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Dueling Society => Dueling with your Lightsaber => Topic started by: DutchVader on November 20, 2005, 01:59:15 AM

Title: OOPS
Post by: DutchVader on November 20, 2005, 01:59:15 AM

Here's  a tip:

Make sure your ceilings are high enough for you to swirl your saber!!  (DUH!!)

I was swirling my saber yesterday and i hit the sealing a couple of times and of course was only checking if the saber was OK.
A few hours later the "female parental unit" came home and started yelling at me and i didn't know what she was talking about, until she showed me.

I now have a couple of one inch dents and holes in our Drywall ceiling.

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Post by: Mr.Griffin on November 20, 2005, 06:03:03 AM

That's funny.  When I was a kid I would always get yelled at hitting the walls!  ;D

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Post by: PLO KOON on November 20, 2005, 06:31:28 AM

That's bad...

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Post by: Alden Tokala on November 20, 2005, 09:07:40 AM

hehehe poor DutchVader lol

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Post by: rob on November 20, 2005, 10:04:07 AM

Man that happened to me last week when I was just fooling around with my Luke ESB. The ceiling had no drywall though, and the blade just smashed into the studs.  I was sure I must have broken something, but all appears to be fine.  These things really are pretty durable.

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Post by: psykE on November 20, 2005, 10:19:33 AM

Gladly, my house is very tall and I swing it in the living room and the ceiling is about 15-25 high

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Post by: trexy on November 20, 2005, 10:24:36 AM

This happened to me but luckily nothing happened to the sealing ;D

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Post by: Nestea341 on November 20, 2005, 11:10:23 AM

Quote from: DutchVader on November 20, 2005, 01:59:15 AM

Here's  a tip:

Make sure your ceilings are high enough for you to swirl your saber!!  (DUH!!)

I was swirling my saber yesterday and i hit the sealing a couple of times and of course was only checking if the saber was OK.
A few hours later the "female parental unit" came home and started yelling at me and i didn't know what she was talking about, until she showed me.

I now have a couple of one inch dents and holes in our Drywall ceiling.

LMAO!!!!

Title: Re: OOPS
Post by: Kyle Katarnn on November 22, 2005, 06:50:45 PM

I always have to practive my spins on my living room cause the ceiling is high, too bad I can't have privacy cause my room's ceiling is low.

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Post by: Mace_Window on December 14, 2005, 02:09:50 PM

Did something similar the day i got mine:

Stood in the center of my room, admiring the beauty of MR greatness!

A few gentle swings back and forth, a lil spin, then a faster spin...and then......a shower of glass, all over my head.

Had just connected the end of my saber with my light fitting, smashed the casing, and the bulb.

Oops :D

Title: Re: OOPS
Post by: Duncan33 on January 31, 2006, 03:46:07 AM

LOL, I know the feeling man.
That's why I had to get the ceiling light with the durable dome cuz I shatter lightbulbs soooo many times. Bleh, I still get hurt from the small glass that I missed when I cleaned up. Heh, actually I remember one time at school when I was practising with a broomstick-made lightsaber. I spun it so fast that it zipped out of my hand and broke one of the classroom windows on the ground floor.

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Post by: jack3auer on January 31, 2006, 04:34:21 AM

broke a window,

wow be careful man, you sound like a bit of a liability  ;)

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Post by: GioFX on January 31, 2006, 04:46:42 AM

lol, a common experience .... my ceiling is solid concrete and is low (two meters because my wife putted "my gadget room" on the second stage) ... anyway every time I take a sabre from the "handsome stand" I repeat myself "be careful...be careful...not this spin...be..." and SPAM! another clash of Vader onto the ceiling, I wonder really why the end cap is again firmly in his place lol  ;D

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Post by: General Beavis on January 31, 2006, 04:52:57 AM

I did a similar thing a few years back with my habro Vader saber. I've got quite a low ceiling in my room with a very rough paint texture, and there I was happily spinning and twirling when all of a sudden... CRUNCH. I managed to graze the tip of my saber quite badly into the ceiling leaving a good two inches of red plastic scuffed across the top of my room.

Not a mistake I intend to repeat with my FX sabers!

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Post by: GioFX on January 31, 2006, 12:43:57 PM

cool !!! you remember me I have again a "vintage" hasbro green luke sabre (bought ten years ago I think .... ) hey it's again working!!!!

Title: Re: OOPS
Post by: Duncan33 on January 31, 2006, 01:10:19 PM

lol, looks like we'll be labeled as menaces to society if we keep breaking things with our lightsabers. ;D

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Post by: GioFX on January 31, 2006, 02:01:48 PM

sure, after SuperMario and GTA:San Andreas (and internet in general) the next super-violent game will be saber-spinning lol

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Post by: Darth Torment on January 31, 2006, 08:15:33 PM

hahaha nice..funny thing is that u didnt even notice the ceiling damage just if ur saber was damaged :p

DT

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Post by: GioFX on January 31, 2006, 11:53:28 PM

Quote

hahaha nice..funny thing is that u didnt even notice the ceiling damage just if ur saber was damaged

hey ... thats' right ... I need to take a look at the ceiling ... :D

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Post by: benlurkin on February 01, 2006, 12:12:24 AM

I can always tell my dueling sabers from the nons by checking the tip for plaster. :D

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Post by: Jedi Guardian on February 01, 2006, 12:25:41 AM

Hahah..

I'm lucky I haven't broken anything yet.   By my ceilings downstairs are too small, and there's no room to swing them upstairs either..

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Post by: Duncan33 on February 01, 2006, 04:36:03 PM

Question to you guys.
Has anyone ever got hit on the head with the hilt of a lightsaber?
Count me as 1 lol....Never ever swing your lighsaber close to a wall...You might accidently hit the wall with the blade and it bounces off and hits you hilt first in the face...Boy that hurt...

Title: Re: OOPS
Post by: Dark Skywalker on February 01, 2006, 04:59:19 PM

Once when I was in my basement watching Episode III I suddenly decided it would be a good idea to start acting out all the lightsaber action in the movie. Well when I was acting out the part where Anakin & Obi-Wan were killing the driods in the elevator. While I was swinging away I forgot how low the basement ceiling is. So I was swinging my FX when all of a sudden SMASH! I smashed a light bulb! Tiny shards of glass rained upon me. I spent about 10 min picking up the glass. I'm never doing that again. ;)

Title: Re: OOPS
Post by: Jedi Guardian on February 01, 2006, 05:36:48 PM

You watch SW in your basement too, huh? 

 :'(  my long lost....brother!     Heh..

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Post by: Duncan33 on February 01, 2006, 06:00:56 PM

Lol I used to do that too, but it was in my room and not the basement.

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Post by: Dark Skywalker on February 01, 2006, 06:19:39 PM

The basement is kind of like my own private batcave no one bothers me down there.