My son had the ultimate Duplo collection. A few push trains. The electric locomative. Lots of extra track, including gates, switches, cross overs, bridge. A farm set. An airplane.
Just creating a new track layout each time was huge fun. Teaching him planning and problem solving.
We'd play "keep away", where you try to use the switches to divert the locomotive to crash his each other's push train while avoiding getting hit. Huge fun.
We'd play "farm riot" where the farm animals break out of the zoo and eat every one. Kind of like a zombie apocalypse.
We'd play "ValuJet!" where the plane would fall out of the sky. Not very complicated. You hold the jet up, swoosh around a bit, yell "ValuJet!" and then crash the plane into the people, trains and buildings below.
We'd play "Amtrak!". That's when the train approaches a crossing gate. Also pretty simple. You stuff a lot of people onto a train, yell "Amtrak!" and then hit the car stuck in the crossing gate, derail the train, everyone dies.
Duplo trains are superior to those crappy wooden Brio in every way.
Our Duplos got more play time than any Legos since, even the Star Wars sets. I just passed them down; it was super hard to let go.
Just creating a new track layout each time was huge fun. Teaching him planning and problem solving.
We'd play "keep away", where you try to use the switches to divert the locomotive to crash his each other's push train while avoiding getting hit. Huge fun.
We'd play "farm riot" where the farm animals break out of the zoo and eat every one. Kind of like a zombie apocalypse.
We'd play "ValuJet!" where the plane would fall out of the sky. Not very complicated. You hold the jet up, swoosh around a bit, yell "ValuJet!" and then crash the plane into the people, trains and buildings below.
We'd play "Amtrak!". That's when the train approaches a crossing gate. Also pretty simple. You stuff a lot of people onto a train, yell "Amtrak!" and then hit the car stuck in the crossing gate, derail the train, everyone dies.
Duplo trains are superior to those crappy wooden Brio in every way.
Our Duplos got more play time than any Legos since, even the Star Wars sets. I just passed them down; it was super hard to let go.