Originally posted by: Marky2004
Zombie - the cave saber opens out in 3 sections to about 41cm to show some "internal workings", it then telescopes shut in one smooth action with a very satisfying "whoosh" from some cleverly built pistons to then be identical to the classic ROTJ saber, in that state it can even be belt hung (not that you ever would !!!!!).
It's a lovely piece of engineering.
From what I've been told , this scene was shot on location and also in the studio for later compositing, but I'm told the footage has been destryed - a terrible shame, but I'm not giving up hope!
Mark
Zombie - the cave saber opens out in 3 sections to about 41cm to show some "internal workings", it then telescopes shut in one smooth action with a very satisfying "whoosh" from some cleverly built pistons to then be identical to the classic ROTJ saber, in that state it can even be belt hung (not that you ever would !!!!!).
It's a lovely piece of engineering.
From what I've been told , this scene was shot on location and also in the studio for later compositing, but I'm told the footage has been destryed - a terrible shame, but I'm not giving up hope!
Mark
Well this is a truely amazing bit of detail--thanks for illuminating a little bit more of this unknown bit of Star Wars trivia.
Would be cool to maybe make a neat video of the saber to show how it opens up and collapses to get a better sense of the visuals of the scene.
And that is a shame if the scene is lost forever. It was completed and edit because there was music scored for it, which is available on the uncut RTOJ SE 2-disk release. Very surprising that something this major could have been thrown away. There are, as far as i know of, no production still of any kind for this sequence, only a storyboard. So this lightsaber is the only physical proof of the scenes existance! jeez...