Bought a couple of these to modify into a couple of custom sith lightsabers for myself and what better to use than the Dark Lord of the Sith himself, Darth Vader's style as a base for this project.

But onto the product itself, these are indeed a costume prop with no play value at all. I actually ended up breaking the blades off the lightsabers pretty easily (which is probably good, they're ugly as heck and are a bit bent). But the hilt itself is a bit stronger, by stronger I mean not easily taken apart with breaking it into tiny pieces.

The switch is a little flimsy as well and at least on one of them the switch doesn't go all the way and sometimes needs held to stay on. It's something I'm bound to fix as my project pushes forward.

However I do have to say, the hilt itself is just magnificent. Much better than the one I had as a child when I dressed up like Vader for Halloween. It has quite a few details as well, even a part that lights up on the side. My only issue with it is that there's way too much lettering on the thing (something which will get either sanded or puttied up prior to painting).

Another thing to bear in mind is that the hilt itself is quite large, at least adult-sized with a kid-sized blade... just odd, but oh'well. =P