At last, Star Wars fans all over the world would be able to go to their wedding on a tauntaun, to eat their tauntaun cake, and then carry their imaginary brides to a lovefest inside their tauntaun sleeping bags.

Which is exactly how my next wedding will be, mind you. Check out the detailed blog on how this guy created this crazy mechanical tauntaun costume for last Halloween.

When I see these overachievers in action, I just want to go downstairs, grab a carrot cake, a coffee and spend my evening reading a book. [Cockeyed via Make]

You know recession has reached a new low level when two Italian plumbers from Brooklyn go to Staten Island to beat a cabbie and steal his cash. Which is more or less what happened at a petrol station last Halloween.

The two guys, dressed as Mario and Luigi, were in a taxi with two other individuals at around 4am. It was then when one of the passengers tried to get his hand into the driver’s pocket, who stopped in a petrol station at 863 Arthur Kill Road in Great Kills, and asked them to pay and leave.

At that point Mario and Luigi got out of the car and started to beat the cabbie, perhaps thinking that gold coins were going to jump out of him. Idiots. Everybody knows that only works with bouncy brick blocks. [NY Daily News via Kotaku]

Video editing by VanHemert

Come on, Señor Damon. A girl brings us beautiful elegance, extraordinary cleverness and perfect execution with her 8-bit pixelated makeup, and what does the hairy people from Mars bring her? A censored pixelated penis. Did I say that there was no need to look like a dork or a slut to enjoy Halloween? I was wrong.

Matt, we bow before your creativity, sir. Just not too much. [Thanks for the photo, Ryan]

According to a police report, 18-year-old James N. P. Miller, of Cincinnati, was seen driving the wrong way out of the entrance to a one-way street at East Park Place in Oxford.

Officers executed a traffic stop and found that Miller was wearing a breathalyser costume [I assume they laughed their asses off]. After investigation, police said, Miller was found to be operating a vehicle while intoxicated.

Inside his car, officers allegedly found an open container of Bud Light in the centre console.

Officers also found what was left of a case of Bud Light in the passenger side front seat and in the trunk.

The legal limit in Ohio is .08 BAC — Miller tested at .158. He was cited for operating a vehicle while intoxicated (among other violations) and released to his girlfriend. Hopefully, she realises that there isn’t much of a future being with the “blow here” breathalyser mug shot guy. [NBC4i via Boing Boing]

The first step was to model his face in 3D Studio Max. After overlaying a wireframe, he added textures in Mudbox 2010 and Photoshop CS3, before using software called Pepakura to break the model up into printable sections. The effect is pretty impressive, and thankfully, he’s posted a full run-down on the process:
[Eric Testroete via Adam Savage and BoingBoing]

I know someone who apparently can’t resist the attraction of Mario. I can’t blame her. I don’t know if it is the moustache or the mushrooms, but I share the feeling. That’s why I like this sound-enabled Mario costume.

The costume uses an Arduino system connected to an Adafruit WaveShield. Sensors trigger the sound with different moves. It only needs a soundtrack, but you can always do it with your mouth, which is how I go around in life: Singing the Super Mario theme, dressed on my Mario raccoon suit. It doesn’t make any sound, but I can fly with it. [Adafruit via Make]

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And please, be safe!

I am amazed at the work some people put in their Halloween costumes, like this Ghostbusters proton pack built with LEDs, an Arduino controller, and red and green lasers. I’m so lazy, I’m going to go as the Wolverine.

Wait, maybe I’m not that lazy.

That ghostbuster costume—which includes a flight suit, Arduino-controlled proton pack, fake trap, and fake goggles—was all made over months of planning and hard work.

My Wolverine costume—battered leather jacket, t-shirt, jeans, dirty just-woke-up hair, scars, and some beard trimming—took an entire life of suffering and bleeding to create.

(By the way, anyone knows where I could buy the actual Wolverine jacket replica in NYC? Let’s do this stupid thing properly). [Instructables via Dvice]