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How Star Wars walked away from the world’s first self-retracting lightsaber toy

Lightsaber toys in silver, with golden sliding switches on the side, identical save for their red and green blades.
Goliath’s Power Saber, in red and green. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge

It would have been a Star Wars product — but Hasbro whiffed.

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