Can any one tell me if these look repro or real? I've had a hard look at the weapons pages here and can't tell for sure. I'm thinking of buying these (for about $10 ea) and just wanted some advice since it's at the upper end of what I am willing to pay.
Pics aren't the best but it's all I've got to go on:



and this one too (I think it's Top Toys but maybe it's glasslite???) And how much is it worth buying for if it's real? It has a "B" on ther hilt:



Thanks in advance, - Julian

Hi Julian

The bottom pic looks like a Lili Ledy Vader saber (having a letter is a very good sign). I'm not sure what a fair price is for that though.
The yellow saber with the rounded thick end (bottom left) looks ok. The other 3 look rather glossy to me. 

It would be sweet if it is a LL Vader saber ( Because I need one) but I think the transition is too round... from what I've seen of the LL the transition is a bit square and very short/sudden with a thicker tip and most often white stress mark at the transition point. I am no expert though. Does anyone know what these might be worth? The thick tip is going for around $24 and the others are $10ea...

The 'Ledy' saber looks identical to my MIM MOC example (but I'm sure Marco or Ozio will confirm). The white stress marks are from where the tip has been bent at some point, so only seen on used / played with examples.

If other members believe all the other sabers are real, IMO $10.00 each is a good price.  

If they are real $10 is a good price. I need a yellow and a blue and would pay that with no problem.

Tough to say from those pictures, but if I were buying and I couldn't get new pictures, I would only pickup the round-tip transition yellow and the Ledy Vader (I believe it is too).

Of the other three flat tip transitions, the red and blue look the same - meaning, to me they appear identical which I find odd. And as stated above, the flat tips seem too shiny, especially the yellow one.
I'm no Vader nor Ben expert (or Luke for that matter ) but all three of those look off a bit.

The picture of the blue saber where the tip is pointing right, looks almost like a revalveit DT (back side of pic shows what could be the empty cavity) and the tip is very thin.

A point to note is however, that all three I would pass on by the looks of the images alone are flat tip transitions which I have yet to see repros of in hand (they are normally round tip transitions) aside from the DTs of course.

Can you get better pics by chance?

As for price........ $10 for a regular saber is great and $25 for a Ledy is acceptable.

cheers

The vader one is 100% not Glasslite or Top Toys, both those have very unique noticeable features.

As mentioned above it's most likely Lili Ledy, in which case $25 is ok'ish but it's not the rarest of figures at it also appeared on the kenner MIM cards.

As for the others at $10, I've pay that if legit.

Thanks guys, for your knowledgeable input. It's great to have this community to help get clarity. I think I'll hold off on the Ledy since it's only an average deal and see if I can snag the other sabers on a small gamble. If they turn out to be legit I'll offer two of the four here at cost (since I only need two of them). Plusses for everyone. Cheers- Julian

hmmm.....those minty flat transition sabers seem to pop up more recently these days!

The problem is: I never heard or saw flat transition repro sabers!! ANYONE??

I would be really curious about that, because a flat transition was always bullet proof to me!!?? Am I getting old??

the LL one looks like mine as well the rest hard to say from photos

I agree with Steve the bottom yellow round transition saber looks to be genuine, $10 is a good price.
The others look a bit dodgy to me.
The last pic is definitely a Ledy saber, you can usually pic these up for around $20 on ebay

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Star-Wars-Darth-Vader-Original-Lightsaber-B-Lettered-Hilt-/291067915158?pt=US_Action_Figures&hash=item43c4ffeb96

There was this saber on sale on ebay last March, that was claimed to be repro, and had a flat transition tip:
http://www.imperialgunneryforum.com/t5549-reproduction-luke-ben-lightsabers-from-yellow-blue-plastic-molds

Also this pic is from the gunnery reference website of a painted repro, which looks to be a flat transition tip saber.



Julian, if those top sabers are painted, it would explain the glossy appearance

Both the Vader sabers are real.
The flat tip saber has a small indentation near the tip, good sign.
The thick tip saber is 100% LL, letter B is also a good sign.
$10 per saber is a bargain.

Oscar is right, I missed that indent   
here is my genuine indented saber:

I have a few of those indented ones...so happy to hear they are real.

I seem to always have mixed zup flat and round transition on the repros....Dooooooohhh..


So now I am totally confused. has anyone pictures of all MOLDED (not the painted ones) repro single telescoping sabers around?? I am afraid I have some in my collection

Thank you very much

Wolff

I have them coming to me in the mail... Give me some pointers for testing them and I can post my pictures and findings or I'll gladly send them to you for inspection if you can test them for authenticity. Just let me know. I've had my doubts about some "flat transition" sabers recently and would love to add to the library of information if I can.

As seen in the TIG Sabers section the round transition type saber was faked a while back, first painted then moulded (by revalve-it) but now  I found some old repros I bought 6 years ago that are flat-transition   ... I started another thread in the watch-out section. Maybe this is Pandora's box but I want to share what I can find out...