1977 kenner lightsaber toy

[dbraxton9]

anybody remember the first lightsaber toys? they were hilarious! an inflatable transparent yellow blade, like a swimming pool toy, clipped onto a flashlight. it was supposed to be safe for kids to whack each other with, but of course after only a few minutes of use, it would get a slow leak or two. i don't think they made more than 1 run of these as they were so lame.

"Size matters not. Look at me! Judge me by my size do you? And well you should not! For my ally is the force, and a powerful ally it is!"

[james3]

I remember those barely, I still have my Darth Vader red ESB lightsaber has holes on each end so when you swing it it would whoosh. lived through me, storage at my mom's attice and soon as I give it to my son crack there goes the tip, and then smack big ol' crack in the hilt.

[Madcow]

A couple years later they came out with a sweet lightsaber (at the time). It was basically an orange plastic flashlight with a semi-transparent plastic tube. As a 9 year old I tried to paint the bulb red.
... boy we've come a long way.

MC




You want to go home and re-think your life

[The Plague]

I don't remember either of those (too young thank god)

Those who live by the sword, will die by the sword

[jedi-dad2]

I had one of them. It may still be in my moms attic, if I find it I will post a picture.

[dbraxton9]

oh yes, please do. they are impossible to find. a generation of boys raised on a toy sword that gets softer the more you play with it and they wonder why they need Viagra in their 30s? I popped mine right away, and then i cut the handle off my wiffle ball bat and taped the rest to the lightsaber flashlight for a while. kind of a prototype of an LED saber in an odd way.

"Size matters not. Look at me! Judge me by my size do you? And well you should not! For my ally is the force, and a powerful ally it is!"

[Mi Gin Gonn]

over on the force.net LED Q & A board Ultra posted one of those old oversized ones with the colored blade & the 4 holes in the top that made a lame whirring sound when swung around. If you were a kid when these came out, they were about 3X bigger than you were!

i not only remember the yellow inflatable ones, there were some that had a semi-transparent nylon blade with a colored tip on the end, attached to a black flashlight "hilt." the color didn't work of course. anybody remember those? hmm...now that I think of it, one of those blades would probably have looked pretty good with a Luxeon shining thru it. too bad they didn't exist in 1984.

"Chaka, call off Dawson, will ya?!"

[GFORCE13]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">i not only remember the yellow inflatable ones, there were some that had a semi-transparent nylon blade with a colored tip on the end, attached to a black flashlight "hilt." the color didn't work of course. anybody remember those? hmm...now that I think of it, one of those blades would probably have looked pretty good with a Luxeon shining thru it. too bad they didn't exist in 1984.

<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> Wow I can still remember a Halloween in 1980 where I threw together a cheesy Vader Costume and walked around with the Black Flashlight Hilt Saber, definitely a Luxeon would have blown everybody away back then.[8D]

May the Force
Be with You

Marc E.

[LAN-ED-TUL]

i remember the ones you swung around and it made that hum/swoosh sound. pretty cool back when i seen them. but these lux's are way cooler. lol

You dont know the POWER, of the dark side...

[yodaphet]

Ah yes the golden years.....Transformers, Masters of the Univers, and the Black flashlight hilt saber with the red or green gel to color the light.
It was funny cuz you wack the sabers together, and the blade tube would get small creases and dents after the first 5 min. Then it looked like junk. These were before the ones that made the swishing noise...I think this was 82 or 83...been a while. I always wanted another one, but they didnt stay out very long. Then they came out the the lame ones that didnt light up at all. We have come a long way. []