Those cheapy collapsibles are fantastic! You can play really rough with them and they hold up great, when they finally do give out they don't cost a lot to replace. I have two or three of the things lying around somewhere. Me and a couple of my friends use to really go at it with those things. One of them always insisted his $30 Hasbro lightsaber with lights and sound that ran on batteries was sooooo much better than our cheap $8 ones. Then one day whilst dueling with one of us his freakin' blade snapped off! It was the funniest thing. Next time I saw him he had replaced it with a cheapy.

Once I saw the neighbor kids jousting with the things while riding their bikes. One kid somehow managed to accidentally jam his own lightsaber into his bike spokes while riding at a pretty fast speed. Flipped his bike, threw him off, bent some of his spokes, and the lightsaber came out of it with just a few deep scratches in the plastic, but still as study as ever.

These were the ones that came out after Episode I was released. I noticed they still sell them in stores, but now with more colors and a few new hilts (when they first came out they only had green ones with Qui-Gon style hilts), don't know if the new ones are as destruction proof as those ones were.

Oops, back on topic now...

Sluggo said:
You just wave your hand at them and say in a calm voice, "I am not a freak. Move along."

That works then, eh? I'll have to start doing that from now on. Lol.