uglyguitarguy
Active Member
Ordered! Super excited to do the upgrade!
TrooperTrent Holiday Special Lightsaber Series
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Are you Chris? Did you get a tracking number emailed to you?
Let me know if not and I'll send it to you.
uglyguitarguy
Active Member
That's me, I got the tracking number. Many thanks!
uglyguitarguy
Active Member
Well this is darn exciting!! I even ordered an NOS RCA transistor to chop down as my “button” cap. Super anxious to get this installed!! Thanks for the ongoing work, guys!!
thegraflexguide
New Member
So I just got my 2773 in the mail and I'm super excited to start making this into something. Are there still kits available?
Yep. see the first post here
Unlimited Run - Holiday Special Lightsaber Kit
It's everyone's least favorite, and hideously ugly lightsaber! The infamous Holiday Special lightsaber! This ugly prop was cobbled together after completion of A New Hope in preparation for the filming of the Variety special that would air only one time (and for very good reason) after all of...
www.therpf.com
uglyguitarguy
Active Member
FWIW, I bought an NOS RCA transistor on Ebay for a few bucks, and it's a perfect fit, as well as having what looks to be the same type of circular text on the zoomed in pics of the call box. It's also 8.2mm wide, so I'd bet my bottom dollar it's one of these vintage tophat transistors, not a capacitor. It just needs to be sanded down to the correct height!
Very cool!
SinkTube Jedi
Well-Known Member
I know this is a old thread. Wow 20 years ago give or take, a fellow RPFer and I tried to figure this out. Seems we were out done.
I give those here props!
Holidays are around the corner.
Maybe it is time to do another run because I am in!
I give those here props!
Holidays are around the corner.
Maybe it is time to do another run because I am in!
Trent has parts available here:
Unlimited Run - Holiday Special Lightsaber Kit
It's everyone's least favorite, and hideously ugly lightsaber! The infamous Holiday Special lightsaber! This ugly prop was cobbled together after completion of A New Hope in preparation for the filming of the Variety special that would air only one time (and for very good reason) after all of...
www.therpf.com
Received the RCA transistor. Looks pretty dead-on to me. Instead of trimming it down, I just widened the hole in the control box to accommodate it (making sure the thickness of the box wall was just right so as to keep the transistor from sitting too high or too low), then E6000ed it into place. Once it’s cured, I’ll attach the box to the saber, and call this one done.
Amazing work, people.
Amazing work, people.
“This guy hates oil cans”
AnubisGuard
Master Member
It just occurred to me -- the guys making the Holiday Special couldn't get any parts of the saber right except the grips, the one part we can't source a vintage match for!
to be honest, I'm not even sure the grips are the same. Some pics make them look like something completely different and there are ZERO good shots of them. I wouldn't be surprised if they were windshield wipers or something.
100% agree I don’t believe they used the same track
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