Star Wars Ultimate Anakin FX Lightsaber

Product Description

Arm yourself with the ultimate weapon of power and skill! Battle the Jedi or the Sith with this extraordinarily realistic lightsaber. Ignite the fight!Put yourself in the middle of the Star Wars saga action with this amazingly realistic version of the ANAKIN SKYWALKER characters lightsaber. Power up your galactic weapon to see the first of the brightly glowing blades light effects and hear the poweractivation humming sound. Swing and slice your lightsaber through the air and youll hear more motion sensorcontrolled sound effects like clashing, battle impact and crackling sounds. When the battle is over, be sure to keep your trusty lightsaber by your side you never know when youll need it again!

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #47209 in Toys & Games
• Size: Standard
• Color: Blue
• Brand: Star Wars
• Model: 327190000
• Dimensions: 4.02" h x 36.34" w x 2.99" l, 1.45 pounds

Features

• Realistic lightsaber features a bright, glowing blade with power-up and power-down light effects
• The FX lightsaber has motion-sensor controlled sound effects and battle-clash lights and sounds
• Power up your galactic weapon to see the first of the brightly glowing blade?s light effects and hear the power-activation humming sound
• Swing and slice your lightsaber through the air and you?ll hear more motion sensor-controlled sound effects like clashing, battle impact and crackling sounds
• When the battle is over, be sure to keep your trusty lightsaber by your side ? you never know when you?ll need it again

Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

28 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
Ideal for discriminating younger Jedi
By NutMac
Pros:
- Very realistic motion sensor controlled sound effects
- Cool multi-LED lighting for sliding up and down effect
- Very sturdy

Cons:
- Not life sized (36-inch vs. 44-inch)
- Plastic materials
- Blade is not removable
- Expensive

Star Wars Ultimate Anakin FX Lightsaber (Ultimate FX for short) is more budget and kid friendly alternative to much more realistic Star Wars Force FX Lightsaber Anakin (Force FX for short). Measuring 3-feet in length and weighing a bit over a pound, it feels substantial but light enough for younger kids. This saber is rated for 6-year old or older, but my 2.5-year old son can wield it just fine. Force FX is just too big and heavy for younger kids.

Ultimate FX has 2 controls, power slider (with demo mode) and a button to turn it on. Clicking the plastic button feels a tad cheap compared to Force FX, but offers satisfying slide up and whooshing sound (responding to swing and impact movements). Ultimate FX has multiple LED light bands that lights up individually to emulate slide up and down. Unfortunately, there is a noticeable gap between each band that diminishes realism a bit.

Another bit of disappointment is that blade cannot be unscrewed.

If you are older and has the money to stretch, you will give up few important things compared to Force FX. First, the material. Force FX is made of metal, lending it to more realistic look and feel. While motion sensor sound effects are very realistic, it isn't as responsive, responding to about half as much movement.

That said, not even Force FX compares to more expensive Master Replicas series. Having used all 3, I think Ultimate FX strikes the best balance for value conscious fans, especially for younger Jedis.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Good light saber for the "good" Anakin
By WryGuy2
First off, I wasn't able to find any instructions when taking it out of the box. But hey, it's only a light saber, right? :-) It's about 3 feet long by three inches or so at the base. Low-down on the handle is a switch that has off, demo, and on settings. It arrives in demo mode, so be sure to switch it to on. When you depress a long-ish button on the handle, the light saber powers up from bottom to top with a blue light, with that light-saberish sound we all know and love. When you swing it, it makes a growling, swoohing sound, also true to the movies. When you hit something, the light flickers and makes the proper clashing sound. Depress the longish button again to power the light saber down. While you can hear the sounds, they aren't too loud and shouldn't annoy your significant other or any older sisters. And it comes pre-loaded with 3 AA batteries.

The toy is made of a sturdy plastic and feels fairly solid for what it is. While I've srongly encouraged my son to be careful with the light saber, part of the special effects (the flickering and the clashing sound) require that you lightly bop it against something. I suspect that many parents may end up buying two. When my son and I play-dueled, me with an older, simple plastic light saber and he with this new one, he of course greatly prefers the new one, and any and all of his friends will, too.

While as I've noted above, it feels sturdy, only time will tell if it will continue to work properly after a lot of duels. And while I've carefully explained to my boy the importance of not hitting anything (or anyone) hard with the toy, I imagine it will be occasionally used to thwack things and his little brother when no adults are close by. I'll update this review if the durability seems less than it should be.

Overall, this is a fun toy for the Star Wars fans in the house.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Best FX Lightsaber yet!!
By J. Rice
I own many fx lightsabers but what drew me to this saber is it's the same size as the sabers in the films, (1:1 ratio) whereas the previous fx lightsabers (metal) were noticeably bulkier/more clunky. I love metal but this plastic saber is perfectly balanced (hilt:blade) which makes swinging this thing around a blast! Dueling with it must be even better, though I've never done it. The old fx sabers with the metal hilts were not balanced which made swinging it around very cumbersome.

If you're looking for something to sit on your shelf and look pretty, get something else. If you're looking something to swing around/duel whilest enjoying the star wars movies/the clone wars series, GET THIS SABER NOW!!

Yes, there is some slight banding in the neon blade, but for the price, it's so worth it!

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