Hawthorne Village, which produces those little Christmas villages beloved by grandmas, aunties, and other connoisseurs of twee*, is now a Star Wars licensee. First up is the Mos Eisley Cantina, which Rebelscum has thoughtfully provided a picture of. (Click the picture above to go directly to the full ad.) I’m getting a total kick out of the image of fanboys drooling all over these things, and/or little kids begging Mom to include the Hoth Rebel base next December.
* They have the Thomas Kinkade license: ‘Nuff said. And, less alarmingly, Disney, which leads to Pirates of the Caribbean.
Extremely kitsch in my mind.
You know, if it hadn’t been for the fact that it is January, I would have believed that this was some April Fool’s joke!!
That seems to be the emerging trend.
And to think, ten years ago we called them Micro-Machines. How far we’ve come!