A Jedi craves not these things, either.

Okay, this is just frightening. They now have Star Wars costumes that you can buy for your dog. The Yoda costume is above. They also have a Darth Vader costume, and two different Princess Leia costumes - one is the traditional white robe from Episode 4, and the other is the Slave Leia outfit from Return of the Jedi. Now, I can certainly understand wanting to have a Slave Leia costume and someone to wear it, but a metal bikini (or its cloth equivalent) for your dog? How very, very bizarre. And you need not share the further details with me.

Other newly released Episode III items are tainted with the peculiar as well. There’s a whole bunch of M&M figures in Episode III costumes (my favorite is the Emperor), there’s a Team Jedi baseball jersey, and there’s even a Darth Vader lawn sprinkler.

Three months ago, who would have thought that the Darth Tater Mister Potatohead toy and the Darth Vader lava lamps would have been the sane and reasonable marketing tie-ins?

Only 35 days to go.