

Han Solo firing his blaster
A blaster was a ranged weapon that fired bursts of particle beam energy called blaster bolts from a replaceable power cell. Lego® began making Lego versions of them for the Lego® Star Wars theme. Blasters were made from the very beginning, and included in sets as early as 1999. There are at least nine different variations of LEGO blasters.
Original Blaster[]
The original lego blasters were made with a black megaphone-shaped piece with a transparent orange stud on the tip of them. These were from 1999 to 2006, when they changed them to a newer 1-piece version of the gun. This type of gun was also included in one set in 2007, but was discontinued after that.