 Hey Rob,
Long time fan, first time e-mailer. After following your site for the last 6 or 7 years, I was inspired by all your halloween costumes and decided to make my own.
The operation costume is fully functional with a working buzzer and LED nipple lights (I have to confess, I did rip that idea off someone else on the internet). I constructed it out of 1" thick polystyrene, a cardboard backing, aluminum foil and some posterboard. My art skills are pretty bad, but I somehow managed to make it look like it wasn't painted by a 6-year-old with Down's Syndrome. Had I read your latest halloween costume construction page, I might have tried to make my own stryofoam cutter, but instead I used a jigsaw and found out the hard way about styrofoam dust and static electricity.
Also pictured with me is my friend, Dave, and the Yip-Yip Alien costume he made. I think he kicked the shit out my costume, but I still had fun and Operation was well received by all the people who saw it. I even won 1st prize at Mr. Bill's bar in Norman, OK and one of my friend's stole my costume to win 1st prize at her workplace.
Just wanted to write you and thank you for providing me with inspiration. I hope you and your family are well and you continue to write such amusing content for people like me to read.
All the best,
Jeremy Gragg
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Rob,
Love the site! Please keep up the good work.
I've included several pix of me becoming one of the undead...I think. My
friends were calling me METH HULK cuz apparently I looked like the Hulk on
Meth.
I use a foam latex application then make up on top of that. I'm not here to
plug any sites, heck don't mention them if you want, but I purchased
everything from a company called SCREAM TEAM.
ALSO
I don't know if you ever watched THE STATE on MTV but there was a skit where
2 guys bought $240 worth of puddin' and rubbed their butts in it. BARRY AND
LAVAR I think were their names. Anyway I was wondering if you ever get a
spare $240 if you could whip up that much puddin'!
How's the Sumo Sac workin' out for ya?
Ken Lanious
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Attached are photos of my Tony Stark costume. The suit is made of tin flashing, old electronics parts, and LED tap lights. Few folks recognized me, but I'm still proud.
Dustin from Atlanta
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Hi Rob, here is my Halloween costume this year. The gears all turned, and when everything was working, the smokestack smoked and the blood pumped.
The white envelope in my hand is a pair of hockey tickets my friend and I won and later sold.
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Rob,
Waiting patiently to see how the candy box turns out.
Pics of my glue-gun, cardboard, and spraypaint handywork attached. Feel free to use 'em for whatever.
Keep up the excellent cockeyed work,
Ed
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I've always wanted to make a great Halloween costume based on your designs. I didn't get to this year, but instead I used an old dental x-ray and two lights (x-rays need to be lit from behind) to make a pretty great skeleton mask. It was a pretty ok costume, plus it'll come in handy in identification if I'm ever burnt beyond recognition.
-Zac |
