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Re: Why did they quit making shooting cannons in the US?
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Thu, 16 Mar 2000 20:11:26 GMT
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Ah, that explains why, after collecting all five lions to make my Voltron, I
saw a foreign import version which had little missile launchers that popped
out all over, but mine didn't. (They were virtually the same toy besides
that...my Blue Lion even had a part that popped up, but didn't shoot anything.)
Aaron
-Wish I still had that bloody thing...die cast metal toys are cool!
In lugnet.pirates, Eric Joslin writes:
> In lugnet.pirates, Jeff Barnett writes:
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> > Does anyone know why they stopped making shooting cannons??
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> In the late 70's, there was a paranoia against any toy that fired projectiles
> in the US, which came fom incidents revolving around the Battlestar Galactica
> Colonial Viper and Cylon Raider toys, which shot little missles that got • lodged
> in kids' throats. I'm not sure if the kids actually died or not, but they did
> manage to keep a lot of us from having much fun (or at least AS much fun).
>
> eric
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| (...) anything.) Ah! I have GoLion, which was the GoDiakin robot by Bandai that the Lion Voltron was based on. That SOB shot missiles all over the place. It was, in fact, the toy that caused the scales to fall away from my eyes and realise that (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
| | | Re: Why did they quit making shooting cannons in the US?
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| (...) anything.) (...) Hello Aaron, I do still have it, in the original box too! I love it, I always thaought it was the best. Mine is the imported Japanesse, complete with firing objects, set. It was a Xmas of yesteryear present. And I didn't (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) In the late 70's, there was a paranoia against any toy that fired projectiles in the US, which came fom incidents revolving around the Battlestar Galactica Colonial Viper and Cylon Raider toys, which shot little missles that got lodged in (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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