io9: pumpkins

Give Your Pumpkin Some True Blood Bite

Meredith Woerner — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:12:49 PDT

Last year, we rocked your pumpkin face off, with the cylon, death star and Predator pumpkins. This year, it's all about True Blood pumpkin love. Who doesn't want a sassy Lafayette on your front step?

These jack-o-lantern stencils from Camp Blood make me beyond happy! We've seen Star Wars, Dr. Horrible and Firefly before — but at last, something new to slice into your pumpkin's face. We're still looking for other new ideas. Please, if you find a Dollhouse pumpkin or a McG-faced jack-o-lantern, send us pics before you smash it to bits!

Steam-Pumpkin Proves Steampunk Needs A Nice Nap

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:20:00 PDT

Jonathan Strahan may call steampunk "Victorian cyberpunk," while Paul Cornell dubs it "the moment the future died," but this "steampunk pumpkin" is the ultimate proof of steampunk overload. Since when do pumpkins need to be steam-powered, anyway? [Instructables]

Science Fiction's Great Villains, Immortalized In Pumpkin Flesh

Charlie Jane Anders — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:44:00 PDT

If you really want to scare off those jerks who are coming to egg your house, you need a pumpkin with a little more menace than those usual jack o'lanterns. Luckily, you've got just enough time to carve your very own pumpkin replica of the killer robots from Battlestar Galactica, the Cylons, if you start now. EvilMadScientist has painstaking instructions on creating your own dark robo-pumpkin, complete with the trademark back-and-forth glowing eye, thanks to a set of LEDs. But we've also seen some other great villainous pumpkins in the past few days, including a Predator and the Death Star.

This Predator pumpkin, from Villafane Studios, is a total work of art, and really intense. You wouldn't want to get your hand too close to this one.

And then there's the Death Star pumpkin, which looks pretty doable for the less artistic carvers out there, as long as you can measure and cut in a straight line. Fantasy Pumpkins has a super-detailed set of instructions, so your pumpkin can end up looking like this:

[Cylon Jack-O-Lantern, thanks Marilyn]