Looking for the perfect accessory to fill in the X-Wing-shaped void left in your heart after your recent failure to launch? Well, if you have some extra cash (or live in a garbage dump) and a lot of free time, you could be on your way to recreating one of the most pivotal scenes from Return of the Jedi.

It's a bit late for Halloween, but the Star Wars Crafts community over at LiveJournal (found via Boingboing, naturally), has a step-by-step breakdown of how to create a life-sized Jabba the Hutt puppet, using a bunch of mattress padding, irrigation tubing, some clear plastic bowls, and "tons of hot glue."

No instructions for creating your own gold-bikini Leia slave, but we're sure it's out there on the Internet, somewhere...