Cannons: The Final Conclusion - Shooting, Disabled and Non-Shooting (American Problems)

[kelceycoe]

As many of you know, I have spent days trying to zero in on making this issue much more clearer than what's already out there, sort of a "one stop shop."

After spending countless hours studying, analyzing many sealed copies of the 4 big Pirates sets from 1989 (because they had open flaps) from UPC codes to the numbers beside them to the numbers printed on the back of the boxes and in some cases inside front flaps, I sadly can conclude the following:

The ONLY way to accurately know which cannons your set had is If you got a photo of the set, with flap opened -- or a photos of you with the set just after opening it. The cannons must be visible for this to work.

As you can about imagine, I am very sick my research didn't turn out any results other than studying boxes is an absolute waste of time.

I am devising a cheat sheet that could, in some sense, help you to identify which ones you have -- but this will require having a good memory.

I'm known throughout many fandoms for finding answers and many times rare items and how something that seemed so easy turned into one of my worse losses ever.

This is a developing document. I plan to update more in the coming days with more precise ways to tell which you should have in your sets.