Jabba the Hutt Purse Perfect for Holding onto All Your Bounty

Ladies, the next time you decide to dress up in your Slave Leia outfit, you might need a purse to go with it. And there’s no more perfect handbag on the planet than this Jabba the Hutt purse I spotted over on Etsy.

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Artist Cat Penfold found an old lizard-textured vinyl purse and gave it the perfect Jabba the Hutt paintjob. She first coated it with a sickly green wash, then painted on Jabba’s beady orange eyes and double triple quadruple chin. His mouth took care of itself thanks to the shape of the purse. The whole thing has been coated with durable UV-protective finish, which should protect it from the harsh suns on Tatooine.

This one-of-a-kind Jabba handbag is available over Etsy for $80(USD), so if you want it, you’d better grab it now. If not, you might have to just settle for an Ewok purse instead…

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Life-sized Darth Vader Cake: Use the Forks, Luke!

This life-sized Darth Vader cake could feed an entire Death Star or a whole village of ewoks on Endor. Heck, it could probably satisfly that huge asteroid worm that tried to eat the Millennium Falcon. It stands six feet, seven inches tall and looks both evil and delicious.
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This huge and impressive cake showed up at the recent Star Wars Celebration VI in Florida. 600 people attended the 501st Legion banquet in Orlando and got to enjoy this tasty treat. It weighed 500-pounds before they dug into it. Now that weight is evenly distributed to so many nerd thighs and hips.

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It took baker Amanda Oakleaf and her crew (who also made the popular edible stormtrooper) 386 eggs, 57 pounds of butter, 46 pounds of sugar, 210 pounds of marshmallow fondant and a lot of Star Wars love. Luke, I am your dessert!

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[via Dvice]


Star Wars Lightsaber Popsicle Maker: Use These Molds, Luke

Star Wars fans, you’ll soon be able to swing sweet lightsaber popsicles into your mouth, thanks to the Lightsaber Ice Pop Maker from ThinkGeek. Some of you may remember it as one of the geek store’s April Fools jokes.

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Each set will come with four hilts – two that resemble Darth Vader’s saber’s hilt and another two that resemble Luke’s – each have LEDs embedded in them to make your popsicles glow.  I guess we could say these are light sabers. But not lightsabers.

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The Lightsaber Ice Pop Maker will be available from ThinkGeek starting this fall for $40 (USD).


Custom-Made Star Wars Dresses for Your Inner Princess Leia

Check out this Star Wars dress. It’s full of style, attitude and sass, all without having to look like a Stormtrooper or a TIE Fighter. Artist Crissy Baker of Nerd Alert Designs makes some awesome Star Wars-inspired dresses that are both classy and geeky.
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She makes dresses, scarves and more. The dress above is one of my favorites. It just looks sexy and casual at the same time. Hey, I’m a geek. It doesn’t take much to impress me. Just give me a girl in a sexy Star Wars dress, a gun (or a lightsaber) and some heels and I’m happy.

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They make great gifts for the geek girl in your life. Check out more of her stuff in Nerd Alert’s Etsy shop. There are too many great pieces to choose from.

[via Fashionably Geek]


Star Wars R2D2 Lunch Bag with Sound

This is definitely the droid that you are looking for if you are hungry and always pack your lunch to work. After all, R2D2 has served many a mission with the Rebel Alliance in the past, and here he is yet again with another mission – to make sure that you will remain nice and full in order to continue work for the rest of the afternoon. Yes sir, the world’s favorite astromech droid is now available in lunch bag form, complete with push button for beeps, boops, and lights.

It is made out of 100% PVC, and for health concerns, it is BPA free so that you know for sure you are not having any kind of unwanted poisons in your body that is accumulated over the years. Thanks to the $19.99 Star Wars R2D2 Lunch Bag with Sound, you are able to be amused by its bleeps and boops, while munching on your favorite sandwich (or whatever else that the missus has packed for you, of course). .

[ Star Wars R2D2 Lunch Bag with Sound copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]


That’s No Moon, It’s a Death Star Tea Infuser

If you want to make the best cup of Imperial tea ever, forget tea bags. You need to soak a Death Star in your cup. A Death Star filled with sweet fragrant tea leaves. This silver space station may not shoot lasers at Alderaan, but it will infuse hot water with tasty (and evil) tea.

Death Star Tea Infuser is the ultimate power in your tea cup
I love the TIE Fighter at the end of the chain. I can easily see Grand Moff Tarkin making his tea with this and relaxing in his quarters. Until Vader disturbs him with the latest problems of course. Of course, depending on how long you let it steep your tea can be either on the Light Side or the Dark Side.

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It’s the best tea infuser ever, and is available for $19.99(USD) from Thinkgeek. It will make tea time a very special geek time.


This Is the Alarm Clock Droid You’re Looking For (At a Price You Definitely Weren’t) [Star Wars]

This isn’t the first R2-D2-themed alarm clock to grace these pages, but serious collectors (and serious sleepers) might want to take note of this iteration. Made from the highly detailed and accurate moulds used to churn out R2-D2 plastic models, this astromech alarm clock plays a symphony of Star Wars themes and rolls around your room when it’s time to get out of bed. More »

Star Wars 3D remakes of Episode II and Episode III confirmed

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace was famous (or should I say, infamous) for the computer generated character known as Jar Jar Binks, although I found that sentiment on the ground tend to lean more on the negative side. Well, George Lucas is a true blue entrepreneur who is always on the lookout to earn more money (not that he needs it anyway), and hence decided to remaster Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace in 3D glory some time back. I guess it was more of a “testing the water” kind of thing, and it must have been financially successful enough for Lucasfilm to approve 3D remakes of Star Wars Episodes II and III, where they will be released back-to-back in fall next year.

We are looking at September 20 and October 11 release dates, respectively, which is a good thing for fans of the space opera franchise since they need not wait in between episodes, although does this mean the work on remastering both movies in 3D will be a rushed effort? Will you part with your hard earned money to watch both movies in the cinemas when they’re released, or would you prefer to dedicate your financial resources elsewhere?

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Star Wars to come in 3D – all six movies, 3D map of the universe is the largest to date,

Star Wars Episode II and III 3D re-releases officially dated for theaters in September and October 2013

Star Wars Episodes II and III 3D rereleases coming to theaters in September and October 2013

Before Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace came back to the theaters earlier this year converted for 3D, the plan was to bring the other five movies to theaters one at a time each year, but that has apparently changed. At the Star Wars Celebration VI event in Orlando (where we first found out about the Blu-ray release two years ago) Lucasfilm announced that Episodes II and III in 3D will be released in theaters back to back in fall of 2013, arriving September 20th and October 11th, respectively. Missing so far from the announcement? A reason for the back-to-back release or any word on Blu-ray 3D plans. In lieu of more details, although it means Attack of the Clones will come back later in the year than Phantom Menace did, with any luck this accelerated schedule is a good omen for the original trilogy’s return. Of course, we’ll have to wait and see what magic can be worked with those older film and special effects elements, however IGN apparently found an early preview of the Episode II 3D footage to be promising.

[Thanks, Rachael]

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Battle Hoth-Like Winter Mornings With This Wampa Arm Ice Scraper [Star Wars]

If there’s any creature that knows how to deal with ice and cold, it’s the Wampa from The Empire Strikes Back. But when it comes to dealing with Jedis, it’s no match for a lightsaber. So now that he doesn’t have much use for his right arm after Luke lopped it off, you can use the Wampa’s lost appendage as a cozy ice scraper. More »