 Hey everybody, welcome back to my Star Wars channel and today we're gonna talk about the Kylo Ren belt clip Hey everybody, welcome back just another update on the Kylo Ren cosplay that I'm doing costume building once again, if you don't know I've been building a costume a Kylo Ren costume to be ready by Halloween of 2022 and Not trying to do completely screen accurate just trying to do something that's fun for me But also affordable maybe something that looks way better than off the shelf But maybe not as good as you know 501st quality, but something something good, right? I've been kind of basing a lot of this off of the the Disney World Costume just because I like that one and I think it resonates well with kids It's not it's not too frightening, right? So I had to get a belt clip and a An extra clip for the saber itself. This is my This is my force FX Black series, right? And I have the I don't have the kyber crystals in there right now But I wanted to show you what it takes to replace the The clip on the saber itself and then also the belt clip that will eventually go on my belt I got all of this from JJ Industries JJ Industries When I did my research Everybody said they're the best, you know, it's all metal. It's it's fully working. It's fully functional You're gonna be able to wear this, you know, people couldn't say enough enough great things about the company And I'm sure a lot of people have great experiences. The products are metal. They seem to be, you know, well fabricated. I Seem to be in the minority That I just struggled with Putting it on and getting it to work with my saber. I I really couldn't explain to you why that happened I don't know. Maybe it was maybe it's just me, you know, I just had I just had a bad experience And I think that happens to everybody and it's no reflection on JJ Industries This is the clip that's actually on the saber itself, right? As you can see it's this gold piece of decorated Metal and then there's this spacer Underneath and then the screw holes. There's two two screws that hold this down and this is purely Decoration what JJ Industries will send you is a piece of gold metal that looks like this It's pretty much the same size, right? But it has this little kind of Expandable clip that's on the side that is supposed to breathe out and breathe in as it goes into the belt clip And the belt clip looks like this. This is more screen accurate This is what Kylo Ren puts on his belt and probably at the end of the day I'll just put this on my belt as a prop. I don't know that I'm gonna actually be able to successfully Wear the saber When I'm when I'm out and I think that's one of the that's one of the things that I'm kind of most disappointed with There's some bolts here on the backside And that's gonna put it on the belt and when I get around to putting this on the belt Of course, I will document that as well You just take a screwdriver and you pull this off right with two screws And then you take this and the spacer they give you you're pretty much going to recreate the same exact item you're gonna put the two together and then run a bolt right through both of them and That it's gonna be this finished product And so I had to elevate mine higher away from the body of the lightsaber to clear the distance on these little Add-ons that are up here at the top. So I needed this to be tall To clear these bumps because what happens is and I'll just show you without belt Right. So say this is on the belt the saber is gonna go down Into that slot right this little here this little gold part It's gonna slide down into this part and you can see the little latch right there on this side where this is going to click into So it'll slide down in Like that and right now If I let go you can see that it is actually suspended and I'm gonna hold the bottom just in case But I should be able to jerk and walk and you know move and be active and the saber doesn't doesn't move At this point the way mine is working and I really I don't have a way to fix this I can just lift this back out the top But you're not supposed to the way JJ Industries makes these and the way it's been successful The lot of people is when you slide it down in it's supposed to lock right there and Then as it exits you'd keep going and make it go out the bottom so you can walk around with it You know see have a I'm simulating jerky walking Jerky walking movement. You can see that it doesn't come free, right? I'm not holding on to the saber at all and then to release it Instead of going up you continue to go down like that and you can release it by pulling it off And so really at the end of the day. I think I'm probably just gonna only wear this and not this because in my earlier Calculations, I didn't I didn't take into account how heavy this is. This is a massively heavy prop and my belt is Like a vinyl pleather with a velcro back And it might it might take the weight it might bear the weight I haven't tested it yet But something is telling me that this might just be a little too heavy to hang on one side of my belt You know, it might be pulling my belt down on one side because of how of how heavy it is And so it's very possible I might find something that's plastic or something that's lightweight that I can just repaint to make it look appropriate and Or just hold this in my hand and carry it and just use this as the belt clip So I'm not exactly sure I'm gonna wear this On the belt mostly because of just how crazy heavy this is So that's my that's my quick my quick tutorial my quick just update letting you know about the belt clip and The extra add-on piece and like I suggested if you want to get a good belt clip You want to get something that's gonna look spring accurate something made out of metal Something that's definitely gonna last you you can reach out to JJ Industries, and I'm sure they can help you out Made the force be with you. I'll see you next time. Bye