It’s a memorable scene from “The Empire Strikes Back”: Han Solo uses his light saber to slice open the carcass of a tauntaun, a large, furry repto-mammal, so that a nearly frozen Luke Skywalker can huddle inside and survive the deadly cold on the ice planet Hoth.
It’s so memorable that when thinkgeek.com offered a tauntaun sleeping bag last week—”complete with saddle, internal intestines and LED Luke Skywalker Lightsaber zipper pull”—the company was flooded with orders.
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