Articulated cardboard Cthulhu

Eddbagenal sez, "Students at Strode College in the UK staged a 'cardboard costume' catwalk show including this awesome articulated Cthulhu headpiece made entirely from old box cartons." Technically, the description calls it an octopus, but if that's not ~~an elder god~~ great old one, I'm not a damned soul

Cardboard Catwalk (Thanks, eddbagenal, via Submitterator!)

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kennapea

i’d know Cthulhu anywhere and that’s not him.
Anonymous

This is clearly a walktapus as any student of Gloranthan zoology could tell.
sockdoll

Stick an old copper and brass deep sea diving helmet on that thing and you’d have Steampunk Cthulhu.
morgonmae

Craftgasm.
Anonymous

“Articulated cardboard octopus”, might be a better title.
Meadslosh

I just made a Cthulhu costume for the Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus, which parades next week here in New Orleans.

And this guy just has to steal my thunder.
Major Variola (ret)

Too bad not articulated.

Cut crescnts in a paper-towel roll halfway through. Attach string to
distal end. Pull.

Congrats, you have a tentacle.
Anonymous

Yeah, another vote for “man with octopus on head”, or possibly “man being eaten by octopus”. No wings => not Cthulhu.
Daemon

Allow me to be the first to say Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fthagn!
MerrickB

Uh, I’m with several other Lovecraft Fans here.. This isn’t Cthulhu-like at all. This is a man with a cardboard octopus on his head.
Lobster

Doctor Octagonapus! D:
Jesse M.

Isn’t the whole Great Old One/Elder God distinction just some stupid thing invented by August Derleth? From what I’ve read, Derleth basically wanted to turn the Cthulhu mythos into a Christianized good/evil struggle, with the Elder Gods being “good” while the Great Old Ones were “evil”–see here. Did Lovecraft himself ever introduce such a strict distinction between the two terms?
Tim

Because this is Boing Boing and accuracy in all things sci-fi/fantasy/horror is demanded, I feel it my obligation to point out that Cthulhu is not, in fact, an Elder God. He’s a Great Old One, or just an Old One/Elder Thing. Not a god.
bookmunkie

Also, Cthulhu is a lot more than a guy with an octopus (cardboard or otherwise) on his head. People calling everything cephalapodic cthonic is just plain silly.
Nelson.C

As any fule kno, this is plainly a Gloranthan Walktapus from Chaosium’s Runequest.
Anonymous

Cthonic (http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=chthonic) doesn’t mean “Cthulhu-like”.
- XerxesQados
  
  Well, it should.