Hello there!
Finally, it's worth the wait, and the patience I had to find since I preorderd this beauty on MR website on May.
Well, everybody here knows how long it was since this FX become available to anybody...Almost 6 months.
Well, but at last, today september 25th, I finally got it!
This morning, I've got a phone call from fedex, and 5 minutes later, here was the brown box!
Everthing perfect, no scratch or hits. Nice.
I opened it, and the black box was front of me!
So, now that I've got it in the hand, the first feeling was:
It's size accurate! Light, and sweet to touch. The same brushed metal than the graflex or the luke esb. The second feeling was that this one is better fort the left hand users than people like me who use the right hand. This is due to the position of the ignition box, but nithing to deal with MR like it's the prop's position on the ANH version 'ESB is better for that point).
The third thing i've noticed was the horrible clamp of the emitter and the false "rabbit ears" ! what a pity, what a shame! They've done it really well with teh ESB. Why the xxx they did that on this one!!!
BTW, I must say that the hilt is really nice, and finely detailed. Really close to a real graflex, except for the emitter like I said before.
The sounds and light are as usual excellent on blue FX. Same sounds (louder than ani rots btw) and quite the same colour than ani rots and obi rots.
So, finally, I love this one because it is size accurate and the LUKE ANH man!!! I mean, this is the first ignite lightsaber we alla saw on screen and that turn me addict to this weapons, and , at last, I've got it!!
So, it's not the perfect one I hoped( a little more toyish than the ESB), but a real close one! And BTW, it's the first Size accurate hilt we've got!!!;)(I guess)
SO, here are some pics, with size/details comparison with Luke ESB, Anakin ROTS and my Graflex Replica. You'll find some pics with the bottom turned off, because like that, I compared the real size of the hilt, without anything at the bottom that could change the length.
Doing that, I was even surprised to notic that the Luke ANH is a little smaller than the Ani !!!
Hope you'll enjoyed this little review.