DIY Hallowe'en: Chilean Miner with Rescue Pod

From the Boing Boing DIY costume thread, Boing Boing reader planettom says,

"I went as a Chilean Miner, complete with Rescue Pod."

"Made from 2 32-gallon plastic trashcans. Except, though I could contort to fit in it, I realized I couldn't with the hardhat/headlamp, so I had to add 12" of a 3rd 32-gallon plastic trashcan. The mesh in the window is made from the bag that oranges come in."

• [bobhughes]

  Pretty funny, but how do you move? Looks like it would be easiest to put casters on the bottom and roll yourself from place to place

  • [planettom]

    bobhughes: The bottom was cut out of it, so I could just walk it into the party. It’s more of a costume-delivery device; I emerged in miner garb, it’s not like I spent the whole evening entombed. http://planettom.livejournal.com/296535.html

• [kyoorius]

  Here’s another one:

  http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=7068055&l=d0dbdc0ada&id=677913384

• [senorglory]

  also resembles a pocket rocket.

  • [planettom]

    Yeah, I was thinking, with a little spraypaint, I could retask it on future Halloweens — time machine, THE FLY teleportation chamber, etc.!