Star Wars Follies: Up to the Hilt - Kenner Hasbro Lightsaber
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The latest episode of Star Wars Follies follows Michael's lifelong search for the ultimate lightsaber toy! Does he find it?! Find out!
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Me and my sister each had one of those "The Force Lightsabres" in the 70's, and what I actually did as a young kid, was, I realized that the inside was like a flashlight. I had a couple of old flashlights from Cub Scouts and I took them apart, and I taped the insides into the hilts so that the bulbs pointed up the lightsabers so that they lit up in the dark. I moved the swiches down to the bottom of the handle. It was worthless in the daylight, but it was fun to sword-fight in the driveway and in the yard at night. Also, back in the early 2000's, I used to work at Staples. Our back room manager came back from his break with a lightsabre on his belt. We were like, "Where did you get that?". He was like, "Oh. The toy store in the plaza across the street is closing and clearancing them off dirt cheap!". So every, single, one of us, who worked in the back of the store, went over there and bought a lightsabre. Then... for the entire rest of the work day... whenever customers weren't around... we were Jedis. You would be straightening an asile.. and it would suddenly get quiet... too quiet... and you would slowly reach for that sabre at your belt... grab it.. whip it up.. and immediately deflect a blow that was coming at your head from the ambush, ***KISH!!!*** ***WHUM!!! WHUMM!!!*** ***KISH!!! KISH!!!*** and this crazy battle would happen in the aisle. There was this moment when this utter Jedi brawl broke out in our back room. There was about 10 of us, in this massive sabre duel with all the sound effects and sword flashes... And suddenly we all stopped... Our general manager was standing at the door, just staring at us with this... VERY blank expression on his face, completely frozen. He then.... just shook his head, very slowly. He backed out of the room VERY slowly, and closed the door. And we didn't see him again the entire day.
That sounds genuinely epic.
@@nicolasrestrepo2775 It was. It was the most memorable day at work that I ever had. I will never forget "The day we became Jedi.". We were a goofy bunch who worked in that store. We were also fond of playing "Murder games" too, where we would have to try to eliminate everyone from the game and be left as the sole survivor using various improvised weapons (paperball grenades, a piece of paper hidden in a box for someone to open that said "Bomb" in it, etc...).
That gives me ideas to do with my friends. Thanks!
I'm taking this story and retelling it as if it happened to me. Hope you don't mind.
Would’ve been awesome if your boss pulled out a lightsaber 😂
One other thing this video provides: you accurately demonstrate that feeling we all get, even as adults, when our toys break.
TheMattwolf a jammed toy isn't a broke toy he didn't it wrong all he needs to do is take it out and put it in the right way he jammed it and than jammed it again like who does that no wonder why its stuck he is a jackass
...that pesky, course, rough sand sho do get everywhere don't it.
Ancient weapons and hokey religions ain't no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.
It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
I always thought- wouldn't it make sense to say "Ancient religions and hokey weapons"? It works both ways, but I think the hypothetical is a little stronger.
But remember, the lightsaber is not as clumsy or random as a blaster. It is an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
Choke cough cough cough..... I find your lack of faith disturbing.
@@nicholasperl1484 Well now that you pointed that out I hate the scene. In fact this ruins the whole original trilogy for me. TERRIBLE!"
I'm kidding.
"We were on the verge of greatness! We were this close!" - Orson Krennic (Rogue One)
The new logo animation looks absolutely amazing, LOVE IT!
Agreed! What an upgrade!
Heck yea
Loved it!
Great upgrade!
My nephew would often visit and loved to duel and would really get into it. He even insisted that I blast "Duel Of The Fates" from the stereo during the battles with his cousins and I. I remember at one point having to maintain a row of boxed Qui Gon Jinn (his favorite) electronic sabers in a closet just so when he'd inevitably break one I'd just pull another off the shelf. Luckily they were much cheaper in 2002 lol That little psycho is actually a policeman now lol j/k he's a fine Officer, Qui-Gon would be proud. :)
Oh God, the Force Lightsaber moan. As soon as you swung that thing I was back in the '80s, chasing my brother around the house, knocking over lamps and scaring the cat.
