I think the best part is 10 more bananas! He had to differentiate himself from the plebs wearing the 40 banana box costume.
She sounds hideous.
Y-y-you gotta turn into a firetruck, Morty!
He's like a super civil engineer in the making! First traffic cones, then a stoplight, the mailbox, vending machine, and skeeball? If I were the mayor of my town, I'd already hire him already...
My bet is that all holes do not funnel into a single bag. 10 pts., dad bag. 25 pts., dad bag. 50 pts., dad bag. 100 point hole that is partially obstructed by 43 weight styrofoam, kid bag.
b....b... IT'S A JPG
http://i.imgur.com/9MkCNUZ.png
And you just inspired my new costume. time to make a chest and get stuck in doors!
You sound like my ex-girlfriend
Did you hold your hands over your head all day?
I mean this with completely zero bad intention or ill will, is he diagnosed on the spectrum? My girlfriend works with autistic kids and a lot of them have intense fascination with inanimate objec...
> used Kleenexes ಠ_ಠ
Sometimes that's just the way the cookie crumbles.
What's a Nubian?
You went to school with serious assholes.
Hell. Yeah. Thanks for reminding me of this. I'm gonna go as socially awkward Jake Gyllenhall, and my gf is gonna go as a rocket.
Letting kids dress up as whatever they want to be is always a great thing, they're so damn creative. Once my stepbrother (then 6yo) went to a fancy dress competition and wanted to be a 'punk spac...
One year I was a washing machine. My candy bag was a tide box.
From State Farm?
His legs poking out of each costume just cracks me up.
Ahhh very true, I forgot about the investor and engineer being one in the same... in that case the kid is basically just a door to door salesman with some marketing ideas
I'd say more importantly is that your engineer also happens to be providing your financial backing. The child will be lucky to see 20% of that candy.
God, I wish. This was the eighties and I was a wee man with folks who took less pictures than a blind family.
Holy shit is that a Chasing Amy reference?
http://i.imgur.com/yLfGntF.png
http://i.imgur.com/9NHqCfC.jpg
I don't know why this makes me so happy
pics? I'd love to see the plinko in action!
Do you happen to know a Jake
> SHUT UP AND TAKE MY CANDY ftfy
I feel like this everyday. Without the pop-tart part.
One year I was a washing machine. My candy bag was a tide box.
More like 30% if OP is lucky, engineers always get screwed by upper management...by the end of the night he will probably be telling everyone he "did it all by himself"
At first I couldn't figure out which one was the costume, then I saw the shoes.
Ouch. So soon, too.
Me too. My dad didn't allow any strange in the house growing up
Don't patronize him Mr. "I-make-perfect-replica-costumes"! :)
God Damn mimics
Tampering with a mailbox is a felony offense. Now I've done called the police, I think you boys ought to get out of the car.
I love that the costumes are so complete that they just look like the objects with a pair of legs sticking out.
I feel bad for laughing so hard at this
What is his fascination with large everyday objects? Can't he be something normal like a sexy witch or pumpkin?
Just make sure you're not a female because that is the prime situation for a Hot Cosby
Contains 50 bananas The best part for sure.
That's the special bonus prize! The 15th user gets the bonus. Comes out of the door with the chips.
OP, looks like delivering runs in the family.
No, there are a bunch of tickets in there though, so if someone pulls them out and takes some, they will just keep going. It's a big string of them.
Backdoor Sluts 9 makes Crotch Capers 3 look like Naughy Nurses 2!
Your balls are not a good halloween candy. How many times do we have to go over this?
Wait, it dispenses tickets? Like, in response to how many points you get? If so, that's not a skee ball machine costume. That is officially a wearable legit skee ball machine.
Well, he's known for cooking and tattoos, if you catch my drift.
"D...dad. I'm tired of being objects for Halloween... c..can I be Darth Va-" "Shhhhhh daddy needs his karma, son." Jk lol you're boy is awesome!
This kid is going to make a KILLING. When I was a kid, my brother and I went as Ghostbusters and we built these backpacks where people fed candy into a hose and then we tipped the hose up so th...
It's too good. I feel like it might be a federal offense!
Or just getting balls to the face all night
I think he wins Halloween forever for having the most original costumes
or get pelted in the nuts from your frustration.
Just admit it, you're a tracer!
Does he have dinosaur feet for hands?
I love it, it's like he shouts out random nouns and "poof!" they're a costume.
