This Star Wars Lego Lightsaber Has a Kyber Crystal and I Love It

This month, Lego released one of its coolest Star Wars units ever. Nevertheless, it’s not a set you can buy. It solely comes with the acquisition of a much larger, more expensive set—however when you have the means, not solely is it value it, it comes with a hidden shock.

I not too long ago cracked open my piggy financial institution to buy the Final Collectors Collection of Jabba’s Sail Barge, each as a result of it’s superior and in addition due to that particular present. With each buy of the Sail Barge comes a 1:1 Lego reproduction of Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber from Return of the Jedi. And, as someone who collects lightsabers, I needed to have it. It’s solely 145 items so it’s a comparatively small set however, whereas constructing with it, I used to be shocked to see it got here with a kyber crystal.

Now, within the lore of Star Wars, each lightsaber has a kyber crystal in it. They’re mainly the secret sauce that makes the blades come alive. Nevertheless, you by no means see the crystal. It’s contained in the saber. And, as you’ll be able to see within the above picture, you don’t see the kyber crystal within the completed construct of the lightsaber. Nevertheless it’s in there. Listed below are a couple of photographs.

As you’ll be able to see, it’s fabricated from two neon inexperienced round items, lining up with the colour Luke’s saber ignites with. And although you, the builder, see them and put them within the saber, you then rapidly cowl them up, by no means to see them once more.

However I like that. I adore it a lot. That’s why Lego is just probably the greatest toy manufacturers on the market. That’s a element that solely somebody with a deep love and data of Star Wars would insist on and put in there. It’s unbelievable.

It does, nevertheless, convey up a much bigger problem. Why doesn’t Lego make these lightsaber units extra incessantly? Sabers are arguably the most well-liked piece of Star Wars iconography and, with only some hundred items every, would make an unimaginable present for the Lego Star Wars fan in your life, at an inexpensive worth level. Units which are round 150-200 items are normally between $15 and $50. A lot better than the $500 it value to get this one. Which additionally comes with an unimaginable Sail Barge, however, nonetheless.

So sure, this Luke Skywalker lightsaber set is superior, it has a kyber crystal in it, and we wish to purchase one million extra Star Wars lightsabers similar to this one. Which might you prefer to see first?

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