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Power Loader Halloween Costume From Aliens Movie

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wed Nov 01, 2006 04:26 PM
from the don't-drink-and-drive-this-costume dept.
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Ant writes "Chairboy's Halloween costume this year was a Caterpillar Power Loader J-5000, the hydraulic utility vehicle seen in the James Cameron's 1986 movie, Aliens. There is a journal of him making it from scratch, a photograph/photo gallery, and a video clip of it in action from yesterday."

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  • There's nothing like the sight of a wet cardboard powerloader crumbling under its own weight.

    • Re: (Score:2, Funny)

      by malvidin (951569)
      It was pink styrofoam insulation, which doesn't lose strength when it gets wet.
      Unless it rains acetone.

  • You'd think... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Churla (936633) on Wednesday November 01 2006, @04:44PM (#16679071)
    If he was going for the theme he would have gotten a space marine outfit for his wife and had one of the toddlers bursting out of her stomach.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by antdude (79039)
      Nah, I suggested that he makes his kids as Aliens like they did in the original movie(s?) when special effects were limited. Oh and someone had to be the queen alien for the fight like in Aliens.
  • dust off and nike the website from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

  • Is Taco anti-Halloween? (Score:3)

    by From A Far Away Land (930780) on Wednesday November 01 2006, @04:50PM (#16679191) Homepage Journal
    Slashdot makes a big deal out of April Fools, but features Halloween material a day late?

    We need a Halloween theme along the lines of OMG Ponies, except it should be OMG Ghosts - by Symantec.
    • He comes from Holland, MI, a small, mainly Dutch community in West Michigan which is so ridiculously conservative, it makes Utah look liberal. Most of the schools in that area don't have Halloween parties because of the Christian right's pervasive presence
      • It's strange that Christian conservatives would be anti-Halloween. I thought conservatives liked to scare children, and throw eggs, when not handing out candy to the masses in order to keep them docile? Kidding.
        It is strange though, since All Hallow's Eve
    • ...but features Halloween material a day late?

      It's not a day late! It's 364 days early!

      • Halloween is the second biggest commercialize holiday in North America these days. That alone is enough for Slashdot to make it a big deal.

  • Kevin Smith? (Score:3, Funny)

    by Viking Coder (102287) on Wednesday November 01 2006, @05:23PM (#16679887)
    Shouldn't this guy just get a trench coat, a T-shirt, a baseball cap and a packet of cigarettes? That way he can play Silent Bob.

    The guy's an exact duplicate of Kevin Smith!
  • He did a fantastic APU costume in previous years, that was my grand plan for this year, except that my 4 month old son Orion was going to be strapped into the pilot's seat. However procrastination got the better of me and with a few hours before the first
  • It's a great costume, but it reminds me of something that's always bothered me about the Aliens movie:

    Why do they need a big, hydraulic power-loader on a spaceship? If they need to move large, heavy things around, why don't they just turn off (or down) th

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by eln (21727) *
      Yah, but those kids are young enough that they only want to go as their favorite cartoon characters. I told my son he could be anything he wanted for Halloween, and he picked a $12 costume that was basically Spongebob's face on a giant piece of felt. I'd

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Tenareth (17013)
        haha, My kid went with that costume too... It's all about what is interesting to them at the time when they are little.

    • Re:went to the gallery... (Score:4, Informative)

      by Chairboy (88841) on Wednesday November 01 2006, @04:56PM (#16679319) Homepage
      Heh, I used to make costumes for the kids. First year, my wife dressed my son as a fox, so I made him a big tank to be driven around in with german markings. In one step, he became Rommel. Next year, he gets a pilot jacket, so I built the mech-warrior battlemech costume (http://hallert.net/mech/mechcostume.htm) with him as the pilot. After that, wifey put the kabosh on my involvement with their costumes.
      [ Parent ]

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by stoolpigeon (454276) *
        those costumes are really cool. so you made the dot with the tank cam and now this. you are almost as famous as the star wars kid.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Keith Russell (4440) *

        First year, my wife dressed my son as a fox, so I made him a big tank to be driven around in with german markings. In one step, he became Rommel.

        Awesome! So how many people did you meet along the way who a) got the reference or b) got offended by the WWI

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by Chairboy (88841)
          Of the people who got the reference, nobody was offended. I was curious about that myself, too, but it turned out that the folks most likely to flip out didn't really know their WWII history. Good times were had by all.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by robi2106 (464558)
      When the kid is old enough to make his own dam costume then the kid can do somethign about it. Till then Dad gets to play. :-)

      jason
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