James Hobson and his team at Hacksmith Industries in Kitchener, Ont., have created a hyper-realistic, retractable plasma lightsaber that reaches a scorching heat of 2,200 C.

The Hacksmith Industries team, based in Cambridge, Ont., showed off the suit in a YouTube video posted last week, which has since been viewed over 350,000 times.

This isn't the first time Hobson has brought an iconic weapon straight off the screen and into the real world. Last year, Hacksmith Industries forged a replica of Thor's hammer Mjolnir from the ...

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