New York's Times Square is a street performing mascot mecca that, not surprisingly, attracts some sickos alongside the well-meaning.
Costumed characters in Times Square are getting handsy, racist violent and downright dirty, and one man (who dresses like a giant white robot) has had enough.
He's reported that nearly every mascot he's met in the four years he's been working Times Square has been a "degenerate alcoholic crackhead", and he thinks the city should be unmasking these oddballs and handing them their walking papers.
But what of the children that expect to see a drunken Smurf stumbling around when they visit NYC?
Cops used to be content with sporting normal sized legs, but these days they need all the height they can get to see crimes happening across town.
But can they actually run with those ridiculously long legs? Maybe the whole thing is just one big acid flashback triggered by watching Yellow Submarine too many times...
Cosplayers really stepped up their game in 2012, and showed us lots of great examples of why they take pride in their costume arts.
Maybe the threat of a Mayan apocalypse filled them with a sense of urgency, or maybe they've been saving up all their top looks for this year, but whatever the reason here's hoping we see lots more amazing costumes in 2013!
Cutting through the competition and lighting up the night has never looked so good! Costumer Melissa Li created two awe inspiring cyberpunk costumes which took years to develop and months to construct.
Here's a bit on the top look, called 2.0:
The assembly is made from over 60 parts designed in Solidworks and sewn/cut/glued/laser-cut/heat-formed using various techniques.
The costume includes color changing LEDs on the spine and front that are controlled by an Arduino microcontroller and onboard RGB controllers (respectively), and is powered by 16 AA batteries, 1 LiPo rechargeable battery, two 2032 coin cells, and one 9-volt battery. In total there's more than 70 LED's on the entire costume and over 60 parts.
And here's a bit on the bottom look, the original 1.0:
Design was based on actual spinal transverse sections and lit with ~40 LED's. Design and assembly of smaller accessory pieces for shoulders, chest, and arm were found pieces or designed in Solidworks. In total, ~46 pieces put together over a period of ~2 months.
Movie Monster high school has one massive claim to fame- nobody has been bullied on campus in over fifty years!
And even though Ghostface and Leatherface are mere humans, their ghastly disguises keep them under the monster radar, and their bloodlust is seen as admirable by the student body.
DeviantARTist thegreck heads up the yearbook committee to capture monsters in their natural state, and he did a pretty good job despite the fact that King Kong was breathing down his neck the entire time.
Etsy seller Wumplekins turns discarded socks into oddball little monkeys that make ordinary sock monkeys look downright boring.
Count Sockula and Bride of Frankensock are just a few of the characters in the cast of custom made plush characters found at Wumplekins Etsy store, and new additions arrive every time they get a new pair of socks!
Here's a still from the latest LOTR project entitled Witch King and Sons- a sitcom about a single father/Witch King trying to raise his two Ring Wraith kids up the right way while trying to stay sane at the same time.
It's got an all-star cast dressed all in black, so you never need to bother with who's behind the hood!
Episode 1, entitled "Wait til your Witch King gets home" will premiere on Lifetime sometime next year.
Every office should have it's own Kermit, because he's both a model employee and an entertaining guy to work with.
However, if your office's Kermit starts looking like a disheveled slob, as is the case in the photo above, then notify a manager immediately and don't let him have any change for the vending machines!
These horrifying masks aren't from Halloween, they're actually worn as part of a Christmas festivity called Wilde Jagd which is celebrated in parts of Europe.
Here's more on this fascinating festival:
These festivities originate through the Perchtenlaufen custom, a period when the fearsome witch Perchta, who envies happily married couples, roams the villages. Processions of horribly masked figures armed with sticks and clubs meet throughout the festivity to chase the witch away.
Thor looks like he's in remarkably good shape for a zombie, the fact that he's a god must be keeping him from turning into a rotten mess. Wait, can a god really be turned into a zombie?
Here's a musical tribute to the Walking Dead called Dumb Ways For Zombies To Die, because we all know the undead aren't the smartest bunch of supernatural critters in the woods.
One thing's for certain after watching this video- zombies have a really good sense of rhythm!
There's something about Rei-Doll's Poison Ivy cosplay that makes it a cut above the rest.
Maybe it's her superheroic figure, or all the details that have gone into this incredible costume, or maybe it's the ivy hanging from her arms and the pretty flower in her hand...yeah, that's it, the flower is what makes the whole outfit shine! *grin*
Most girls would be excited to meet Princess Aurora in real life, but not the cynical young gal in this picture.
She'd rather see all that princess money going to better causes, like pet adoption and green power. Princesses are overrated, give me a Congresswoman any day!
Almost everyone has a childhood picture of themselves perched up on Santa’s lap and while the youngsters sometimes cry and sometimes smile, Kris Kringle usually maintains his jolly expression of glee. But sometimes Santa just isn’t the Old Saint Nick we’ve come to love. Sometimes he’s downright creepy and here’s the proof. Here are some of the creepiest Santa photos in order of “kind of weird” to “better sleep with the lights on tonight.”
Special thanks to Creepy Santa Photos for their impressive collection of horrific images of Mr. Claus.
The only explanation I can think up for everyone’s expression in this photo is that Santa just told Flickr user RaGardner4’s son Dylan he’s on the naughty list and whatever put him there angered Santa to his very core.
I have no idea what’s going on with this Finnish Santa spotted by Flickr user esaskar. Is he trying to be incognito? Maybe he’s trying to be funny? Or maybe that’s just what Finns think American Santas look like. Whatever the case, the end result is just plain odd.
Here’s a sadly stereotypical Santa picture –Old Kris Kringle curled up with a bottle of booze. Thanks for confirming all the tales istolethetv.
While Santa masks are usually horrifically terrifying for no good reason, at least this Santa has a reason for looking so evil –it was apparently so cold in Edmonton that even Jolly Old St. Nick had to wear facial protection that made him look like a masked murderer. Of course, this isn't even close to the worst Santa mask anyway, as you'll see a few images down.
Not only is this guy making a creepy face, but he also looks just like the killer from Silent Night Deadly Night. Fortunately, Arleen was too young to have seen that movie at the time. Of course, these days she wonders, “I don’t know how my mother let me sit on his lap!”
