How Obi-Wan Kenobi Figured Out the Perfect Lightsaber

Few props outline a franchise like lightsabers outline Star Wars. So, once you’re making a brand new Star Wars present, additional particular consideration should be paid to the elegant weapons—and Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi was no exception.

Star Wars followers have seen Obi-Wan Kenobi’s lightsaber earlier than the present (in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith) and after the present (in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope), so it was as much as the present’s prop staff to not simply merely seize the Episode III saber or Episode IV saber. It needed to be someplace within the center.

“His lightsaber was the trickiest thing that we had to figure out,” propmaster Brad Elliott advised the official Star Wars website. “The Revenge of the Sith saber is smaller, shinier, and differs in many other details from the New Hope saber that Alec Guinness carried.”

To discover a steadiness between the 2, Elliott appeared on the story and character. “Kenobi is coming from the loss of the war, the fall of the Jedi Order, and the loss of his best friend and Padawan,” he mentioned. “He’s carrying the weight of his past, so his saber is largely from that past.” That’s why the hilt within the present is nearer to the hilt from Episode III, however with an upgraded emitter so it appeared extra just like the Episode IV saber. The staff additionally aged it as much as appear like it had been buried within the desert for decade, because the present dictated. And voila. You have a saber that matches completely into Obi-Wan Kenobi.

A reasonably fascinating story, we predict, and simply one in all a number of you possibly can learn over on the official Star Wars web site. In addition to the lightsaber, Elliott talks about Obi-Wan’s macrobinoculars, holoprojector, and datapad, in addition to that T-16 skyhopper mannequin he items Luke, which is then seen in A New Hope. Head to this link for those.

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