Why Luke and Obi-Wan Have Almost IDENTICAL Lightsabers - Star Wars Explained

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Composer: Whitesand (Martynas Lau)
Year: 2017
Title: Eternity Additional Music Terminus by: Scott Buckley
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[natedetailscars]

Why Luke and Obi-Wan have almost identical lightsabers: the prop for Luke's Jedi lightsaber is the same hero prop Alec Guinness used in A New Hope.

[TamTV]

It’s heart warming too, Obi-Wan was like family to Luke.

[michaelwilliams]

I remember hearing of a legends canon story of Luke traveling back to Tantooine and finding the green kyber crystal of Qui-Gon Jinn amongst Obi-Wan's keep sakes along with the lightsaber schematics and using that as the crystal for his lightsaber.
I like that idea better because I feel like it shows that Obi-Wan still kept a piece of his master with him and it makes Luke saber a little more symbolic.

[DarthPuma]

I like the idea that the green Crystal was Qui-Gon's and Obi-Wan was just holding onto it

[morgannorris]

His crystal was synthetic but Disney scrapped that so the green crystal was from Qui-Gon Jinn's lightsaber

[darylsdesigns]

It’s because of Kenobi’s journal in his hut on Tatooine

[VaderMT]

Anakin's lightsaber will always be my favorite.

[matthewrogers]

I always liked how the jedi and sith made their lightsabers in both legends and cannon but I really miss synthetic crystals because of how personal they can be over natural ones.

[Badazztard]

I wouldn't have thought that Luke's crystal was synthetic. I thought that he was maybe using Qui Gon's crystal.

[jjcondado]

Anyone else love that luke is much like qui-gon Jinn? Compassionate, yet stern. See's the good in all, but if their heart is engulfed in hatred, then must do what he has to do

[braidsmtg]

this is legends, mainly the crystal part

[ta]

My top 3 lightsabers:
Obiwan episode 3
Anakin episode 3
Luke episode 6

Edit: thank you all for the likes 👍

[ultrachaos]

I believed that the reason Luke’s lightsaber was almost exactly like Obi-Wans is because he was honoring Obi-Wan just like Obi-Wan built his first lightsaber like Qui-Gon Jinns lightsaber

[widgren]

I always thought it was Luke paying respect to Obi-Wan by designing his lightsaber like he did, that and I always thought he got the parts from Obi-Wan home on Tatooine.
I will admit it is one of my top five favourite lightsabers along side Obi-Wan's last, Darth Vader's, Rahm Kota's ( I just love the rugged simplicity of it ) and Count Dooku's, which knocked Qui-gon's to 6th place :-)
Anyway it was an interesting video and I wish you the best of luck.

[Vytel]

When I was younger after watching the trilogies in order ( prequels - original) always thought Luke’s crystal came from Yoda lmao

[nero]

In the book “Beware the power of the dark side!” It said that the parts came from Obi-Wans hut. And the kyber crystal is Qui Gons, or at least, maybe

[stephenking]

Qui-Gon Jinn and Luke Skywalker we’re both Jedi who used green lightsabers, and were related to Obi-Wan in some way. One freed Anakin from slavery, and the other freed him from the Sith, turning him into a Jedi.

[willanderson]

Textbook and flawless overview. I remember when ROTJ came out in 1983, it's taken this long to realize the technical comparison of he and Obi-Wans Lightsabers.

[JeremyWilliamson]

I like it because #1, it was LUKES. It was a nice combination of ObiWan's design, QuiGon's crystal ObiWan left for him, and with it showing honor to his heritage, it was HIS... AND Vader could look at it and recognize EVERYTHING about it.... which is why he always said, "ObiWan has taught you well". Vader KNEW ObiWan was still out there, even AFTER he struck him dow. The comics even show examples of HOW Anakin LEARNED how to retain his identity or become one with the Force upon death. Aaaah, I love Star Wars!! lol It's back to being FUN to think and theorize again! I've missed these days!

[karlrovey]

The actual reason is that they re-used the hilt from A New Hope.