Awesome Mugs

It’s-a-mug, Mario! Celebrate your love for caffeine and the Mushroom Kingdom with Paladone’s official Super Mario Bros. mug. The squared off ceramic mug borrows its shape from the classic NES game cartridge, only this time you need to blow on it to cool off your coffee, and not to get the game to load.

Ceramics artist Trevor Foster created this collection of cups which are designed as a reminder to live life to the fullest. The skull-shaped stoneware cups will come in espresso, tea cup, coffee cup, and mug styles, and can be finished in a variety of glazes, from a deep red iron oxide to pleasant pastels.

A festive coffee mug for fans of the classic arcade game Mario Brothers. Yes, that’s right, before Mario and Luigi were punching question mark blocks, they were flipping over koopas with a “POW” block just like this. The only difference? This one holds hot coffee. Available Summer 2020.

Retro gaming fans, 1up your caffeine levels with this fun ceramic mug from Paladone. It features a level from the classic Super Mario Bros., and its handle looks just like the controller from the original Nintendo Entertainment System. Now someone needs to make a playable version.

Tel Aviv-based ceramic artist Erifyli Tsavdari of Keramiki creates these dramatic, one-of-a-kind, decorative raku mugs featuring the visage of the Dark Lord of the Sith. While the raku version isn’t food-safe, there’s a glazed espresso cup that is.

Having a great day? Then share how you’re really feeling with Fred’s profanity-laden coffee mug. It’s got four-times the F’Yeahs, done up in a spiffy 1970s typeface and color scheme. Holds 16 ounces of your favorite hot stuff, plus it’s microwave and dishwasher safe.

Filling up an actual astronaut’s helmet with hot coffee sounds like a terrible idea. But these ceramic astronaut mugs make a bit more sense for your morning cuppa. Each one looks like a bubble-shaped helmet, complete with a shiny visor and handle in gold, black, or silver.

Firebox offers up a neat twist on heat-changing mugs. The Mug Mug gets its name from its design, which you personalize by uploading a photo of a face. The photo will be plastered all over the mug when you pour in hot liquid.

Take a trip to a secret world of caffeine with ThinkGeek’s officially-licensed mug is a 3D version of the warp pipe from the original Super Mario Bros. game. It even includes the floor tiles as a base. The mug can hold up to 15oz and is made of ceramic.

Inspired by the classic Fender Twin Reverb guitar amp, this ceramic mug is the perfect gift for musicians who need their caffeine fix. It features a flat-face design, which makes it easy to store two side by side – though we don’t recommend stacking these amps.

This cheeky tiki mug is the first collab between famed Polynesian kitsch carver Danny “Tiki Diablo” Gallardo and cocktail historian Jeff “Beachbum” Berry, proprietor of Latitude 29 in New Orleans, named one of the Top 50 bars the country. The Bora Bora Bum Mug holds 16 ounces and comes in blue, green or orange.

Toast around the campfire or keep warm by the fireplace this winter with a drink from one of these cheeky 16oz. enamel mugs from Swag Brewery. Whether your drink of choice is whiskey, wine, beer, or whatever, there’s a mug for you or your gift recipient of choice.

This terrifying porcelain beer stein features all four stages of the Xenomorph from the Alien series. It’s covered with deeply-textured, and deeply disturbing imagery based on H.R. Giger’s creepy creations, and holds up to 40oz. of beer. Available exclusively from The Bradford Exchange.

While visiting Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum to see the world’s largest collection of Van Gogh paintings, we exited through the gift shop, and found this: a coffee cup that’s missing a handle, much like Vincent was missing an ear. Two bandages mark the spot, capturing the artist’s most unmistakable feature.

Old Detroit is overrun with criminals, and it needs a hero. All we need is a fallen cop, a greedy corporation, an unlimited technology budget, and we’ll be set. While you wait for that to play out, sip your coffee and relax. You have five seconds to comply.

MiiR keeps the tin camping cup’s looks but gives it a couple of welcome upgrades. The 12oz Camp Cup is made of medical grade stainless steel and has double-wall insulation to keep drinks hot or cold. It’s available in three colors.

While Doctor Who’s TARDIS is bigger on the inside, this coffee mug is just plain big. This jumbo ceramic mug looks like a TARDIS that’s about to explode; its walls bulging out from the pressure wave. It holds a whopping 64oz of liquid, more than enough for all your travels through time and space.

Mondo celebrates Mother’s Day with one of Hollywood’s fiercest moms – the Xenomorph Queen from Aliens. The 9″ tall mug also comes with two 2.5″ tall Xenomorph egg shot glasses, as well as chestburster and facehugger swizzle sticks.

Hoops fans, see if you can score some hot cocoa 3-pointers using mini marshmallows with this 16-ounce basketball mug that has a built-in hoop and backboard. We don’t recommend slam-dunking though the ceramic hoop though.

Mondo’s new limited edition Predator tiki mugs are two designs in one. Each 40oz mug features the face of the fearsome alien warrior on one side, and Major “Dutch” Schaefer on the other. It’s available in four glazes.

Münkstein’s awesome beer stein comes not just embellished with images of fast cars, loose women, ’50s style aliens, wrestlers, and werewolves, but is viewable in 3D with good old-fashioned red/blue glasses. Holds 1 liter. On sale for a limited time.

Mondo chooses a cute form for the Destructor. The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man tiki mugs can carry up to 36oz of liquid. These handmade likenesses of the Ghosbusters villain come in blue or black glaze. A brown glaze will be available at Alamo Drafthouse theaters.

Make every day a party and shotgun your caffeine buzz with Glennz’s hilarious coffee mug, featuring imagery of two office professionals taking part in their morning speed ritual. Holds 15oz. Dishwasher safe.