The two had been competing to rent the space in South Las Vegas for a gun range.

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But its monsters grow tackier by the minute first giant metallic ladybirds, then gun-toting rhinos, while Gary Oldman's space buccaneer cradles a familiar that is part Dumbo, part Babar the elephant.

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For would-be smokers who don't have the space, finances or inclination to invest in a big metal smoker, there's the Smoking Gun from PolyScience, the Niles, Ill.

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After all, this was 1986: IBM had just unveiled its first laptop, the Soviet Union was launching the Mir Space Station and Tom Cruise kept daring us to fly ever higher in the hit film "Top Gun".

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