# Kid's with light sabers!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 4, 2002, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-with-light-sabers/101809 "2002-04-04T17:06:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-with-light-sabers/101809/21 "2002-04-06T07:45:03Z")
Change Mahaloth’s link to --4.jpg to see the right side of the picture: [http://perso.wanadoo.fr/epizode2/kioul4.jpg](http://perso.wanadoo.fr/epizode2/kioul4.jpg) (LOL @ Doghouse’s link!) ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-with-light-sabers/101809/22 "2002-04-06T17:24:15Z")
Hmm, did anyone notice that those lightsabers are distictly kid-sized? Do you think they’re just smaller training-sabers or do you think they make the poor kids make several sabers as they grow up? Next up! Sweatshops of the Jedi?! ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-with-light-sabers/101809/23 "2002-04-06T17:25:26Z")
Hmm, I missed that quote above when I posted. Ignore that last post… Sorry about that. :o ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-with-light-sabers/101809/24 "2002-04-06T17:45:26Z")
Maybe training sabers are permanently set on stun? ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-with-light-sabers/101809/25 "2002-04-06T19:06:41Z")
Maybe they’re like the lightsabers from Futurama? Bzzz… whap whap whap whap… ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-with-light-sabers/101809/26 "2002-04-06T19:26:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Speaker for the Dead \* > **Hmm, did anyone notice that those lightsabers are distictly kid-sized? Do you think they’re just smaller training-sabers or do you think they make the poor kids make several sabers as they grow up?** Well, erm… you know how, during puberty, certain body parts, ah, **grow**? Same principle with light sabers 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-with-light-sabers/101809/27 "2002-04-08T07:07:04Z")
As I recall, it was just a regular helmet that Luke used, he complained ‘But the blast shield is down!’ or something like that. So it was just your typical space helmet which has a shield you can drop down, presumably to protect your face from bright lights or explosions or something. Doesn’t explain why the Jedi kids have big clunky helmets, except that it looks cool I guess. You’d think that they could just tell them to keep their eyes closed, honor system should be enough for Jedi and I’m sure Yoda would catch one if he peeked. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-with-light-sabers/101809.md?page=1)