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Poor Tauntauns. Why must people always be slicing them and jumping inside for warmth? Or sticking them with a pole and mounting them on a carousel? They are one of the cutest and most useful Star Wars… animals and yet they get no respect.

I’ve seen some pretty impressive geek costumes over the years, but this one might just take the cake. This precision-engineered Tauntaun costume has to be way up there at the top of the list.

Created by Scott Holden for the recent Zone Ball in Sacramento, this Tauntaun not only looks…

Crafty Star Wars fans will have their goods on display this year at Stitch Wars this summer, and one contribution is this pair of plushies from The Empire Strikes Back. One part Luke, one part tauntaun, all chilling-in-innards fun. Or, uh, maybe not chilling….

The tauntaun’s belly apparently