I feel like my childhood Halloweens were full of costumes like this, that were also poorly executed because my parents were uncreative/weren't around to help me make them. The worst part was spen...
so then where does the vomit go?
I'm assuming he's known for his cookie tattoos?
> I knew the truth. I was pop-tart. That's some October Sky shit right here.
Well I am joking, it says "Deposit candy here" and if you zoom in on the collection times it appears to say "Halloween" in one of the white boxes.
The gamification of giving candy on halloween is absolutely genius IMO. Stellar job from the both of you.
That'd actually be really creepy to notice in the dark. First you notice the shoes out of the corner of your eye, then you glance at the top of the mail box and see a pair of eyes.
The business man and the engineer. Your son is exploiting your skills OP. Better ask for at least 80% of his candy.
From cookie to tossed salad, so sad.
It's brilliant. If this showed up at my door I'd spend some time trying to hit the higher numbers. The kid's going to be swimming in candy.
> It's all fun and games until someone puts in "Back Door Sluts 9" FTFY
Username checks out everyone, dudes legit.
Your family misses you very much.
I'm not entirely convinced that this isn't just a real mailbox with a pair of shoes under it.
Like a box of 50 bananas.
When I was in school they would have just ripped the box to get the balls out, then pelted me with them until I fell over. I was an upside down man one year (example ) and some kids kicked the he...
http://i.imgur.com/Ke1my01.jpg I SEE YOU
He said the basket though.
Well I mean, I bet nobody had a costume like that. Especially not 50 bananas. So you succeeded in the unique part..
I went to a casino costume contest one year as a Halloween themed slot machine. The reels had ghosts/pumpkins, it lit up, and was called "HalloWIN!". I thought I had it in the bag. Turns out when...
Lisa: So what prize did you end up getting? Bart: Moustache comb, what did you get? Lisa: Fake moustache.... wanna comb it? link
You're an inanimate fucking object!
Close. Prison tattoo artist.
Snickerdoodle?
Your son is going places
Your user name is scary considering the context
His idea. My design though.
Ever since the mailbox, he like being hidden inside the costume rather than have his head sticking out. Makes building it more tricky, but I think they look cooler.
and i thought I was creative as a kid for being a Zombie Cowboy riding an ostrich
LOL, it was his idea. Just my job to build it.
I had it full screen thinking the same thing for quite a while...
> If anyone wants a snack, the price will be a shot of alcohol. I just got this image of the change thing popping out to reveal a little "chute" which is connected to a tube, that w...
I'm starting to wonder if he actually picks these out or you just like dressing your son up in odd costumes to be different.
You are the parent I strive to be. That is one well loved child. Keep it up.
He's gonna grow up and marry some sort of inanimate object.
Hmmm.. I see a pattern here. Tell him to start thinking OUTSIDE the box.
Awesome job! I once wanted to go trick or treating as a pop-tart, so my mom took a slender box, made shoulder harnesses for it, and wrapped it in aluminum foil. She tried to draw a logo on it, bu...
Chinese finger trap never gets any love :(
This is a great costume! I love this so much. My son went as a train gate one year (those red/white gates that go down so cars don't cross the road) and this year he asked to be a tunnel... or a ...
Be careful, that means yes in Sweden talk.
My cousin lived with us when he was young and brought home a similar school project one day. He was a chocolate chip cookie. Life turned out differently than he expected, I'm sorry to say.
Was it you or your son that came up with this idea? Whoever it was is a creative genius.
I'm not sure where exactly the line is, but I know it was crossed.
I absolutely love that all of them have compartments for candy to just be put in, that's amazing.
Yeah, I just made that up. I think you get my point though =)
http://www.reactiongifs.com/2012/09/
Next year, mammogram machine!
> Ladies Lesbian Lavatory Lust III Not an actual porn, yes I googled it.
Please, oh please, make. A tutorial on how to make an adult sized one. I want to make one so bad.
Your son is hilarious.
Nice job! Risky "PUSH" button placement for the Vending Machine though.
The mailbox is really good, at first sight I thought the costume was the UPS box.
then it's a party
"Wow he really can't hit another hole"... Then realized I just watched the same clip 6 times in a row.
The stoplight is so great! I love his basket. :)
No, there was plexiglass over the front.
He's in there. Look for the feet.
