Hasta La Gadget!

Princess Leia must have had too much cake and sent this to me as a gift. Nice! Now shut off that hologram and get in my belly, little droid! This awesome R2-D2 cake actually projects Leia’s holographic message.

Marc Freilich is a great father. He gave his 6-year-old son a birthday cake that he will never forget. It’s a cake shaped like our favorite droid, with a little bonus inside. Inside, there is a PVC pipe holding a projector. Marc set it up to display Princess Leia’s hidden message from Episode IV.

I would eat this thing until I found the Death Star plans. Then I would be too sick and fat to rush off and help the Princess. Hey, she shouldn’t have sent cake if she expected help to arrive quickly.

[via Hack A Day]

I guess you could say that this bizarre Yoda dog getup is a sort of Star Wars mullet. He’s Jedi master up front, with an Ewok in the back. For some reason, he looks legit. I must travel to his doggy planet and learn the ways of the Force. Screw it, he probably just wants biscuits all day long.

Image Credit: Ren Netherland/Barcroft Media

Ren Netherland of Animal Photography took these photos. He travels across America every year to document the most extreme grooming competitions the world has to offer. He’s obviously seen some pretty weird stuff – like this Yoda dog.

Image Credit: Ren Netherland/Barcraft Media

This poor was shaved and colored to get his look just right. He also encountered some dogs dressed like Sesame Street characters and different Disney characters. That’s got to mess with their little doggy heads.

[via USA Today via Neatorama]

Tauntauns make great rugs – great sleeping bags too when you are in the freezing cold of Hoth and don’t care how it’s insides smell. This tauntaun skin rug was designed by Malaki Keller and is 100% awesome.

It was designed as a 1:1 scale version of a tauntaun for Autumn Massey – who came up with the whole idea. Yeah, I knew my living room was missing something, but I was thinking more of an Ewok rug. Now that I see this Tauntaun, I might have to go with that.

It looks nice and soft and you have to love the details. Those horns and eyes are great. Best of all it doesn’t make that annoying Tauntaun sound.

[via Star Wars Blog via Nerd Approved]

Hand puppets are fun for kids, but these knitted toys really don’t quite hold the appeal today that they had in say, the 1500′s. So, how do you jazz up hand puppets so that people actually want to play with them today? Star Wars of course. More specifically, a Sarlacc pit.

Everyone wants to stick their hand inside a pit with a giant freaky monster living inside of it. Go ahead, put it on your hand and chomp down that Boba Fett figure. While you’re at it, go for young Anakin, and really get Jar Jar good. And Sarlacc pits love Ewoks too!

The knit Sarlacc pit hand puppet was made by pandacatification and unlike the real thing, it won’t need a thousand years to digest it’s victims. Take it to the beach and bury it, surprising your friends.

[via Play with Your Yarn via Neatorama]

It sucks that we have to ride around in Honda Civics and the like, they are driving Landspeeders and piloting X-Wings in a galaxy far, far away; not to mention the Millennium Falcon. But hey, you can make your car look like it is part of the Star Wars universe and protect it from those hot Tatooine suns at the same time.

This amusing Millennium Falcon vehicle sun reflector is the perfect way to protect your car and keep it looking geeky at the same time. It’s only $21.99(USD), which is a whole lot less than building your own spaceship.

Anything that makes your ride look more like the Falcon inside, complete with crew, is good with me.

[via Thisiswhyimbroke]