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Topic: Exactly how long is a lightsabre??????/
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monkey
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posted 07-06-1999 07:59 PM
What is the offical length on a Lightsabre? |
Jobe
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posted 07-06-1999 08:10 PM
It can be 3 to 9 feet. That's no joke, lightsabers have a switch on them that they can hit to make it longer, but 9 feet is the longest it can get up to. The only time you see any jedi making it longer is when Qui-Gon (sorry if i spelled his name wrong) is cuting through the blast doors. If that helps |
Anonymatt
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posted 07-06-1999 11:45 PM
um, dude, don't worry about it.
matt.i'd say two and half to three feet. |
killer_epidemic
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posted 07-06-1999 11:52 PM
Dose it really matter?  ------------------
when life's tough or dull MAKE A MOVIE!!
please visit my web page: http://come.to/ramons-spielberg-page |
seejay
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posted 07-07-1999 12:48 AM
On the Star Wars CCG card the lightsaber is described as "1 meter of pure energy". ------------------
Galactic Empire Films |
Feederbird
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posted 07-07-1999 02:02 AM
ummm! why??? is this really important???
[This message has been edited by Feederbird (edited 07-07-99).] |
Dale Jenner
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posted 07-07-1999 06:35 AM
Thats a bit of a private question, how long is your lightsaber? |
Christian
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posted 07-07-1999 10:44 AM
"...and I can see that your Schwartz is as big as mine!"- Dark Helmet, Spaceballs |
The Man of Action
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posted 07-07-1999 02:29 PM
Ofcourse it matters how long a saber is! If it's too short it will look really weird!------------------
Peace Out Boyz :) ,
Matt Lopes
SLUGGO! Productions
DARTHVADERLIVES
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Feederbird
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posted 07-07-1999 06:56 PM
it is not the length it is how you use it |
schnarf283
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posted 10-24-1999 08:54 PM
36 inches |
Ivan
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posted 10-24-1999 09:00 PM
2.3 inches, but Its not my fault, Im white! |
DarelRex
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posted 10-25-1999 07:58 AM
The hilt is 11-11.5" long (virtually all of the ones you can buy on the web are), and then the beam is 30" past the end of the hilt. I found a picture of the hilts-with-rods that were used in The Phantom Menace, and I measured them. Assuming the hilts are 11", the rods are right about 30". |
thedude
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posted 10-25-1999 05:55 PM
It can be as long as you feel it sould be. Jedi construct their on lightsabers to suit their own tastes not some one elses. |
EricM
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posted 10-27-1999 06:25 PM
Here's something interesting. Take a look at your video tape of Star Wars (I know you have one). Go to the saber fight with Ben and Darth. I believe its the first shot after Han says, "It seems okay, if we can get to it." There shot from the side that shows Ben and Darth pointing their sabers at each other. Darth's saber must be at least a foot longer then Ben's.
One of the benifits of the dark side. |
Frank Milne
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posted 10-28-1999 04:07 PM
Your Schwartz is almost as long as mine. ------------------
"I like to see things as I remember them, not as they were." -Bill Pullman "Lost Highway" |
Frank Milne
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posted 10-28-1999 04:10 PM
Alright, if your lightsaber can be "3-9 feet" then why have it set at 3 feet at all? I say start a fight at 3' then at a key moment point it at your opnents eye and extend to 9'. Yes it's a Three Stooges eye poking light saber fight. Or set your lightsaber to variable lengths and just swing it around freaking your oppnent into an epileptic siezure. Then you steal their wallet. And take black mail pictures of them next to farm animals.------------------
"I like to see things as I remember them, not as they were." -Bill Pullman "Lost Highway" |
King Dork
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posted 10-28-1999 04:20 PM
Just to continue beating a dead horse...
Why don't Jedis make light saber switchblades? Or butterfly knives? Howzabout the swiss army saber, complete with saber can opener, fingernail clippers, and scissors. But look out for that lightsaber toothpick!
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Nobody ever accused me of being cool. |
seejay
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posted 10-28-1999 04:24 PM
Frank-
In the future I would rather have you not belittle my favorite sci fi story of all time, by analyzing fighting methods. It hurts my feelings. Using common scence in refeance to movies is just mean. I must now cry.------------------
Galactic Empire Films |
Frank Milne
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posted 10-28-1999 05:15 PM
I'm sowwy seejay. Don't cry. But here's a serious question. Okay lets say that a lightsaber is a device that is...1) a beam of projected energy 2) a force shield You can guess why I suggest it'sa beam of projected energy based on it's flashlight device design, but why a froce field? Well when you project energy it tends to keep going in the direction you project it. I.E. light, lasers (which I know is just more ligt) electricity, etc... So to keep a lightsaber from being a flashlight shaped blaster you need a force field to contain a beam in a finite distance. So logically one would invent a blaster before inventing a lightsaber. I can't see someone saying; hey lets invent something that projects a beam, then limit it. then someone else saying; "hey if we turn off this force field we can shoot someone more than 3'-9' away! Dude! So... why did they invent lightsabers? To be impractical? Yes yes I know. If you have a lightsaber you can deflect your opponents blaster beam to hit them. So remember.. if you're in a fight with a jedi, don't shoot them. Just stand somewhere they can't go and taunt them. they caan't shoot you from a distance. Actually just sit there and don't do anything. They won't kill ya in cold blood. They'll prolly get frustrated and kill themselves. ------------------
"I like to see things as I remember them, not as they were." -Bill Pullman "Lost Highway" |
thx1138
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posted 10-28-1999 06:44 PM
Because they were an elegant weapon for a more civilized time.
So I hear.
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Film Boy
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posted 10-28-1999 07:08 PM
An elegant weapon for a more civilized AGE. |
Ivan
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posted 10-28-1999 07:43 PM
*AHEM HHAACK HHEEHH COUGH*JUSTAMOVIE!!*AHEM HACK HACK COUGH.excuse me. |
ahlstar
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posted 10-28-1999 07:51 PM
to keep this discussion of star wars going, and interesting fact in the episode one, at the end when the darth maul, qui gon jin and oby wan kenobi are fighting, they were actuallr stunt doubles doing that and they pasted the actors head on the stunts doubles in editing to make it look like it was the actors, but it really wasn't. and a light saber is somewheres about the length of a real life sword, however long that is |
thx1138
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posted 10-28-1999 11:28 PM
How dare you correct me film boy! I challenge thee to a duel of star wars knowledge!
What did luke say when he got out of his x wing at the end of ANH?
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Lab Rat
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posted 10-29-1999 01:52 PM
Not a good duel. He could just go run it on his VCR right now to find the answer, and no one would be the wiser. |
Wisper
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posted 10-29-1999 04:01 PM
The answer is, of course, Carrie. The only way to do a trivia duel on line is to ask obscure knowledge that you couldn't get from the movie, and have a time limit. Or find a chat room. Not that I'm condoning this sort of waste of discussion board. So, anyone know who manufactures the y-wing star fighter? |
