So you're interested in light sabers, like most things in life, you have to start somewhere. But where? Where do you start? This is what I want to help you with. First ask yourself, what do you want to do with light sabers? Do you want to do it with light sabers? Do you want to twirl and do light sabers stunts? What do you just want to collect them? When you research online, there are so many options. So many choices. You have RGB base lit light sabers, Xenopixel light sabers, Neopixel light sabers, Neopixel blades. What does this all mean? Let me explain. By the way, use code halion at end sabers for 7% off your purchase, more on this later in the video. Okay, two common light saber types that you will run into online is what they call a base lit light saber. And also commonly a Xenopixel light saber. And I will explain both. The base lit light saber is basically a flashlight. You can see what looks like the inside of a flashlight right there with the light bulb just right there. And Xenopixel is actually referring to the board that's inside the hilt here. And it's a circuit board that controls pretty much all the lights and what's happening inside the emitter here right there. And I'll demonstrate both. But it might not be very easy to pick up on camera and then I'll explain the blade types. That should make more sense. Power off. Okay, so this is the base lit, which is basically a flashlight, right? You see it shines a light that's going to go into the blade once I attach a blade on here. And the Xenopixel hilt is a little bit different. You'll see some lighting in there, but there's like a lot of prongs in here that will connect to the blade. And I'll show that here in a second also. But this is what happens when you turn on a Xenopixel hilt. It sees a little bit different. And here they are together. This is a light from the base lit. And this is a light from the Xenopixel. And this will make more sense in a second. This is the blade type that will go inside of a base lit lightsaber. If you can see it's completely hollow. There's nothing in here. This is my flashlight here. And what it's doing with this blade is you see how the blade is now lit up. And this is just from this flashlight. This is a neopixel blade. The Xenopixel and neopixel are two like common words that you'll run into with Xenotype hilt. And that's what the end of a neopixel blade looks like. And the word pixel is referring to the LEDs. They're calling the LEDs inside the blade pixels. So this is a neopixel blade. And all these blades come in different sizes. With the base lit one being a lot easier because you can just cut it if you don't like the size of it. There's nothing in the base lit blade. So I'll show you when I attach the blade onto the base lit lightsaber. And it'll be a couple of set screws in the hilt. See, and this is base lit. And now I will show you the neopixel blade which here's a flashlight again. It won't actually light because of that connector here. This blade is not hollow. And what the prongs do is basically set the electricity. Send the electricity through into the blade which will activate the blade itself. And the board, the neopixel board is what controls what's happening in the blade like the colors. And pretty much the animations that this blade will do. As you can see when I turn it off, when I turn the lightsaber off, it will retract. And then to activate. The neopixel will be generally more expensive. Pretty much depending on what kind of lightsaber we get. This is the Aselka neopixel lightsaber. And this is just a base lit lightsaber that I got off of Amazon. Here they are together. And I want this guy to just serve as a very entry level for beginners that are starting to get into lightsabers. Or just like a really good buyer's guide if you're looking to get someone a gift. Or if you're looking at getting into lightsabers yourself. Also an important thing I want to note is that these are rechargeable. The charging ports are going to be different in different spots depending on the lightsaber. Like this one just connects right outside here. You just plug in the AC adapter that will... There's a DC adapter. I don't remember the adapter that will come with it. You can just plug it in right here. Some of them are USB type C. And some of them you have to charge inside the hilt itself like this one in particular. As you can see the charging port is right there. And you can see the battery. The purple thing is the battery there. There would be different charging variants depending on what kind of lightsaber you end up buying. Also important to note that I usually like to use the Xenopixel lightsaber here. For twirling stunts, for lightsaber stunts. These baselit lightsabers are more for dueling. You don't necessarily want to exactly hit a... ...neopixel blade. Because you run the risk of damaging connection points between all the mini LEDs here. Which the baselit blade is all... ...the light source is coming right from here. Right from the base. Hence the charge baselit. So you can hit this pretty hard. And it'll be okay. It's basically just like a flashlight. But yes, with the Xenopixel lightsaber and the neopixel blade it's more for... ...like I said, lightsaber twirling. Now where to shop for these lightsabers? I recommend shopping at Endsabers. Their website is Easy to Navigate and they have really cool lightsabers. Also lightsaber rub because from your favorite characters. Use code halion at checkout and save 7% off your order. Or use the link in the description box below. I want to know what lightsabers you guys are getting. Or if you have a favorite lightsaber. Let me know if you have any other questions. It was nice talking to you guys. May the force be with you. I'll see you soon. Thanks for watching.