Halloween!

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

What is everyone dressing up as?

I'm putting together a lady Predator costume. So far I have the hair done, and the helmet mostly done, and I'm fixing to put together the wristblades and shoulder cannon today.

here's the helmet so far. It took me about three hours total to get it all cut out and taped together first with masking tape, then another layer of duct tape:
http://s93860457.onlinehome.us/misc/helmetside.jpg

http://s93860457.onlinehome.us/misc/helmetfront.jpg

[Shawn]

I blew all my spare cash making a couple of gallons of hunch punch, so no costume for me.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

I want to be a pirate wench but I have no costume :(

[Sanis Prent]

I will be going as Beerbobot, alcoholic robot of the future

[Gran Davrak]

I'm buying a Kimono from a nearby Japanese store, and then I'm adding on my katana and wakizashi, buying a dark-haired wig so my hair will be long enough for a topknot, and calling myself Samurai-for-a-day...

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

haha, get some cat ears, a tail, and a pizza box - then you could be a Samurai Pizza Cat =^_^=

[Darth McBain]

My daughter is going to be Little Red Riding Hood and my dog will be the big bad wolf. He's a Samoyed and looks very wolf-like anyway. The trick is going to be getting him to wear a granny-cap and old-lady glasses. I don't think there's any way he'll wear those, but who knows... :) As for me, I'll probably end up being the hunter or something when I take her around.

[Dasquian Belargic]

I don't know what to go as :\

... maybe a zombie

[Morgan Evanar]

Originally posted by Lilaena De'Ville
I want to be a pirate wench but I have no costume :( The Pirates wouldn't want you wearing anything anyway. I don't have any concrete costume ideas for halloween.

[Shawn]

Who do you call when you want some pepperoni? (http://www.retrojunk.com/details_theme/129/)

[Gran Davrak]

Originally posted by s'Ilancy
haha, get some cat ears, a tail, and a pizza box - then you could be a Samurai Pizza Cat =^_^=

That's awesome! I definately have to do that. :lol

[Sanis Prent]

Operation: Beerbobot is going better than I expected.

The body (torso, head, and arms) are essentially built. I need to put a few coats of primer and some metallic paint on top of it, then do a little detail painting, such as logo, robot-ish buttons, etc. If I can find some beer logo decals, I will put them all over the frame.

I need something to build an oversized keg pump out of so I can wear it on my head. This doesn't have to be functional so thats not a problem. The eyes are either going to be painted on or I'll get creative with some LED's if I can find them in time.

I need black rubber gloves and something to interface with the metallic air duct material that goes on my arms.

The ears will be made out of dixie cups with some wire coming out of each side or something.

Christin is supplying me with some screening to put over the robot's mouth which is where I actually see out of. I have adhesive velcro strips to attach the head to the torso so it doesn't move. The arm segments fit tight into the sockets in the torso so I probably won't need adhesives for them.

There is a flap under my arm socket holes that I can possibly reinforce and slap a cup holder or a beer koozy onto. From here it gets tricky, because I have to have some actual way to drink the beer. My best solution is to have a polyurethane tube coming out of mid-torso at the beverage holding area, going into the robot's frame, and mount it at the base of the neck. After all, it wouldn't be fun to be Beerbobot if I couldn't drink the beer that is donated to fill my power cells.

As for my lower half, I think I'm just going to wear shorts and sandals. I think the dichtonomy of having a totally awesome robot upper half and a total slacker human lower half will be most effective. That, and I don't want to wrap duct tape or trash bags around pants or something.

EDIT: almost forgot, I need to hot glue a magnet somewhere on the inside of my torso unit so I can attach a bottle opener to myself.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Originally posted by Morgan Evanar
The Pirates wouldn't want you wearing anything anyway. I don't have any concrete costume ideas for halloween.

Yeah I could just rip a dress and get dirty and bedraggled and that would probably do the trick.

plus it's a great excuse to drink something with lots of limes in it.

[Khendon Sevon]

<--starving artist frustrated at the lack of good lovin' in his life

...I mean, that's my costume ;)

I wanna' throw a pair of vampire teeth into the mix, too.

[Sudoku]

Originally posted by Sanis Prent
I will be going as Beerbobot, alcoholic robot of the future



I thought you were going as that guy from Super Troopers.

