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  Re: Flimsy weapons
 
(...) Huh? What's the dif. between old-timer broadswords ("longswords") and today's? They're just the same, aren't they? Armor, now that's another issue... -Shiri (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
 
  Re: Flimsy weapons
 
In lugnet.castle, Shiri Dori writes: <snip> (...) </snip> Believe me, there's a difference. The older ones are much thicker, and maybe even made out of a different type of plastic. The new ones also have a little texture on them. I've broken a few (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
 
  Re: Flimsy weapons
 
(...) The older ones are light grey instead of dark grey and made out of a harder plastic. The harder plastic was more brittle, so I actually prefer the change. I don't have any broken dark grey swords. -JDF (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
 
  Re: Flimsy weapons
 
(...) today's? (...) Actually, it wasn't until about five years ago that they switched to the new plastic. Before that, all swords (except yellow castle-era) where Dark Gray and made of the hard plastic. Jeff (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)

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