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Re: Cannon info
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 27 Oct 1999 22:38:28 GMT
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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 one that gets mentioned often in this
respect. Can someone else clarify ?
Ray
Jon Palmer wrote:
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> 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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| (...) 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, (...) (27 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| I learned some things about lego cannons last night that I didn't know. I was at a friends house and was looking through his collection that he is sorting and I found his cannons. I was weirded out to see that they were all one part. (the actual (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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