Free (almost) light up sabers

[Richpepperell]

S few weeks ago, I noticed an add on FB for lightup Lego lightsabers from a Hong Kong based seller which were free for a limited offer. Clicking through the link revealed you had to pay postage (about £2.70) but that you could then get up to 8 different colour sabers free of charge. I was extremely skeptical but thought it was worth a £3 point, especiallywhen paying with PayPal. 

A couple of weeks later and they've turned up (as have a few more people's from the FB group). They're powered via USB with super thin wires going into the bottom of the hilt, and brilliantly the red blade is even a gun metal grey hilt whereas all the others are LBG. Obviously none of the pieces are official Lego. 

Anyway, here they are. Obi Wan volunteered to model the various colours. 

 

[mickywrx]

They look good. 

However....

You only ordered them after I became the guinea pig and ordered them!    Wise to be skeptical, although we got a bargain.  They are £6 quid each from here, which is the same company I think, the logo and name is the same. https://lightailing.co/products/star-wars-lighting-swords

[Cjd223]

Those look great!  It's a shame that TLG has never released something like this, at least in a long time.  If only there was a way to make them light up wireless....

[Cylo]

14 hours ago, Cjd223 said:

Those look great!  It's a shame that TLG has never released something like this, at least in a long time.  If only there was a way to make them light up wireless....

That would be very hard to fit everything into just a tiny hilt.

They do look very nice though

[anothergol]

On a related subject, I had posted about 3mm fishing LEDs in another post here, a few weeks ago. I just got them, full details here below.

It would be *technically* doable to build a *wireless* lightsaber.

You'd have to fit a 2mm battery (they now exist) inside a handle, or let a 3mm handle "be" the battery, adding the rings around it. And then you'd need a small enough LED as well. Maybe someone will end up making them, but yeah, with these batteries it's definitely doable.

 

Edited September 2, 2018 by anothergol

[m4st3rt3ch]

This so effing cool. If someone told us 10-15 years ago, we would someday see glowing LEGO lightsabers, most of us would have said "liar, liar, pants on mustafar lava fire". Science is awesome!