Vintage Rebo Band Comb and Keeper by Adam Joseph
This is a plastic children’s comb and case from 1983 with the Rebo Band on it. I got it sealed in the package, but I just had to open it up.
Vintage Jabba the Hutt Digital and Analog Watches by Bradley
These Jabba-themed watches from 1983 are fairly small, so they’re obviously intended for children, but a woman could probably pull off wearing one of these (with regard to the size, anyway ;)). The analog one is the kind that you have to wind every day, and mine still works fine. I still have to get a battery for the other one, so I’m not positive that it even works. Both of these use the same Jabba graphic that we’ve seen on so many other items put out around the same time, although the placement and design are pretty different. I’ll have to say I prefer the analog version.
Vintage Jabba the Hutt and Sy Snootles Candy Containers by Topps
These are small injection-molded plastic containers that held candy and were put out by Topps around the time of the Return of the Jedi. I imagine these were the kind of thing that might have been placed near the cash register in stores. As this ad sheet shows (the picture is from an ebay auction), there were 6 containers all together for the ROTJ wave: Jabba, Sy Snootles, two different Ewoks, Admiral Ackbar, and Darth Vader. Kind of an interesting selection. I’m always fascinated by the characters that companies chose to make products for. In this case, I’m not sure why they chose Sy Snootles in particular, but it’s kind of cool since there are very few items devoted only to her.
This Jabba is a bit scary looking, and is probably one of the first items to adopt the “Jabba is all green” color scheme that we see so often nowadays.
Jabba the Hutt Laughing Keychain by Tiger Electronics
This is a “talking” keychain put out by Tiger Electronics sometime around 1997. It features a short audio clip of Jabba’s laugh that you activate by pressing a button on the back.
I got mine sealed in the package, but I just had to open it up to hear the laugh since there’s no “try me” feature to the packaging. I was surprised that the batteries were still good after all this time. Watch the video below to hear the laugh.
Zorba the Hutt’s Revenge by Paul Davids and Hollace Davids
Did you know that Jabba’s father is named Zorba, and that he has a full head of hair and a beard? Neither did I. But according to this book from 1992, Zorba came to Tattoine after the events of Return of the Jedi, only to discover that his son had been murdered, whereupon he attempts to get his revenge on those involved.
It’s less than 90 pages long and is basically a “young readers” book. I’ll admit that I haven’t read the whole book. Maybe this excerpt from the first chapter will give you an idea why.
Luke Skywalker’s Y-wing starfighter zoomed through deep space, on its way to Cloud City for Han Solo’s housewarming party.
Han’s sky house was finally built. It was now floating in the air two miles away from Cloud City, on the planet Bespin.
“I’ve got it!” Luke Skywalker exclaimed, as he adjusted their flight path. “I know what we can get Han as a housewarming gift. We’ll get him an ultra-high-density household communication screen!”
Luke eventually scraps that idea and decides to get him a housekeeping droid, which is exactly the kind of thing I’m sure Han would love. 😉 The point is that it definitely seems to be written for kids, so it’s a little hard to take it seriously. That said, I haven’t read most of the book, so I can’t pass judgement on it.
Still, I think the cover art and illustrations alone are worth the modest price of admission. The cover art is done by none other than the legendary poster artist Drew Struzan and is amazingly well done. And the interior illustrations by Karl Kesel are also great, and there are quite a number of them, including many different ones of Zorba such as the one below.
I love how he looks like a British barrister. Anyway, I’m not sure that I really accept this book as canon when it comes to Jabba’s family and so forth, but it’s definitely a fun one to leaf through.
Welcome Boing Boing and Digg Users!
My Jabba cake has recently gotten picked up by several blogs and news sites, so I’m getting a lot of new visitors to the site. Welcome! This site is both a catalog of my collection of Jabba-related items and a blog about Jabba-related news and products. Feel free to look around by clicking some of the links to the right.
Here are a few highlights of the coverage that my cake (and this blog, to some extent) have received.
My original Flickr set (Flickr.com)
Jabba the Cake (Boingboing.net)
Jabba the Hutt Birthday Cake (Digg.com) originally on Incredibleworld.com
Jabba the Cake Leads To The Dark Side (Sci Fi Australia Blog)
Awesome Jabba the Hutt Cake (Odditycentral.com)
Don’t Carbonite Me, Bro!: Another Jabba Cake (Geekologie.com)
Jabba, You’re A Wonderful Cake (The Official Star Wars Blog)
Jabba the Hutt Chocolate Cake Looks Jabbalicious (Geeks Are Sexy)
Well, you get the point. I’ve also seen a number of foreign language posts, including German, French, and Japanese. Pretty cool stuff. 🙂
Painted Vintage West End Games Jabba Metal Miniature
This is part of the “Jabba’s Palace” set of 25mm metal miniatures put out by West End Games in the late 80s. It also came with a number of the aliens from Jabba’s palace. It’s quite small at around 2″ wide and 0.75″ tall. I painted this one myself.
Link: Veggie Jabba the Hutt
I stumbled upon the site of a Japanese chef who is a big Star Wars fan, and he has a lot of sculptures of Star Wars characters and vehicles made from vegetables. Jabba is made from a daikon (Japanese radish) and Salacious Crumb is made from a carrot.
Attakus Slave Leia Statue
I hadn’t originally planned to buy this since the style seemed rather bland and unrealistic, and there’s very little resemblance to Carrie Fisher. But I got a very good deal on it and thought it would go nicely with the Attakus Jabba, as shown above. Indeed, while she comes with a base of her own, she is not attached to it so she can fit on Jabba’s base as well. While I don’t think it’s a great standalone piece, it does look really good with Jabba.
Unfortunately, after I got her home I discovered that the end of her braid was broken off and missing. It’s not very noticeable, but still disappointing. I got this in Japan, so it’s one of the 200 “Japanese edition” pieces that Attakus produced in addition to the standard run of 1500 for the rest of the world.
Australian Jabba the Hutt Keychain
This is part of a line of figural Star Wars keychains sold in Australia. I doubt if many people actually used it as a keychain, since it’s around 4 inches long. At least around the head, it bears more than a passing resemblance to the Pepsi Jabba bottle toppers (both version 1 and version 2), but I’m not sure if there was actually any re-use of the sculpt or not. This item was a donation from Jibbajabba, a fellow Jabba collector from down under. Thanks!
Mighty Jabba's Collection 
