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Re: Shooting Cannons vs. Non-shooting - What's the story?
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lugnet.pirates
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Wed, 25 Jun 2003 20:41:15 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Neb Okla wrote:
> I'm sure this has been discussed at length before (I've read some of the
> posts and not found a conclusive answer).
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> From what I read in some posts from early January, Lego doesn't sell
> shooting cannons in the US for liability reasons (something about a kid in
> the 70's choking on a missile - which sounds like an urban legend to me).
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> I know for a fact that every Lego pirates set I have (I stopped getting them
> around 1994) was purchased in the US and came with US catalogs - and they
> all have shooting cannons. Moreover, lots of toys have shooting cannons and
> missile launchers.
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> So what's the deal? Why did the shooting cannons stop shipping with Lego
> sets at some point in time? Did they switch in newer pirate sets, or did
> they start shipping the non-shooters in continued runs of older sets as
> well?
Lego still has projectiles - they all just got bigger (2x2 round, rubber tipped
Technic dart). Apparently the 1x1 round was considered too likely to create an
eye injury or cause some other inadvertent accident. Whether such an injury
ever happened, I couldn't say. The popular reactionary thing is to say that you
should teach your child not to point the cannon at another child, but they
never, ever mention ricochets (which you don't see coming due to the small size
of the 1x1 round).
Lego switched to an intermediate cannon that simply had the spring removed
(recognized by it's black pull-back) - those can be made to shoot with a
click-type pen spring. They then went to the one-piece style that doesn't
shoot, nor can it be easily modified to shoot. Oddly, the later ships were
designed to have hands more easily access cannon to shoot them at a time when
the North American versions didn't shoot.
-->Bruce<--
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| I'm sure this has been discussed at length before (I've read some of the posts and not found a conclusive answer). From what I read in some posts from early January, Lego doesn't sell shooting cannons in the US for liability reasons (something about (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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