Battle-Ready Foam Light-Up Lightsabers are Coming!
As many of you already know, International Fight With a Lightsaber Day was launched last month, and I sure do wish that these foam light-up lightsaber existed at the time! A company in Canada called Calimacil has created high-quality durable foam LARP weapons that they called "LEDsabers." These are things that you could actually engage someone in full-on battle with. The company started a Kickstarter page to fund the project that you can check out where you can find more details on what they are looking to do:
Simulated sword fighting is the core of our soul at Calimacil. In the last decade, we have created the most advanced foam gear in the world for live action role play (LARP).
From that experience, we decided to push the limits of design by creating the most iconic sword of all: the lightsaber.
The challenge was to build a lightsaber made of foam for safe play. To integrate light, we had to enhance the foam formula we normally use to build our products. Moreover, we had to develop a new technology into the handle to enable both light and sound. Thus our journey began, and we successfully achieved the creation of a fully immersive foam LEDsaber!
You can watch a demo of the saber in action below. The models range in price from $172 to about $383 for a single blade, with shipping slated to start on May of 2016.