Tbh, my favorite lightsabers as a kid were the basic ones(back when they were solid and only had three handle variations). Like yeah, they were chunky and inaccurate, and didn't light up or have sounds, but they were functional for both swinging around AND dueling(I'm talking prequel hardcore). I mean, the ones that light up are nice, but you could barely see the lights during the day, you could hear the clunking of blades past the sound effects, and if you dueled too hard, you'd dent your blade and make it look bad. The basics cut the crap of lights and sound effects, and were durable enough that it took a while to break them. The damage you got from dueling was white with dents rarely happening, so you could write it off as the energy of the lightsaber.
Yeah those basic sabers were my whole childhood dude. Loved those things!
I actually just bought a basic saber online yesterday. Purple blade with the Obi-Wan looking hilt. My brother and I had a green Obi-Wan hilt one and blue Qui-Gon hilt one as kids, the durability on those things was and still is no joke.
Peak. Donated most of my old roleplaying toys a while ago, but you’re damn sure I still have my Qui-Gon Jinn saber.
Same, had a Qui-Gon handle with a Blue blade. Originally i was kinda dissapointed that they werent the light up ones, but they were one of my faves as a kid, probably the last toy i was obsessed until i got to my teen years (it lasted me like 5 to 7 years, the plastic was worn and i still used it)
I see you have constructed a new Star Wars Follies....
Indeed you are powerful
I remember wanting one of these so bad when I was 12 years old, we couldn't afford them so my brother broke my mom's mop and used the handle as a lightsaber, thanks Michael for bringing back old memories
hondorockz hell yea bro..mop Sabre’s were the shit..had one myself as a kid..
@@clisk35 yeah especially if the color was right, brooms weren't safe either, thanks bro!
We used those thin plastic yellow wiffle ball bats as kids
@@Gideon0297 being a kid back in the day was pretty cool
hondorockz I used a long wrapping paper tube and a shoehorn
You were so close this time Hasbro. Next time it will break during the post credits
11:50 handed the most powerful weapon in the galaxy.
Stares right down the barrel.
Sometimes being a deprived child works to your advantage. When I was a kid, I had the Force Beam knockoff saber. It had clear plastic discs you could swap out, and you could have red, blue or yellow, and even could combine them to make green and blue. Years before the PT, Power of the Force, or what have you. It literally wasn't until a couple years ago I realized they were knock offs and not official LFL licensed sabers, but as a kid, I was happy with mine, anyway!
As a very immature grown man I have destroyed many florescent light bulbs/tubes pretending they are light sabers. I'm 37 and I doubt I'll ever get it out my system. I think I convinced myself when I was a kid that I'd figure out the technology and get a light bulb beam to disarm people. The quest continues. Great video by the way.
You probably will never get the contents of those tubes out of your system. Neither will I. Not good.
Just don't go for any body shots. Personally I recommend using your imagination & let the dumpster behind work be the ATAT.
Hate those things
Rather have a real one but kenner didnt want a toy that was 2 million in parts alone. And the army doesnt sword fight anymore.
Plus should kids have access to high energy plasma?🤔
Hello yes I got the Venture Bros reference.
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Tom Griffiths maybe a few decades ago when they gave them blowing kits then yeah
‘The Force Beam,’ the Inflatable blade saber, & ‘the Force’ lightsaber - I had them all! Oh the memories. LOVED this video! The end was a fun surprise but well done and thank you!!!
Man what a sad product at the end. I don't know how much longer Hasbro can keep the Star Wars line going. Excited for the next Follies.
My one complaint with the recent toys is that the lights flicker when the blade clashes/hits--which is not movie accurate. Otherwise my favorite of lightsaber toy is the Kenner Luke Skywalker Power of the Force Lightsaber that I still have and functions.
Just at home on my lunch break after a super busy and difficult morning. Seeing a new Star Wars Follies just made my day! Thank you guys so much!
