Halloween is just around the corner, but Amazon.com can handle expedited shipping. Head over there now to choose from Inflatable Tauntaun, Inflatable Jabba, Secret Wishes Princess Leia (?) and more. Sorry, the hilariously crappy C-3PO costume is out of stock.
Amazon.com: Inflatable Tauntaun Adult Costume
Amazon.com: Jabba the Hutt Inflatable Costume
ThinkGeek's got Tauntaun sleeping bags in stock. If you don't know about these, this 2009 story from the New York Times Magazine will fill you in. The bag started as an April Fools Day joke but quickly turned into an officially licensed Lucasfilm product. (What does that tell you?) From the article:
The funny thing about ThinkGeek’s prank products, however, is that sometimes they do get made and sold, basically because the public demands it. The most recent example is the Tauntaun Sleeping Bag, which appeared on the site last April 1 as a gag and earlier this month went on sale for real, at $99. The item recalls a scene in the film “The Empire Strikes Back,” in which Luke Skywalker is freezing to death on the frigid planet Hoth, and Han Solo saves his life by slicing open the stomach of a dead Tauntaun (which is a sort of giant, ridable horse-lizard) and stuffing him in among its warm guts. The sleeping bag has a cute Tauntaun-head pillow, and its lining is printed with an intestine-like pattern. It’s absurd, but if you remember the scene from the movie, it’s also pretty much irresistible. Thus a lot of ThinkGeek’s customers, fooled or not, didn’t simply want to appreciate the funny idea of a Tauntaun sleeping bag. They wanted to own one. And said so in tens of thousands of e-mail messages and phone requests.
Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 4:22AM