2016 Summer Raffle Entries & Prizes

[Rapine]

Question for fellow raffle winners. I won a 1st prize on a backordered Raven. It just shipped, but the package is only 3 pounds.
I know the prizes ship with the order so was this the case with anyone else?

That's a bit of a poser.  Normally sabers weigh on average around 2lbs - or, at least that's what I've heard.  

A first prize would be a slightly heavier saber I'd think, due to the Emerald board.

Good question Xavius - got me...

Find out soon I suppose eh?

+1

[hazard502]

Question for fellow raffle winners. I won a 1st prize on a backordered Raven. It just shipped, but the package is only 3 pounds.
I know the prizes ship with the order so was this the case with anyone else?

3 pounds can be two lightsabers easy. The only time my package reached 5lbs was when I ordered my Flamberge plus an initiate and an apprentice.

[Rapine]

3 pounds can be two lightsabers easy. The only time my package reached 5lbs was when I ordered my Flamberge plus an initiate and an apprentice.

Mine was just 5lbs, and it was two sabers.  There was an extra pommel and emitter in there too, amongst other things.

That's what made me think 2lbs was about right for an average.  But you're quite right. 

Two sabers can easily be three lbs.

[Fanaticus]

My package with the Manticore Emerald order and the 1st prize Consular (and one additional pommel) was stated as 6lbs, or 2.720kgs...

I feel that 3lbs package a bit on the light side... But I'm rooting for you, for you to receive your 2 sabers...

[IndyIrish]

I'm new here.... How do you sign up for a raffle prize? I keep seeing "Winner!" But I cant find any posts on how the raffle works. Can anyone explain?

[Rapine]

I'm new here.... How do you sign up for a raffle prize? I keep seeing "Winner!" But I cant find any posts on how the raffle works. Can anyone explain?

Hey IndyIrish,

There needs to be a raffle ongoing at the time.  Right now US is having its "Summer Strikes Back" sale, but they hold an inordinate number of raffles each year.

When the next one comes along, make a purchase and enter your forum name.  That's your "ballot".

They give out absolutely AMAZING prizes, and tons of them, so it's worth waiting for.

[Xavius]

They arrived.
My raffle entry was the Raven. It was back-ordered at the time.
This is my favorite hilt, I may eventually make it a staff.
It's TRI Burning red with quick connects. I like the tri colors, they are fuller. I just wish they had flash on clash, or at the very least pulse.
I plan on getting TRI artic blue if it ever goes back on sale.

I love the Raven's design. So many things right about it. I'm glad I went with the shorter claws and simple pommel and no covertec
A warning for anyone with smaller hands, it's long and beefy. Not a problem for me. But, because of the claws it doesn't spin very well.
It's great for display and cosplay. I wouldn't spin or battle with it.

The big reveal was the 1st place prize. It's a Emerald Mantis CE without claws.
I'm going to be 100% honest. This is my absolute least favorite hilt. I even had a nightmare that this was the one I was going to get.
I don't want to sound ungrateful but I hate curved hilts about as much as I hate the prequels.

Let's talk about the good. I've never had an Emerald saber. After playing around with the software I learned it was actually a 4 channel and not 2 like the contest said.
So many options.
I love LOVE Emerald option, I would get this on every saber if I could.
The silver flash on clash is really sick.
Sadly, despite being fully upgraded on the inside, the button is the standard simple black.
Also on the Mantis, I tried it with an other guy's pointed pommel, It kind of works.

Thank you Ultra, thank you Emory and thank you Linda for all of your help on my order.
As for the Manits, I'm thrilled about winning the raffle, but I think he needs to find a new home.

PREPARE FOR PICTURE OVERLOAD

[Kai-Yen]

X - the Mantis will grow on you!  It is in fact my very next saber on my wish list after very careful consideration of its size, weight and unorthodox wielding appearance.  What a fabulous prize! 

Enjoy!

K

[Rapine]

They arrived.
My raffle entry was the Raven. It was back-ordered at the time.
This is my favorite hilt, I may eventually make it a staff.
It's TRI Burning red with quick connects. I like the tri colors, they are fuller. I just wish they had flash on clash, or at the very least pulse.
I plan on getting TRI artic blue if it ever goes back on sale.

