SWTOTW, Week 30, 2018, Part 1/2 Light Saber
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Nice saber 
. It's not a toy I ever owned as a child in the 70's, but a friend did and I remember it clearly. Thanks for sharing yours.
. It's not a toy I ever owned as a child in the 70's, but a friend did and I remember it clearly. Thanks for sharing yours.
Darkest_Logic
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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!
Looks great, thanks for sharing
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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 ? :?
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:
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Pomse2001 said:
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
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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)[/quote]
No, it's the same saber, I think they came in red and blue coloured beams (but only had the red handle for both).
Ian
Thanks mate for the link, great reading 8)[/quote]
No, it's the same saber, I think they came in red and blue coloured beams (but only had the red handle for both).
Ian
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Thanks for the info ian, blue beams sounds cool, would love to see one :wink:[/quote]
Reading up a bit more I think I was mistaken about the blue beam and it seems that the other colour was green. That does ring a bell with me and it seems like the bootleggers were ahead of the game with making a green one. Maybe George even had one and thought a green beam would make a good colour for him to use in a latter film
Ian
Thanks for the info ian, blue beams sounds cool, would love to see one :wink:[/quote]
Reading up a bit more I think I was mistaken about the blue beam and it seems that the other colour was green. That does ring a bell with me and it seems like the bootleggers were ahead of the game with making a green one. Maybe George even had one and thought a green beam would make a good colour for him to use in a latter film
Ian
Palifan said:
Reading up a bit more I think I was mistaken about the blue beam and it seems that the other colour was green. That does ring a bell with me and it seems like the bootleggers were ahead of the game with making a green one. Maybe George even had one and thought a green beam would make a good colour for him to use in a latter film
Ian[/quote]
A Green saber is also cool
Yes maybe george had one and thought the color would be great in another movie 8) What about kenner did they not make any sabers ? what about palitoy ? are there only bootlegs sabers ?
