| | Re: Cannons Jeff Thompson
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | Re: Cannons Mike Poindexter
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| | | | Nephilim <jthompson@esker.com> wrote in message news:FonA25.6ty@lugnet.com... [snipped] (...) When I had my Transformers toys, I was annoyed that the missiles were so weak, probably for this reason. I opened them up and put pen springs in them. I (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Cannons Jonathan Delinger
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| | | | | Did all the LEGO cannons fire by springs? The one I have (sadly only one...) fires with a spring, but I seem to remember a friend about 6 years ago who had several where you had to pull the "pin" back and then flick it with a finger to make it (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Cannons Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | (...) There was an interim cannon design in the U.S. where the spring was essentially removed. It can be retro-fitted with a spring to fire. It was replaced by the current solid one-piece cannon. They are probably the rarest of the Lego cannon. (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | Re: Cannons Andrew Lynch
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| | | | Nephilim wrote in message ... (...) I think this is correct, but I seem to remember that the Micronauts toys changed the shape of the missiles that they fired right after this happened. My younger brother and I had some of the toys with the larger (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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