Nothing is quite as iconic of the Star Wars franchise as is the lightsaber. A weapon wielded by force-sensitive being of good and evil intent, the lightsaber symbolizes the transcendent nature of the ...

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The video shows exactly how Hobson and his team made the "proto-saber", demonstrating the process as his colleague Riley makes a second weapon, and then it gets to the good part: a real-life ...

An iconic film prop is making its way from a galaxy far, far away to a lucky fan. The red lightsaber of Star Wars villain Darth Vader was sold at auction for $3.6 million on Sept. 4. This prop was ...

Who said we'd seen it all in Star Wars? Every time we think the distant galaxy can't surprise us anymore, a new detail appears that breaks the mold. And this time we're not talking about an unexpected ...

The lightsaber is one of the most well-known and classic of sci-fi tools, an "elegant weapon for a more civilized age". However, Star Wars has proven that the lightsaber’s versatility goes far beyond ...

Darth Vader's lightsaber, used in the final two films of the franchise's original trilogy, will go up for auction in September. Propstore For one lucky Star Wars fan, it will be a day long remembered.