Kids In Transformers Costumes Are More Than Meets The Eye

Kids love to dress up in costumes, and there’s no better outfit for the little ones than some giant transforming mechs. Check out these three kids showing off their adorable Transformers costumes, which look awesome. There’s Optimus Prime, Starscream and Bumblebee. The costumes are not only perfect, but these kids are pros at the transforming game. They’re much better than in the movies, if you ask me.

They do take a little while to transform, because kids are easily distracted, but once they do, you’ll want to watch it again and again. Sadly, the whole thing was filmed in portrait mode, but at least they caught it on video so the rest of us could see it.

I hope you are paying attention, Michael Bay. Look how well these kids transform. Look at how effortless that is. It looks natural. And Shia Lebouf is nowhere in sight, which I also love. Although I did feel that this vertical video masterpiece could have used more Megan Fox.

This is some next level Transformers action right here. These kids get it done. We know they can transform, now they just have to practice rolling out.

Whoever made these costumes designed them perfectly. And even filmed vertically, this footage beats Michael Bay any day. I would pay to see this in theaters over his stuff.

[via Boing Boing]

Inflatable Jurassic World Costumes: Airassic Workd

If you have ever dreamed of being a dinosaur, these inflatable costumes make it happen. The latest additions to the Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom merchandise line are perhaps the coolest dinosaur costumes ever. Your dino cosplay has never been more on point.

You can choose from Blue the velociraptor, a pteranodon, and a triceratops. They do need better and less obvious eye-holes, because those face windows just ruin the illusion, but they’re still pretty cool. Each one has a pair of battery operated fans inside to keep it inflated, and because it’s hot being a dinosaur. It won’t be long before we see people doing parkour in these costumes, although it might be hard while wearing the triceratops costume.

Also, I just noticed that they just slapped the Jurassic Worlds logo on that velociraptor’s ass. That just seems wrong, like they branded the poor beast. What I’m really hoping for is that people wear these costumes and then fight in a super secret dinosaur fight club. Because I’d really like to see that. Maybe a big brawl with like 20 dinosaurs while the crowd throws giant inflatable meteors in the ring. It isn’t over until all but one is extinct.

[via io9]

Turn Your Cat into a Vegetable with These Wacky Japanese Hats

Cat people, are you looking for a new way to humiliate your kitty? Look no further than these vegetable hats from Japan. These are guaranteed to annoy your cat and make them hate you forever.

The cat hats come in six ridiculous styles, including corn, carrot, white radish, onion, tomato, and eggplant. So if you’ve got more than one cat, you can fix yourself a plate of hostile looking mixed veggies. Mr. Noodles is so going to scratch your eyeballs out in the middle of the night for this.


The cat hats sell for ¥300 each (about $2.80 USD), and can be found in those toy capsule machines in Japan – or you can order a pack of 50 for about $100 if you want to hand out a bunch to your cat-loving friends.

[via Toy People]

Rugrats Inflatable Reptar Costume Ready for Halloween Antics

Did you love watching Rugrats back in the ’90s? The series was one of those great Nickelodeon cartoons that proved that animation wasn’t just for kids, and packed the show with humor that adults could enjoy too.

One of the recurring characters that turned up occasionally on the show was Reptar – a city-stomping dinosaur who not only was the brand mascot for a breakfast cereal that turned milk green, he had his own candy bars, and starred in a musical on ice. If you love Reptar as much as I do, then you’ll want to pick up this awesome inflatable Reptar costume.

I suggest wearing this for Halloween, and getting some of your pals to dress up as as the Rugrats themselves. There’s a good Chuckie costume available over on Amazon for less than 30 bucks. I think I’d toss some toy cars on the ground that I could smash too.

You can grab the Reptar inflatable costume over at ThinkGeek for $79.99(USD).

Beetlejuice Crazy Face Masks and Eyeball Gloves Make Perfect Halloween Costumes

Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice is still one of my favorite movies of all time. It featured a great mix of wacky characters, funny dialogue, clever stop-motion animation, quirky visuals, and lots of weird and creepy stuff too. One of the most memorable moments in the film is when Adam and Barbara Maitland (Alex Baldwin and Geena Davis) practice making crazy faces to scare the Deetz’s out of their house. Their insane faces are permanently emblazoned in my brain though.

So when I saw these Beetlejuice masks for sale, I thought – my wife and I need to dress up in these for Halloween this year. Maybe we can get one of our goth friends to dress as Lydia too.

Both the Adam and Barbara masks are totally gross and weird, though  I always thought the extra set of eyeballs inside of Geena Davis’ mouth were especially disturbing. And did someone say they liked eyeballs? Well Rubie’s Costume Company has you covered there as well:

Yep, those are some ooky looking eyeball gloves to complete the look. If you’re a Beetlejuice fan like me, looks like you’re all set with a ready to go costume this year.

I only wish they made a costume based on Michael Keaton’s terrifying snake head.

Own This Awesome Light-up Helmet Replica Based on Jamiroquai “Automaton” Video

For the longest time, the coolest headgear out of the world of music had to be Daft Punk’s iconic helmets, and Deadmau5’s light up mouse head. But earlier this year, Jay Kay of Jamiroquai donned a fantastic helmet not just loaded up with colorful LEDs, but motorized pieces which could change form.

Now, the guys over at 10KLumen are showing off an amazing replica build of the helmet, which looks exactly like the one in the Automaton music video. It lights up, changes colors, and even has servos to move the bits of spiky, translucent plastic “hair” into different positions. I especially dig the illuminated “eyebrows.” Check it out in action in the video below:

Here’s the original music video for comparison:

It looks pretty darned close to the one in the music video. People are really going to be amazed if you turn up at dance party or a Halloween costume party wearing this thing.

Best of all, you can buy one of these amazing helmet replicas for yourself for $450(USD), which I don’t think is all that expensive given all of the work that must have gone into engineering this thing.