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What are you dressing up as on Halloween?


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I'm gonna be what I am every Halloween for the last 10 years!

:rolleyes:

I'm dressing up as a cop, except this year, I am going to hang a lightsaber off my duty belt. I finally got a convertec clip to fit on it.

Kinda gives new meaing to "May the Force be with you" :)

I have several options if a good aprty presents itself this year. I was considering somehow merging Zombie with Stormtrooper, that armor is such a pain in the ass (literally) that zombieing it up might actually make it more fun to wear :) It's a cheap old FX suit anyhow so I' won't be doing any sort of grave injustice to a piece of movie history or anything. If I get some time to do it and a little more motivation maybe I'll post it up on the RPF.

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We don't have halloween here. My friends and I have a movie night that night. With Pizza and all, ready to have a good time. The dress code is anything that is easy to run in. Often teens come in no costume and demand food or else they egg the house. We'll be ready to chase them down and make them pay if they egg the house, just like last year. I'll be ready to back up the locals too, they often pick on the elderly. Cowards.

I'd like to experience Halloween properly in the US one day though. I like to see creativity with effort for once, that I can praise.

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We don't celebrate Halloween in Australia. (despite the efforts of some twits). If we did and considering my current bodyshape, i would love to get a costume so I could dress up as Ryu from Gatchaman. Fat Darth Vader does not cut the mustard.

Failing that a trenchcoat would help cover up my gut and I could go as Rorschach. THAT would be cool.

Taksraven

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VF-19 go as Major Kong, A year or two ago I went as Dr. Stranglove Black sute, Glasses, A lot of Brillcream. It was the best party. One or two got it but the rest just looked at me like? Then I Shoot up the arm and shout / fight your arm, best costume Period. I had way to much fun.

But this year Star Trek movie the red one or Stargate SG-1 full off world.

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VF-19 go as Major Kong, A year or two ago I went as Dr. Stranglove Black sute, Glasses, A lot of Brillcream. It was the best party. One or two got it but the rest just looked at me like? Then I Shoot up the arm and shout / fight your arm, best costume Period. I had way to much fun.

But this year Star Trek movie the red one or Stargate SG-1 full off world.

I think most people would think I was Maverick from Top Gun. Then when I do the bomb riding bit, they'll think I'm Hound from Armageddon.

I'll be for dress up day at work (Oct 31 naturally).

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VF-19 go as Major Kong, A year or two ago I went as Dr. Stranglove Black sute, Glasses, A lot of Brillcream. It was the best party. One or two got it but the rest just looked at me like? Then I Shoot up the arm and shout / fight your arm, best costume Period. I had way to much fun.

MEIN FUHRER, I CAN WALK!!!!!

Taksraven

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A little off topic but is Halloween still even remotely done where you people live? I live in the fairly small town of Kingston, Ontario and the "Everyone is a child rapist" paranoia has made Halloween almost non-existent. Assuming parents even let their kids go trick or treating half the time they DRIVE their kids house to house :huh: Also I live in a apartment building and I know the lady next door doesn't even let her kid go trick or treating and only lets her kid go down to the lobby and get what they have down there. Now don't get me wrong you'll still see the random house decked out for it and toys r us has tons of costumes but last year when I was at my buddies house we had 6 kids come from 6pm-9pm :blink:

So has the spirit Halloween been lost due to the constant paranoia of ultra over protective parents? :unsure:

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there are some pretty cool ideas in this thread. Im going to go as Kevin Spacy's character from Seven. Im just going to wear brown or black pants (dont remember what color they are in the movie) a blood stained short sleeve white button down shirt, bandage all my finger tips and walk around with my hands cuffed in front of me.

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I've always wanted be Pennywise from It. I found a good costume of him, and I've got plenty of pictures to get the facepaint just right, but I'd have to shave my 10" goatee off and that just ain't happening. Maybe I'll do it in the future when I start going bald or something. I'll probably just park my butt on the porch and pass out the candy.

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there are some pretty cool ideas in this thread. Im going to go as Kevin Spacy's character from Seven. Im just going to wear brown or black pants (dont remember what color they are in the movie) a blood stained short sleeve white button down shirt, bandage all my finger tips and walk around with my hands cuffed in front of me.

I think you should be also carrying a box...

