Vintage Star Wars Lightsaber repair and custom guide - Toy Polloi
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- A very common problem with the vintage Star Wars 3 3/4 inch lightsabers is that the tip is often missing, or lets face it, the whole thing. So this video will show you how to replace the tip, or make a whole new saber from scratch.
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My brother and I used toothpicks and markers around 1979! Brought back memories. In fact, my Vader still has a "vintage toothpick" embedded in his arm.
TheDing1701 ..In the 80's I would use extra Bespin Luke lightsabers, colored with red or blue marker or paint, for Vader, Ben and Tatooine Luke. The saber handle fit nice and tight into that hollow handle on the figure.
That's a great fix! I found out that the reason the lightsabers had that narrow tip, was originally they were supposed to extend (kind of like a radio aerial) but Kenner ditched the idea. Good work as always
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cybercrow: good find! I don't know if they actually released them in quantity, my figures have the normal "tab slide" lightsabers as featured. It's a strange design though, a thick saber with a thinner part just jutting out.
Amazing fix I remember when I was kid we cut the tips off the lightsabers because we didnt like how they looked.... not 40 years later we are putting them back.... lol
I did the same lol. They always looked like a partially-inflated balloon, as if the figure was about to make a balloon animal.
Astro Zombie I can’t under that now, all my figures look like they are clowns blowing balloons up
The handle would look great if you heated it a bit with a lighter and then press it with a pair of pliers, to make it flatter, like the originals. Great video!
Another outstanding example of your ingenuity. I have a yellow Luke Skywalker lightsaber that needs to be repaired and I know I don't have to throw it out now. Thank you.
Love your work mate. I’m addicted to your videos.
My Dad was a carpenter so I used POP rivets for sabers. They had their own grip and guards, were the right length and fit perfectly into the hands of the figures.
That's a great idea. They do look like mini light sabers. I remember my Dad using them as well.
I could watch these videos all day long.
Same here.
These video tutorials are great, I’ve been thinking about trying to re create my childhood collection for a couple of years now with a “ played with “ quality of figure that would still stand up to being displayed in a cabinet. I’ve been put off by people screaming “ no repro or restoration “ but this has restored my faith in giving it a go.
The paper-clip idea is pure genius! I used to buy cheap 90's figures and cut the hilt off, then jam the laser-y bit into the vintage hilt opening. Also, if you need some more reproduction sabers, I've got a few extra for the next time you come visit. Great video with some awesome ideas!
Thanks! that would be great. We will be coming over soon!
this is pretty awesome! i ordered some of those styeren thingys last night to finally have decent light sabers for my old figures! thanks for posting this! well done!
This brings me back to 1983 me and my brother used to use cut Q tips and sticky paper ah the memories
Love re-watching these videos. Always learn something new. Thanks Dave!
My vintage 78" Luke has a blue light saber. I solved that whole "yellow" light saber issue decades ago. I don't remember where I got it from because I've never owned a Ben Kenobi.
You should make a double telescoping lightsaber.
I used the old fashioned "sword" cocktail sticks! They came in multi colours & also cotton bud sticks! Great video Dave! Brought back old (but good) memories!
Just made my first saber using this method, turned out very well , your not wrong about it being fiddly but the results are worth the patience, for my first Vader restoration I’m more than chuffed , keep up the great work 👍
I'm drooling over those pieces 🤤
Great work 👍🏽
You’re doing the lord’s work sir
Up early here in U.K and a Toy Polloi video to watch. Fantastic!
I used to put them live at 12 noon. But thought I might as well set the live as soon as I get to my PC.
Great video, I especially like the idea of making Vader's lightsaber all thick. My figure actually does have his original saber with the tip in great shape, which I like having for completion sake, but Id prefer a longer saber without the thin tip and then I can make the blade more red cause on mine at least the red is kind of a washed out color that I don't like too much.
Awesome! While you were doing the Vader one. I was thinking "squish the handle with some pliers" the comment below me beat me to it. Great job! Great video!
Uni posca paint pens come in a range of colours that closely match the original sabers. Keep up the good work.
Nice. I've got a Kenner (or is it Palitoy?) Darth Vader I found at a jumble sale a few years back that I just made a red painted cocktail stick lightsaber for. He's got a bit of a tatty looking cape too, an old Ben Kenobi figure one I painted black that's got some tears around the armholes - I really should give your custom vinyl cape replacement a try.
Absolute genius as ever - your content is always so brilliantly thought out and executed - and incredibly informative too! - long may it continue!
+parky2310 Thanks. I always try to cover things that I can't see anyone else showing fixes for as I think most things have a way or repairing.
Thanks man.... You saved me $$$$ from buying expensive repros 👍👍👍
It's more fun to make your own. Cheers
So simple yet so awesome
fantastic work ,Im always telling collectors about videos
Another great video, thanks. To avoid the tricky drilling you could use 2mm styrene tube, not sure how it would work to form a handle though. The more adventurous might be able to use the tube to make double telescoping sabers from it!
You could give it a try. But it may just fold when you try to bend it. Rather than give a nice curve like you get with the solid rod.
