I've got a baby boy who is fast approaching the age where he will play properly with Duplo. As it stands we have a mishmash of bricks but what I really want is close to 100 of the standard 2x4 pattern, the real generic "house brick" type block. I had a look on eBay which was passable but not great, and I tried brick owl and either they didn't have them or I was using it wrong. Is there an easy way to get a load of these blocks? Are they a popular thing for sale in AFOL forums?
Thanks for the link, it seems a passable option but it works out even money to buy the eBay stuff and just accept a million blocks I don't really want. It's so hard to do a decent Flemish bond with only 15 bricks.
Aha! £24 for 100 2x4 blocks, brand new in my choice of colour, on 20 - 40 days delivery. Thank you very much for the suggestion!
Flemish bond hey, what about English bond instead? as we are talking bricky terms and it is the stronger bond afterall. (One of the many trades I learnt growing up.)
And more scalable to boot, but I'm afraid it's a decision governed by aesthetics! I had tried Gumtree which is good for grabbing a few cheap bits but I'd need to visit everyone in Dorset to get that many 2x4 blocks. I dunno why they're not the most common one, I had loads of Lego ones growing up?
I went to Chernobyl for my stag do, he's one of three babies to be born to our group since then. I'm sure he'll thrive on a bit of the old glow in the dark.
You 'youngsters' have upped the ante on things to do since I got married... Beers at the Tap & Hobbit in the square (I think it's now that town centre Tesco) and a curry at the Eye of the tiger on Old Christchurch Road was it
Haha, I was in Eye of the Tiger on a stag do in 2014, we were all dressed as WWE wrestlers (Rowdy Roddy Piper, before you ask). Chernobyl was my best man's idea, I didn't think anyone would go for it but they all jumped at it. That and the beer was so cheap in Ukraine that it was probably cheaper than Bournemouth, overall.
Great, a bit of sport then! You were there a bit after me. I was married in 1998...my son will be 20 at Christmas /oldbudgerigar Chernobyl looks amazing on so many levels.
I hear it got a bit busy after the HBO series dropped, but still well worth the effort. *That* fairground. And they let you get exceptionally close to reactor number four. Also just staying in Kiev was worth it, fantastic city.
I've played games and watched videos of it. But just how eerie is it being in that abandoned city? Is it more or less than you'd imagined?
I would say a little odd, but not too eerie. But when I toured Auschwitz I didn't get any of those feelings either so perhaps I'm just overly pragmatic?
These bricks arrived today, pretty much as expected in terms of quality, the plastic feels a little softer and gets a firmer grip as a result, more difficult to work with but they get a better bite. In any case, it's exactly what I was after so thanks for the suggestions.