I love the Raven's design. So many things right about it. I'm glad I went with the shorter claws and simple pommel and no covertec
A warning for anyone with smaller hands, it's long and beefy. Not a problem for me. But, because of the claws it doesn't spin very well.
It's great for display and cosplay. I wouldn't spin or battle with it.

The big reveal was the 1st place prize. It's a Emerald Mantis CE without claws.
I'm going to be 100% honest. This is my absolute least favorite hilt. I even had a nightmare that this was the one I was going to get.
I don't want to sound ungrateful but I hate curved hilts about as much as I hate the prequels.

Let's talk about the good. I've never had an Emerald saber. After playing around with the software I learned it was actually a 4 channel and not 2 like the contest said.
So many options.
I love LOVE Emerald option, I would get this on every saber if I could.
The silver flash on clash is really sick.
Sadly, despite being fully upgraded on the inside, the button is the standard simple black.
Also on the Mantis, I tried it with an other guy's pointed pommel, It kind of works.

Thank you Ultra, thank you Emory and thank you Linda for all of your help on my order.
As for the Manits, I'm thrilled about winning the raffle, but I think he needs to find a new home.

PREPARE FOR PICTURE OVERLOAD

Hey Xavius! Congrats on the win.

Nice sabers.  Your Raven certainly does look wicked, and yes, Emerald drivers are way fun to play with...lol

It's too bad that you don't like the Mantis - it's not my favourite hilt either, but look at it as having knowledge of yet another US saber, that many others do not.  That's sort of the way I look at my prize sabers anyway.  I might not ever have ordered them, but I own them now.

It looks cool with the pommel swap.

+1

[shade_1313]

3 pounds can be two lightsabers easy. The only time my package reached 5lbs was when I ordered my Flamberge plus an initiate and an apprentice.

My winning entry and prize for the second spring got up to six pounds, but that also included an extra heavy grade blade and the prize was a Crimson Scorpion, which is pretty weighty.

[shade_1313]

The big reveal was the 1st place prize. It's a Emerald Mantis CE without claws.
I'm going to be 100% honest. This is my absolute least favorite hilt. I even had a nightmare that this was the one I was going to get.
I don't want to sound ungrateful but I hate curved hilts about as much as I hate the prequels.

Let's talk about the good. I've never had an Emerald saber. After playing around with the software I learned it was actually a 4 channel and not 2 like the contest said.
So many options.
I love LOVE Emerald option, I would get this on every saber if I could.
The silver flash on clash is really sick.
Sadly, despite being fully upgraded on the inside, the button is the standard simple black.
Also on the Mantis, I tried it with an other guy's pointed pommel, It kind of works.

Thank you Ultra, thank you Emory and thank you Linda for all of your help on my order.
As for the Manits, I'm thrilled about winning the raffle, but I think he needs to find a new home.

PREPARE FOR PICTURE OVERLOAD

Well, if I got a Mantis in a raffle, I would play around with it for a while to get the feel for it.  Then, to be perfectly frank, I would probably strip it down and build something a little more to my liking with it.  I don't have anything against a curved saber, and I love the aesthetics of the component parts of the Mantis, but I've never been overly thrilled by the saber as it ships.

But I would give it a try, and if I didn't have my mind changed by that, I would make something truly awesome and epic out of the pieces.  Particularly since it already has the Emerald innards.

[Xavius]

Ya, I'm not that skilled in the force. I wish I could put the Emerald innards into my raven now, but that would be a waste of a perfectly good saber.
I love the emitter and the pommel on the Mantis, just hate the curve. Doesn't feel right holding it.
I just need to find it a new owner

[sedstiskyfaller]

Great sabers, Xavius! I just received my Raven as well and think it looks stunning. We went with almost exactly the same options  Congrats on your win! +1 for sharing and that awesome background in the pics 

[Lord Sidious]

Beautiful sabers, Xavius! Totally sick!

[ukyavuz]

stay tuned I will get my entry and prize tomorrow morning (4 am in here cant sleep damit ) and my entry was also a raven lets form three muskeeters with our ravens