This ‘Alien’ costume is the father-daughter pairing to beat
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Some kids dress up as cute animals for Halloween, some dress up as pretty princesses… and some dress up as Ellen Ripley from the 1986 thriller Aliens. To pay homage to James Cameron's sci-fi series — and perhaps to pass some movie wisdom onto the next generation — one dad created a costume to beat all costumes for him and his daughter.
It's a real-life replica of the power loader that Ellen wears in the movie to destroy the Queen. And this dad definitely took the "real-life" thing to a new level when he built the highlight of the whole get-up: the fully-functioning forklift feature for his daughter to sit in, complete with retractable supports.
Unsurprisingly, Reddit, along with everyone else on the internet, is going crazy over it. And we have so many questions. What is it made of? How on earth did he manage to build this monstrosity? And isn't it heavy?!
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"We were literally down on the floor, cutting out big pieces of foam core," he explained, "We hung it on a pipe frame and we had a guy stand there and put his hands down into the elbows of the arms and lift them."
While the details of this dad's robot suit are unclear, one thing is for sure: Any parent who not only builds a costume this cool but also carries it (and his daughter) around all night trick-or-treating deserves more than one award. And a couple pieces of her Halloween candy, too.
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