting to me (yes, I realize I am not the target audience). There are total of 4 sets, this 5416 Brick Box (house, bird, tree, two flowers, etc.), Lego Duplo 5538 Creative Bucket Started Set Bricks, LEGO DUPLO Deluxe Brick Bucket (5417), and discontinued Lego Duplo Blocks 5486 Building Set.
Although 5538 and 5417 are more interesting than 5416, they cost about twice and three times as much, respectively. Between 1 to 1.5 years of age, most toddler boys become fascinated with cars and I intend to introduce more realistic sets then. Until then, 5416 will be as interesting as other sets and at much lower price.
My boy hasn't yet figured out how to put pieces together, but he loves to take pieces apart, banging them together, and of course, sucking them. Red bird is his favorite, although leg piece comes off a bit too easily. I suppose that is good in a way as it encourages him to take other pieces apart. With remaining bricks. I built him a doggy and an airplane for to bang and take apart.
Customer Review: Lego company got cheap
Summary: 3 Stars
We got this "My First Lego Duplo" set in December 2008 for our twins because our older son loved his starter box of Lego Duplos when he was the same age (about a year and a half old).
In 2004, it cost about fyfteen bucks on sale (normally twenty) for a starter box/chest that contained 140 blocks. I have searched high and low, and that same plastic chest with 140 blocks is nowhere to be found.
Instead we got the current version of the starter Duplo box. The blocks themselves are great -- the few of them that there are. This rectangular bucket, which is just slightly smaller than the earlier chest, contains just 33 blocks, which don't build very many things and nothing big.
That's a small fraction of the quantity for the same price.
Later I found that the closest thing to our old 140 block chest is the bulk set of 144 blocks without a storage chest for around f0rty bux via online or mail order. DUPLO Bulk Set
So although our children like the Duplos (even my older son still uses them more than four years later) and they never break or wear out, boo to Lego for its stinginess to kids.
Customer Review: Large Bucket - Very Few Legos!
Summary: 1 Stars
I am shocked at the reviews for this product. Nearly every review mentions the fact that the product is "over-priced for the number of blocks you get" or "you may want to skip this product and buy the deluxe duplo set". I totally agree!
This was definitely the most disappointing toy under the tree this year. Our little guy was graduating from Mega-Blocks to Legos and we put this on his wish list. Based on the nearly "5-star" reviews we chose this "first set". But 30 blocks doesn't build much folks. That is nearly $1.00 per block if you exclude the bucket they come in.
We are VERY disappointed in the value of this toy. Before you believe the other "5-Star" reviews, read them carefully. Nearly every one of them states "few blocks for the money" and/or "looking to get more blocks". I am not sure why they gave it "5-stars" if they thought the toy was insufficient for the price or play value.
If you need an expensive bucket to hold Lego's, then this product may be just what you need.
Sheesh!
Customer Review: A good first duplo set to trigger creativity with blocks
Summary: 5 Stars
When this arrived two months before my daughter's 1 year birthday, I decided to open it up and let her play with it instead of waiting to give it to her for her birthday. While she's still too young to play with the bricks as intended, she does love to put them in her mouth and bang them together. She may have a short attention span, but as soon as I get out the box of duplo bricks, she gets very excited and focused. I believe that this (along with more sets of duplo bricks - you can't ever have enough) will be a wonderful toy that she will grow to understand and play with better every day.
2 days ago, she put her first two bricks together.
I'm glad that I ignored the 18m+ and went ahead and started my daughter out early.
Couldn't be happier. And also, it's a great price for this starter set.
Customer Review: Great little Duplo starter set
Summary: 5 Stars
We bought this for my son for his first birthday. Both he and my almost five year old daughter love playing with these blocks. My daughter, inspired simply by a picture on the box made a bird the first day she sat down and played with them. My son likes us to make tall towers so he can tear the blocks apart and try to put them back together. Both are getting a lot of good hands-on learning out of them. This set is great because it has a lot of "extra" type blocks, such as the kitty, the door, some long skinny blocks - not just your basic boring blocks. We'll buy more sets of those, too, but this was great to start with because the kids have fun and interesting manipulatives to grab their attention and get them started.