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Re: Cannons
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:22:45 GMT
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Pete Ryan wrote:
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> Hi all,
Hi, Pete!
> I am a returning Lego user. I have just started to learn the fun of
> lego after childhood (just turned 21)... But I have a question, I just
> bought set 3053 and in some pictures it shows a cannon that is able to shoot
> (has the peg in the center)...But the cannon I got does not. Did Lego start
> doing this with all new cannons or is it just this set? and why did they do
> this...too many kids loose an eye? Thanks!
The US sets do not have a shooting cannon included. This has been true
for a long time - I'm not sure if the shooting cannons *were* ever available
in the US.
As I understand it, the cannons were not used over here, not because of
anything that happened because of LEGO, but because of another 'shooting'
toy - I forget which one, Micronauts maybe? - which hurt a kid.
I *may* have the following details wrong, because they are completely from
memory, but as I recall it, the kid stuck the whatever in his mouth,
accidentally fired off the missile, and choked to death on it. The parents,
desperate to blame anybody but themselves, decided on a lawsuit because it
was obviously the toy company's fault that they were too stupid to watch
their kid.
Memory places this at about the time The Empire Strikes Back came out,
because the Boba Fett figure was originally planned to have a firing
backpack missile, but it was fixed in place at the last minute because of
the potential lawsuits.
J
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| Jeff Johnston wrote: [snip] (...) Oh, yes they were. At least for the first year. I have US 6260, 6274 and 6260's that have shooting cannons, I got all of them the first year Pirates were availiable. Here's a kicker for you, my 2nd 6260 has a (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) It wasn't a micronaut toy that caused the choking death, although those toys had plenty of shooting rubber-tipped missiles and the like, but a BattleStar Galactica spaceship (colonial viper) toy. The kid stuck the nose of the spacecraft down (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| Hi all, I am a returning Lego user. I have just started to learn the fun of lego after childhood (just turned 21)... But I have a question, I just bought set 3053 and in some pictures it shows a cannon that is able to shoot (has the peg in the (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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