Custom Mighty Muggs Bib Fortuna
Here is the second in my series of Jabba-themed Mighty Mugg customs: Bib Fortuna. I had to use my own design for this one, which was a little tricky. But I think it came out pretty well, and captures what I imagine to be Bib’s inherent insecurity. As with the Jabba Mugg, I used a Plo Koon Mighty Mugg as the base, since it needed to have the “skirt.” I sculpted the lekku (head tentacles) out of epoxy putty.
“Jabba the Bot” Handmade Mini-Sculpture
This is made by “Bolts and Bots” — a seller on Etsy.com who makes a variety of little figures out of polymer clay and other materials. This is one of the simpler designs, but it’s pretty darned cute. It’s about an inch long.
Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas from Jabba Claus!
This is a silly little outfit that I whipped up by disassembling a stuffed Christmas ornament that looked like it would be the correct size. Basically, I just cut it up to get the component parts of the Santa suit.
As it turns out, I wasn’t the first person to connect Jabba with Santa. I found these images on the net. The first is an early piece by Otis Frampton, who did my Jabba and Friends piece. He calls it “Santa the Hutt.”
And this was apparently used as a Christmas card by Lucasarts in 1996.
Watch Out For Jabba the Hutt!
This book isn’t really about Jabba per se, but it does have him on the cover and in the title, and he is mentioned fairly prominently inside. It’s not a story so much as an introduction to the characters from the Clone Wars movie, so it’s pretty bland, but I guess the main point is to help kids practice their reading using characters and settings that they like. However they managed to get at least one detail wrong — they say that Jabba is Ziro’s uncle, when in fact it’s the other way round.
Jabba’s Palace Pop-Up Book
This is a short story (around 12 sparse pages) that tells the story of Jubnuk, Jabba’s Gamorrean guard that gets eaten by the rancor. It’s interesting because it’s written from Jubnuk’s point of view. Calling it a “pop-up book” is a bit generous, though. Only the last two pages have any sort of pop-up feature. They’re fairly well done, although it doesn’t compare to the excellent Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy
The pictures are by famed Star Wars artist Ralph McQuarrie, although I get the impression that they mostly just used existing concept art from McQuarrie and wrote the story around the pictures, with a few changes here and there. For example, there’s one picture of Jubnuk talking to Bib Fortuna that appears to be a slightly reworked version of a picture of the droids talking to Bib Fortuna. The illustrations are great in any case.
Vintage Jabba the Hutt Paint-By-Number Kit by Craft Master
I’m not really a fan of paint-by-number, since they basically take all of the creativity out of painting, but this is kind of an interesting kit. It came with a number of paints as well as one glow-in-the-dark color. I considered painting this myself (using my own paints since the ones it came with are long dead) but it occurred to me that I could just scan the image in black & white and then “paint” it in Photoshop using the fill tool. It worked quite well, although I did have to go in and fill in the black lines in a few places to prevent the color from bleeding where I didn’t want it to.
Attakus Jabba the Hutt
The French company Attakus has a fairly large, if idiosyncratic, line of Star Wars cold cast porcelain statues. They’re 1/5 scale, so they’re someplace in between a 12″ figure and a 1/4 scale Premium Format figure in size. One of the highlights of their statue line is their Jabba’s palace lineup. They have Jabba, Slave Leia, Bib Fortuna, Salacious Crumb, Gamorrean Guard, and Han in Carbonite statues, as well as some others that could go with Jabba’s palace, like C-3PO and Boba Fett. Anyway, I’ve wanted their Jabba for some time. At around 15.5″ tall by 24″ wide, it’s the biggest Jabba ever made. (The Illusive Concepts Jabba is a close second in size, although it doesn’t compare to this in terms of quality.) It was also the most expensive, at an original price of $950. It goes for less than that on the secondary market, and thankfully after many months of monitoring ebay, I managed to get it for a LOT less than that.
The Sideshow Jabba is the best Jabba sculpt ever in terms of accuracy, but I really like the Attakus version. I wish they didn’t make him quite so green (he’s a bit greener than my pictures show) but otherwise he’s very nice. My only real disappointment is that his eyes were done with a sort of transfer (essentially a sticker) rather than being hand painted. They do look quite nice and authentic, though, and you can’t really tell unless you get up very close. His size in particular is impressive. I’m going to have to pick up some of the other Attakus statues to accompany him. Luckily, they’re relatively inexpensive compared to the big guy.
EDIT: Since posting this, I’ve gotten the Attakus Slave Leia and Salacious Crumb with Hooka Pipe statues. Here they are together:
Japanese Jabba the Hutt Pepsi Bottle Topper
The Japanese beverage company Suntory made a huge line of bottle toppers in the shape of various characters to coincide with the release of each of the Star Wars prequels. They came attached to bottles of Pepsi products. I was in Japan for the release of The Phantom Menace so I vaguely remember seeing these, but I wasn’t a collector at the time. I think they were originally in little plastic bags attached to the neck of the bottle, but they are designed to fit over the top of the bottle cap. I quite like this sculpt.
EDIT: I later got a variant of this that was only available by collecting Pepsi points and sending away for it.
Jabba the Hutt Tin by Cheinco
I also have tins featuring R2-D2 and C-3PO, and Luke, Han and Leia. They’re about 3 inches in diameter. Unfortunately they all have tape remnants on them that don’t seem to want to come off, even using Goo Gone.
This is a set of cards that can apparently be used to play 5 different games. The box actually includes two different decks — one that features characters from Jabba’s palace and one that has characters like Yoda, Luke, and Leia. The Jabba’s palace deck is really well done with nicely painted portraits of the characters. The other deck just has some rather plain line art, so I’m just going to talk about the first deck. It has cards numbered from 1 to 8 (with Jabba at 2 1/2 for some reason). I haven’t tried playing any of the games described in the rules, but I have used them to play an improvised game of “memory” with my four-year-old. Click here for an image of the full set of 9 cards (I didn’t include the “Trap” card since it’s pretty plain).
Mighty Jabba's Collection 
