Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart

Re:Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart by jacobolus on Friday December 03, 2021 @01:30PM (#29433359)

Up to about 1990 pirate legos had shooting cannons. Then there were a few years in the early 1990s where the cannons had the necessary plastic parts to fire cannonballs, but you had to first disassemble them and add your own ballpoint pen spring. I’m not sure when they switched to non-shooting cannons. From a web search it seems like they have since switched back to shooting cannons.

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Re:Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart by Aeolun on Friday December 03, 2021 @02:14PM (#29433962)

I remember having shooting cannons, and I must’ve had sets after 1990.

Seems like this may have been a thing only in the US?

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Re:Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart by technobabbler on Friday December 03, 2021 @03:42PM (#29435131)

In America, kids are only allowed to play with real guns.

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Re:Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart by gambiting on Friday December 03, 2021 @04:31PM (#29435822)

I was born at the start of 90s and I definitely had sets with shooting cannons and they were bought new.

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Re:Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart by fortysixdegrees on Friday December 03, 2021 @03:26PM (#29434892)

I have shooting cannons from post 2000 (New Zealand)

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Re:Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart by yAak on Saturday December 04, 2021 @01:51AM (#29439243)

Amusingly, the resulting pen-spring cannons I made were much more powerful and “dangerous!”

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