[Sanis Prent]

Nah, that's too expensive and I'd have to get a haircut.

[Droo]

Which one? The amazing one who is also in Shield and Smallville?

[Sanis Prent]

Huh?

Super Troopers. The movie you hate.

[Droo]

I read Starship Troopers. I have it on the brain since it's on TV tonight, and I will be watching it.

[Wei Wu Wei]

I think I might go as an over worked college student. Or a heretic. I'll go get a monk costume and tie myself to a stake or something.

[Lady Vader]

I'm just gonna go as a Night Elf... same costume I'm wearing for BlizzCon. I figured I blew good money into it, might as well wear it as often as possible. :)

[Michael Cline]

My roommate and I are going as Jay and Silent Bob.

[Crystal]

I've wanted to do a Leeloo costume for years but I've always been too fat. I'm slimming down a bit now.. so maybe next year. This year I don't really have any plans.

[Dalamar DeSang]

Believe it or not I want to go as General Devious... Check sig.. Hard to find a plain white mask that I can defile though..lol.. We will see if I am able to manage it. IF so I will post pics... :D

[Zasz Grimm]

dead body in the yard.

[Razielle Alastor]

<-- Ye olde medieval wench. Pics to come.

My husband and my two year old are both being Dracula ( Awww) and my seven year old is being Link. :)

[Dasquian Belargic]

Think I will be going as Beatrix Kiddo :cool

Most likely the 'blood-splattered bride', with sword and all.

[Morgan Evanar]

That is beyond awesome. I have not been really thinking about halloween lately.

[Shawn]

http://www.nimbacreations.com/Special-Costumes.htm :cool

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Originally posted by Dasquian Belargic
Think I will be going as Beatrix Kiddo :cool

Most likely the 'blood-splattered bride', with sword and all.

This is awesome! Must have pictures. :D

[Dasquian Belargic]

Originally posted by Lilaena De'Ville
This is awesome! Must have pictures. :D

I can't find a freaking Samurai sword anywhere. There are some great costumes on Ebay but I won't be able to get any of those in time.

I might end up having to hire something in stead. I saw a couple of alright costumes today, of Wonder Woman and Catwoman.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Aw! I have one, but unfortunately can't send it to you because it's actually my husbands.

[Dasquian Belargic]

There are tonnes of swords on Ebay, but they're all actual steel - and I can't take a real sword into a bar without the possibility that I might reinact the massacre at The House of Blue Leaves.

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Aren't there any costume shops or something around where you are?

[Crystal]

Here ya go! (http://tinyurl.com/cknrv)

You'd probably need 12 of them, they break real easily.

When I was a kid you could buy those things everywhere but I haven't seen them in a few years. :(

[Dasquian Belargic]

Originally posted by s'Ilancy
Aren't there any costume shops or something around where you are?

Yes, I've been to them all. :(


Originally posted by Crystal
Here ya go! (http://tinyurl.com/cknrv)

You'd probably need 12 of them, they break real easily.

When I was a kid you could buy those things everywhere but I haven't seen them in a few years. :(

There is 6 days left on that auction, and they are in the US. There is no way I can get them before the party I'm going to :P I have seen auctions like that before, even in the UK, but again they were for multiple swords and just wouldn't be able to get delivered in time.


I'm just going to get the Bride costume for next year.

[Sudoku]

Do they not have dollar stores (or the UK equivalent) there? They sell those ninja swords.

I'm probably working Halloween, so we're just watching all the horror movies we own. Halloween is disappointing, since we hardly get any trick or treaters at our house :(

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

If I had more time, I'd find a way to hang naked, decapitated, and skinned bodies from the trees around my house :)

[Lilaena De'Ville]

That's disgusting s'Il. :x

[Gran Davrak]

Well all you have to do is skin the bodies, the rest is pretty easy :p

(Please don't think I'm serious! ^_^; )

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Plus you can't hang a decapitated body.

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Originally posted by Lilaena De'Ville
Plus you can't hang a decapitated body.

Sorry, forgot to clarify - I'd hang them upside down.

