You know it was only meant to keep Luke warm until Han got a shelter built, but...

It was an April Fool's Day joke that went over a little too well.

"Due to an overwhelming tsunami of requests from YOU THE PEOPLE, we have decided to TRY and bring this to life. We have no clue if the suits at Lucasfilms will grant little ThinkGeek a license..."

The Taun Taun Sleeping Bag

Put a zipper in the tail so you can stuff it with Star Wars comic books and candies.

Whilst watching Bear Grylls in the Cairngorms episode in Scotland with night time approaching and the weather closing in with no shelter I thought to myself 'Mr Grylls you're now gonna die, just like so many others before having died from exposure, not unless of course you get yourself a Tauntaun Sleeping bag just like Han Solo in the film the Empire Strikes Back', then a few minutes later 'You've got to be kidding, you've just come across a suicidal deer which has just thrown itself down the side of a mountain, yeah sure, I wonder where the script writers for Man V Wild got that idea'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q_seD_z05k

Well, it's not an inconceivable scenario. Predators are smart enough to use cliffs to advantage.

In the Rocky Mountains, golden eagles are known to vigorously harass mountain goats and sheep on steep slopes and cliffsides, hoping that one will panic and lose its footing ... and that makes an easy meal.

As for the rest, that's just how television works. This sort of thing would have been scouted beforehand. It's insanely expensive to have television crews wandering around hoping to luck onto something worth shooting.

Yeah, then all you'd have is a show where the the cameraman just wanders around in the wilderness for a week or so trying to keep himself entertained, maybe with a harmonica or some such.

LOL, geez, sounds really dull, who would want to watch that?

It's apples and oranges. And orders of magnitude in regards to 'seriously hardcore/insane.'

But both of 'em make entertaining TV, gotta give 'em that. That's what the end game is, in terms of getting on the air.

Though I confess I yell and rant at my TV, some times more than others. ;-) I guess it's good for the cardiovascular system.