Force FX Lightsabers
Last year as a Halloween prop, I picked up Force FX Anakin Skywalker Lightsaber as part of a Revenge of the Sith promotional sale at Borders for $99 USD -- it's on sale at KB toys for $80 now, along with the Force FX Darth Vader Lightsaber.
I had originally bought all 3 -- red, blue and green lightsaber, but I ended up returning the red and green ones because after playing with the blue one, the red (Darth Vader) and the green (Luke Skywalker) seemed of lesser quality due to the amount of plastic used for the Darth Vader lightsaber (almost all the black bits on the lightsaber is the same type of plastic that I associate with plastic buckles and luggage handles), and the lack of worksmanship in the Luke Skywalker Lightsaber (the handle is metal, but it's a matte finish rather than a chrome one, and the black is painted on). The Darth Maul lightsabers, sadly look to be the same matte metal finish as the Luke Skywalker blades, though I haven't seen it in person yet.
The Mace Windu Lightsaber (which I've tried out) is similar in build quality as the Anakin blade -- mostly chromed metal.
These lightsabers are great -- the "blade" telescopes upward (an improvement from the original model of the Force FX lightsabers which just switched on), and they make the appropriate sound effect for when they are switched on and off, the hum of the blade, and a couple of different blade striking sounds.The Force FX lightsabers are what we all wish we had when we were kids running around with wrapping paper rolls or flashlights and making whooshing sounds.