I miss the old lightsabers with the big red button that you could pick up for a few bucks
Love it when there's a new Retroblasting video, you guys are awesome :)
My twin brother and I had those inflatable ones. They didn't last long in the hands of 2 five year olds.
That was one of the few toys I DIDN'T get from the first Star Wars toy wave!!!!
I have replica prop hilts from Master Replicas (and an Icons Obi-Wan ANH hilt plus an independent company ROTJ Luke hilt) but I've NEVER had a lightsaber with an actual blade and/or sound effects! I've played with them in stores but restrained myself from buying the Master FX line because I felt I'd waste too much time playing with them and that I was WAY past any chance of cosplaying, not that I was EVER that geeky about my fandom!!!
I had a remote controlled Kenner R2-D2 but those things were made with crappy parts and I wore out the wheel motors very quickly. At least that's what I think -- or maybe my parents let me think that and just didn't replace the batteries and threw it away because they got sick of hearing me play with it.
Anything's possible.
Parents can be cruel like that!
If I were going to spend $500-$1000 on something decent that was mass-market and electronic, I'd probably get a 1/4 to 1/2 scale R2-D2. He's still the neatest robot design I've seen in my entire life.
Im a 90's kid. So that green Luke Skywalker blade was so rad when it came out. Even today I see that red box and those gold bindings I feel....here comes that word I cant stand to use anymore... Nostagicccccc. Ahhhh. Yea but I do. I was around 9 when these toys were being released and Star Wars was making its BIG 90's comeback!!! I was that Star Wars kid at school. I got made fun of and the girls completely put me in the nerd/dork category every time I brought a Star Wars Insider to school. I remember the week the magazine changed its name from Lucasfilm Fan Club Magazine to Star Wars Insider, and the first issue of 'Insider' was released. Mom brought me to the post office and this dork/nerd sent in his subscription. This era was not so dark for Star Wars fans. It was a time of great imagination and hints/lore of whats to come. Im getting off track, I could go forever. I always wished for a fully retractable lightsaber. Back in this era I would always say to my friends. 'Why cant they just hide the last part of the tubing?" I remember trying to hollow out the green blade and see if I could push down the base. Never worked and that became my blade-less side holster. I for some reason always dressed as ROTJ. Until I ordered my official Bespin jacket out of the Star Wars Insider catalog section and came to my senses. I took some big leaps and changes from 9 to 12 in my Star Wars decision making. Yes so it took 24 years for them to go.... (Kenner/Hasbro): 'Oh guys... you know we can make a saber that goes like this. You know, kinda works like those 3rd party knock off ones that are fully retractable. Ours would be way better considering we got all the resourses and people and tech to make a decent accurate version...Oh and yeaaaa... MILLIONS OF DOLLARS!!!!" Iam very happy with this TOY. Thank the lord it arrived. Hopefully they will make more handles. Or a line of toys accurate detailed sabers. Please dont wait another 24 years. Please. If this is all we ever get. Then Iam 100% satisfied. Well 99%...Iam 32 now Hasbro. Could you pick up the pace on cool toys like this!!! Um... get your playset thinking helmets on! (Iknow the Jabba stuff is very impressive!)
GET ME SHAMEEM AND GET THIS MAN A DAMN LIGHTSABER!!!
Unfortunately, Shameem stepped out from the lightsaber community.
The Custom lightsaber community has made great strides to the point where its so close to the real thing
Neopixel blade - Strips of indivdual leds that light up independently for example you can have it rainbow colored, have it create a messege when the blade is swung, or have it ignite like a tron style light cycle
Soundboards- Custom Soundboards by Erv Plector allowing for up to 12 different sound fonts
Its amazing
Damnit mike get ahold of these people and get the saber you've always wanted
@Cap285 spacewindu on youtube is a great example, theres a video of his that has me in it called sabertalk 15. They came to my birthday and presented me with my newly rebuilt graflex
Getting off my X-ray clinical shift and I see this drop. Thanks for making my day retro team
Your openings are better than the current SLN cold-opens.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for keeping your Graflex intact. True archivists.