After all, any good Predator worth his or her salt knows that's how you do it :)

Ain't you ever watched Predator and Predator 2, woman?? :p

[Draken Chakara]

Originally posted by Dasquian Belargic
Yes, I've been to them all. :(



There is 6 days left on that auction, and they are in the US. There is no way I can get them before the party I'm going to :P I have seen auctions like that before, even in the UK, but again they were for multiple swords and just wouldn't be able to get delivered in time.


I'm just going to get the Bride costume for next year.

Try this... I just ordered one, and they can do some speedy shipping:

http://www.eknifeworks.com/webapp/eCommerce/product.jsp?Mode=Cat&Brand=&CatalogName=&PriceStart=&PriceEnd=&Feature=&Cat=126&SearchText=bokken&Submit.x=0&Submit.y=0&SKU=CS92BK

You could spray-paint the blade silver. This should work. :)

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Oh yeah, i forgot you were going as a Predator. ^_^;

[Sorsha Kasajian]

I'm mixing American McGee and Dr. Suess to create the Cheshire Cat in the Hat. :D

[Gran Davrak]

I actually had dinner with Sonny Landham once. He's a really nice guy - he and my former pastor are really good friends, so I met him through church. He gave a serman, and he's a really good public speaker, too.

For those of you who don't know, Sonny Landham played Billy in Predator, as well as the Indian on 48 Hours, not to mention numerous other films. He was also the laugh of the Predator.

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Fun fact about Sonny Landham:

Sonny had bodyguards with him while shooting Predator - not because there was worry of him getting hurt, there was worry that he'd end up hurting someone else :)

[Crystal]

Originally posted by Dasquian Belargic
There is 6 days left on that auction, and they are in the US. There is no way I can get them before the party I'm going to :P

Just tell halloween to wait a few weeks! :(

Did you try looking at toy stores? I'm sure they've got to have something. I demand to see you dress up even without the sword.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Someone obviously hates me. I went to pick up the Wonder Woman costume today and it was gone! I tried on tonnes of stuff, including Supergirl, but it was all too big. The only thing that fit and look good was...

Nazi SS Officer. Tiny dress and cap.

With a whip.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

w00t! Pictures!

I have no costume. Ah well. Tis the hubby's 30th birthday anyway, I should probably wear all black to make him feel better. ;)

[Dasquian Belargic]

I can't stop listening to Thriller :D

[Baralai Lotus]

I'm going as Elphaba for halloween. I will definetly be taking pictures, you should all enjoy it. It's gonna be fun. For those that don't know, Elphaba is The Wicked Witch of the West! Woo!!!! It's gonna be fun!

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Yeah from the book/play Wicked.

I'm not sure how that's going to work, as you're not a girl, but then she was never very pretty. :p

[Dasquian Belargic]

pictures (http://photobucket.com/albums/b7/byjove2/halloween%2005/)!

[Callomas Savoc]

Somebody made me sip pure 151 through my alcohol probe, so I ripped off my robot helmet and vomited on the spot.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

:lol Well that's better than vomiting IN the helmet.

And Jenny - where are the pictures of YOU?? I see your face... wheres the costume??

[Dasquian Belargic]

I don't have any on my camera :o there's some on my mums camera though that'll I'll put up soon.

EDIT - http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b7/byjove2/halloween%2005/PA290028Medium.jpg

There you go ^_^;

[Crystal]

Originally posted by Dasquian Belargic
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b7/byjove2/halloween%2005/PA290028Medium.jpg

There you go ^_^;

That's what we were all waiting for :D

That at least looks like a pretty decent costume, not the super cheap kind I always see. How much did you pay for it?

[Dasquian Belargic]

£10... which is about $17ish. Just to hire it out for the night. Pretty cheap. It wasn't that detailed or well-made, to be honest. Incidentally, the belt and boots are my own, and I only ever made the whip crack once. It's suprisingly hard to do!

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Predator turned out awesome ^_^

I don't have any pictures yet, but I'll post some up just as soon as I get them :)

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Nice costume Jenny :D

[Sanis Prent]

Bar-Obot 9000 in action!

<img src=http://www.sw-fans.net/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=739723>

[Pierce Tondry]

Jenny is such a dominatrix.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

:lol that's great Charley!

[Yog]

Great costumes! I am also eager to see the photos of S'ils Predator :D

[Michael Cline]

In costume:

http://www.geocities.com/howdysnacky/gamermatt.jpg

Video Games make me do BAD things...

