It all sounds a bit grand scale for a backyard toy, so it’s a fairly safe bet the technology will be used at Disney’s California and Florida Star Wars parks, which are currently under construction.
Essentially, drones will send down light (most likely visible through fog) and then the lightsabers send it back, as if deflecting a laser bolt fired by a blaster.
Creating some sort of working lightsaber has been the dream of merchandisers, crowdfunders and garage engineers for many years, and Disney hasn’t given up the dream either.
A rep for Disney Parks would only tell io9: “We continuously innovate and file hundreds of patents that may or may not have any business unit application.