I freaken LOVE this holiday so i'm starting this thread early What are you guys planning to do? ALSO!, please check out the vender announcement section as I added something special for you guys that I really hope you will enjoy.
I too share in your excitement. I'm toying with going as Joliet Jake or Johnny Cash. Not sure which yet.
Alma.. (if I can find the dress that is) I'm going to sit outside and hand out candy to kids, without moving at all, or speaking .. unless it's to randomly whisper at them. Hell, I might even get up and follow some of them, just to freak them out. I love theatrics. OR i'll just go to firestone.
well if you can find it online, or it exists the owner of the halloween store will order it in for you special, or I know a ton of people that could make it for you.
I'll dress up and hand out candy with you!! I love Halloween!! I always go as a black cat at work. But I want to do something else for the evening! I just haven't decided what exactly I'm going to be yet tho!
Girly I said this before, and I'll say it again. We should do this. You be the one on the left, and I'll be the one on the right http://www.pimp-productions.com/media/screenshots/rq-sh-heather-alessa2.jpg
Didn't you say you think I looked like her!? I for sure don't work that day so we'll have to get together! My g-ma is like a sewing master.. She used to sew all my costumes so if you found a patern of a dress and the fabric she could sew your dress for you!
I don't dress up but I do plan on expanding the graveyard I started last year. We also hand out full size candy bars cause that always seemed kinda cool when we were kids.
I'm not... but I would like to see someone with this: http://geektyrant.com/2009/08/amazing-fan-made-iron-man-suit/
I havnt had this holliday off from work in years. Which really blows because its not even double time. This year I have it off though. Will be my fist time in since owning my home too. Which will be nice to actually hand out candy and scare kids when I answer the door in my undies, holding a pbr tallboy.
We are going to have a sweet Mario Bros(and other video games I guess) theme party here for Halloween. It is going to be AWESOME! Mario & Luigi vs Wario & Waluigi in beer pong will be the showdown of the CENTURY!
My favorite holiday!!! This year I'm resurrecting a costume from three years ago. Giant PacMan The first one was made in haste, this one is getting a lot more planning. I've been working on it in the garage all weekend, and while it's not turning out as well as I had hoped, it is coming along. This year I'm trying to go above and beyond by giving it a working mouth I'm also planning on mounting some speakers inside and playing the game sounds. Now I just need a ghost, but I don't think I can afford to do one since this is getting pretty expensive. So far there's a little under 115 feet of CPVC pipe into this thing. Today I picked up an old military external-frame backpack, cannibalized the frame, and mounted it into the costume. I also got one of the two sides cut out. Next step is building the two halves of the mouth, figuring out how to mount them, and then installing the mechanism to make it close and open. Once that's all done the sides will get attached and the center section will get covered in yellow fabric. This is the one from a few years ago: And here are the plans/progress on this years: Initial sketch I suck at CAD programs, but it's helped out a lot. And a 3D rendering, also really crappy Progress The two sides are almost identical. Not nearly as round as I had hoped, but it'll do. The metal ladder is a 6-footer. Harness installed Side cut but not attached yet
YES! I did this once a few years back. Completely freaked 'em out! Actually, felt kinda bad for some of the younger ones...
A little bit more work done yesterday and today. I had an issue with the mouth pieces getting stuck on the outer fabric, so I cut it away, extended the cardboard sides and re-wrapped those sections with muslin. Here’s one side done, the other in process One side done The other The lower section re-done These addition caused the mouth pieces to begin sticking on the sides because of the increased tension. A little wheel bearing grease goes a long way to help! Also, bending the cardboard over to loosen things up made things start moving again. My plan had been to cover the cardboard with poster board that I could mate up nicely and make the sides look much cleaner than the cardboard on its own. I have two types of spray-glue, so some test patches were in order. Testing the best way to fit the poster board on I was really excited because it was looking great, especially when I painted it. Fast Forward about ten minutes and the paint over-saturated the poster board and it swelled, bubbled, and molted itself to the cardboard underneath, and thus looked terrible. It looked a lot worse in person than even in the picture. Then today I decided to stretch muslin over the sides as well. I picked up some 90” wide bleached muslin from Jo-Ann’s. Pins helped hold everything in place while I was gluing stuff down. The fabric stretched and glued down The other side I also gave up on using my climbing harness as a hip-belt, it was too hard to get buckled and really dug in. So today I also went to REI and picked up a real hip-belt and lashed it into the pack frame that I’ve already got installed. Now with fabric covering everything and 2/3 of it painted. Tomorrow once this is all dry I’ll flip it over and do the other side. I also just foamed-in the first of the two speakers. It’s kind of hard to see, but it’s surely not going anywhere. The Pac-Man noises are sure to drive me nuts by the end of the weekend.
