Hello There!!!
Finally, after reading all the reviews on this Luke ESB again and again, I've decided myself to buy one on ebay. A never use one. So, I bought it to a shop, via ebay.
It tooks less than a week to cross atlantic from USA to Paris! Amazing fast shipping!!!;)
Here is the emotion when I saw the box! I had to look on the side to check if it was really a Luke ESB!!! Like you'll see on the pic, I had the great pleasure to noticed that I wasn't dreaming! I was about to discover with my own eyes the beauty that I admire a long long time ago on your pics's reviews people!;)
So, I opened the box and my first reaction was to think! Wow! It's a BIG hilt!!! The fact is the hilt is the bigger one I've ever seen! But, it's the nicest too! It's incredibly close (except for the size) to the real graflex original prop!
So, I've putted the battery in, and here we go!!! The blade lights up without touching the switch!! In fact, it was on the "on" position before I've putted the batteries! What a surprise!!! Ha ha ha. So , I turn it off, then, for the real first time, I ignite it!!! Then, I first noticed that the colour of the blade( even turned off) isn't the same than the anakin one! It is a light blue, really more brighter than the anakin!
The sounds are less loud than the others fx, but I prefer that in fact! I usualy think that the sounds are too loud for my taste with the FX line.
So, about the tiny bad points: Buttons...They're toyish for me. Cheap plastic. And the bigger bad point is the size of the hilt.
So, except for that litlles bad points, this lightsaber is a reaaaaaal nice piece of beauty!!! It reach the second place in my top fav' list!!! Just behind the luke rotj, still in the first place because of it natural feeling to spin and it's green bright blade!!!
I guess that that lightsaber is a must have in a collection!!! I hope that next year, MR will make a Luke ANH with an accurate size...;)
Here are the pics. Click on the links under the pics to get some bigger sizes.
Hope you enjoyed this little review!;)
Regards
Louis
Ps: Oh, and i've often read the following question: "why to get a luke esb when you own an anakin rots???" or the opposite...Well because they're defenetly not the same lightsabers at all!!! See those pics!;)
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Patience my young jedi! Patience!
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