I never had any of this 1:1 size toy weapons. So I hope some of you will share some pictures if you have one or more in your collection

Looks great, thanks for sharingLom wrote: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 saberLom wrote: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 wrote:Wow great saberLom wrote: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!damn it looks cool, have you had it since your childhood in the 70s or 80s ?
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Thanks mate for sharing pictures of that beauty
Do you know if there was only one saber or did they make different sabers ?
Wow thanks for the info, I did not know it was a unlicensed productLom wrote: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 wrote:Wow great saberLom wrote: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!damn it looks cool, have you had it since your childhood in the 70s or 80s ?
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Thanks mate for sharing pictures of that beauty
Do you know if there was only one saber or did they make different sabers ?
Thanks Ian for sharing pictures of your saber, do you know where the bootleg is from ?Palifan wrote: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 wrote:Thanks Ian for sharing pictures of your saber, do you know where the bootleg is from ?Palifan wrote: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
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 ?Palifan wrote:Pomse2001 wrote:Thanks Ian for sharing pictures of your saber, do you know where the bootleg is from ?Palifan wrote: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
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-for ... r-wars-toy
Ian
No, it's the same saber, I think they came in red and blue coloured beams (but only had the red handle for both).Palifan wrote: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