Power Loader Halloween Costume From Aliens Movie

Ant writes "Chairboy's Halloween costume this year was a Caterpillar Power Loader J-5000, the hydraulic utility vehicle seen in the James Cameron's 1986 movie, Aliens. There is a journal of him making it from scratch, a photograph/photo gallery, and a video clip of it in action from yesterday."

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[Chairboy]

Heh, I used to make costumes for the kids. First year, my wife dressed my son as a fox, so I made him a big tank to be driven around in with german markings. In one step, he became Rommel. Next year, he gets a pilot jacket, so I built the mech-warrior battlemech costume (http://hallert.net/mech/mechcostume.htm) with him as the pilot. After that, wifey put the kabosh on my involvement with their costumes.