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Disney Imagineer wants his amazing retractable lightsaber to become a toy
He suggested Disney was already talking to toymakers.
Three years ago, Disney revealed the most convincing replica of a Star Wars lightsaber ever devised — one whose glowing blade fully and automatically retracts inside the handle due to a cleverly patented device. And I think Josh D’Amaro, our number two guy, our head of Disney Parks, said it at a public — I hope — meeting of toy vendors to say, hey, we’d like you to take what we have learned in terms of making a lightsaber, and translate that to something that would be maybe a little bit more accessible to the average person. Here’s the inside story of the Goliath Power Saber, which would have been an official lightsaber toy if Star Wars toymaker Hasbro hadn’t mysteriously given up on it partway through development.
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