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]

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]

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]

Seen here is a magnetised iPod bookmark. If you were a little guy or gal making the rounds in Bellevue, Washington Saturday evening, you got one of these in your candy sack.

Eat less candy? Read more? Indoctrinating America’s youth against the the Kindle? We can’t be sure what Apple’s true intent was here, but what we do know is the kiddies seemed to love it. The bookmarks were all gone by 7:30 p.m. [iPhone Savior - Thanks, Seth]

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And please, be safe!

In honour of Halloween, the Today Show had a Star Wars themed episode. The only trouble is that no one considered that sticking a bunch of drunk midgets into Ewok costume might end with dry humping, fighting, and moon walking.

According to the Warming Glow, there’s confirmation that the people inside Ewok costumes were genuinely drunk, but whether that’s true or not, this is bound to turn into a Halloween classic. [YouTube via Warming Glow]