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ThinkGeek makes a funny - soon to be real?

ThinkGeek makes a funny - soon to be real?

By Adam on April 3, 2009, at 09:08 | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

Every year for April Fools day, ThinkGeek comes up with some outlandish product "offerings." This year, it included the sleeping bag seen here: a Tauntaun Sleeping Bag. Among the features....

Classic Star Wars sleeping bag simulates the warmth of a Tauntaun carcass
Built-in embroidered Tauntaun head pillow
Glowing Lightsaber zipper pull
Great for playing pretend "Save Luke from the Wampa" games
Teach your children about the best Star Wars movie ever
Fully Licensed Lucasfilm™ Collectable
Fits children (and small adults)

My favorite part: the pattern on the inside, which looks like Tauntaun entrails (just like in the movie!).

Anyway, it turns out that enough people tried to buy it and complained when they found out it was just an April Fools joke that ThinkGeek has added this message to the page:

ATTN Tauntaun Fanatics! Due to an overwhelming tsunami of requests from YOU THE PEOPLE, we have decided to TRY and bring this to life. We have no clue if the suits at Lucasfilms will grant little ThinkGeek a license, nor do we know how much it would ultimately retail for. But if you are interested in ever owning one of these, click the link below and we'll try!

The link, if you want to know if they manage to make and start selling them, is this one. Click it! You know you want to! I've already signed up and hope that the price is right for me to get one for each of the boys - I know they'll love them!

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