Nice comparison!
Funny that one segment on the Hyperblade was shut off in the beginning, but lit up
after you had banged it. I suspect that there was a connector inside the hilt that was not properly attached. Did you not check it before doing the test?
The reason why the Luke "Graflex" saber went to pieces, is that a real Graflex flash gun is not a single tube, but two, held together with a clamp made from sheet-metal. The two tube pieces don't even touch eachother - they touch only the clamp.
This breakage could happen to all Graflex sabers. Graflex flashes were originally designed to be used by photographers who handled their equipment with care.
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