Editing Lightsaber (section)

== Cultural impact ==
[[File:Lightsaber chopsticks.jpg|thumb|upright|Lightsaber [[chopsticks]]]]
{{see also|Cultural impact of Star Wars}}

=== Merchandise ===
Over the years, advancements in technology have allowed for the creation of increasingly immersive and realistic lightsaber replicas. One notable development in this regard is the introduction of neopixel lightsabers, which have revolutionized the lightsaber replica market by utilizing a strip of individually addressable RGB LEDs encased within a durable [[polycarbonate]] blade. This design allows for a higher level of control over the lightsaber's appearance and behavior.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://superneox.com/blogs/guides/what-is-neopixel-lightsabers | title=More Info You May Want To Know About Neopixel Lightsabers | website=Superneox | language=en | access-date=2023-09-27 | archive-date=September 27, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927150346/https://superneox.com/blogs/guides/what-is-neopixel-lightsabers | url-status=live }}</ref>

==== Disney Parks ====
[[Disneyland]] in California sells lightsaber-themed [[churro]]s outside its ''[[Star Tours]]'' attraction.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.popsugar.com/food/Star-Wars-Lightsaber-Churros-Disneyland-43518052|title=Disneyland Now Has Sparkly Lightsaber Churros, and We Need Them ASAP|first=Victoria|last=Messina|publisher=[[PopSugar]]|date=May 9, 2017|access-date=May 11, 2017|archive-date=May 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510152745/https://www.popsugar.com/food/Star-Wars-Lightsaber-Churros-Disneyland-43518052|url-status=live}}</ref>

Disneyland and Disney World (Hollywood Studios) also sell legacy lightsabers which are replicas of the lightsabers seen used by the Jedi, Sith, and other warriors in the movies and television shows such as Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Rey Skywalker, Count Dooku, and Kylo Ren.<ref>{{cite web | title=Dok-Ondar's Den of Antiquities | website=disneyland.disney.go.com | url=https://disneyland.disney.go.com/shops/disneyland/dok-ondars-den-of-antiquities/ | access-date=11 March 2024 | archive-date=September 20, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190920115249/https://disneyland.disney.go.com/shops/disneyland/dok-ondars-den-of-antiquities/ | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/Vk6lXy2q8so Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20190921215641/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk6lXy2q8so&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{Citation|title=All Star Wars Legacy Lightsabers Review Dok Ondar Galaxy's Edge Walt Disney World|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk6lXy2q8so|language=en|access-date=2020-03-18}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Disneyland and Hollywood Studios also offer Savi's Workshop, a place where guests can build their own lightsaber and choose their own kyber crystal, thereby changing the blade color of their own unique lightsaber.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://disneyland.disney.go.com/shops/disneyland/savis-workshop-handbuilt-lightsabers/|title=Savi's Workshop – Handbuilt Lightsabers|website=Disneyland|language=en|access-date=2020-03-18|archive-date=April 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200420234542/https://disneyland.disney.go.com/shops/disneyland/savis-workshop-handbuilt-lightsabers/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/jpxBJxVht00 Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200329202445/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpxBJxVht00 Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{Citation|title=FULL Savi's Workshop Custom Handbuilt Lightsaber Experience in Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpxBJxVht00|language=en|access-date=2020-03-18}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Savi's Workshop - Handbuilt Lightsabers |url=https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/shops/hollywood-studios/savis-workshop-handbuilt-lightsabers/ |website=Walt Disney World |access-date=April 15, 2020}}</ref>

Besides Savi's Workshop, there is another custom lightsaber experience. The Star Trader at Disneyland offers guests a chance to build their own lightsabers, without first paying 200 dollars for the experience.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Star Trader |url=https://disneyland.disney.go.com/shops/disneyland/star-trader/ |website=Disneyland |access-date=April 15, 2020 |archive-date=August 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803043202/https://disneyland.disney.go.com/shops/disneyland/star-trader/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Attractions ===
The ''[[Jedi Training: Trials of the Temple]]'' is a live show where children are selected to learn the teachings of the [[Jedi]] Knights, [[the Force]], and the basics of Lightsaber combat to become [[Jedi|Padawan learners]]. The show is present at the [[Rebel Alliance|Rebels]] stage next to [[Star Tours – The Adventures Continue]] attraction at [[Disney's Hollywood Studios]] and at the [[Tomorrowland Terrace]] at Disneyland.
Additionally, [[Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser]] has incorporated lightsaber training for each guest aboard the spacecraft during their stay. The training is led by the Saja cast members and teaches the fourth form of lightsaber combat, Ataru, to the guests. Both lightsabers and shields are used during training since the guests learn to use Ataru to deflect incoming projectiles. There is no lightsaber-to-lightsaber combat in this attraction and guests must be at least seven years old to participate.<ref>{{cite web |title=Experience Highlights During Your Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser Adventure |url=https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/star-wars-galactic-starcruiser/experience-highlights/ |access-date=17 October 2022 |archive-date=October 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017221027/https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/star-wars-galactic-starcruiser/experience-highlights/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Similar weapons ===
The [[virtual reality]] [[rhythm game]] ''[[Beat Saber]]'' involves the player using two lightsabers in order to slash a series of oncoming cubes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.windowscentral.com/beat-saber-everything-we-know-about-vr-rhythm-game|title=Beat Saber: Everything we know about the VR rhythm game|last=Hunt|first=Cale|date=April 5, 2018|website=Windows Central|access-date=May 9, 2018|archive-date=January 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120222745/https://www.windowscentral.com/beat-saber-everything-we-know-about-vr-rhythm-game|url-status=live}}</ref>

In [[Kamen Rider Black RX]], the main character, Rider RX also known as Kotaro Minami, uses his lightsaber-ish weapon "Revolcane" to fight the Crisis Empire, a terrorist organization.

