CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

PostPosted: **Wed Oct 07, 2009 8:04 pm**

Tauntaun sleeping bag inches closer to reality

Sci Fi wire wrote:From the file of things so cool we wish they were real: That sleeping bag in the shape of a Tauntaun from The Empire Strikes Back, which ThinkGeek.com posted as an April Fool's joke this year. (Such cunning details, like the lightsaber zipper, meant to evoke Han's evisceration of the poor creature.)

Well, we weren't alone in wanting one, of course, and the site was compelled to post this note:

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!

Now comes news from the LA Weekly that ThinkGeek has been working with Lucasfilm to get an actual license to produce the thing, which will likely be modified from the design in the spoof (and also likely cost a bit more than the $39 on the fake ad). Here's what ThinkGeek's PR guy, Shane Peterman, told the weekly newspaper:

We are definitely trying to make it into an actual item to be sold on our site. As of right now, it's still an "if," but it's turning into more of a "when." Things are looking pretty good, we just don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves. There's certainly been enough of a demand, both from customers and from those of us that work here. Right now, we're aiming to have it available for the holidays or, at the latest, the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back next spring.

Have you gotten the go-ahead from Lucas?

We're still working with Lucas to get approval for a final design. Again, it's looking good, we just can't say too much right now since it's still in the works.

Of course, if history is our guide, it's always possible that Lucasfilm will go ahead and copy the thing and just sell it themselves.

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PostPosted: **Wed Oct 07, 2009 9:14 pm**

That's awesome news but it's going to keep tauntaun me until it become a reality. Yay, for sleeping bags that smell like innards!

PostPosted: **Thu Oct 08, 2009 3:56 am**

Somehow I don't think it'll be all that comfortable.

PostPosted: **Thu Oct 08, 2009 5:23 am**

That is amusing. I'd never buy one, but that is amusing.

I wonder how much a "tsunami of requests" is. Maybe there are more Star Wars geeks out there than I thought.

PostPosted: **Thu Oct 08, 2009 6:25 am**

goldenspines (post: 1349669) wrote:That is amusing. I'd never buy one, but that is amusing.

I wonder how much a "tsunami of requests" is. Maybe there are more Star Wars geeks out there than I thought.

You didn't think there were lots of Star Wars geeks? REALLY? They are everywhere. Most are incognito so as to blend in with the whole of genteel society, but they are there, always lurking beneath the surface.

...

Also, I would totally buy a tauntaun sleeping bag.

..because I am a Star Wars geek.

PostPosted: **Thu Oct 08, 2009 10:40 am**

And I thought these bags smelled bad on the outside!

PostPosted: **Thu Oct 08, 2009 10:44 am**

I would probably buy that if I had lots of money lying around.

PostPosted: **Thu Oct 08, 2009 10:56 am**

Etoh*the*Greato (post: 1349697) wrote:And I thought these bags smelled bad on the outside!

After ten days without washing it, this will no longer be just a snappy comeback.

All future sleeping bags will include a pack of pine air fresheners.

PostPosted: **Thu Oct 08, 2009 2:08 pm**

The first time you unzip it, does soft, fuzzy stuffing spill out?

PostPosted: **Thu Oct 08, 2009 4:37 pm**

Kkun (post: 1349671) wrote:You didn't think there were lots of Star Wars geeks? REALLY? They are everywhere. Most are incognito so as to blend in with the whole of genteel society, but they are there, always lurking beneath the surface.

These are trufax. Also, this is the best idea ever. Why has no one thought of this before? It's so terrifically obvious! XD I want one.

PostPosted: **Thu Oct 08, 2009 5:32 pm**

The zipper, I think, makes me laugh harder than even the intestinal lining.

PostPosted: **Thu Oct 08, 2009 9:23 pm**

That kid is going to suffocate on one (or all) of those many accessories in his sleep (remember the Superman capes?)
And that Tauntaun looks might happy after being cut open like that.

PostPosted: **Thu Oct 08, 2009 9:49 pm**

Disappointment time: I'm fully expecting a regular old cloth sleeping bag with tauntaun guts silkscreened on it. It has been my pleasure to rain on your parade. Thank you.

PostPosted: **Fri Oct 09, 2009 12:16 am**

It actually looks pretty practical. I thought it was going to be more... tauntaun like, but it's pretty much rectangular except the pillow / head and the saddle...

I'd totally buy one.