[Jeseth Cloak]

Originally posted by s'Ilancy
haha, get some cat ears, a tail, and a pizza box - then you could be a Samurai Pizza Cat =^_^= I loved that show when I was younger... I went to work dressed as a Priest. Jehova and I bought outfits last year (or a few years ago?) at a seminary store. Unfortunately, I didn't have the money to dress as Alex from A Clockwork Orange, which was my first choice.

[Saveeradeevaravaravee]

*Is Gran

Unfortunately, I couldn't make it to any kewl halloween parties... Couldn't find a ride -_-

I guess my Samurai costume will have to wait till next year. (Unless, of course, I can raise $3000.00 for the Boba Fett replica armor I reeeealy want... but that's not very likely.)

[Sudoku]

Sell your organs for fun and profit, Gran. ;)

omg, Charley :lol

[Saveeradeevaravaravee]

Yes, that will help! I can just imagine a gutless Boba Fett...

Then there's the matter of how to put on the costume without any internal organs... Any ideas?

:D

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Magic and the power of voodoo?

My nightly animal sacrifices seem to help me out alot :)

[Zasz Grimm]

Originally posted by s'Ilancy
Magic and the power of voodoo?

My nightly animal sacrifices seem to help me out alot :)


I wanna see the predator pictures.

[Liam Jinn]

Yeah quit holdin' out, let's see 'em!

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

I'm trying, I'm trying ^_^;

One of Charley's friends took the picture, and he's SUPPOSED to be getting her to send it to me. I want to get more pictures of it though, so I'm going to have Charley take more this weekend and I'll post those up on Saturday for sure.

[Sanis Prent]

I'm workin I'm workin :grumble

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Don't either of you own a camera or a webcam? Did you burn your costume so you can't get into it again and take a picture?

;)

[Sanis Prent]

My digital camera is full of images from our previous escapades.

I did get a camera phone yesterday though :D

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Originally posted by Sanis Prent
My digital camera is full of images from our previous escapades.

I did get a camera phone yesterday though :D
Do you not download pictures off your phone? EVER?

tsk tsk, bad Charley. :D

[Sanis Prent]

What are you talking about? I just got my phone.

[Mitara Sinar]

For Halloween, I was a Vancouver Police officer. I was the "poor sport" that was stoping all the violent parties, and under age drinking in public places.

Garen took our little girl out trick-or-treeting. He was dressed up as a horse, and she was dressed up as a pumpkin, and they took her little red wagon and made it look like an old farm wagon, and after her legs got tired (that was quick to happen), garen just pulld her around to all the houses in the waggon. It was REALLY cute.

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Too cute :D

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Originally posted by Sanis Prent
What are you talking about? I just got my phone.

>_< I meant camera >_<

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Ok, here you go, ya'll. I only hope it was worth the wait. For anyone interested, I pretty much made this thing from total scratch, with the exception of the football pads and baseball catcher shinguards :)

http://s93860457.onlinehome.us/misc/Dr.-Predator.jpg
Dr. Pepper - the drink of Predators all across the galaxy.

http://s93860457.onlinehome.us/misc/Predator1.jpg
Wrar :D

http://s93860457.onlinehome.us/misc/Predator2.jpg
lalala, I don't know what to caption this with

http://s93860457.onlinehome.us/misc/Predator3.jpg
The chest piece didn't turn out how I wanted it to, but I was in a hurry so I had to make do with my rushed creativity.

http://s93860457.onlinehome.us/misc/skulls.jpg
me: Do these skulls make my butt look fat?
Charley: No, your butt makes your butt look fat.

[Gran Davrak]

S'Il...

Genious :D

Truly an awesome creation there.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Awesome! Really great. :D

[Clea Darkrunner]

Per lilaeana's suggesation - I'm gonna have someone take a pix of my Jedi Master outfit. - we were too busy partying

[Dasquian Belargic]

Haha, that looks kickin sIl :D Nice work.

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Thanks guys :D

Next year I've already got plans to massively improve it and make it super-awesome, with working wristblades and the shoulder canon set up to swivel, the whole nine yards.

