Comments on: Paul’s Peg > “A Brief Retrospective on Lightsaber Toting Figures” or “Kids Have it Too Easy”

By: Ant

Ant — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:47:08 +0000

i, too used the old toothpick saber, but i stuck it in the base of a Lego Technic piece adn stuck it in the hands of a character who had a large grip.

“because there were figures of characters like Mace Windu and Adi Gallia with only the promise of more figures on the way due to the fact that Jedi were plentiful in the prequels”

– on that topic, I remeber when that film came out, and, like you mention there were figures of Windu and Gallia, and later on there were figs of people like Ki Adi Munidi (my fav), Plo Koon, etc. the thing to note about these characters were that the sabers that came with them were all crazy colours. Mundi was my fav because he was like a non-main character jedi, my first, and his saber was a dark purple. i think adi gallia’s one was pink, Plo Koon’s was orange, Sasee Tiin’s was yellow, think, etc. the thing about that is that kids at that time were given a whole bunch of varied saber colours, which was interesting and cool. then Episode 2 came out and rendered ALL of those colours as non-canon, and only blue, green and purple remained for the good guys.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:17:06 +0000

Yeah, you can buy cocktail sword tooth picks at grocery stores.

By: Poe

Poe — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:56:35 +0000

Now that I think of it, yeah, I did use those translucent "sword" cocktail toothpicks often found in bars and whatnot as ersatz lightsabers (not that I was hanging around in bars at age 6--I'm pretty sure you could buy those at grocery stores).

By: Newton Gimmick

Newton Gimmick — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:42:37 +0000

I hate the new "flared" lightsabers. They look silly.

By: Esbat

Esbat — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:41:36 +0000

Can't wait for that "Old Wounds" Maul to come out.

By: Philip Reed

Philip Reed — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:29:02 +0000

I remember using colored toothpicks as lightsabers. But then, I also remember trying to build a skiff out of a cereal box and a hell of a lot of paper, glue, and markers.

By: clark

clark — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:14:55 +0000

I was lucky because my mom bought colored toothpicks, so no extra work on my part was required.

By: Monte

Monte — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:19:02 +0000

Great timing with this post, for my purposes at least; I just converted to Star Wars fandom a couple weeks ago.

Phantom Menace = very underrated.

I would kill my mother for eight-inch Star Wars figures with Sigma-style articulation…

By: Drunken Fist

Drunken Fist — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:45:49 +0000

Only had Darth Vader, Han Solo, and Jabba the Hutt when I was a kid, as far as SW figures were concerned, so there weren't too many lightsaber battles among my toys. Sometimes I wanted Skeletor to have a lightsaber to fight He-Man, though, and I had a thin neon pink bendy straw I always used for that. I crinkled the end of it up to fit in his hand, then put some tape on it for stability. Worked pretty well!

By: googum

googum — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:03:13 +0000

Phillip,

It was an issue of Star Wars Tales, but I don't recall what number. In the opening editorial, a batch of old and new action figures are shown for planning purposes…

Nice post, Paul. But I'm a 6-inch collector (give or take) and would kill for several dozen in-scale lightsabers. And phasers.