Kid Gets Awesome Tusken Raider Costume Thanks to Equally Awesome Dad

Halloween is almost here, and if you’re looking for ideas to make your kid the coolest kid in the neighborhood, you might want to check out what illustrator/animator Ward Jenkins did for his kid last year.

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Yep, little Ezra has been magically transformed into the most awesome pint-sized Tusken Raider ever. Ward achieved this costuming greatness using a variety of household items including torn up fabric, old belts for the bandoliers, and some highly versatile toilet paper rolls for the eye/goggle thingies. I think that toilet paper rolls are the new duct tape. And duct tape was the new hot glue.

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Apparently the “deadly” Gaderffi (bet you didn’t know it was called that) is actually a cheap mom with colored paper and some slapped on it.

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Yet again, another parent proving how great parents can truly be. If you’ve got kids, you’ve got a tall hill to climb to keep up with Ward and Ezra this year.

[Flickr via Boing Boing and Buzzfeed]


Tusken Raider Pushes a Pod Racer Stroller – Why Not?

The last time we saw a Tusken Raider and a Pod Racer together, the Raider was shooting at it. That’s not the case here. Either things got so bad in the race that he ended up pushing it and refuses to give up or he’s just starting this kid off young, hoping to make him a Pod Racing champion.
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This Tusken Raider is not wearing the traditional gear of his people either, unless there’s a Nike Store on Tatooine now. This custom-built Anakin’s Pod Racer baby stroller was spotted being pushed in the last leg of the “Course of the Force” race in San Diego.

That Pod Racer looks sweet though. Look how shiny it is. And the little Anakin has a lightsaber at the ready just in case any other racers try to pass him.

[via Obvious Winner]