Tauntaun Sleeping Bags Almost Ready To Ship - Win A Free One!
ThinkGeek's tauntaun sleeping bag is nearly here! It's so close, you can almost smell it. They'll start shipping in early November. In the meantime, if you can't justify spending $100 on the greatest piece of Star Wars memorabilia ever, you can enter their pumpkin carving contest to win one. Or a bunch of other prizes we don't care about.
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This is so incredible, I could cry. Amazing. If only I had $100, I'd totally get it for the kids I'll likely have someday.
@katstermonster: Enough room for adults????
OMG. I wish I could justify spending $100 on this. Forget kids (which I don't and probably won't have). I want one for me!
is it just a standard sleeping bag with a light saber zipper or am I missing something?
its based on Luke sleeping inside the carcass of a Tauntaun in the movie to stay warm.....now look back at the sleeping bag....intestines inside...Tauntaun outside...very nerdy, but very cool...lol
I can't believe they actually pulled this off.
I'm wondering how much they had to pay George off to get him to agree to it.
i signed up for the email notifications and last night i got the unboxing pics talking about the contest on how to win the first one. i makes me giggle
@AppleAlex: Well, I mean, besides the attached Tauntaun head, leg, tail, and lining patterned like the innards of a Tauntaun, it is just a standard sleeping bag with a light saber pull.
Darn. My kids are too big and no grand-kids yet.
Last year's pumpkin would make Ms. Pi proud...
it was a large pumpkin, with π hastily carved into the front (i forgot to carve it before trick-or-treaters showed up)
Will it be adult size?
@katsuyakaiba: The product description says "enough room for adults". How many and what size, it does not mention.
$100 for a sleeping bag isn't unheard of... i think i paid $120 for my Mountain Hardwear bag a few years back.
The question, however, is one of quality - is this something that i can expect to keep me reasonably comfortable for 2 weeks on the AT? or is it more of the kind of thing i'd throw in my trunk when going to visit friends out-of-town?
Anyone who is complaining about the price, remember that ThinkGeek almost always has coupons, and you could get like $15 off AND a free annoy-a-tron.
@MostlyHarmless: The description says 33"x67", so it will fit a small adult. My husband (5'6") and I (5'1") will both fit!
@GitEmSteveDave_Worked4TheWeekend: They have a new annoy-a-tron that, they claim, can only be heard by kids, not adults. Hilarity will ensue.
@gStein:
I think you mean, "is this something that i can expect to keep me reasonably comfortable for 2 weeks on the AT-AT?"
or maybe "AT-ST," they were at Hoth, too.
@humphrmi: That thing is monstrous. If I ever find who hid one of those damnable things in my school's physics lab then I will use them as my sleeping bag, kept warm and cozy by their innards.
@The_IT_Crone: I was going to say the same thing. I'm not that surprised that they got Lucas to agree, as long as the price was right. I would love to know how much of the $100 goes to Lucas versus making the bag....my bet $70
"And I thought they smelled bad on the outside." (somebody had to post it)
@humphrmi: I hid one that I got free in my office, and only half of the peopel could hear the "mosquito" tone and it was driving both sides batty, because the side who could hear it kept trying to get the side who couldn't hear it to hear it.
I signed up for their "If we ask George Lucas and he doesn't walk away laughing, we'll email you" notification on this, and I was very happy to see that George has a good sense of humor. I'm definitely in for $100. I don't carve pumpkins.