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Re: Why did they quit making shooting cannons in the US?
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Thu, 16 Mar 2000 20:58:16 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, John Robert Blaze Kanehl writes:
> 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).
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> I remember that era well....I also remember Kenner advertising a limited
> addition Boba Fett w/ firing missile pack that you had to send away for...I
> also remember being bummed when I received it w/ no weapon and a missile
> glued in place...
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> Which reminds me...I bought some misc. pieces off a KABOB who was selling
> his and an older brothers collection....half of the cannons have a black
> stem at the rear of the barrel, but they don't appear to work...
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> I was in college and short of bucks when Pirates came out, so most of my
> cannons were acquired from polybags and a saber island set. The cannons
> that I bought years ago are all the mononchromatic Dark gray kind.
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> Are these non-firing black stem/plunger cannons a hybrid or retrofit safety
> measure..you know, originally they fired but they converted them...Are these
> like an AR-15, ie. you can file down something and they fire as intended?
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> I would love to know....these don't fit in w/ my other cannons at all, but I
> doubt their trade/sale value....I would keep them if I cold make them fire = )
Yes, you can take these cannons apart. there are two small holes on each
side of the rear of the cannon that you can
push a paper clip into to release the clips. dont use a lot of pressure as
you might damage the clips inside. I got a black shafted cannon via an ebay
auction and when I took it apartI found a white plastic collar where the
spring would have gone. Last night I took a spring from a ball point pin and
reshaped it to fit around the shaft. I did cut it so be careful of the
sharp ends. It now shoots as well as the "real" shooting cannons I got in a
service
pack set via ebay : )
have fun!
John
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 | | Fixing non-shooting cannons
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| I asked a similar question regarding the black plungered cannons awhile ago... I knew someone had described the process. Eureka...I found it = ) Thanks to John Morgan for sharing his experience! John Kanehl (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) I remember that era well....I also remember Kenner advertising a limited addition Boba Fett w/ firing missile pack that you had to send away for...I also remember being bummed when I received it w/ no weapon and a missile glued in place... (...) (27 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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