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Re: Cannon info
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 28 Oct 1999 18:03:04 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Ray Sanders writes:
> Funny you should mention this, I was just researching it today. My
> understanding is that some sets were made with non-shooting cannons for
> the Americas market and with shooting cannons for all the other markets.
> I think 6263 (Imperial Outpost) is one that gets mentioned often in this
> respect. Can someone else clarify ?
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> Ray
The first year of production (1989), all the cannos fired. I think the next
year(1990), they replaced all firing cannons with the black-ended non-firing
ones. I'm not sure when they replaced those non-firing cannons with the single
piece ones, though. This was only for the US market. As far as I know, the
non-firing ones have never appeared anywhere else.
Jeff
"Prepare for the Fight Scene!"
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> Jon Palmer wrote:
> >
> > My cannons do not fire but they are also made of multiple pieces like
> > they were intended to fire but when lego decided against firing cannons in
> > the U.S. they just removed a small componet. I also collect the old
> > Transformers toy and this reminds me of the earlier ones that had missiles
> > and had the guns or cannons to fire the missile but could not because one
> > componet was missing. (the original Microman Megatron gun could actually
> > fire little pellets)
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> > I actually had no idea that later pirate sets had a completely different
> > non firing cannon.
> > Anyway I'm just rambling but this was news to me.
> >
> > -Palmer
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| (...) I was wondering about this. I've only been into Lego for a few years and have hardly any knowledge about the history of the cannons. I got an older cannon at a garage sale with a black handle on the hand that can be pulled out about 1/4 inch. (...) (26 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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| Funny you should mention this, I was just researching it today. My understanding is that some sets were made with non-shooting cannons for the Americas market and with shooting cannons for all the other markets. I think 6263 (Imperial Outpost) is (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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