This picture of the three (lit) sabers from above, shows the relative/comparative brightness of the three. The only piece that seems a bit off is that to be a true Sith weapon, the blade should be blood red. The LaserSaber looks like it was created by a DarkSide Lord, (as you can see) there is no doubt it is a *cough* lightsaber *cough*.
However, it was a bit too bright when using in the dark. While I am not advocating you to try it, I used the LaserSaber without eye protection, and the best I can tell, I am no worse for the wear. But, I found it really not that much brighter than the five watt LED lightsaber the GK & I built. Wicked Lasers warns that their protective glasses should be worn when using the LaserSaber.
The Arctic’s one watt laser illuminates the LaserSaber very nicely, giving the blade a bright blue glow throughout the diffusion tube. Like I said, I would have given just about anything for this back when I was 11. The LaserSaber and the Arctic laser do look good together. With a one watt laser lighting the blade, I would hate to break it, allowing the laser light to potentially harm someone for real. The words that come to mind are fragile, breakable. The blade is nice looking, but it feels like it is not up to doing true combat like the Battle Blades the Gadgeteer Kid and I created a few years ago. The blade itself is a 32″ polycarbonate diffusion tube. The base of the LaserSaber is made of the same high quality aircraft-grade aluminum as the Spyder 3 lasers. The shape/form, aluminum construction, and quality build of the Spyder 3 laser and LaserSaber combo have a great weight and feel. Copyright issues not withstanding, the LaserSaber does look and feel pretty cool while wielding it around. (Anyone remember the yellow balloon that attached to a flashlight that was sold as a lightsaber?). Perhaps without the cool sound effects or being able to cut thru objects, but it is definitely something I would have coveted when I was a kid watching Star Wars for the first time. Because it really is, without a doubt, a lightsaber.
As Morgan titled her news announcement of the LaserSaber, “ Just don’t call it a Lightsaber“, that really is the elephant in the room.
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