But, I'm a little torn because there are three other costumes I'm dying to try my hands on:

1) Ripper from Tank Girl
2) Kain from LoK (I've already got the replica Soul Reaver, so that's an added bonus for the costume)
3) Covenent Elite from the Halo games

The CovenentElite would be the hardest, since I'd have to figure out how to get the legs done, but it'd sure be a fun challenge :)

[Dasquian Belargic]

2) Kain from LoK (I've already got the replica Soul Reaver, so that's an added bonus for the costume)

(I've already got the replica Soul Reaver, so that's an added bonus for the costume)

already got the replica Soul Reaver

replica Soul Reaver

woooooahwoahwoahWoahWOAH now

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Sadly I completely forgot to snap a picture of it when there were still shots left on the camera yesterday, but here's the ad thingy for it:

[Dasquian Belargic]

How much did that set you back?

[Shawn]

I know what I'm going to go as next year: http://www.retrocrush.com/100monsters/55.html

I'm trying to see if there's a way I could do it without a latex mask. I was thinking maybe some liquid latex for the lines, and then stick the pins into that.

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

IIRC, 60 or so bucks. It was a complete shotgun purchase on my part. The site I got it from also has the Sword of Omens, which I want to get sometime in the future.

And Shawn, that's going to be a kickbutt costume no matter how you do the head :)

[Droo]

Don't go as a Ripper from Tank Girl. Go as Tank Girl! :D

[Charley]

Originally posted by Dasquian Belargic
woooooahwoahwoahWoahWOAH now

It is a horrible piece of crap that is made in "Pakitan".

I wouldn't have paid $15 for it, much less $60.


Originally posted by Droo
Don't go as a Ripper from Tank Girl. Go as Tank Girl! :D

Absolutely not. If she tries to replicate that haircut she can go to her halloween party alone.

[Crystal]

Pretty neat costume, S'Il. I especialy like the Dr. Pepper picture. Mmm.. Dr. Pepper.



Originally posted by Charley
Absolutely not. If she tries to replicate that haircut she can go to her halloween party alone.

And actually making a Ripper costume is so much cooler than just shaving your head and strapping rocket things onto your chest!

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Originally posted by Crystal
And actually making a Ripper costume is so much cooler than just shaving your head and strapping rocket things onto your chest!

I know!! I love the Rippers, and incidentally they were also designed by Stan Winston Studios, those genius craftsmen who brought us the Predator :D

[Akrabbim]

I'd love to be Raziel from that series, though Kain is quickly becoming my favorite now... anyone played the last game, Defiance?

[Crystal]

Originally posted by Akrabbim
I'd love to be Raziel from that series, though Kain is quickly becoming my favorite now... anyone played the last game, Defiance?

Look at Shawn's avatar. Look at the two girls going nuts over the Soul Reaver. Take a guess. ;)

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Shawn, btw, use dull pins if you're going to be drawing liquid latex lines on your face and sticking them into it. Because if someone bumps your face... OW.

[Shawn]

I'm not in the habit of having people bump into my face, but I'll take your advice anyway, just in case. o_O

And it's about time for me to replay Defiance. Gotta do that every other month or so.

[Dasquian Belargic]

I am tempted to join you, Shawn. It's been a while since I played any of the series. I need my Simon Templeman fix.

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

I saw a ps2 copy of Defiance at Gamestop for 10 bucks, so I snatched it up right quick. I've not been in the habit of regularly playing games for a while, but I come home and play it once every other morning after work. I'm not gobbling through it like I did with Soul Reaver, though. I'm taking my time and thoroughly enjoying the experience.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Originally posted by Shawn
I'm not in the habit of having people bump into my face, but I'll take your advice anyway, just in case. o_O

And it's about time for me to replay Defiance. Gotta do that every other month or so.
yeah but if you were doing it for a halloween party... :)

[Akrabbim]

I've heard that you'd want to use RAZOR sharp pins... otherwise, you can tear the latex. Course, since they'd be pointing AT you...

[Crystal]

If he just used really sharp things, he wouldn't even need the latex. Maybe a trip to the ER after the party, but it'd be worth it.

[Akrabbim]

Sorta like the old idea of going as the Human Torch from the Fantastic Four. Just go to a party, douse yourself in gasoline, yell "FLAME ON!" and light a match. Only works once, though.

[Saveeradeevaravaravee]

:lol That's awesome, Ak.