About Legion Sabers
A long time ago,
in a galaxy not that far away....
Legion Sabers didn’t start as a big company.
It started with a risk.
My name is Matt, and before running Legion Sabers I spent more than a decade working as a youth pastor. My job was simple in theory but powerful in practice: create experiences that brought people together. Camps, events, crazy activities, things that helped people build memories and community.
One of the most memorable places I worked was in Hawaii at a church that operated on an old golf course that had gone bankrupt multiple times. During the week it was a golf course and event venue, and on Sundays it became a church campus. It was one of the most creative environments I had ever seen, and it shaped how I think about building things.
I’ve always believed experiences matter more than products.
Eventually I knew I wanted to build something of my own. I studied business, earned a master’s degree in global leadership, and began learning everything I could about entrepreneurship.
Around that time I had the opportunity to buy Legion Sabers from a father and son who had launched the brand during the early days of TikTok. They had built something exciting and it felt like the start of a real opportunity.
So my wife and I took a leap.
We sold a house, took the money we had made from it, and invested it into Legion Sabers.
Almost immediately the market changed. Lightsaber companies started popping up everywhere online and sales dropped hard. Suddenly I had just made the biggest purchase of my life and had to learn how to run an e-commerce company from scratch.
Emails. Marketing. Websites. Supply chains.
Everything.
Thankfully, the right people began showing up at exactly the right time.
I met João, who rebuilt our website from the ground up and began helping with everything behind the scenes. Systems, strategy, problem solving — he became a critical part of helping Legion Sabers grow.
Not long after that I met Illey from Double I Digital. Illey runs advertising for brands all over the world, but when he saw what we were trying to build he believed in it completely. He stepped in to help us with advertising and growth, and that partnership has been instrumental in helping us reach more fans.
Then we started taking Legion Sabers on the road.
We began attending conventions and events, meeting people face to face. The first show we ever did was incredible. We sold a ton of sabers and thought we had cracked the code.
But the next year was a roller coaster. Some shows were amazing. Others we lost money on.
What kept us going was the community.
We started meeting cosplayers, saber duelists, creators, and families who grew up loving these stories. Kids igniting their first lightsaber. Parents sharing Star Wars with their children. Fans who wanted something that made them feel like they had stepped into the universe they loved.
That’s when it clicked.
Legion Sabers isn’t just about selling lightsabers.
It’s about creating experiences.
Along the way we met incredible people like Israel Del Rio, who teaches lightsaber choreography and combat training. Seeing people actually learn to duel and perform with sabers opened our eyes to what this could become.
Today Legion Sabers is part of a growing community of creators, performers, and fans who love bringing these stories to life.
We now work with creators who reach millions of fans online, collaborate with cosplayers and choreographers, and host experiences where people can actually train, duel, and immerse themselves in the galaxy they love.
That vision is also what led to projects like Docking Bay 45 — a place designed to bring lightsaber culture, community, and immersive experiences together in the real world.
At the end of the day, Legion Sabers exists for one reason:
To help people experience the feeling we all had the first time we saw a lightsaber ignite.
Adventure. Wonder. Imagination.
If you're here, you're already part of that story.
And we’re just getting started.
— Matt
Founder, Legion Sabers