Talk:Kite Dragon/@comment-4738639-20140612233811/@comment-5835936-20140613092236

Possibly because Benjamin Franklin never did his kite experiment ;) On May 10th 1752 (no idea where you got your dates from, but this is what Wikipedia says), Thomas-François Dalibard conducted the experiment which Franklin had designed in 1750. Some say he conducted the experiment himself on June 15th 1752, but this was never written up with any credit to him. He did conduct experiments with metal rods and lightning though, and eventually invented the lightning rod.

I think this dragon is just generally for Summer, or if they did want to recognise the anniversary, they probably released it now as a midway between all the possible dates.