h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I gave in.

I purchased some retractable fangs for Halloween.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7_RUfMtH6M

I'm gonna scare the local kids witless....

Just got back from one last dive in the bin marked 'extra large pumpkins'

Got two redundancy 'kins.

There are still a few of this years patterns yet to be released so I hesitate to commit to my carving list until I knows what all my options are. I am thinking of adding a "Universal Monsters" category to my extant list - I've got a designs for Lugosi's Dracula, Karloff's Frankenstein's Creature and The Wolfman.

However here is my tentative list.

Ack-Ack Alien from "Mars Attacks " < - - - really, fiendishly difficult, but if I can pull it off....

Lead Cenobite aka "Pinhead" from "Hellraiser" < - - - the pins and the scars are really intricate to carve. A re-do-over from 2008 but I've gotten better over the years and reckon I've got the patience, tools, skill and camera to now do this design justice.

Jack Skellington and Sally from A Nightmare before Christmas <--- This is a combined image with the two characters almost blended together. Should be another fiendishly difficult carve I am most looking forward to cutting out the stitches on those two, as they shall be a minor nightmare in themselves ....

Vinz Clortho and Zuul as from "Ghostbusters" <--- I want them to be guarding the drive.....

Slimer from "Ghostbusters"

I can endorse the large pumpkins on sale in The Co-op over Tescos. Consistently the Co-op 'kins have had front faces that are at least 2cm's taller and wider than those at Tesco's. (I take my tape measure when I go shopping.)

Might not seem much but with the designs I'm planning on, if I can make the fiddly bits that little bit larger, it makes it a damn sight easier to carve.

Hurrah for the Co-op!
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Thank God for that - I thought for a moment you'd gone and bought Coldplay's back catalogue.

The only cold play round theses parts is the quarterly meeting of the Necrophiliacs society.