CE Qui-Gon mod?

[Kurosawa]

this might be a stupid question, but is it possible to take a MR CE Qui-Gon hilt and mod it to hold blade? Not necessarily a LED or EL blade, but perhaps an acrylic blade? does the emitter and saber body lend themselves to modification of this type via machining etc? As i understand it, corgi lost the Star Wars License, so the way i figure it, a qui-gon FX is never gonna happen, and the EL versions of this saber are harder to come by and getting more expensive so maybe this is an alternative?

[LAN-ED-TUL]

FYI, Corgi didnt lose the license, they decided NOT to pick it up, so they dropped out.

[Lord Maul]

you could do that, but it would need to be machined out to work

[vortextwist]

and maybe more trouble then it's worth. you figure you can pic an el one for about 400 or cheaper, isn't the ce or whatever a couple hundred anyhow? then the cost of machineing (unless you can do it).

[Kurosawa]

the CE's are actually going for about 100 bucks a piece on e-bay. the CE's i think have a resin body with aluminum emitter, but either way, machining it does sound like a lot of trouble.

[vortextwist]

that sucks. I thought they were all metal.

[Kurosawa]

The LE (limited Editions) and SE (signature editions) are made all out of metal if im not mistaken, but the CE (collector's edition) Qui-Gon is made primarily of resin according to Master Replicas so as it can be more affordable.

[Madcow]

If the CE is made from Acetal or Delrin (rather than resin) - it may be easy to machine a blade socket in it. Is there any obvious way to take yours apart safely and post some pics?

MC

[xwingband]

The CE Qui-gon is die-cast metal.

That is what killed the CE line. It was TOO GOOD next to an LE. The die-cast was actually heavier and the difference was a polished sleeve.

If you could figure out how to not mar the saber I'm sure it could be bored out.

[Kurosawa]

the CE is die cast metal?! places like bigbadtoystore.com (and others) said that it was made of cast resin and then had an aluminum sleeve...that being the case, i cant really complain about a $130 price tag can i? and here i thought that the bloody thing was resin...well, looks like that is my nxt saber purchase....thanks alot for correcting my faulty knowlege, much appreciated.