Here you’ll find all our news in chronological order since our homepage relaunch in 2019.
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Bargain alert: Luke’s original lightsaber
This July, Heritage Auctions is auctioning Mark Hamill’s screen-used lightsaber from The Empire Strikes Back. Starting bid: 1,000,000 dollars. The prop was developed by Stuart Freeborn’s makeup department: a Graflex-based lightsaber, a wrist dummy cast directly from Mark Hamill’s hand, and a release mechanism. So no CGI was used to cut off Luke’s hand. In this context, more… … read more
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M&M – two new members
At our anniversary celebration at Outpost One in April, we took the opportunity to welcome two new members. Time to introduce them officially! Marco started his SP story back in 2019: at botanika in Bremen he saw what we do for the first time, started practicing lightsaber tricks and has since been a trainer at Forcesabers… … read more
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A look inside the lightsaber
Don Bies, a former model supervisor at ILM, was a guest of Adam Savage. Among other things, he brought along the cross-section of Luke Skywalker's lightsaber, which was first shown in 1998 in the Star Wars Visual Dictionary. An exciting interview whose information now enriches the Lightsaber Database: … read more
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50 years of lightsaber duels
Next year Star Wars turns 50, but the filming already does now. 50 years ago today, the duel between Ben Kenobi and Darth Vader on the Death Star was filmed. To be precise, from May 27 to May 30, 1976 at Elstree Studios near London. However, the encounter between the two opponents… … read more
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Report from Denmark
A month ago we were at SCI-FI-CON in Randers, in our neighboring country Denmark. Together with Danish lightsaber fans, we presented our new exhibition booth and an entertaining stage program there. Read more in our report: … read more
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Two decades of SP
Hard to believe, but true: today we turn 20. On April 11, 2006, the first version of our website went online and Saberproject was founded. Twenty years can't simply be summed up, but we are very grateful to everyone who has been with us during this time. We have performed almost 300 shows at nearly 100… … read more
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Rey Hero Graflex, Obi-Wan, Maul and more
Next week a new Propstore auction starts, with lightsabers up for bidding again. Courtesy of Propstore.com, we’ve added the new galleries to our Lightsaber Database. Besides Rey’s original props from Episode VII, there are also prequel stunt sabers of Darth Maul and Obi-Wan. The latter is… … read more
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Facts and figures
There’s a small update to our team profiles. For every member you’ll find detailed statistics in their profile. Here’s Stefan’s statistics as an example. Just take a look at the various profiles to learn more about the individual members. Complete show statistics: before we turn 20 next month, we’ve put together statistics… … read more
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A personal farewell to Friedhelm Ptok
Friedhelm Ptok passed away on February 13 at the age of 92. The well-known German actor, voice actor and radio play and audiobook narrator was the German voice of Palpatine in the Star Wars universe, from the prequels through The Clone Wars and other TV series to the sequels. We also had another connection to him. A… … read more
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Markus on SWR
In early October, Markus got a visit from SWR. The result is a short portrait of our lightsaber master builder, which also covers his role as a trainer at Saber Academy Karlsruhe. The feature already aired on November 5 on SWR Landesschau Baden-Württemberg and caught the interest of another program. So next Monday Markus will… … read more