just found this on youtube. really explains all the options with a cross guard, i never knew they could be used for attacking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3zfGx00bhc
I doubt it's oversized at all from the hero prop...
The celebration hilt is clearly a stunt hilt not the Hero saber which is probably a fair amount larger. On the Entertainment Weekly cover it doesn't look like his hands completely fit around the hilt.
No way the celebration stunt hilt is cast from the hero, the details don't match up to the saber he's holding in the life size standee or to the hilt on the Hot Toys figure. More than likely the stunt was designed to be more comfortable to hold and done realatively quickly as a 3D printed object that was then molded and cast, it was probably used in some scenes as a belt hanger as well since it would be light weight.
I normally don't have faith in mankind's competence, but this time I'm giving the benefit of the doubt to the lightsaber prop maker by believing he/she would not be so stupid, ignorant and incompetent enough to make a hero version of a lightsaber so bulky as to make it a worthless piece of crap. Maybe I'm just believing what I want to believe instead of the truth, like so many other people in this world... but all the evidence I have seen so far, even the Entertainment Weekly cover (which has some motion blur around the hands/lightsaber which prevents one from accurately judging the scale), convinces me that I'm right.
So has anyone seen the Luke yet? That is the one I really wanted, but I might hold out for a Finn version at this point.
It's metal(as noted on the box). Imo it is worth keeping. It's a fun toy and the people I've shown have been thoroughly impressed.@rnbuda, so to verify the Kylo Ren FX is actually metal and not plastic. I have the box sitting in my room unopended because of the mixed reaction of everyone. I have the Disney version as well and thinking I could give it a new paint job. But do you thing the FX is worth keeping?