I think people are leaning too hard on the “what an asshole” assumption here. The whole point of the installation is to encourage tourists to try pulling the sword with all their strength, and that’s what people have been doing with it all day long for decades. Nobody really expects to get it out, but nobody really expects it to break either.
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Yep, the sword has been there ̶a̶l̶m̶o̶s̶t̶ ̶a̶s̶ ̶l̶o̶n̶g̶ ̶a̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶p̶a̶r̶k̶ ̶i̶t̶s̶e̶l̶f̶ ̶ (edit: 1983, I stand corrected), and probably needed refurbishment anyway. I expect this mostly happened due to metal fatigue.
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Not quite; it wasn’t installed next to the King Arthur Carousel until 1983. That’s still a long time to hold up to the cumulative wear and tear of hundreds of tourists yanking on the thing each and every day.
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In the movie “Excalibur”, he breaks Excalibur in combat, throws the shards into the lake and the Lady of the Lake then gives him back Excalibur, restored. It would be great if this worked with cars. You total your car. You push it off a dock into the lake and a new car drives out…full of fish and moss…nevermind…
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