Years before he would ever work at Lucasfilm, master modelmaker and former Mythbuster Adam Savage visited a touring exhibition in 1994 that included one of the original Star Wars lightsaber props on display. He took photos with a camera (film, since digital cameras were not widely available at that point), and used images of the lightsaber as a guide to recreating the prop using his own skills. Savage, who had just started working with Jamie Hyneman (the two would become Mythbusters together in 2003), describes the lightsaber as one of, if not the, first time he ever decided that he wanted to ahve the experience of building a prop replica for himself.