Use the sauce, Luke

Sarah Dobbs


Just when you thought you'd seen every conceivable piece of Star Wars merchandise, someone invents an R2-D2 soy sauce bottle.

I don't know where to start with this. It's like there's so much pun-fodder here, my brain can't quite wrap itself around the situation. This is just ... brilliant.

Alternatively, it's an R2-D2 shaped soy sauce bottle.

R2-D2 has leant his image to an awful lot of things over the years - from pencil-toppers to flash drives to telephones - but a soy sauce bottle? That's genius. Admittedly, it's not the first time the Star Wars robot has ventured into the condiment realm, but somehow, salt and pepper mills just don't seem as completely absurd as a soy sauce bottle. Maybe it's just the bizarrely specific nature of this product. What happens if you want to use him for dispensing, say, vinegar? Is that acceptable, or not?

Maybe we'll never know.

I do know, though, that I am absolutely obsessed with the idea. I want one. You can get it from Forbidden Planet from 10th February; pre-order now to avoid disappointment! (Because you know everyone's going to want these things. Or maybe just me.)

 

User's Comments

Re: Use the sauce, Luke
Posted by Matt on January 22, 2008 10:25:55 AM

Well, since I'm the first one here I suppose I'll get this over with...

*ahem*

May the sauce be with you...

Re: Use the sauce, Luke
Posted by RonHogan on January 22, 2008 02:36:41 PM

A Jedi can feel the sauce flow through him. That said, I wrote about this on Shaktronics some time ago, and it's just as horrifying to drink brown ooze leaking from a robot now as it was then.

Re: Use the sauce, Luke
Posted by twosheds on January 23, 2008 12:31:20 AM

Awww I remember having that useless R2-D2 rubber (whoops, sorry Ron, I meant eraser)on the end of my schoolboy pencil.

This is mad, though.

Re: Use the sauce, Luke
Posted by khodge on January 23, 2008 09:47:31 AM

I'm sure it doesn't seem quite so bizarre in Japan.

Re: Use the sauce, Luke
Posted by Spidergirl on January 23, 2008 12:21:53 PM

Possibly, but it's not staying in Japan...

Re: Use the sauce, Luke
Posted by DuncanMonkey on January 23, 2008 04:05:27 PM

Yay! It looks like he leaking oil and everything. I like.

Re: Use the sauce, Luke
Posted by ninjabear on May 18, 2008 11:30:43 AM

Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... all I have to say is ...
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