Hmmm, well, now that we know how to NOT make lightsabers, surely we can come up with a much better design! Because it was kind of a cool idea in theory, just not so much in the execution...
I would have loved to been a fly on the wall, watching the kids come up with this idea. I'm still thinking "under the influence", though. There's just that key piece of knowledge that is lost that can only be attributed to

(We need pint glass icons for this one!)