Giant Inflatable Cup Noodles: Imaginary Dinner For Days

Are you a huge Nissin Cup Noodles fan? Big enough to buy a giant inflatable likeness of the product for display in your home or office? Well if you are, you’re in luck (also, a rare breed), because Nissin is selling this giant inflatable Cup Noodle through their fan store for $35. For reference, $45 will buy you a 72-pack of the real deal on Amazon (affiliate link), although I’m sure you already knew that if you’re such a big fan.

The giant Cup Noodle measures approximately 17″ X 15″ with a cardboard top and bottom, and, per the product website is “for display only.” Granted I’m not sure what else anybody could or would do with a giant inflatable Cup Noodles, but now that I think about it I really don’t want to know.

Nissin Cup Noodles are a staple of any college diet. I practically lived on them for six years, and I think it’s safe to say that I’ve already ingested more than 2,000% of my recommended lifetime allowance of sodium. Do I cry solid salt crystals? Just ask my wife if she can even remember the last time we ever had to buy salt from the grocery store.

Giant 6-Foot Death Star Beach Ball: That’s No Moon

Because nothing says fun in the sun like a giant space station designed to obliterate planets with a single blast of its superlaser, NINOSTAR is selling this 6-foot diameter Death Star beach ball on Amazon (affiliate link) for $75. It’s no moon, but it will be the talk of everyone at the beach provided you can inflate it without passing out.

From what I gathered from the product description on Amazon, they’re not actually calling it a Death Star beach ball, which in layman’s terms means it’s not an officially licensed Star Wars product. Of course, if it were, it would probably cost $150, and $300+ from greedy resellers on eBay.

Obviously, it will be my duty to ion torpedo any Death Stars I see on the beach to prevent any other planets from suffering the fate of Alderaan. And by ion torpedo, I mean pop with the pointy end of beach umbrella pretending it’s a lightsaber. Will children cry and parents yell at me? Probably, but such is the life of a Jedi.

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DIY 12-Foot Inflatable Death Star: Your Lack of an Air Compressor is Disturbing

If you haven’t already heard from a million other people, today is Star Wars day. So I figured we couldn’t have May the Fourth arrive without at least one Star Wars post on the site. So here goes. In celebration of the day, our friend Caleb Kraft (of Hack a Day and now Make: fame) has gone and built himself a giant inflatable Death Star.

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Or more precisely, he has bought himself a giant 12-foot beach ball, and covered it in fabric and paint to look like The Ultimate Weapon in the Universe. If Caleb brings this thing to the beach, people will cower in fear – unless he happens to run into Princess Leia in her bikini – then all bets are off.

Want to make your own Death Star Beach ball? Just assemble a clone army and head on over to Make:, where Caleb will show you how.