As most reviewers have noted, this is a piece of junk.  I bought it to accompany a costume, and that's all it did--the light did not work and the cheap plastic film that is supposed to depict the light in the light saber failed to deploy.  A piece broke off even as I took it out of the packaging.  As an article to hang from my belt on a costume that I'll wear once, it worked.  But again, a piece of junk.  Don't disappoint kids by buying this for them as a gift that is supposed to resemble anything from Star Wars.