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Duplo Zoo Wildlife Park

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Ages: 3 - 5 years

Price: $39.99

Phone: 800-453-4652

Year Introduced: 1969

This product has a wide appeal and lots of LEGO classic play value. This Zoo will intrigue your little wildlife explorer with this delightful DUPLO set. This set includes play mat, with a lake and many other details, animals including elephant, tiger, monkey and giraffe, plus it has a whole family of visitors to provide hours of play. Pieces fit together to make habitats for animals. Ole Christiansen, a Danish toy maker begins to manufacture toy blocks with a new twist. Christiansen creates a plastic brick that can be locked together in different configurations.

The LEGO Company was founded by Ole Kirk Christiansen, a Danish Toy maker who manufactured toy blocks with a new twist. Christiansen creaed a plastic brick that can be locked together in different configurations. LEGO comes from two Danish words "leg" and "godt" meaning, "Play well." The continuing popularity of the LEGO brick probably stems from its ability to stimulate a child's imagination - just six bricks fit together in 102,981,500 different ways. In 1969 LEGO(r) DUPLO(r) line is introduced and was designed to fit a preschooler's hands. LEGO DUPLO bricks are eight times the size of a standard LEGO brick. The basic building sets nourish young imaginations through free-form building, while the themed play sets stimulate creative role-play.