It’s easy to pick on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace because of Jar Jar. And, well, everything else too. But you know what’s always fun about Star Wars? The lightsabre battles! This video, however, hilariously points out how silly they look like on closer inspection.
New York City’s Washington Square Park was the host to a giant Lightsaber Battle. Almost a thousand people showed up to battle it out in epic Star Wars style.
The JediBot, created by students at Stanford University, is a robotic arm that tests your skill with a lightsabre-ised foam sword. By using a Kinect, it’s able to home in on its enemy’s weapon and attack or defend accordingly.
Two elderly French gentlemen engage in an argument over wine or baguettes or mandatory five-week holidays or what have you, when OH MAN LIGHTSABRES. Thank you, internet. I take back everything I ever said, etc.
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GOD, weird. So a while back I called Wicked Lasers’ Spyder III a “real life lightsabre“. (It wasn’t quite that cool in practice). LucasFilm took issue and threw a fit. Here’s the whole saga (and ME) immortalised in Taiwanese CGI.
SwooooOooooOOOOooooossh. Ziiing! SwooooOOOOooooosh. There is no escape… don’t make me destroy you…
