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In lugnet.general, Jeff Thompson writes:
> Well, there's got to be SOME differences between European kids and
> American kids. After all, European children get firing cannons
> in their sets, and American children don't. This is probably due
> to cultural differences that give American kids violent or
> self-destructive tendancies.
>
> (Kidding, kidding .... It's a JOKE! :^D)
I know, but...
Acutally, it has nothing to do with American children, and everything to do
with American lawyers, and lawsuit paranoia. See:
http://www.lugnet.com/faq/?n=424
Q&D version: someone's kid choked on a shooting toy, someone sued and won,
shooting toys banned for US markets.
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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| (...) Having grown up in that era (and as a kid who had shooting versions of the Battlestar Galactica toys and who remembers the media hullaballoo about that), I am still always amazed to see the number of shooting toys on the market that shoot (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) less (...) Well, there's got to be SOME differences between European kids and American kids. After all, European children get firing cannons in their sets, and American children don't. This is probably due to cultural differences that give (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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