Sweet! They were selling them at the SW convention in Indianapolis last week and so many people were buying them they were everwhere. When me and my friends went to the convention theatre to see the digital version of TESB, there were about a hundred people in the audience with those sabers, turned off, at their feet. When the movie opened with the 20th Century Fox fanfare, everybody cheered. There was no discussion among anybody, nobody tried to organize this, nobody said let's all do this, it just happened, and it was beautiful. When the STAR WARS appeared on the screen, about a hundred red, green, and blue lightsabers went straight up in the air at nearly the same time and stayed straight up until the crawl vanished into the distance on the screen. OMG, it was enough to bring a tear to a diehard fan's eye. It was awesome. I tried to get my camera out of the bag to snap a pic of the blades, but it got stuck and it was too late when I got it ready.
A couple of nights later we went to see TPM in the same theatre, and that time I was ready with the camera because I expected it to happen again. I'm sure it happened at every showing of all 5 movies. But that time, there were only about 20 or so that went up, and my cam wouldn't focus on the blades' light and it didn't come out anyway. Oh well.
I almost bought one myself after my friend bought one. At first I said, $110? Not worth it. But by the 3rd day of the con, with so many people walking everywhere with them, and seeing the way it lit up, the light extending to the edge of the blade rather than coming on like a flashlight, and the accurate sound effects it emitted when you turned it on and swung it, I had to have. But alas, by then they were sold out. I'm still going to get one, eventually.
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