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

This month, Lego released one of its coolest Star Wars units ever. Nevertheless, it’s not a set you can buy. It solely comes with the acquisition of a much larger, more expensive set—however you probably have the means, not solely is it value it, it comes with a hidden shock.

I lately cracked open my piggy financial institution to buy the Final Collectors Sequence of Jabba’s Sail Barge, each as a result of it’s superior and in addition due to that particular reward. With each buy of the Sail Barge comes a 1:1 Lego duplicate of Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber from Return of the Jedi. And, as someone who collects lightsabers, I needed to have it. It’s solely 145 items so it’s a comparatively small set however, whereas constructing with it, I used to be shocked to see it got here with a kyber crystal.

Now, within the lore of Star Wars, each lightsaber has a kyber crystal in it. They’re principally the secret sauce that makes the blades come alive. Nevertheless, you by no means see the crystal. It’s contained in the saber. And, as you’ll be able to see within the above picture, you don’t see the kyber crystal within the completed construct of the lightsaber. But it surely’s in there. Listed here are a couple of pictures.

As you’ll be able to see, it’s product of two neon inexperienced round items, lining up with the colour Luke’s saber ignites with. And although you, the builder, see them and put them within the saber, you then rapidly cowl them up, by no means to see them once more.

However I really like that. I like it a lot. That’s why Lego is solely among the finest toy manufacturers on the market. That’s a element that solely somebody with a deep love and information of Star Wars would insist on and put in there. It’s incredible.

It does, nonetheless, deliver up a much bigger situation. Why doesn’t Lego make these lightsaber units extra steadily? Sabers are arguably the most well-liked piece of Star Wars iconography and, with only some hundred items every, would make an unimaginable reward for the Lego Star Wars fan in your life, at an reasonably priced worth level. Units which can be round 150-200 items are normally between $15 and $50. Significantly better than the $500 it value to get this one. Which additionally comes with an unimaginable Sail Barge, however, nonetheless.

So sure, this Luke Skywalker lightsaber set is superior, it has a kyber crystal in it, and we need to purchase 1,000,000 extra Star Wars lightsabers similar to this one. Which might you prefer to see first?

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