How simple. I wish I could have known this fix back when I lost or destroyed my lightsabers.
What a a great idea! My vintage Luke, Ben and Vader all have snapped 'sabers. Now...can I buy a single StripStylene rod from you? 😂
If you've not seen "Plastic Galaxy" I highly recommend it. It's the story of how the first Star Wars figures came to be. I think it's a pay RUclips video and also available on some other streaming services. I never understood the stupid design of the light sabers. But when you hear how much Kenner was basically flying by the seat of their pants, it's kinda not surprising. But these fixes/recreations you've done look perfect.
7:20 "Hey guys, let's touch tips!" :D
I've had an idea about fixing Ghost Busters proton gun with weed wacker string. It comes in many colors.
Just fyi, what I used for the tip is the plastic “string” that holds on price tags to clothes, dog toys, etc. That annoying plastic string that you have to cut off almost everything. Used a pin of comparable size to work a shaft like on video. Once have a decent depth, I heated the pin then worked it thoroughly inside the hole. Insert the plastic string. Painted the wick white with paint marker, then the appropriate saber color like on video. Thx Toi Polloi!!
Great job Dave! Thanks for sharing with us! I think one of the first things I did as a little kid with my Darth Vader toy, is rip the cape off and bite off the end of the light sabre!lol glad to know I could have fixed both if I still had them!lol
+Delvis 78 Ouch. I bet you wouldn't do that now.
No sir! I really like the solid 2mm sabre! I appreciate the look of having the tip like the originals, but It he solid ones do look a bit more like an actual light sabre! Again, thank you for sharing, and fantastic job!
my childhood way of 'replacing' a lightsabre was to jam a toothpick in the socket.
amazing i bet you could heat the end up and smash it to make it look even more original this is a great repair method!
I'm sure you could. I quite like the simplicity of this so left it as is.
Great work they look great
Enjoyed the video, thank you
Genius! You'd be hard pressed to notice that the styrene replacement lightsaber isn't an original in a display cabinet! Good stuff!
+Loston Wallace I think it would fool most people without studying it closely. The colour match is a little off as I have limited pen choices :)
WOW! Pretty amazing, Dave!
AWESOME VIDEO BROTHER IF THOSE GUYS WERE MINT ON CARD THAT WOULD REALLY BE COOL I PROBABLY WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THEM IN MY MUSEUM COLLECTION
Bloody brilliant I must say
Another top job!
Hi Toy-Polloi,
I really really like your work, excellent videos. Also many thanx for the patterns and custom decals.
I was wondering if you could also make a lightsaber in the new star wars fashion, like POTF2 or ROTS?
Great video, looks wonderful
I'd love to see if you could come up with how to the hand held vintage sabers that came with Bespin and Jedi knight luke, I don't know if it'd be too different but I'd definitely be interested. I especially would want to then be able to see if I could make some post ot lightsabers Kenner style, like mauls double bladed saber, yodas short saber, kylo rens saber, etc.
I've made mine with a paper clip pushed through some wire casing does the job strip the copper wire strands out the push paper clip through cut to size done there u go homemade lightsaber 👍 colours blue brown and yellow and green there's probably more wire colours haven't done those yet
Say, is there a chance a green telescoping lightsaber can be made? I was thinking of making an ROTJ Jedi Luke with telescoping lightsaber like Darth Vader and Obi-Wan has. Which arm should I go for - Obi-Wan's or Luke's?
awesome! lol my Vader still has his vintage scalectrix flagpole/sabre combo goin on!
+Ess Haytch Cool. That's a good idea for a replacement :)
Awesome! How durable are the new tips? If you bend them will they straighten back out? Will the tips break off easily? Thanks! Love your vids!
They are fine for display. But I wouldn't bend them over and over. Much like the originals.
I always hated the silly 'lightsabre' that was part of the figure - it just looked like a retractable car aerial. I always removed them, and replaced them with fluourescent plastic rods that were used in fishing floats. All I'd do was shape the ends to a point, and insert them into the right hand of each figure - I'd carefully have cut the moulded 'hilt' away with a modelling knife, because the rods were inset into black ends that looked like lightsabre hilts, and fitted perfectly into the hole. The slots in the arms were filled with model putty, sanded down with wet and dry, and painted. The original toy idea was good, but badly executed, especially Luke, who never uses his lightsabre in anger in the movie, but did use blasters. I always thought the figures should have come with spare arms, that you could swap over, depending on what weapon, or not, you wanted to use with them.
Love your video's bro thanx. Hope things are going great for ya =).
I would make mine the same length as a fully extended double telescoping lightsaber blade. I’ve always thought the single telescoping lightsaber blades look way too short.
Pure genius!
Really enjoyable video. Thanks!!
i always wondered why they even put the fine tips on the sabers if it wasn't going to be double telescoping
Can you increase the f-stop on your camera to get a larger depth of field? It might fix the focusing issues in this video.
Great video fella
Awesome just got my first vintage Kenobi today at the Comic Con in Byron center :D is missing the lightsaber :D
Looks great!
