Lom said:Remember charging round the house and garden smacking stuff (and probably the odd friend) with this as a nipper; it's a wonder it still works!
Lom said:Remember charging round the house and garden smacking stuff (and probably the odd friend) with this as a nipper; it's a wonder it still works!
Cheers mate, yep, that's my childhood one from the late 70's. It is an unlicensed product where some enterprising individual essentially bolted a plastic tube to a standard torch and rebranded it as the "Force Beam". If you remove the branded black cap on the hilt you can see the original item is a standard Eveready torch.Pomse2001 said:Lom said:Remember charging round the house and garden smacking stuff (and probably the odd friend) with this as a nipper; it's a wonder it still works!
Wow great saber :shock: damn it looks cool, have you had it since your childhood in the 70s or 80s ? :shock:
Thanks mate for sharing pictures of that beauty 8)
Do you know if there was only one saber or did they make different sabers ? :?
Lom said:Cheers mate, yep, that's my childhood one from the late 70's. It is an unlicensed product where some enterprising individual essentially bolted a plastic tube to a standard torch and rebranded it as the "Force Beam". If you remove the branded black cap on the hilt you can see the original item is a standard Eveready torch.Pomse2001 said:Lom said:Remember charging round the house and garden smacking stuff (and probably the odd friend) with this as a nipper; it's a wonder it still works!
Wow great saber :shock: damn it looks cool, have you had it since your childhood in the 70s or 80s ? :shock:
Thanks mate for sharing pictures of that beauty 8)
Do you know if there was only one saber or did they make different sabers ? :?
Palifan said:Here's a couple of pictures of my bootleg one from back in the day. The plastic tube is missing but the guard is still there!
Ian
Pomse2001 said:Palifan said:Here's a couple of pictures of my bootleg one from back in the day. The plastic tube is missing but the guard is still there!
Ian
Thanks Ian for sharing pictures of your saber, do you know where the bootleg is from ? :?
Palifan said:Pomse2001 said:Palifan said:Here's a couple of pictures of my bootleg one from back in the day. The plastic tube is missing but the guard is still there!
Ian
Thanks Ian for sharing pictures of your saber, do you know where the bootleg is from ? :?
It's the same as Lom's one and I'm I think the company was UK based with US ties so I'm thinking it was something dreamt up over here on in the US as I believe the US also had it. These could be found in a lot of local Newsagents when I was growing up in Bristol and were sold in a stand.
here's a little info I found - https://io9.gizmodo.com/5944000/the-force-beam-perhaps-the-very-first-bootleg-star-wars-toy
Ian
Palifan said:Oh I thought it was not the same, Lom's saber is missing some black plastic around the saber, or are it 2 different sabers ? :?
Thanks mate for the link, great reading 8)
Palifan said:=
Thanks for the info ian, blue beams sounds cool, would love to see one :wink: