View Full Version : Since when do Transformers have lightsabers?
01-25-2003, 12:34 PM I haven't kept up or anything obviously,
but I was flipping through here, and there was a episode of
Transformers, so I stopped to watch, and one of them had
something that looked like a blue lightsaber. ?????  El Chuxter
01-25-2003, 12:53 PM Since The Transformers: The Movie, where
Hot Rod trains on the starship in a blatant ripoff of the scene
with Luke training on the Falcon in ANH. :D  01-25-2003, 01:26
PM Boy, that was a while ago, how'd that one slip by me?
01-26-2003, 06:40 PM It's not a lightsaber, it's just artistic
license. You see, there is a team of minicon jets (mini-
transformers who aren't faction-oriented) that merge to form the
Star Saber. The toy is just 3 jets, the bottom being a handle
and the other 2 forming the blade, but the show animators put a
huge energy beam around the blade jets and then reshaped it to
make it more interesting I guess.  01-27-2003, 03:03 PM Since
they decided to make the Transfor