20 Things You Somehow Missed In Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope
3. What You Were Actually Looking At When It Came To The Lightsabers
And while on the topic of the coolest weapon in the galaxy, the actual physical look of each of the lightsabers found in the first Star Wars themselves had very different real-life origins.
When you're taking in Luke/Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber, you're actually looking at a Graflex camera side-attach flash with a few slight modifications. And a Micro Precision Products flash attachment was used for Darth Vader's trusty weapon.
But it was Obi-Wan's lightsaber that proved to be the most complicated, combining an Armitage Shanks Starlite model Handwheel, WWI No.3 Mk.1 British Rifle Grenade, Browning ANM2 machine gun booster, and a Rolls-Royce Derwent Mk.8/Mk.9 Jet Engine Balance Pipe to create the finished look of the old space wizard's tool of defence.