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So has the spirit Halloween been lost due to the constant paranoia of ultra over protective parents? :unsure:

Sadly the answer is almost to the point of a definate yes. As you said, every parent in America just KNOWS that both their neighbors are rapists or killers. Everyone knows that someone will put a razor blade in an apple or some candy for a kid to eat. Truth is these occurances are quite rare but the .272% of the time it does happen scares the hell out of protective parents. It's becoming common for even 12 yr olds to go out with their parents on halloween just to go around the block. It's sad but I'd give it 25 years or less before halloween is completely phased out as an American holiday.

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No, Halloween will be around, just minus the trick-or-treat part. It'll be very much like Xmas, where you give candy and presents to kids. Only the decorations are black and orange and spooks, instead of green and red and elves.

Noticed how Xmas-y Halloween already is? They now have gift tags and "stocking stuffers" and gingerbread houses----and more and more toys. Easter's going that way too---Easter baskets now have enough toys to supply an average kid at Xmas and Target usually has 2 entire aisles of just TOYS for Easter. Eventually, all holidays will be like Xmas, due to commercialism. Just one long year of buying toys for kids...

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A little off topic but is Halloween still even remotely done where you people live? I live in the fairly small town of Kingston, Ontario and the "Everyone is a child rapist" paranoia has made Halloween almost non-existent. Assuming parents even let their kids go trick or treating half the time they DRIVE their kids house to house :huh: Also I live in a apartment building and I know the lady next door doesn't even let her kid go trick or treating and only lets her kid go down to the lobby and get what they have down there. Now don't get me wrong you'll still see the random house decked out for it and toys r us has tons of costumes but last year when I was at my buddies house we had 6 kids come from 6pm-9pm :blink:

So has the spirit Halloween been lost due to the constant paranoia of ultra over protective parents? :unsure:

Where I live, it's pretty much still going very strong. My subdivision is fairly new, and it's "safe" for trick or treaters in that all of us giving out candy are "good" and the streets in there don't get a whole lot of traffic so no worries about getting run over. This is my 6th year there, and candy bags have gone from 300-about 600 given out every year. It costs me a lot. SO many families coming to our neighborhood from others. I throw a huge bash for people in my garage and require costumes of the adults so we all have a blast, the kids can trick or treat in a safe neighborhood, and it's all good.

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A little off topic but is Halloween still even remotely done where you people live? I live in the fairly small town of Kingston, Ontario and the "Everyone is a child rapist" paranoia has made Halloween almost non-existent. Assuming parents even let their kids go trick or treating half the time they DRIVE their kids house to house :huh: Also I live in a apartment building and I know the lady next door doesn't even let her kid go trick or treating and only lets her kid go down to the lobby and get what they have down there. Now don't get me wrong you'll still see the random house decked out for it and toys r us has tons of costumes but last year when I was at my buddies house we had 6 kids come from 6pm-9pm :blink:

So has the spirit Halloween been lost due to the constant paranoia of ultra over protective parents? :unsure:

Halloween in my neighborhood is still alive and well. We have tons of kids that are elementary school age, so at night the neighborhood is bustling kids. The parents usually tag along to keep an eye out. Almost all of the households are families, and we sort of know most people. I really only stay within walking distance of my house when I take my daughter. That's usually enough to get a ton of candy. Occasionally you get the nutty parents that drive their kids around to many, many houses. It's kind of insane. They slowly keep pace in their car as their kids walk from house to house. I can understand if you don't care to trick-or-treat in the neighborhood you live in, but some people are all about getting as much free candy as humanly possible in one evening. I simply walk around, and I still have so much candy that we haven't even finished off last year's loot.

I think it has more to do with the apartment living vs houses. I lived in many apartments in my lifetime, and I never saw trick-or-treating in apartment complexes that I lived in. I also think it goes back to knowing your neighbors. For whatever reason I have come to know most people that live around me now, but when I was in apartments I really kept to myself most of the time.

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Some of you may remember this from last year...

My car's (digital) halloween costume.

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I however did not have the time or money to put together an awesome costume this year. I am dressing up. Mainly for my son. I am going as a wizzard. I have a pretty cool tattered cape and a fantasia-esque hat. I may wear that over my kimono or just over jeans and a shirt. Not sure yet.

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I've got my costume mostly assembled, picked up the hat and bandana (for the neck) today. Just need to put the patches on (I'm still missing the name patch and the old-style US airforce roundel for the other shoulder, honestly, not a big deal), and get in costume!

It's gonna be fun!

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