Star Wars ROTJ Luke Skywalker Lightsaber Replica

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Star Wars ROTJ Luke Skywalker Lightsaber Replica:

The quintessential Luke Skywalker lightsaber! Expertly crafted in machined and stamped aluminum and metal parts, this superb limited edition replica is one of the final Star Wars prop replicas to come out of Master Replicas. The company's engineers modeled this faithful lifesize reproduction directly from measurements taken from the surviving prop, and recreated the look from the movies with the help of extensive photographic reference materials supplied from the Lucasfilm Ltd. archives. Limited to just 1,500 remarkably detailed pieces, this weathered slice of history comes in a high-quality display case with mirrored base and acrylic cover. It simply doesn't get any better than this!

The lightsaber Luke Skywalker wields in Return of the Jedi has a long and complicated history. The hilt worn by actor Mark Hamill in most of the scenes of the movie where the weapon is not ignited was in fact an old Obi-Wan Kenobi "stunt" lightsaber from A New Hope. The blade was cut off and it featured a longer lever on the center band with a conical knob on the rear above the pommel, and a D-ring attached the saber to a belt clip. Cast in aluminum from a milled wooden master, this lightsaber features uneven heat sink fins which are recreated in the interest of accuracy.

For the fighting scenes, a newly machined but more simplified look-alike version of the above lightsaber was created with a removable blade. A cleaned-up rendition of this saber was used for the close-up insert shot when Darth Vader comments on Luke constructing a new lightsaber. This became known as the "hero" version of the prop because it was featured so prominently in a close-up. The "Version Two" of the prop was altered in post-production to look more like the "hero" lightsaber, possibly in the interest of continuity.