April Fool's Jokes: ThinkGeek's Tauntaun Sleeping Bag
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Yes, it's April 1st, which means it's April Fool's Day ... and so all over the web today you have folks goofing around, playing practical jokes on their readers (ahem, why you lookin' at us?), and so on and so forth. Our various movie nerd friends are really having a good time -- creating the ultimate in ridiculous announcements, like Moviehole's four (!) pranks including one claiming Johnny Depp will play Freddy Krueger in the new Nightmare on Elm Street remake. Others went with the go-to film for high traffic, opting to create fake news for the next Batman movie (see JoBlo and InContention), while Slashfilm came at us with a new Matrix film starring Robert Pattinson.
My favorite April Fool's Day prank, however, is sitting over at ThinkGeek in the form of a fabulous Tauntaun Sleeping Bag (see above). You Star Wars geeks will immediately know what that image references, and while it's sorta gross, is it wrong of me to kinda want one of these? From ThinkGeek's description: "This high-quality sleeping bag looks just like a Tauntaun, complete with saddle, internal intestines and glowing lightsaber zipper pull. Now when your kids tell you their favorite Star Wars movie is "Attack of the Clones" you can nestle the wee-ones snug in simulated Tauntaun fur while regaling them with the amazing tale of "Empire Strikes Back".
You can check out a ginormous list of April Fool's Day jokes from around the web over here, and definitely let us know your favorites in the comments section below.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
4-01-2009 @ 2:31PM
John Ramistella said...
How can it be an April Fool's prank when I want one so badly?
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4-01-2009 @ 2:32PM
Astin said...
And when you get to the scary part about Han Solo being frozen, or Luke losing his hand a falling down that really long shaft, or act out the Wampa scene, it will give new meaning to the phrase, "and I thought they smelled bad on the outside."
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4-01-2009 @ 2:43PM
Eric said...
They or someone has to mass produce this thing.
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4-01-2009 @ 2:46PM
techstar25 said...
That is the greatest thing I've ever seen. I love the lightsaber zipper so you are actually mimicking the slicing open as you unzip. I would buy that right now if it existed.
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4-01-2009 @ 2:57PM
Andrew said...
That sleeping bag is fantastic. So clever but so obvious at the same time, I'm surprised nobody thought of that sooner.
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4-01-2009 @ 3:05PM
LiqwidZero said...
What's funny is that ThinkGeek will probably make this happen.
They did it with the 8-bit tie, the 1-UP mushroom, and some other stuff from last April Fools Day.
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4-01-2009 @ 3:46PM
Tom said...
O man do I want one of these!!!!
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4-01-2009 @ 4:39PM
Wikky said...
This is to awesome not to be real. I thought birthdays and Christmas were rough... DAMN you April Fools Day.
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4-01-2009 @ 4:51PM
KingIsAFink said...
What kid didn't secretly want to snuggle into one of those, if only to get to hang out with Han Solo?
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4-01-2009 @ 9:09PM
Natty said...
Google always has these great subtle jokes. My fave: Gmail Autopilot. http://mail.google.com/mail/help/autopilot/index.html
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