I thought I was the only one that wanted a fully retractable lightsaber and was always disappointed with the 8 to 10 inches that were always...erect? I really thought you had found your ultimate toy version but sadly Hasbro failed.
Loving the logos and BV, as ever.
Always happy to see another Star Wars follies. Great video as always
I must add that i love those sparring "light up" sabers. Just need to find a way to collapse them.
Force action lightsabers were my childhood. I still have my original green lightsaber, it has scratches and dings but it still works fine. I loved that thing.
I actually picked up a Darth Vader force action lightsaber for $39.99 off eBay.
Oh man the sound of that thing swinging takes me back!! 😃
Great video as always! I've always been surprised by how long it took Hasbro to make fully retracting electronic lightsabers. That foot-long blade chunk lived a much longer life than it should've.
Heck yes the classic intro has returned!
Talk about a throwback!!
I had one of the flashlight sabers as a kid! They lasted forever! Thank you for sharing with us!
Nothing better after a long day of work then a new retroblasting video.
Really enjoy your videos! Been looking forward to this one for awhile. Glad you are feeling better!
It's a shame that after all these years there still isn't a definitive toy saber. I'm personally fond of the flick out sabers that didn't light up due to my personal reasons of D batteries cost a lot and my Qui Gon saber seldom knew what being on looked like.
Still though, that one from Hasbro looked like it showed a lot of promise as a fully retractable, spring loaded, light up lightsaber. Sad it was a dud at the end.
The closest to definitive are the dueling hilts made by guys like Parks that actually SURVIVE fencing competitions, not the Master FX-type oversized hilts that are WAY too disportionate and have LED's that get damaged when the blades collide with each other.
Great video. Thorough and honest with loads of good info and clear pictures. Thanks!
The big red button lightsabers may not have had lights and sounds, but they were every 2000’s kid’s best friend. All of your friends had one, too, and they even had belt clips, so you could grab it off your waistband or belt loop and flick it out into action anytime, anywhere.
Thank you again Michael. My sister built my first two lightsabers at school during art & craft for my 1982 Christmas present. Made with plastic tubing and painted red and blue. The greatest sabers of all time... even though they were totalled within a couple of days!
broken Vader yes!!!! we need more of him, Michael. Great video as always
Yay more Follies...We used to uses chrome pipes and painted broom handles when we were kids..and we made all the sound effects .we didnt have to worry about retracting blades because we used to bash our broom hadles till they broke.later on i acquired a Vader and Luke Master Replicas sabers and i treasure those to this day..🤺🤺
I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS YOUR VIDEOS MADE ME WANT TO GET OLD STAR WARS TOYS
This was great, Mike. Thanks.
Now I have your theme song in my head, awesome video as always!
Awesome work! Love your stuff!!
YES! Follies! Just what I needed today! A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one....I've been looking forward to this...and all other manner of appropriate Star Wars dialogue!! Thank you Micheal & Melinda!!....and DV too!
Every video you make has the quality of a professional documentary, but with the passion and insight only a lifelong fan can bring. I only had a cheap knock-off lightsabre as a kid, so I made my own.
Ah! what a lovely show! great again. hey the intro animation, How cool! Awesome Retroblasting always getting better!
Underrated channel, Been a subscriber since 2013!
Thank you sir! Thank you so much!
3:40 - geez, those old flashlights were almost as versatile as wood blocks & the duck blanket. There were TONS of toys based around those - full-size AND miniature versions. One of those wacky "practical" toys you were always happy to get because you could do so much with them.
Awesome video! Loved it!
I've brought the master replica lightsaber from over 15 years ago to so many parties and it has survived so many drunken duels and mishaps. It doesn't have the retractable blade but I think it would have been great for a kid with a hilt only to wear when not wielding. It still works to this day.