Hey great video , I have Lukes land speeder and its in terrible condition do you know any tips to repair it or if possible a video
Great fix! Would it be possible to heat the handle portion that extends from the bottom of the arm and then flatten it a bit more like the original? Not sure what the forming properties of styrene are.
awesome video mate
Amazing!
I wonder if you can replicate the arm and sliding lightsaber to make an ROTJ Luke Skywalker with said lightsaber feature on the original vintage figure?
If you have an extra farm boy Luke, you can swap the Jedi Luke arm with his and paint the arm black.
Cool! I love it.
Always thought those long thin tips on the lightsabers made them look like they are holding a half inflated modelling balloon!
Any suggestions for reattaching the original tip? I have two that my young children pulled off while playing. I was able to save the tip in hopes of a fix...
I would do the same as this, the tip will end up a little bit shorter. You should only need to insert it a small amount.
Brilliant!
Thank you!
excellent as usual, but i like the paper clip version more hehehe...btw ive been wondering wht does polloi mean?
I'm guessing Toy Polloi is a play on words of the phrase Hoi Palloi which means "The many"
Correct. I think I have covered this in a q&a video. Hoi Polloi means the many, Toy Polloi is a play on that, Many toys :D
Great video
What can I do if the telescoping lightsaber is stuck and I can’t push it out of his arm?
Very clear
And peace was restored to the galaxy
I They Made A Vintage Kylo Ren How Would They Do The Lightsaber
Awsome fix it guid toy polloi my like Skywalker has the tip broken off to
I've seen these a few years ago on EBay made of Real Gold with telescoping ends.
what about if you have an original tip which has broken off your saber? I was thinking of melting it back on but I've only got a soldering iron or a clothes iron and I'm worried that it would burn or in the case of the clothes iron it wouldn't be hot enough. I suppose I could superglue it too and try and like the tip with the hilt close to perfect and then maybe use heat to form a proper bond. Any suggestions about this or better ideas?
Drill a tiny hole in the end same as I did in this video. And insert a small amount of the broken tip. It will end up slightly shorter, but not by a lot.
@@toypolloi The snap was not flush with the hilt, a bit of the tip is still there and I'd hate to have to cut/shave it off but putting a hole in like you demonstrate is a great idea, so thanks!
I used to color toothpicks with crayolas
Dare I say it?
Great *tip* 😉👍🏻
+Nicholas Dickens Ha ha!!!
I always though it looked so stupid that these figures were holding big syringes.
If Darth Vader's tip is bent it, looks like he's holding a stick of dynamite.
I'm so glad they changed it.
You know how stupid Jedi Luke would look if he had a telescoping syringe?
Or Bespin Luke?
you could use uv or glow in the dark paint so in the dark the ligtsabers can glow
I bought three custom glow in the dark double telescoping lightsaber blades of eBay months ago and they are really cool. They came in yellow, blue, and red/orange. The guy unfortunately doesn’t sell them anymore.
Genius!
Your awesome great video
You should trying to make the whole light saber
You should watch the whole video! :D
While I realize you're repairing things to their factory new look, I must say that that tiny end to the lightsabers doesn't appeal to me at all, and it never has. I don't understand the thinking behind this design.
Wonderful work, as always.
It made sense when it was a double telescoping design. Without that feature, it just looks like a half inflated balloon snake.
Do you know stores where i can find the rods?
That was an awesome how to video. Where do you buy those polystyrene rods?
+ZEMOS GATE Links in the description. Cheers
Toy Polloi Thanks!!!
This was a particularly interesting video so thank you for that and also thank you for your correspondence. I appreciated you taking the time
Star wars kenner light sabers are so far from the screen light sabers and look like a lot of work went into them. Versus the simple kenner empire light saber or return approach. I'm guessing they found a better approach that worked. But I wonder why they didn't get light sabre happy with each luke figure and update vader and Ben.
I’ve always wondered why the telescoping lightsaber blades are so short. Can you imagine the blades being that short in the movies?
Do you repair vintage gijoe not the 12" the 3/3,4
I have a few videos covering 3 3/4 inch joes. Check them out.
Straw from a can of wd40 used for Vader with a a stretched piece of sprue for the tip Is what I use.
Nice, As I'm completely saberless I'll have to give this a go.
Although you COULD go for Double Jeopardy (and annoy the purists) and try to recreate a DT Saber....
+Tom Drake I was going to give that a try at some point. I need to find out the measurements of one to work from.
You might have a job...
"Serious Collectors" still consider themselves legendary for managing to "con" RevalveIT by giving them wrong measurements and doctored photos when they wanted to get them...
I have three glow in the dark DT lightsabers. I can give you the measurements.
It seems they are the length needed to fully vanish into the hand when retracted. Would be neat to see even if it wasn’t exactly like the originals.
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where do you get you reproduction wepons
Patrick Leonard there’s plenty of repro weapons on eBay.
What size bit is used in the pin vise .
Same size as the rods. I do mention it in the video. Cheers
@@toypolloi Alright then
why is luke's saber yellow?
Where cat i get those drill bits?
Links in the description.
WHY DIDN'T KENNER EVER TELL US ABOUT THIS???