Customer Reviews:
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 Avoid this product January 1, 2009
J. Mackay (Raleigh, NC USA)
This is a cheap, poorly designed product that is not worth purchasing and wisely avoided. I purcased it for my 6 year old to use to play with the Wii Clone Wars game, which is one of his Wii favorites These light sabers do not allow the Wii remote to function properly to control the light sabers. My son found that the remote and the nunchuck were much better with the Clone Wars game. I tested it and confirmed his opinion. Aside from this lack of functionality, the blue and red "colors" to the light saber are just cheap plastic wrappings that fly off when the light sabers are used.
 Disappointed...doesn't register swinging action December 30, 2008
Kyle R. Cubbage (Seattle, WA United States)
Though ascetically these are very cool, you are limited to the uses & interaction w/ the game. With the controls attached, you can use the buttons, but...
it doesn't register when you physically swing the saber.
The whole point of purchasing these was to play Clone Wars Light Saber Duels. With the remote plugged into the saber, all you can do is run around, glow w/ the force, jump, but not swing your character's saber. What's the point?
Save your expectations & buy a pair of toy sabers, get the same use out of them...and are probably more durable.
Too heavy and awkward December 30, 2008
JRW (Miwaukee, WI)
My son got these for Christmas and while they looked cool and are a great concept, they manufacturer just didn't execute well. They are too heavy and are not comfortable in your hand. My son took the remote out after only a few minutes and they are back in the box. Luckily one of the sabers didn't light up, so I'll be returning them.
Fun and works with Light Saber Games. Not very durable however. December 30, 2008
Tom Kiley (Flat Rock, MI USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found these fun to play with, both using The Force Unleashed and Clone Wars Lightsaber Duels. However, they are weighted a lot toward the blade end of the handle and it makes it awkward for small players. My daughter, 7 yrs old, was too small to hold it well and complained of it being too heavy. I didn't have an issue.
The Wii controller fit into each snuggly, and however you lose some of the pointer functions in the initial Wii Menu, you can simply pop up the controller to use the menu. The menu and function operations are unhindered during game play because you can use the buttons on the controller and nunchuck to manuever through the game menus.
Unfortunately after 2 days of playing one of the saber handles snapped while swinging it. The weight at the end is too much for the thin plastic that fits along the sides of the controller. Too bad Thrustmaster didn't engineer this better.
CONSUMER ADVISORY! December 29, 2008
J. Bayer
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Please be advised that this product will not work with a Wii system with 100% functionality. The product was not properly designed to allow a standard Wii remote to "communicate" with the Wii system. When the Wii remote is inserted into the lightsaber, the pointing device (sensor) at the top of a standard remote becomes completely obscured by the lightsaber's battery compartment (see product image). This results in a blocked (or very weak) signal from the Wii remote. The resulting effect is that the Wii system/games can not detect the user's movements rendering this product useless during actual gameplay.
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