In The New York Times Magazine: Tauntaun Sleeping Bag

Posted by Rob Walker on November 28, 2009
Posted Under: Consumed

SLEEPING GAG:
A product idea becomes a joke — and then a product.

A lot of ThinkGeek’s customers, fooled or not, didn’t simply want to appreciate the funny idea of a Tauntaun sleeping bag. They wanted to own one. And said so in tens of thousands of e-mail messages and phone requests.

Read the column in the November 29, 2009, New York Times Magazine, or here.

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