Luke Skywalker vs. Anakin Skywalker's Lightsaber

This video covers the similarities and differences between the lightsaber first seen in a Star Wars movie vs. the weapon used by Anakin in Revenge of the Sith, amongst other things.

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[swarrior]

The Aniflex is my favorite saber and now I’m glad there is this video to convince my friends that the Aniflex and Graflex are two different sabers. 👍

[UI_Shaggy]

The Aniflex (AKA the Youngling Slayer 3000) is my favorite version.

Anakin's padawan saber from episode 2 is called "the Tusken Slayer 3000"

[CraftMotion]

4:40 That's not the Graflex, not the original at least. There was a different version in A new Hope that we also saw briefly in Obi-Wan Kenobi. What you're holding here is the redesigned hilt from Empire strikes back and I believe the second regulator on the no-ear-side (the right side of you consider the activator side beeing the front) should not be there. At least it's not present on modern day official replicas (3rd party lightsabers have nice features but most of the time they aren't really replicas, let's be honest). However I'm not quite sure how the prop that was actually used in ESB looked like, need to rewatch that movie, but at least in the Sequels it's not present.

[jacks.]

Fun fact: Darth Vader actually has 2 different red sabers in the movies. This means that Anakin/Vader uses 4 sabers throughout the movies.

[ThatisItBuddy]

As much as I like the Graflex, I *love* the Aniflex. It’s such a gorgeous saber. The thin design, the design of the control box, etc, it’s just so perfect. If i could get a Graflex or an Aniflex for free, it’d be the Aniflex.

[bradmillar]

What you have right here is the modified one for emp, the first one for anh was the graflex, clamp, grips, and bubble strip, they cut pieces out of bottom of grips with screws, I think the grips may be less or spaced different, the box is a type of circuit card, and I belive the top near emitter has a couple small changes

[selay]

I swear I heard/read something before that said Obi-Wan tinkered with the saber to make it easier for Luke to work on for the reason it looks different from ANH and ROTS. I could also be going crazy and misremembering things. I own both the Aniflex and have the graflex. Set as the ESB with the black screws, switched out the brass pins to the ones that aren't stepped though I used the excuse that mine came with a missing pin to switch them out. Plan to get another for ANH, though didn't know about that one at the ranch so maybe I'll make that one as well.

[joelm]

Thanks for the info. While the Graflex and Skinnyflex are different props, they are supposed to be the same lightsabre in universe. Let's not forget that.

[MomochangaB]

ESB Graflex has a special place in my heart being the first replica Graflex I own. Honestly despite how it looks, it just feels good to wield.

[Raygo.]

Hey Lando, I’ve been enjoying your videos recently and this one especially I found fascinating, so I wanna thank you. I’m an old fart who saw the OT in the theater when it first came out, and like you, like many I guess, lightsabers have haunted my dreams since then. I always wondered what it would be like to hold one, even if you had to just imagine the glorious plasma blade coming out of it. I recall seeing “replicas” of the movie props for sale back in the late 80s and early 90s. They looked amazing but were way outside of my budget, and after all I thought, it’s just something to sit on a shelf, so I put aside the idea and just ruled it out for the foreseeable.

Three years back my 11-year-old son asked me for a toy lightsaber for Christmas. I’d shared the movies with him and he was devouring the Clone Wars and had the lightsaber desire bad! I discovered that there were now “neo-pixel” lightsabers that both looked cool and lit up! But they still seemed horribly expensive to me. I ended up giving him a plastic thing that looked and sounded lame even though it cost $50. He did a good job of hiding his disappointment but I still felt like a tool. 😏

So this year, having some funds unspent due to the pandemic, I decided to surprise him with an LGT saber based on Luke’s from ROTJ, except no control box. I had done some research and taken in a few reviews so I was confident it was worth it, and was a good first saber for a youngster. I was actually blown away myself by the beauty of the thing, its physical weight and presence. I was soon consumed with envy of my 14-year-old, wondering why I’d never acquired for myself a version of the magnificent thing that Obi-Wan gave to Luke. 😆

And I guess that was when all Jedi non-attachment was lost and I started passing hours watching vids like yours and drooling at the large collections on show here on YT. Finally I could bear it no more and took the plunge. I got an 89 Sabers Skinnyflex, fully aware that it was not a Graflex and was in no way a replica of the saber Luke received from Kenobi, (even though, in theory, it should be, right?) To my eye, it is almost identical to your 7 Chambers Aniflex, and thus, surely, a close replica of the one in ROTS.

It’s a beautiful object, and I have decided to love it. And yet it bothers me that it is not a Graflex. I tell myself that it’s how the saber *_should_* have looked in the OT, if they hadn’t jury-rigged one up out of old camera parts. That it’s the original as if redesigned by Jobs and Wozniak, (the iFlex?) 🤔😄
And it bothers me that it is not *_ergonomic._* That no swordsman would design a hilt covered in awkwardly placed buttons, protrusions and sharp edges. My son’s LGT with no control box is way easier to wield as an actual weapon. I guess for Anakin with his artificial hand it was no problem, and I now feel sure Hayden must have been using what you call a stunt saber in all those amazing fight scenes.

In the end, I've decided to let it lead me back to the idea of non-attachment. I see it every day on display and it reminds me of the central SW myth as told in the OT and the prequels, (I cannot allow the sequels into my consciousness and for the most part, I think SW has entirely lost its meaning in the Disney era.) Now and then I fire it up and try a few stances, get lost in the hum and the music, let Obi-Wan tell me that the force will be with me… always. It’s not bad.

Anyways, thanks bro, sorry for a long rambling post. Just want you to know your enthusiasm and efforts are much appreciated. MTFBWY.

[violetvoids]

In terms of how the 4 ROTJ Thin Necks came to be, the V2 was the first one existing naturally weathered from its creation as a stunt in ANH. I believe they shot the throne room scenes first, so they left the V2 as the Hero prop and made the V3 to be the stunt. Then they filmed the sail barge scenes afterwards in which they created the Yuma stunt Saber, with the V2 still being the hero prop, and I think at the end was when they converted the Yuma into the Luke Hero/V1 prop.

[commandalorian]

Droppin the knowledge Lando!!!! Very cool video!

[andrewgoldfish]

wow great job going over all the details

[deezusnubes]

hopefully people will pay attention and learn. it annoys me when people will call TFA Graflex Anakin’s when it clearly isn’t

[poldirt]

hello! What is the most durable saber for duels and training? Thank you!

[poldirt]

hello! What is the most suitable saber for duels and training? Thank you!

[noneyabidness]

He used master Infila's saber, too. (The coolest saber he's used.)

[MalevolentSpirit]

I am a big Anakin fan and have recently ordered a costume, so I was looking at lightsabers to go along with it. It's fascinating to see these differences and in the future I will likely also order the Aniflex but they were out of stock on Saberforge, so I decided to order the EP5 LGT Grafflex. I think it'll do the job just fine before I head off to college. Might just collect all the Grafflex/Aniflex sabers because I do want to have the most movie accurate Revenge of the Sith appearance down the line.

[NewtypeSith]

Great video man! I always get these mixed up, no matter how many times I watch one of these lol.

[twistedwizardry]

The ANH graflex will always be the most iconic cause it was the first lightsaber the world would ever see…….but the Aniflex is so much