Build-a-Bear Workshop < Build-a-Lightsaber Workshop
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?Um, this is one of those super-fancy replicas of Luke’s lightsaber from Return of the Jedi. What sets this one apart is that it can actually be taken apart… like the recently resurfaced deleted scene where Luke is building his lightsaber in a Tatooine cave. Typing it out like that makes me feel like this shouldn’t blow my mind, but it does. It’s a replica lightsaber based on a lost RotJ scene. Even though it’s $500, I want it so bad, precisely because it wasn’t seen in the movie. I’m not proud of this. Although honestly, I’d rather have an awesome lightsaber replica than pride.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.