Greetings all. I stumbled across the UltraSabers website the other day and looking over the products has caused a sudden relapse of Saber Fever.
I recall being in Best Buy years back when, behind me, I heard the sound of lightsabers clashing and these two kids ran past with a pair of blue and red MR sabers. I was totally intrigued and asked where they got them at which point they said, 'They're on the shelf over there!" I immediately bought one of each. Over the next year or so I think I bought every saber that MR released. I loved them...the sound...the power-up effects, etc.. But I quickly learned that they weren't really up to serious dueling. After replacing a few with damaged blades, I packed them back in their boxes to keep them safe, and started looking for a more robust saber I could actually use to duel.
In my quest, I stumbled across the Park's website and, over the next few months, wound up ordering a dozen different sabers. These were the older "EL" model sabers. They weren't cheap and, as I'm sure many of you know, it takes a LONG time to get your saber. In fact, I ordered the 12th saber before the first arrived! The Park sabers are beautifully crafted and you can beat the heck out of them, but I never really liked the skinny "EL" blades...they just don't look like a lightsaber blade. But what I disliked most about them was the lack of sound. It just isn't the same without the sound, and I haven't purchased a saber since 2006. I believed I had gotten it out of my system, and my case of Saber Fever had been cured! At least so I thought until last week, when Fate displayed an UltraSabers add on a webpage I visited...
A few minutes after examining the UltraSaber site, I found my case of Saber Fever had only been in remission, and I was about to experience a complete relapse!
I hungrily examined all of the exciting sabers available with beautiful hilts, bright, combat-ready blades that actually look like a lightsaber, flash on clash & lockup effects, and user-customizable sound! Oh yeah....Saber Fever was back with a vengence!
I ordered a loaded up Graflex CE and, to my amazement, it shipped the VERY NEXT DAY!
(I didn't know UltraSabers was in California - I am in Maryland - or I would have paid for the expedited shipping) So yesterday I ordered a loaded Overlord, and now my wish list is chock full of a whole lineup of sabers I will ordering over the coming weeks & months to satisfy my condition. So thank you, Emory & UltraSabers, for showing me that it is my destiny to be a Saber Junkie. Why fight the inevitable...