You Wanna Play With What?!? No Way Kid, You'll Put Your Eye Out!

Holy shit... That Johnny Reb Cannon looks AWESOME! From the picture on the article it looked small enough to be a small paperweight but if you watch the commercial you see the shit was large enough that it almost begged to be hauled by beasts of burden.

Oh wow... I can almost see kids today re-enacting battle scenes from The Patriot using these.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Sassafrass

Also, potato guns are pretty fun. >_>

Back in 2003 when I moved to Three Rivers in the mountains we made a potato gun too. In fact... I wouldn't even call it a potato gun; I'd call it a potato cannon!

Man, we had so much fun with that thing. We'd get completely lit in the middle of the day when we got home from work and my friend's cousins used to load it with GUNPOWDER and we'd watch the fucking potatoes fly literally MILES. This was all in good fun until one day they popped a potato into some guy's living room window across the river (I'd say the potato flew about 2000 ft. to reach that house which was on the side of the hill) and shattered a 50 gallon fish tank.

Nobody was home when this happened and we only found out about the fish tank when they returned home from vacation a month and a half later but as far as I know, nobody knows it was them that did it and I have no clue what happened to that cannon either.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

So... As a designer you agree that the Johnny Reb cannon is a prime idea for marketing and profit?

Not that I object to the idea of PLAYING with the cannon, I'm just saying that we made similar toys when we were kids and we knew how dangerous they were when we made them. It just seems kind of silly for a toy maker to pander to that giddiness, see where it can be profited from and then say, "Well... We didn't think it would be THAT dangerous. I mean, we expected cranial fractures but death? What the fuck, man?"

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.