Gallery: Inside ThinkGeek, Where Mythical Meat Can Make Millions
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__Timmy O' Riley by L. Hadron and the Colliders__ This homage to the Who features a full band of ThinkGeek musical instruments. In a word: epic.
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__Tauntaun Sleeping Bag__ ThinkGeek had to score a licensing deal with Lucasfilm to bring this product, one of its most famous items, to market.
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__Rock Guitar Shirt Commercial__ This composited video is the company's only on-air ad. It scored more then 5 million impressions on TV, according to Nielsen ratings.
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__Star Wars Force FX Lightsabers__ Thanks to heavily choreographed fight scenes and a dark, foreboding musical score, ThinkGeek may have made the best *Star Wars* movie since *Episode VI*.
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__Dharma Initiative Alarm Clock__ This April Fool's gag alarm clock that keeps the sky from falling was deemed too expensive to bring to market, despite popular demand.
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__Dismember-Me Zombie Plush__ The acting in this ad won't win any Oscars, but the plot and direction rank up there with any zombie movie we've seen. Oh, and the acting, too.
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__Matt and the Tribbleocalypse__ A practical joke featured one ThinkGeek employee on sick leave, and 600 squealing electronic Tribbles.
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__Giant Bleeding Heart Gummy Candy__ Forget flowers! The way to any geek girl’s heart is with a gory, bleeding gummy candy.
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__My First Bacon__ This bacon plushie - child's toy, mother's friend - was another ThinkGeek product that made the leap from April Fool's gag to product for sale.
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__BeerBot Bottle Opening Shirt__ What's more awesome than robots and beer? The answer is nothing - unless you can combine the two in T-shirt form.
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__WiiHelm__ Obviously, the big problem with the Nintendo Wii is that it requires way too much physical activity. ThinkGeek solved that for you with this gag product.
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