b1-66er: "The announcement doesn't go into too many details on how the retractable sabers actually work, but some clever minds on the internet have managed to piece together a rough idea from Disney's patent filings. The broad strokes are that the new blade works almost like a modified, motorized tape measure, retracting and extending a sheet of plastic and LED lights to mimic the ignition effect."
Special K: That could be fine, or lousy.
b1: In marketing it, I don't think they should go with the phrase "modified motorized tape measure."
Doesn't have the right sense of awe and fear.
K: Yes. So unexciting.
b1: You wanna think" Jedi;
not Aunt Jenny.
K: Although I have wielded a tape measure in that manner.
