When The Phantom Menace was released in theaters the first time around, the amount of available merchandise was insane. Retailers overestimated what fans would buy, and the market is left with a glut of Jar Jar tongue themed toys and loads of Pepsi tie-in products. As it turns out, plenty of concepts for toys and merchandise were rejected. Before the release, Jason Geyer and his co-workers were asked to design some concepts for Episode I. The fun part? They’d never seen the movie. Until they won the job, they had to use original trilogy characters and then the plan was to modify it to fit the new story.
It resulted in hundreds of concepts. Some of them are generic products just for Star Wars and several are designed with the Pepsi contract in mind. They’ve got everything covered; you’ll find a range of concepts including a Darth Vader Lava Lamp (want!), a R2-D2 travel thermos, and everything in between. I wouldn’t mind owning most of these sad, forsaken designs.
Check out a gallery some of our favorites after the break.
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From That’s Nerdalicious!: If you’ve ever yearned for a germ-free cookie dunking experience, your wait may be nearing an end with the arrival of this concept “dipr” spoon, which will hold your sandwich cookie as it is dipped in your liquid of choice. The design is patent-pending, and the designer is currently seeking contributions to get the manufacturing of the device underway.
If you think this tool has the potential to change your life forever and you would like to help out, click the project page link below.
Project Page
Heroes and Villains, the latest set of figures from Yum Yum London includes the kinds of people you might encounter in your everyday life—including a karate grandma, guy with a shotgun holding a chicken, a zombie, a woman walking a pig and a fast food octopus.
At this point, the figures are only prototypes but, according to Yum Yum’s blog, they are working to make the figures available for sale. Check out the full line after the break.
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Never in my wildest dreams would I assume that I would be calling a ruler “badass,” but this ruler is exactly that. The zero point concept means that you can start numerically from zilch wherever you place the tip of your pen. I wonder what will happen to the ruler’s display if different situations; say perhaps in Parochial school when a nun drags this thing across your ass at 100mph?
(Yanko via The Daily What)
From Swedish designers Michael Andersson and Maria Axelqvist comes the Fruit Slide. Combine this with the Getty Lamp and a piece of plywood and voila! Fruit Skee Ball.
Project Page (via HomeTone)