Wow, that actually startled me a little bit when I went back to look at it. I first saw it and went "Oh, he probably just looks through the holes where the balls would go." I just completely glaz...
It's all fun and games until someone puts in "Ladies Lesbian Lavatory Lust III"
You're the fucking best dad ever!
oh my god that mailbox
These costumes are so great. I agree with the other comments, the mailbox is outstanding I would put my mail and used kleenexes in it like I do with real ones.
Where is the line between dressing as a skeeball machine and BEING a skeeball machine?
ME -... but I want chips. "Just put the candy inside please"
I think it's a step up, considering last year he was taking cash for his sweet treats and the year before he'd accept anybody's package.
Your son is either going to grow up to be Solid Snake or the weirdest/best furry ever.
His head is between the Skee & Ball on the top. Right under the score are black screens that he can see out of.
This is awesome. I actually have some wooden skee balls from an old machine and now I want to be a skee ball machine for halloween Except Imma dispense Jager instead of tickets
That's awesome!
That is a good idea. We could collect DVDs all night.
Kid's gonna have people throwing balls at his face all night.
Your kid is very strange, and I'm glad you're embracing it.
Brilliant, laughing all over again!
I still have one, I don't get to use it because I keep my hair too short to need a comb. Every now and though when my hair grows out it's just fun to use that comb.
Stoplight: http://imgur.com/a/EBUJX#yj3ijwG
Man I miss those. Use to have one for middle school.
Maybe being a Redbox is in his future
It is. Just toss your candy in there and grab some tickets.
Please tell me its actually functional.
Damn.. I'm 40 and we don't really celebrate halloween here in Sweden, but... will you be my father? ;)
Thank you. Ever since I heard the term in the movie Dogma, I've wondered what a 'Skee Ball' game was.
That is awesome
I love your posts every year! He managed to raise the bar again. Didn't he go as a lamp post one year?
I remember it from two years ago. Be sure to zoom in on it if you don't want to sleep tonight!
That is amazing. Good work on raising an imaginative kid and supporting his ideas.
i was a potted plant (daisy) one year, complete with foam orange clay colored pot
I want a volunteer program that is designed for people who want to just make halloween costumes for kids. I would be all over that... unless they wanted to be something dumb.
That's excellent - great pre-emptive parenting!
Hah, I remember your pics from the previous years! Your kids imagination is awesome.
Actually, I thought of that. The balls are just a little to large to fit out of the slot, so you can reach in and grab one, but you can't pull it out.
I can imagine being in a school with a costume like this for Halloween. Everyone just grabs the balls and tries to whip them through the holes at your face as hard as they can :(
Lost my shit at the mailbox, it's perfect!
Honestly, I think he just wants to be different & unique. And we all love skee ball in the family! He is a smart kid and is curious about how stuff works & how things are made, etc...
> There is a backing behind the front and a bin area underneath, so > people can just “Skee” their candy in there. Finally a costume that's family friendly fun for the c...
I remember your posts from before! You're a terrific parent and I love your son's creative Halloween spirit. If I may ask does he have a curiosity for mechanical things like these or where do you...
Well shit. You guys are like costume making pros.
Woah that mailbox is excellent. I love them all but especially the mailbox
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY
Pulling out all the stops.
I found a picture I drew from 1st grade, it was from a class project titled 'What do you want to be when you grow up?" Apparently, I wanted to be a fire truck. Not a FireMAN, not a firetruck DR...
Vending machine: http://imgur.com/a/MOkqH Mailbox: https://i.imgur.com/vQZspgB.jpg
It's actually harnessed around his shoulders & back on the inside. So it's kinda strapped on him like a backpack. It's foamboard, so it's pretty light.
Can I exchange some tickets for a fake mustache or maybe a switchblade comb?
Which hole do I toss the candy in?
Where's the mailbox & vending machine?
is he wearing a skee-mask under there?
Kids got balls.
Whoever made that for him deserves an award.
Seems like it would end up really heavy by the end of the night with all the candy and just carrying it around.
You can do that if you want. It will catch whatever you throw in there.
I'd be tempted to throw the candy in the holes
God loves skiiball
He's fully protected ;)
It was a couple weekends, but a lot of time just waiting for glue to dry. The trick is to measure twice before you cut. I've learned that lesson.
Every year he wants to be something unique. This year he picked a Skee Ball game. I think it definitely fits the bill. The costume is fully functional too. There is a backing behind the front and...