As a result of all the blue sky talk with LEGO's head of business development last week, I got the itch to buy some more bricks for the household. Tonight, I pulled aside my three-year-old daughter Cianna's big and chunky LEGO Quatro bricks and introduced her to a new set of the smaller, more versatile Duplo. The Duplo product line can be used with a baseplate, and introduces mini-figures to 2-5 year-olds. While she was busy affixing the eyeball stickers all over the bricks, I told her that we could retire her Quatros since they're for babies. She said to me, "but I am a baby!" Hmmm, maybe I'm pushing her too hard to upgrade her LEGO technology.

- mike lee - wheaton, md