In Saban's Masked Rider, the main character, known as Dex Stewart, uses his lightsaber-ish weapon "Electro Saber" to fight Masked Rider's foes.{{Citationneeded|date=May 2024}}
==== Parodies ====
In the 1987 film ''[[Spaceballs]]'' by [[Mel Brooks]], "the Schwartz" is a play on "[[the Force]]", from ''Star Wars''. The lightsabers emanate from the Schwartz-rings, rather than a hilt.  The cartoon series ''[[Futurama]]'' features many lightsaber-style weapons, notably expanding batons used by police. The batons glow and "whoosh" with a lightsaber's distinctive hum, but are used to beat people. In Jim Butcher's ''[[Dresden Files]]'' novel series, medical examiner and ''Star Wars'' fan [[Waldo Butters]] wields one of the three holy Swords of the Cross, which re-fashions itself into a lightsaber upon accepting him as its owner. In [[Yuya Sato (novelist)|Yuya Sato]]'s ''[[Danganronpa: Togami]]'' [[light novel]] trilogy, main antagonist [[List of Danganronpa characters#Orvin Elevator|Orvin Elevator / Kazuya Togami]] wields a lightsaber built into their prosthetic arm, to which they are berated for copyright infringement by [[Toko Fukawa|Genocider Syo / Genocide Jack]]; in the [[anime]] ''[[Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School]]'', this same lightsaber is instead depicted as a flaming mechanical ''[[katana]]'' wielded by [[Kyosuke Munakata]].

=== Games ===
With the advent of [[motion controller|motion-controlled]] [[video game]]s, players were given the opportunity to wield an in-game lightsaber with their own hands. In the [[seventh generation of video game consoles]], there were several [[Star Wars video games|''Star Wars'' video games]] available on the [[Wii]] (''[[Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga]]'', ''[[Star Wars: The Force Unleashed]]'', ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Lightsaber Duels]]'', ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Republic Heroes]]'' and ''[[Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars]]'') and one on the [[Xbox 360]] (''[[Kinect Star Wars]]'') that utilized motion controls to wield a lightsaber through arm gestures. ''Unleashed'' and ''Duels'', both developed by [[Krome Studios]], have more precise control of the lightsaber, allowing players to swing it in any of five different directions (up, down, left, right or forward) with the [[Wii Remote]], while ''Kinect'' takes advantage of [[Kinect#Kinect for Xbox 360 (2010)|the eponymous, camera-based motion controller]] to grant the player a more fluid, one-to-one control method of swinging the lightsaber.

Prior to the seventh generation, there were also a few earlier ''Star Wars'' games that used gesture-based control to simulate lightsaber combat, such as the two bonus levels of the [[arcade game]] ''[[Star Wars Trilogy Arcade|Star Wars Trilogy]]'', where the player controls Luke Skywalker as he wields his lightsaber against [[Boba Fett]] and Darth Vader in ''Return of the Jedi'' by pushing a joystick in one of eight directions to follow on-screen offensive and defensive cues,<ref name="SWTA overview at AllGame">{{cite web|title=Lightsaber|url=https://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=15820|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101010101/https://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=15820|archive-date=2014-01-01|url-status=dead|website=[[All Media Network#AllGame|AllGame]] | first=Christopher Michael | last=Baker | access-date=August 24, 2014}}</ref> and a [[TV game]] released around the time ''Revenge of the Sith'' came to theaters, titled ''Star Wars: Saga Edition – Lightsaber Battle Game'', in which the player swings a lightsaber-shaped controller to deflect blaster bolts from infantry (such as [[battle droids]] and [[clone trooper]]s) and duel against characters from across the saga.

By the time [[Disney]] purchased Lucasfilm, new technological advances made [[augmented reality]] possible, leading to the creation of some more notable motion-controlled lightsaber video games that took advantage of that feature. One of them came in the form of a special activity mode in the official ''Star Wars'' fan app on [[iOS]] and [[Android (operating system)|Android]] in which players use their smartphone's motion sensors to practice and master blaster deflection with a training droid (which appears on the phone's rear camera), similar to the deflection training exercises featured aboard the ''[[Millennium Falcon]]'' in ''A New Hope'', while progressing through the ranks of the Jedi or Sith order. Another is in ''Star Wars: Jedi Challenges'', which works with a Lenovo Mirage AR headset, a tracking sensor and a dedicated lightsaber controller that launched in December 2017. One of the multiple game modes available in ''Challenges'', which was jointly developed by Disney and [[Lenovo]], enables players to confront ''Star Wars'' villains in lightsaber duels, such as Darth Maul and Kylo Ren.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/31/star-wars-jedi-challenges-augmented-reality-game-launches-with-lenovo-mirage-headset.html|title=Lenovo, Disney launch ''Star Wars'' Jedi aurgmented reality game that lets you use a real lightsaber|first=Arjun|last=Kharpal|date=August 31, 2017|publisher=[[CNBC]]|access-date=October 23, 2017|archive-date=July 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728071352/https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/31/star-wars-jedi-challenges-augmented-reality-game-launches-with-lenovo-mirage-headset.html|url-status=live}}</ref>