Hasbro's 'Star Wars' Ultimate FX Lightsabers May Light Up Your Life [Review]

Aw, when you started by going over the two types of saber toys, I was SO hoping it was leading up to "they finally made one that both retracts and lights up." I am slightly disappointed.

Also, what kind of power supply are we talking here? I would find it revolting if they still depended on the giant C or D batteries now, in the 21st century. I imagine some lithium-ion rechargable? Hope so.

You knew you were writing an article on this, but could not bring yourself to watch the mini-DVD? Aren't you curious? It might be that YouTube clip of Star Wars kid on a loop.

I still havn't been able to follow the most important thing... Can you swing one at someone holding another saber and smack them together like you're fighting?

I know you can't with the high end replicas, but these don't say you can't on the box... Yet the commercial shows a bunch of kids swinging them in the air only, and not actually light saber fighting each other?

If you can hit blades without them exploding into glass shards and poison gass, that's awesome... If you can't you're missing the whole point of a light saber toy IMO.

you know back in my day we didn't have lightsabers that lit up or retracted.
no, we had to unscrew the handle from the big blade and duct tape the hell out of a flashlight trying to keep it from falling off.
we always assumed the reason you could unscrew them was for the smart kids who would think of taping a flashlight to them.

but these actually look awesome. i never wanted to drop over $100 for those others that came out years ago. but this is tempting.