Hello, so I am making one last purchase here at US for quite awhile. Running out of room to put all my sabers now lol. But my tax returns just came in and I planned on spending part of it towards a final buy here. I can't decide, maybe some of you could give me some helps and tell me the pros and cons of my ideas? So either way, I AM buy a consular but here are my two questions..
1. I know it's cliche but I'm getting a consular in CG, only color to get that saber in IMO. Now do I want to go all out on this saber and make it my first obsidian is the question. I have never been a big fan of sound, but I thought it would be cool to go all out on my last saber. What is so great about obsidian? I know a lot of people like it, but isn't it just sound? And there are only 4 fonts that I see on the ultrasabers home page or is there a lot more that I am missing? Also I have a Darth Maul master replica and I admit that sound is nice, but I just think that multiple sabers with sound would get slightly annoying when they all clash and stuff.
2. My other option is consular in CG, standard setup. Maybe Li-ion (better than normal batteries or just buy standard? is the LED more intense with li-ion?) and on the side I was going to get a DSI collectors edition with vert grooves in blazing red. I have been wanting a good red color because my Darth Maul MR is old and the blades and LED are very dim, so an UltraSsabers red saber would be pretty nice to have also, since all of my sabers except darth maul MR are light side colors.
So this is my problem and I would like to hear everyone else's suggestions from experience with obsidian. I am personally not that big of a fan for the sound, it's a nice feature, but somewhat unnecessary since 1/7 of my sabers has sound. I would love to hear any feedback or ideas if anyone has them. Thanks all!
Your Maul may have sound, but the Obsidian will blow that out of the water. I have two MR Vader sabers, and the Obsidian board destroys them sound-wise.
The ability to customize the sound is also nice. You can pick and choose from the fonts available via Ultrasabers.... you don't have to load an entire font, but can pick and choose sounds YOU like from each. And with the new boards, there's quite a lot of room to load on effects. I mean, the Maul FX boards use some pretty standard sounds because it makes sense for Hasbro/MR to do that - but your saber will sound EXACTLY how you want. Want the idle hum to be lower and more menacing? Done. Want the ignition sound to sound less like a Sith Saber, and more like Luke's from ROTJ? Done. SO much can be done here.
You can also, with certain other programs, create YOUR OWN sound effects and load them on, to truly customize your saber. I've not done this, but some folks have. And there is a site, saberfonts.com, where folks have shared stuff. Pretty awesome.
Finally, there are features tied to the Obsidian, such as Flash on Clash, where your saber can flash a different color when struck, which adds some cinematic verisimilitude to it.
I think you'd enjoy the Obsidian - I know I have. Ultimately, your money and your decision, so good luck.
