I am a Halloween maniac. I’m still building, but I’m going as a 9 foot tall monster. It is a stilt based costume, that’s all I’m going to give away until decent pics can be taken and uploaded.
Four of us are planning to go as Batman Villains. Hubby will be the joker – he actually bought a purple suit for this – Guy Friend is the Riddler, Girl Friend is Harley Quinn, and I will be Catwoman. I haven’t gone out for Halloween (actually the weekend before, since I have to trick or treat with the kiddos) in years. I can’t wait.
One year I came to work as a bicycle built for two.
The wheels were painted on a cardboard sandwich board affair, and
I had plastic tubing handlebars with tassels.
But there was no way to sit down without removing the whole thing
so I spent the day changing in and out of costume.
My best costume ever was when I was a gene fragment. I wore a black catsuit (I was thinner then) and had sections of colored ribbon that wound in a double helix around my middle and then out over each limb. It was about as scientifically correct as you can get with a catsuit and ribbon, thanks to my chemistry major roommate. Too bad there are no pictures.
That is awesome.
I was an undead Little Red Riding Hood last year.
I dunno about this year. I was vaguely considering going as Death (from the Sandman comics) but few people would get the reference - everyone would think I was just dressed up as a Goth. Still exploring other options.
I take it you won’t be spending Halloween in a building.
Last year I was Cavity Sam from the Operation board game. It was a pretty kick ass costume too, but I do not have any pictures. I haven’t decided what I want to be this year yet.
Hee hee hee… nope. I’m spending it creeping around the garage while Nashiitashii and the “ghost Host” occupies the visitors’ attention. 
I post this Halloween disaster story link from the past.
A tale of what can happen if you’re scary.
Heh. It will be our first Halloween in our new neighborhood. We have LOADS of kids, so I’m hoping for a good turnout. I’m a little worried about parents though. Some are fairly religious in these parts and many only let the kids go around on sufferance. I’m more worried about getting clocked by a chubby soccer mom than one of the kiddies. THEY usually love the scary stuff and can’t get enough. Occasionally in the past I’ve been told I ought to put up signs so parents won’t take “impressionable” kids to my haunts. :rolleyes:
My halloween costume involves a black outfit and a whole lot of cardboard tubes arranged in a network over my body. I’m going dressed as the Internet.
… Think about it.
Are you sure you won’t be mistaken for a naval mine?
http://www.comomag.navy.mil/IMAGES1/Mine%20History/Cover%20Page/_w/cover_jpg.jpg
I’m going to a couples theme party on Halloween. My date and I are thinking of making our theme “the undead, in general”; she’ll be a vampire and I’ll be a zombie. Cheap, easy, fun–for my part, all I have to do is rip up some old clothes and apply some makeup and fake blood. And shamble and moan, of course, which is probably what I would’ve been doing anyway. I’d like to add the extra touch of a fake gun dangling upside down from my index finger, like one of the zombies in the original Dawn of the Dead. I probably won’t do that.
I also like the idea of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, but I haven’t raised that possibility with her yet.
Since I still have my nametapes and my combat boots, I’ve been meaning to do a BDU (military camouflage) costume for a while. All I’d need to do is go down to the dry cleaners on the nearest military base and buy someone else’s neglected uniform for $3-5, but I never get around to doing it.
I went to a hookah lounge last Halloween, where one of the employees was dressed up as a Mormon. White shirt, dress pants, tie, Bible, bicycle, name badge, everything.
Well, I don’t know, but this would be as good a place as any – and better than most, I’d wager – to get suggestions. It’s going to be a two-man deal; my best friend Ben and I have a tradition of partying together on Halloween, and we usually try to relate our costumes in some way.
We used to regularly do Spike and Ed from Cowboy Bebop (I’m Spike).
Last year, we did Kakihara and Dr. Sam Loomis from Ichi the Killer and Halloween, respectively. (Epic DDR showdown!) For this one, I had to use some hell-spawned ammonia solution on my hair and beard and super-glue earrings to my face, and Ben had to shave his head to achieve the “balding” look, so you know we’re willing to go all-out.
Any suggestions? Clearly, we’re both into anime and weird Japanese horror. Our goal is to not get so obscure that nobody knows who we are, but obscure enough that when someone does recognize us, it’s a mutual “cool!” moment (hence why we stopped doing the Bebop thing when it got megapopular). So, Dope…whatcha got?
Haha! Maybe that’ll be next year.
Sexy nurse!!!11
No, really, I’ve wanted to dress my husband up as Hedwig for a long time now. (He looks EXACTLY like John Cameron Mitchell when he’s not in drag. Well, almost. Think Midnight Radio…really skinny, and the haircut is eerily similar.) Of course, I would be Tommy Gnosis. But I don’t think he’ll go for it–even though he was in drag when we first met. 
I hate to ring my own bell, but it really was great.
It was instantly recognizable to EVERYONE - regardless of their ages. Nothing worse than a costume that you have to constantly explain
Additionally, over the few weeks before Halloween, I photocopied & cut out about 250 birds - in silhouette. No big deal - I did it while watching TV. I waited until the office was mostly empty the night before and started sticking them on the walls/cubicles with spray adhesive. Just a few at the reception area - gradually putting more and more and more until you reached my office - where they were swarming all over the walls.
I had the best time that day
Last year I was a SCUBA diver - I already had a (kayaking) wetsuit. The airtank was made from a sonotube (cardboard cylander used for concrete footings) with a giant ornamant forming the hemishere top. Add a valve and some tubing and it turned out pretty well. I could actually do that again since I have a new job and only one person there has seen me in that costume.
I’ve been Dr Who #4 (mom knitted long scarf), but several people have seen me in that.
Brian
bec and I haven’t found a party to go to yet this year, unfortunately. We are seeking opportunities.
I’ve gone before as Darth Vader in the past. I made my own helmet and electronics. I even bought black platforms at Good Will. I towered over everybody.
I went as Vincent Van Gogh before, complete with bloody ear bandage and brushes (I’m an artist, after all).
bec has picked out an enticing vinyl vixen costume, just in case. I’d like to pick out something similar along the male line, but I’m afraid everyone will think I’m a leather boy. Or from the Village People.
Suggestions?
I was Dr. McNinja last year. Easy costume: dress slacks and shoes, black tie, and a lab coat bought at the local college. The most expensive part was the ski mask. I even had a cheap plastic katana with it. Only one guy at the office recognized me, but the comic quickly caught on after that.
I’ve been thinking of going as Rorschach from Watchmen this year, as I already have most of the components, but fedoras tend to be expensive and I have no idea about how to make the mask; athough a like-minded soul has already made a thread about that, so I’m paying attention there.