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In lugnet.trains, Kim Toll writes:
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> When I was a child, playing with Lego (late 60's early 70's) I never
> connected violence with Lego either. But, what did I play? One of my
> brother's and my favorite things to do with our Lego was to build 'rubber
> band guns'. These weren't Lego guns that shot rubberbands. They were
> rubber band powered Lego cannons (no, we didn't use Lego rubber bands
> either. At that time I had never seen a Lego set that came with a rubber
> band!). They were made from Lego and they shot little Lego missles (like a
> stack of 2x2 bricks with a 2x2 45 slope peak at the top). We would make
> rows of boats out of Lego and shoot at them using our Lego cannons. We
> spent hours and possibly years designing new guns that shot bigger Lego
> missles, and shoot them farther, and stayed together better (rubber bands
> can put a lot of force on those little lego conenctions!).
One of my favourites was a "gun" made of two blue rails side-by-side, shooting
another rail upside-down along the top. With a good rubber band, I could shoot
the length of our hallway. Don't ask me how long that was, but it looked like
miles when I was a kid....
ROSCO
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