A successful, moving and great year 2025 is behind us.
We were at numerous events, grew our community, made new contacts and, most importantly, had a great time with you all around lightsabers.
We started the year with something big. In Switzerland, the collaboration between Star Wars and Coca-Cola was announced. A red carpet just over one meter wide was laid out on the ice of SC Bern's stadium, so that Hannes and Tim could perform our first lightsaber fight on ice.
We celebrated our 19th birthday with two highlights. Part of the team represented the fascination of lightsabers internationally, and for the first time in Denmark. We were there with our booth and the workshop show at the Sci-Fi Con in Randers. Of course we ran into Darth Lego and many other lightsaber fans there, so this certainly wasn't our last visit to our Nordic neighbor.
At the same time, we announced our partnership with the Straight Outta Rim Discord server. Lots of lightsaber fans, and especially lightsaber builders, have already gathered there to help each other with building, programming and fine-tuning their lightsabers. There are also exciting discussions about lightsaber lore, everything Star Wars and the wider fandom. Note that the community is German-speaking. Join the community right away!
Shortly after this exciting weekend came our annual team training. Over the long Easter weekend we all come together in Schneeberg from all over Germany to train hard for the next performances and shows.
We plan, tinker and work out lots of new ideas around lightsabers and our club, so that we can offer you even more. But of course there was plenty of fun and friendship too, so it was with heavy hearts that we said goodbye to each other until the next events.
In early May we celebrated 10 years of The Intern Awakens. Our fan film about an intern working in a toy warehouse. But nobody told him about the powerful lightsaber, and soon a battle of good versus evil breaks out in the warehouse over who gets to own it.
Late last year, we were contacted by „Team Star Story“, a school club at the Maristenschule in Recklinghausen led by Myleen and Marie. There, students can learn how to handle a lightsaber, but also acting skills, because once every half year there's a big performance for teachers, parents and anyone interested. In May we were invited and gladly answered the call. We were impressed by the students' professionalism and the ideas behind the story. We'll follow their careers with great interest.
As one of three new team members, we were able to recruit Huyang, the Jedi Order's professor of lightsaber construction. Together with him we built our Lightsaber Database and expanded it over the course of the year with additional sabers and the different versions of sabers already in it. Feel free to take a look at our Lightsaber Database .
In July came a big highlight, the Project Area 51 in Kiel. The northernmost and nerdiest convention in Germany. In addition to our stage show "Im Zwielicht der Macht", we presented the Saberproject Living Room for the first time, together with many friendly lightsaber clubs from all over Germany. Together we threw a big lightsaber party. The event, with exhibitors and vendors for every corner of nerdom, also raised over €6,000 for charity.
After a short summer break, the team's next stop was Bremen. In early September, botanika was waiting for us with the event "botanika goes space". In the Japanese Garden we got to show various fights as well as tips and tricks for handling a lightsaber. The audience then tried them out right away with their own homemade sabers. We were also able to welcome Jenny and Wibke as new members of Team Saberproject.
Our event-tastic September continued with a company summer party, also in Bremen. Here too we got to surprise the guests with some choreographies and take them into the world of the Jedi and Sith.
After three events in the north, in mid-September our journey took us to Nuremberg for the Noris Force Con, the best fan-run Star Wars convention in Germany. Every three years this event opens its doors and brings all the fans together for a good cause. Of course we played our story show here and were even able to expand it with some of the visitors. In a cooperation with GTC Saberstudio, a beginner saber was available for the first time, alongside the Saberproject Shop lightsabers. So you can practice hard at home with the help of our trick videos .
To round off September, we went to the Technik Museum Speyer for the twelfth time for the Science Fiction Meetup. We got to play our story show "Im Zwielicht der Macht" six times in total, and also had great conversations with you about lightsabers. Brand new were lightsaber crafting for Jedi younglings and lightsaber training for Jedi Padawans and students of the dark side. These were hugely popular.
Alongside GTC, for lightsabers of all kinds, in November we were able to welcome S.P.A.C.E as another partner. S.P.A.C.E brings you high-quality action figures and other collectibles, and not just from Star Wars.
At the end of the year, Comic Con Stuttgart was waiting for us. As part of the Galactic Cantina, we represented the Star Wars fandom in a dedicated area at the fair. Among Mandalorians, droids, stormtroopers and many more, we showed our lightsaber skills and gave lightsaber workshops.
To close the year, Team Star Story gave a second performance, and we were invited as guests once again. Under the direction of Myleen and her team, the fifth and sixth graders went one better and presented an entire musical show with lightsaber action.
As you can read, it was a truly fantastic year. We thank everyone who was with us this year and look forward to making next year at least as great.
We're starting 2026 as our anniversary year and celebrating 20 years of Saberproject!
Bente and Doc for the whole SP team
