<![CDATA[io9: merchandise you secretly want]]> http://tags.lifehacker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: merchandise you secretly want]]> http://io9.com/tag/merchandiseyousecretlywant http://io9.com/tag/merchandiseyousecretlywant <![CDATA[You Probably Own These In A Galaxy Far, Far Away]]> While we've all seen some pretty bad Star Wars merchandise in our lives, only Jason Geyer - a former product designer who worked on merchandise to support The Phantom Menace - can let us know just how lucky we are that things weren't much, much worse. After all, did the world really need Bantha Slippers or Leia-hairbun headphones? Both were part of the pitch package that Geyer and cohorts put together to show Lucasfilm that they knew just how to take Star Wars concepts to a new audience. Behind the jump, see more examples of what you could've spent your money on in a parallel world.

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A long, long time ago... [Action Figure Insider.com]

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