Pastor Jedi
Well-Known Member
Over the past 2 years I have owned (and sold) almost every lightsaber Master Replicas has made of the Star Wars movies (not FX sabers though) and I have been disapointed with every one of them. They are more like pieces of jewelry than actual props, which some people like to display. They almost always seem way too heavy and the dimensions seem off, usually too small, and they don't use actual parts, like Graflex parts that go on the Luke sabers, etc. I like a saber that you can see how it was constructed piece by piece (like the Larbel sabers) and not just spewed out of a machine as 1 of 100,000. So I am selling the last of my MR lightsabers.
I have also made and purchased many homemade replica sabers that seem closer to the actual movie prop and I have been for the most part more impressed. Not to mention that they are usually more affordable and are really works of art and unique pieces, not 1 of 100,000. I can appreciate the time and effort that private saber makers take to match up their sabers to the actual props to the best of their ability. It's too bad that companies like MR have the legal rights to props that were originally spare parts and have cornered the market.
I am probably very much alone on this, but I just wanted to share my frustration since MR is no longer going to make them. I have appreciated their bringing to us the props to hold, but I will not miss their high prices and playing games with different versions of the same saber (LE, AE, CE, SE and EE).
I look forward to the next company who might make these to see what they come up with. Hopefully, not more of the same.
In the mean time, be nice to your private saber makers and show your appreciation. Don't nickle and dime them, compare them to MR sabers, or be overly critical, because they might just be the only ones making them in the near future.
I have also made and purchased many homemade replica sabers that seem closer to the actual movie prop and I have been for the most part more impressed. Not to mention that they are usually more affordable and are really works of art and unique pieces, not 1 of 100,000. I can appreciate the time and effort that private saber makers take to match up their sabers to the actual props to the best of their ability. It's too bad that companies like MR have the legal rights to props that were originally spare parts and have cornered the market.
I am probably very much alone on this, but I just wanted to share my frustration since MR is no longer going to make them. I have appreciated their bringing to us the props to hold, but I will not miss their high prices and playing games with different versions of the same saber (LE, AE, CE, SE and EE).
I look forward to the next company who might make these to see what they come up with. Hopefully, not more of the same.
In the mean time, be nice to your private saber makers and show your appreciation. Don't nickle and dime them, compare them to MR sabers, or be overly critical, because they might just be the only ones making them in the near future.
Last edited:
Also remember, whatever MR put out had to be approved by LFL, so any inconsistencies that you find or creative license taken was all approved by the company themselves.
