The bottle stopper is one of life’s overlooked accessories. It sits in the neck of an unfinished bottle, doing important work, largely ignored. Until Eddie the Trooper is involved, at which point it becomes the most interesting object on your kitchen counter.
This officially licensed Iron Maiden The Trooper Bottle Stopper from Nemesis Now is a genuinely clever piece of Iron Maiden merchandise. At 10cm, the stopper features Eddie’s head at the top — cast from resin and hand-painted with the same attention to detail as the wider Nemesis Now Iron Maiden range — mounted on a stainless steel spike with a rubber bung that forms the actual sealing mechanism.
The stopper fits standard wine, beer and similarly sized bottle necks, making it as functional as it is decorative. The stainless steel and rubber bung unscrews cleanly from the resin head for washing, so maintenance is simple.
The design is a small masterpiece of product thinking. Eddie’s head at the top of a bottle is inherently amusing and inherently Maiden. It’s the kind of object that makes people ask questions when they spot it — which is, frankly, the best thing a conversation-starting piece of Iron Maiden merchandise can do.
As an iron maiden gift it sits in a particularly effective sweet spot: affordable, practical, immediately usable, and distinctive enough to delight any Maiden fan who cares about their drinkware. It’s compact enough to wrap easily, significant enough to feel like a proper gift rather than an afterthought, and useful enough that it’ll actually get used rather than live permanently on a shelf.
Cork your bottle with Eddie’s head. As it should be.
Free UK delivery on orders over £49 at Planet Goblin.
Officially licensed by Iron Maiden and produced by Nemesis Now. Part of the full Trooper accessories range at Planet Goblin. Compatible with standard wine, beer and similarly sized bottles.
