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I dug up one of my last major sets as a teenager in my mom’s basement and put it back together. So many cool unique pieces in Forbidden Island!
It’s always fun to dig out instructions and build old sets. Maybe for the Q1 meeting, we can ask everyone to build and bring a favorite “old” set.
CHEATER! That’s not a 1980s cannon!
Actually, it is. The shooting cannon design was prevalent overseas while the States got a non-shooting version (thanks, lawsuit culture!).
@bsodan This is a great set! The trapdoor isn’t up to modern standards, but it’s functional. A nice medium-sized base for pirate operations!Actually, it is. The shooting cannon design was prevalent overseas while the States got a non-shooting version (thanks, lawsuit culture!).
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But sure, fine, America sucks, I get it.
Actually, my set did come with a firing cannon. They quickly pulled them after the initial release, but the first ones had a firing cannon.
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Don’t know much about the LEGO cannons specifically, but in the USA there was definitely a broad, somewhat hasty transition to non-shooting versions of many shooting toys after a toy spaceship’s missile killed a kid in 1978. Missile-firing toys have been creeping back into the market in recent years, but there were almost none for a long time.
#Murica! Where we can still have guns for hunting game or schoolchildren, but our kids’ toys can’t have plastic projectiles because #youllshootyoureyeout!
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