I LOVE that you covered the early lightsaber Toys from the 80’s. I had the yellow one, my neighbor had the red. My neighbor and I had a duel and I lost. I got a lightsaber right through my left eye. I had to go to the ER and wear an eye patch for about a month or so. Today my eye is fine though my vision is not as strong from my left eye as it is my right. BUT HERE IS THE THING: the little cone tip at the end that captures the air to help make the sound was like a little tip. Who puts a tip at the end of a kids sword lol. That tip fit perfectly in my eye. Anyway thanks for this video. Brought back some fun, yet painful memories lol
I have one. I love it. You just have to roll it down piece by piece. It's great and the sound is awesome.
Great video. I grew up with the prequels being I was born right after the ROTJ. I would take a broom handle I cut as I painted it to my liking while pausing the orginal movies to so I could wrap the duck tape and electrical tape to match the films. It was good days and my younger brother was pleased.
my brother and i had those original yellow inflatable sabers. They were not durable, but they were all we had. For the couple days they lasted, they were great for lights out combat.
I had one that was some type of knockoff. Basically a silver Eveready Flashlight for a hilt, with three translucent telescoping plastic pieces. You could turn the light on and fling it into a fully extended form in one swoop if you were really quick. I was dueling with my Siberian Husky in the backyard one day, and he got really carried away and chomped it out of my hand and chewed it into oblivion. There were little red chunks of plastic being found in the grass for years afterward. The eighties were awesome.
After breaking the official and knock off brand lightsabers in about 15 minutes from getting them home we would pick up some sticks or broomstick handles.
Problem solved.
Seeing it get stuck at the end reminds me of my time as a kid seeing those blades get stuck on those big lightsabers. I still haven’t some that are stuck partially or broken entirely
Ace as always
I've kind of wondered what could work as a proper lightsaber toy that uses an actual beam of light. Maybe instead of a plastic blade, it's a thin metal rod with a mirror at the top facing down? I dunno how well that would look in physical form, but the metal rod would allow for lightsaber fights still. Who knows, maybe someone's already toyed with the idea.
Great vid man!
I like the hilt you had built. To me, that is the ultimate lightsaber. I know that you are looking for playability, but you made that hilt yourself and it looks good. Really like the new intros.
That yellow force Lightsabre that you swung around to demonstrate the “sounds” LITERALLY, I KID YOU NOT, sound like car window wiper on a rainy day LMAO
Another great episode!!! Keep searching Mike, you will eventually find that perfect lightsaber!!!
Cool for your mom help memories. Awesome of her.
Another great video!
I’m so glad that as a kid we got the Episode 1/2 hard plastic lightsabers that could completely retract to the handle.
They didn’t light up but they were like baseball bats
While I did grow up during the prequel era, I too was obsessed with the Graflex as a kid and to this day, it's still my favorite lightsaber design of all time. It was also the lightsaber I had so many toys of when I was kid and seeing you cover the Force Action one really took me back as it actually was my favorite lightsaber toy growing up, despite its chunkier proportions.
Also that last saber, lol. And it was doing so well, too. Maybe yours was just defective? Who knows, lol. Still, I would've gone crazy over that saber as a kid.
Wow this is the first time I have been here in months!
Always great videos
I had the "Power of the Force" Darth Vader saber as a kid. Also had to get the Darth Vader mask that had a voice/SFX box connected to it that you could hang on your belt. The mask had a tiny mic inside that would down-pitch your voice through the voice box as well as having the option to have Vader's breathing constantly on loop while talking through it.
I didn't like how the 1995 saber didn't retract all the way, either, but it was the best I had. Retracted, and lit up, it kinda looked like a theater guiding stick theater workers would use to guide people into the theater and to their seats, lol.
Intro freaking funny priceless I cant tell you how many blade action lightsabers I bought
This is kind of endearing and awesome.
Wow! Pretty sure I would have been upset as kid having my saber break after 2 minutes of play!! Thanks Hasbro!!! Great video as always!!
Had the red force light saber myself. Lots of fun playing with that
7:36 Actually those lights on the small blade are extremely sturdy. I have slammed that against everything with a good amount of force and only one light on the red side broke. Although it didn't retract it was amazingly sturdy.
