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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5236556" data-attributes="member: 177">If you haven't seen the movies, you might miss something - the body of the "S3 Spyder Arctic" real-world laser does, in fact, look like a movie lightsaber. The lightsaber only looks like a sword when it is turned on for combat, but their image when turned off is also iconic enough for folks to sell replicas. I would guess there's two things going on here:1) Maybe Lucasfilms (which is not necessarily really George Lucas himself) feels there's copyright infringement going on.2) (And, I think, more likely) Those lasers are *powerful* - you can blind someone with it, or burn skin - dangerous enough that they are sold with safety goggles!  Someone is inevitably going to get hurt, and I expect Lucasfilms wants to distance itself as much as possible from that.  Some kid thinks it's a toy lightsaber, playes with it like a toy lightsaber, and next thing you know their friend Johnny has his retina burned out and Johnny's parents are looking for someone to blame.  Lucasfilms may want it on record that they tired their level best to keep these things from being associated with their fiction and toys.</blockquote>