Can’t you see the excitement in his blurry little face?
After about five trips of asking, I finally gave in and let Stitchy build his own light saber after the umpteenth trip to Endor. Before I get any raised eyebrows for being a lame grown-up, bear in mind that these five trips were in the span of about a year. Now you’re raising a different eyebrow, eh?
Build Your Own Lightsaber is a quick little diversion (less than five minutes to assemble) at Hollywood Studios and is located in Tatooine Traders, the gift shop you’re dumped into after you save the…ummm, did I mention I’m not a Star Wars person? All I know I learned from Star Tours. So, yeah, whatever we saved, we get rewarded by traipsing through a gift shop. There’s also a location at Downtown Disney Disney Springs if you decide you don’t want your Jedis battling all through the Studios.
***Update 2017*** Lightsaber assembly stations are now also located at Mickey’s Star Traders in Magic Kingdom, Mouse Gears in Epcot and at two locations in Disney Springs at Once Upon A Toy and the Galactic Outpost.
***Update 2017*** Lightsaber assembly stations are now also located at Mickey’s Star Traders in Magic Kingdom, Mouse Gears in Epcot and at two locations in Disney Springs at Once Upon A Toy and the Galactic Outpost.
***Update 2019*** You can now build an exponentially more expensive (and probably exponentially cooler) saber at Savi’s in Galaxy’s Edge. My nephew built one on a whim, but I was busy shopping and no one alerted me to this, so I’ll have to wait until someone else in my crew wants to send $200 into the Batuu economy.
Like I mentioned, first you ride Star Tours to get your littles in the mood to drop a twenty and then some on a fancy flashlight. Then you hop in this usually short assembly line. Let me apologize in advance for the blurry shots. I was obviously shaking with excitement at the thought of another sword coming home with us. 😉
Next, you get your very own Lightsaber tech to help you build. Although, I’d guess if you’re a grown-up you could go through by yourself. It’s pretty self-explanatory.
The first part you choose is a little end thingy. I’m sure it has a spacey name.
After you snap that on your chosen color thing, you choose handle deal.
Next, you get to add the switch. I know what that does! It turns on your flashlight…I mean lightsaber.
After that, you put on something else. I don’t know.
And through magic or the force or something, it lights up!!
So, this lightsaber cost us a cool $21.95, but if you’re fancy and want a double lightsaber, it’s $24.95. And then it gets to be in all your pictures for the rest of the day!
Be sure to check out Stitchy’s version of Build Your Own Light Saber…I’m sure it’s far more accurate than mine, but you parents really just came here to see how much it cost, didn’t you? 😉
I, a 32 year old adult made two different lightsabers from there. my hope is to use one of them with a Jedi cosplay I am working. They are great the only thing is, they dont have beltclips. I know there are ways to belt clips on the internet but my worry is they wont be compatable.
Use the Force!
How durable are these lightsabers?
Colin, they’re definitely toy quality. They’ll stand up to normal kids’ play, but they are mostly plastic.
how much money are they to make
They’re different prices depending on what you add to them. They range from about $25-50.
Just bought two of these yesterday for my 2 kids from star trader at Disneyland. Spent about 30 mins there as these are not easy to put together. The staff was busy showing other kids so I was trying to mooch a lesson but even afterwards it was not easy. One must really be trained in the force, apparently. After a lot of trial and error I finally got the hang of it and put together Kylo Ren and Luke’s sabers. Almost missed my fastpass window in the meantime. Once assembled, the kids had non-stop fun when the sun went down. For the money, it is one of the more affordable gifts for what the kids get out of it…
Haha! Good story!! Thanks for sharing. Glad you made your window. 😉
Yeah, we’ve experimented with them, but never actually bought one. Luckily they sort of lost interest in them. They did, however, love the Build Your Own Droid section and ended up buying those. I think I like the saber better.
He hasn’t shown much interest in the Droid yet. I’m sure the time will come. Haha!