Instructables member stkmach will be able to extract massive quantities of candy while trick-or-treating tonight. His 1:6.5 scale AT-AT costume is so large that he needs the help of another person to pilot it. It's made of corrugated plastic sheeting over a PVC pipe frame.
Link -via Fashionably Geek
Do you dream of being a politician, but you're too broke to pay your way into office like the rest of the politicos? Don't worry, this list of last minute election themed costume ideas may help kickstart your political career.
You know what they say- dress for success and success will come to you. Although if you dress like Paul Ryan did in this silly photo shoot you may have better luck becoming a personal trainer than a politician...
Jill of Kitchen Fun with My Three Sons has been busy this Halloween. She's made many snacks for her kids and party guests, including eleven distinct foods inspired by Frankenstein's monster. I like her Twinkies because they're Twinkies and therefore awesome.
It's that time of year again, time for the Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, Florida to throw some unlucky pumpkins in with the big cats and watch that orange skin fly!
Big kitties are so playful, too bad most things don't survive the experience of playtime...
--via Tastefully Offensive
From Zombieland to Scooby Doo to Silent Hill 3, movies, TV shows and games love to incorporate abandoned amusement parks into the storylines because they are inherently creepy. The haunting silence in a place that should be filled with laughter and chatter just seems wrong and, of course, if a ride does happen to move when it’s not supposed to, that’s when you know things are really going to end badly. But abandoned amusement parks aren’t just found in works of fiction. Here are some truly creepy and completely real theme parks that have been left to nature’s devices.
At one point, Joyland was the largest amusement park in Kansas, but 55 years after its opening, it was no longer profitable, largely due to the extensive number of repairs the rides needed to stay safe, and the park had to close in 2004.
Joyland had over 24 working amusement rides, including one of the last wooden roller coasters. Unfortunately, the “Nightmare” as it was called actually took a worker’s life in 1999 when he was gardening too close to the tracks and was hit by the train.
While that was the only recorded fatality at the park, it wasn’t the only accident. In 2004, a girl fell from the Ferris wheel when her seat’s safety bar became unattached and she reached forward to grab it. Of course, if movies and TV shows featuring abandoned amusement parks have taught us anything, I think we all know that the girl didn’t survive the fall, that the company bought off her parents to cover up the accident, and that her restless spirit haunts the grounds –owing, in part, to the park’s ultimate closure.
Sources: Abandoned Oklahoma and Wikipedia
Images Via Abandoned Oklahoma
Cosplayers who choose to dress up like Thor generally look pretty tough, or at least their inflated muscle suit makes them look tough, but this little costumed hedgehog looks so adorable as the God of Thunder he makes us want to go squee!
How did they get this little guy to hold that itty bitty Mjolnir hammer? All he needs now is a helmet and a beard and he'll be ready to battle guinea pig Loki...
Hey, what are you going to do with those pumpkins after Halloween? Might as well have some real fun destroying them -or maybe just watch how other people do it. You can throw them, drop them, launch them, burn them, and people sometimes get organized and make a competition out of such destructiveness. Read more at Environmental Graffiti. Link
(Image credit: Flickr user Angelique Eeek)
When Doctor Frankenstein calls you into his office because he "wants to pick your brain" you'd better get all of your thinking out of the way or else you may lose your train of thought.
Heck, you might be losing your entire mind soon enough, hopefully you weren't too attached to that brain rattling around in your skull...
Remember that episode of Saved By The Bell where Jessie started taking diet pills so she could study all night long?
Well, the clever Halloweenies in this photo decided to base their costumes on that inspirational episode, but instead of dressing like Jessie and Zak Morris they're dressed like the diet pills and a phone with Zak on speed-dial.
They're gonna have a lot of explaining to do!
If you couldn't tell already, yes, this is a Honey Boo Boo pumpkin. With that little round face, big blonde tiara, it really should be pretty obvious.
Admittedly, it's a little late to make this for Halloween, but it's so cool, you might want to make it now and save it for next Halloween -or bookmark this link and wait to make it until next year.
This may be an accurate depiction of what jack-o-lanterns look like inside the virtual world of video games, but we're not really sure because no living person has ever survived the transition from flesh to pixels.
Gamers will get the jokes, non-gamers may not, but why not take a look at all the pretty little pictures anyhoo!
Josh Sundquist lost his left leg to cancer at age nine, but that hasn't put a damper on his sense of humor or his sexy side.
Case in point- Josh has decided to dress up (his lower half) as the sexy Leg Lamp from the holiday classic A Christmas Story, and this year he's sure to brighten up any Halloween parties he attends!
Link --via Cheezburger
