Laser sword with simple materials and some compositing.
Cool model. I had to flip the normals for the main handle mesh (Mesh.021). Not sure if it's a version specific glitch (Blender 2.70) or an error in the model. Easily fixed though.
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Wow! This lightsaber is really cool!