So I put the thing on a scale yesterday, so far it weights 35 pounds! Add another two pounds or so for the speakers/batteries and a fan. I'm very glad it's got a hip belt. Right now the speakers are curing to the inside, I've got the fan almost ready to go in, but I want to wait until I can put the costume on again to select the final placement since it won't be able to move after that. Then I just need to paint on two eyes and it's done. I've got one of the sides of the ghost foamed on, but it'll take about eight hours for it to fully cure in place. Also, I think I need a no smoking within 10 feet sign or something with the amount of flammable crap that is in this damn thing.
A few delays, but PacMan himself is done. I need to snap a picture of the inside since it has changed a fair bit. As of now I have the little battery module and the two small speakers it runs installed at the top shooting out the mouth as well as a battery operated fan aimed at my face. Hopefully the foam holds up to all of the abuse and nothing falls off! It hasn’t turned out nearly as round as I would have liked. I think that I really would need to have a ring roller in order to get the thing super round. Plus the mouth pieces sticking out too far caused me to have to give extra room by misshaping the front of the suit. Both costumes: The ghost is coming along nicely. I’ve got the fabric stretched on the sides now; and all I’ve got to do is cut off the extra on one side, glue down the ends of that fabric, paint, and somehow cut the squigglies out for underneath. I’ll have a video up soon, hopefully later tonight of the thing in action!
omg wow awesome costume techy!!! I <3 pacman. my costume I decided to the easy route and buy one..http://www.legavenue.com/costumes/catalog/haunted-house/1/1022
Bah, blocked at work as "Provocative Attire". Got two halloween parties lined-up myself. This Saturday and next. Picked up a pretty cool headless guy costume:
awesome work techy so I guess me going as a super hero dressed in his streets is not so impressive anymore... lol
DIY Captain Planet costume, FTW will be consuming large amounts of liquid courage up at UND this year. whoo go Sioux!
Video at the end of this post! Here are a couple more pictures of the finished costume, first is one looking through the mouth. You can see the speakers, the little round speaker battery pack/amp, and the fan all mounted to the inner wall. Here is a shot from the opening in the bottom looking up toward the top of the suit. You can see the fan and battery pack/amp. They’re all within reach while the suit is on. The large block of foam on the left has cutouts in it for my cell phone holster clip and for the iPod. In this one you can see one of the speakers The loose ends of the side fabric were glued down tonight on the ghost, and I think it’s going to get painted tomorrow. And lastly I have a video of the costume in action. It doesn’t look as good as it did in my mind’s eye, but nonetheless, still pretty nifty. The paint was supposed to be color matched to the fabric that is used on the mouth pieces, but the computer at Lowes seems to have not done so well. Oh well, what can you do. I’m really looking forward to next weekend! [youtube]fVX0HJGk9C0[/youtube]
I'm thinking about putting a cup holder inside I just need to have someone hand it to me through the bottom. But there's a ton of room inside.
A little more work has been getting done. It’s all about finishing touches at this point. At the advice of someone on YouTube, I’ve painted the inside flat black and it’s made a world of difference. I’m working on putting black cloth inside the mouth frames. This is turning out to be a royal PITA, but it’s coming along nicely. The change in visibility when someone is looking into the suit has been phenomenal. My friend, who will be wearing the ghost, has been helping with it. She’s gotten it painted and the eyes stenciled in. The inside is about 2/3 completed as far as painting it black, and I still need to install the hip belt. PacMan has gotten dirty, so I’m thinking about putting another coat of Paint on to make it look nice and pretty again. It’s crunch time now, and things are also busy with the rest of life. But we will make in time! Working on the stencil for the squiggles on the bottom of the ghost PacMan partially painted inside Working on gluing the fabric into the mouth sections Spray Painting the inside of the Ghost black The ghost painted We’re trying for one side being blue with the face when the ghosts can be eaten. And the piece of cardboard we used as a backing for painting the squiggles. We're going to frame and sell it as modern art :huh:
