May 162021
In 2015, Allen Pan made a “real burning lightsaber” that worked by using butane to pressurize methanol, squirting it like a tiny supersoaker and setting the stream alight. The concept was… well, “insanely dangerous” is probably fair. Still, it worked:
But then…
The cheap knockoff took an idea that was insanely dangerous and said “meh, let’s make it as awful as possible” and scored a hundred grand .
I’m in the wrong damn business.