That opening killed me 😂
Your homemade duck tape lightsaber handle is killer. I like the whistling sound the yellow saber makes it pretty inventive that the developed that feature.
I have a lot of cool memories of duel with my brother with the power of force lightsabers, red and green. Plus the closest I got from the original Luke Lightsaber is a nice torch, with blue light and great sound effect.
Awesome work 👍 love the intro
I love this channel so much! I had that plastic Luke/Empire costume and lightsaber toy! I haven't thought about those in a long time... a long time
When no one is around while I am watching your videos, I sing along to the intro song.
Broken Vader in the new animation is awesome. When I was a kid I used a blue broomstick handle and a bicycle grip for a lightsaber.
Another excellent video! They're all awesome but this one is my fave! I remember me and my brother getting toy (knock off) lightsabers back in either the later 70s or very early 80s. They didn't last past Christmas day! :D Pls keep up the brilliant videos! Well done! :)
I have to admit it, after just a few of the videos I get absolutely childishly excited when I see broken Vader make an appearance!
The hollow "whoosh" sabers were the first thing my brother and I ran to whenever we went to Toys R Us. We proceeded to beat each other with them. Consequently, our parents never bought them for us. As I got older and photography became a hobby I did come across a grafflex flash at a consignment shop but they knew what they had and wanted more than I was willing to spend. In RetroSpecting I should have got it to preserve it for photographic and cinematic history. Looking forward to my first DragonCon this year. I see you then. Keep up the awesome work.
You would think that with advancements in technology (especially in toys) Hasbro would make a life like lightsaber. Oh well maybe someday! Love today's video keep up the awesome work!
Great video! I enjoy watching the follies 😁 but that opening scene with Vader 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
That sound really takes me back. It was cool when I was 5.
Hahaha. I love this channel, I’m so glad I subscribed. The theme song is stuck in my head. I always laugh out loud and even though I’m thirteen I get the humor and I love the vintage stuff way better than modern. I wish I had grown up when Star Wars came out. Love this video!
Also, I think you should be designing Star Wars toys.
I just discovered this channel. These SW Follies videos are brilliant but that song in the beginning is absolute torture. Anyway, great stuff. Thank you.
@@timothyward8695 I like these videos so much I feel bad now that I even mentioned it...but is it a big deal anyway?? 1 little critique! I called the rest of it brilliant!!
... And that ending is like an analogy to toy industry these days. Great vid, as always!
I had the yellow force lightsaber in the early 1980s. It broken very easily. The threading on the handle snapped easily. I remember my dad bought it for me from a video shop in Germany.
IMO, the peak of all lightsaber toys were the non-electronic telescopic lightsabers. The blades were thick enough to duel. They fully collapsed and extended and they even had a belt clip.
5:13 not weak at all! VERY cool and imaginative!! My brother and I did something like that with a piece of pipe someone left on our front lawn. But all we had was some electrical tape. Yours is far superior. :)
Another great video!!! I still have my childhood Darth Vader The Force Lightsaber..
3:33 I had the "Force Beam" and got it in -79. Thought it was the real thing. Did not understand it was a bootleg. My dad bought it somewhere in the south of Stockholm. He really made an effort to give me it on my birthday and went all across the city bringing it home.
I have a few lightsabers from when I was a kid, including Anakin's from RotS that lights up and changes color from blue to red and makes sound and all that. The best lightsabers functionality-wise though for me will be the hasbro telescoping lightsabers that had the simple push button and swing to extend functionality. They took the most beating (and they definitely took a beating from playing Star Wars with friends as a kid) and never had any issues. Even though they lacked interactive sound and lighting, they simply allowed for you to play as hard as you wanted without breaking the toy, and my imagination was plenty good to fill in the rest. It's a shame that nowadays when I see most lightsaber toys they look like they would break if you sneeze on em.
This is amazing!!!!
This is an excellent video. A fully functional combat ready lightsaber was my Star Wars holy grail item. I couldn't stand the "telescope" styled one much at all.