Just a few months after graduating college, Jacob Uy and his fellow engineers built a lightsaber. Now, plenty of companies will build you a custom saber, “whoosh” sound effects and all. Not to mention ...

The Star Wars celebration Season of the Force is currently taking place at the Disneyland Resort, bringing a variety of limited-time special offerings, from special Star Wars merchandise to ...

The nondescript office building in Layton doesn’t look like the caves of Ilum, where — according to “Star Wars” canon — Jedi younglings retrieve the kyber crystals that focus the energy of a ...

Move over Peter Parker: Boston has its own super engineer turning science fiction into real life. Jacob Uy just graduated from Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Massachusetts, where he spent the ...

What would "Star Wars" and the galaxy far, far away be without lightsabers? And what would lightsabers be without that ...

The inventor of Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser's lightsabers says it was quite a tough assignment. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

At its core, Star Wars is a fantasy story in space, a series of joyful, thrilling, and hopeful adventures. And what’s a good fantasy saga without a magical sword? They’re integral parts of these ...

Nothing is quite as iconic of the Star Wars franchise as is the lightsaber. A weapon wielded by force-sensitive being of good and evil intent, the lightsaber symbolizes the transcendent nature of the ...

TanChun is a traveling film director and screenwriter who believes in positive Asian representation in Hollywood. She aspires to create more stories in Western media that give Asian actors a chance to ...