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

This month, Lego released 1 of its coolest Star Wars sets ever. However, it’s not a acceptable you tin buy. It lone comes with the acquisition of a much larger, much costly set—but if you person the means, not lone is it worthy it, it comes with a hidden surprise.

I precocious cracked unfastened my piggy slope to acquisition the Ultimate Collectors Series of Jabba’s Sail Barge, some due to the fact that it’s awesome and besides due to the fact that of that peculiar gift. With each acquisition of the Sail Barge comes a 1:1 Lego replica of Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber from Return of the Jedi. And, arsenic someone who collects lightsabers, I had to person it. It’s lone 145 pieces truthful it’s a comparatively tiny acceptable but, portion gathering with it, I was shocked to spot it came with a kyber crystal.

Now, successful the lore of Star Wars, each lightsaber has a kyber crystal successful it. They’re fundamentally the concealed sauce that makes the blades travel alive. However, you ne'er spot the crystal. It’s wrong the saber. And, arsenic you tin spot successful the supra photo, you don’t spot the kyber crystal successful the finished physique of the lightsaber. But it’s successful there. Here are a fewer images.

As you tin see, it’s made of 2 neon greenish circular pieces, lining up with the colour Luke’s saber ignites with. And though you, the builder, spot them and enactment them successful the saber, you past rapidly screen them up, ne'er to spot them again.

But I emotion that. I emotion it truthful much. That’s wherefore Lego is simply 1 of the champion artifact brands retired there. That’s a item that lone idiosyncratic with a heavy emotion and cognition of Star Wars would importune connected and enactment successful there. It’s fantastic.

It does, however, bring up a bigger issue. Why doesn’t Lego marque these lightsaber sets much frequently? Sabers are arguably the astir fashionable portion of Star Wars iconography and, with lone a fewer 100 pieces each, would marque an unthinkable acquisition for the Lego Star Wars instrumentality successful your life, astatine an affordable terms point. Sets that are astir 150-200 pieces are usually betwixt $15 and $50. Much amended than the $500 it outgo to get this one. Which besides comes with an unthinkable Sail Barge, but, still.

So yes, this Luke Skywalker lightsaber acceptable is awesome, it has a kyber crystal successful it, and we privation to bargain a cardinal much Star Wars lightsabers conscionable similar this one. Which would you similar to spot first?

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