Flashforge Creator 5 Pro Prints Two Master Swords in One Job

Joel Telling, better known as 3D Printing Nerd, finally fixed his Master Sword. Actually, he printed two of them, both at the same time, on a single machine: the Flashforge Creator 5 Pro.

Why This Printer Handles Props Other Machines Can't

The Master Sword from The Legend of Zelda is a brutal print. It is tall, thin in places, and long enough that most desktop printers force you to split it into sections and glue it back together. The Creator 5 Pro has a 256 x 256 x 256 mm enclosed build volume, which is enough to run full-size prop pieces without chopping them up.

That alone puts it in interesting territory for cosplayers. But the hardware story here is bigger than the build box.

Four Toolheads, Zero Purge Waste

The Creator 5 Pro is a CoreXY machine with four independent toolheads. Each head carries its own filament, so multi-color and multi-material prints happen without a purge tower dumping plastic into the bin. Flashforge claims multi-color printing up to 500% faster than conventional single-nozzle systems, and the company credits its FlashSwap tool-changing setup for the speed.

Print speed tops out at 600 mm/s with 30,000 mm/s squared acceleration. The chamber is actively heated and fully enclosed, which matters if you want to run technical filaments like ABS, ASA, or nylon without warping.

Should You Buy One?

If your printing is mostly small functional parts in PLA, this machine is overkill. If you are churning out props, cosplay armor, or multi-color products for sale, the toolhead layout starts to make real sense. Every toolchange on a single-nozzle machine costs time and wasted filament. Multiply that across a production run and the math shifts fast.

Telling's video is a decent real-world stress test, and the swords came out clean enough that he is giving one away. Flashforge is also running a $30 discount code on the printer at the moment.

Bottom Line

The Creator 5 Pro is not the cheapest way into multi-color printing. It is, however, one of the few desktop machines that can run large props and genuine multi-material jobs in one go, and that combination is rare at this size.