Tusken Raider kids' costume

Ward Jenkins dressed up little Ezra as a Tusken Raider for Hallowe'en, and the effect is WARSOME.

Halloween 2011

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Awesome costume, but I hope that kid didn’t have any anger management issues. That mace looks functional. Fastforward 20 years, and he’ll be in the Thunderdome at Burning Man…
- Pirate Jenny
  
  Nothing wrong with that!
  
  He does look rather manic. But if I had a costume like that I’d be excited too :)
Brainspore

They trick-or-treat in single file to hide their numbers.
jimh

1000x awesome if dad wears a Bantha costume!
Mister44

My one criticism is it’s way too clean. I have seen some great costumes before, but they are all too clean. I would try washing it in tea or grinding some dirt into it would give it the proper lived in look.
- http://twitter.com/wardomatic Ward Jenkins
  
  I was aware of that. You can’t really tell from the photos here, but I definitely dirtied up the rags and costume at the bottom – I even used brown spraypaint to add to the “dirt.”
  - Mister44
    
    Now that you say that – I can see some of it. Still – you did a great job.
    - http://twitter.com/wardomatic Ward Jenkins
      
      Thanks – it was a lot of fun working on it!
kullervo

Hope this is for a party and not trick-or-treating. Visibility for the kid looks pretty poor.
- http://twitter.com/wardomatic Ward Jenkins
  
  It was definitely for trick-or-treating! He had no qualms during Halloween – all he had to do was just move his head more from side to side to see where he was going. No problem.
Fef

This is an awesome-rockin’ costume. But it does raise an issue I have with a lot of the Star Wars characters in general:
What do the bad guys have against peripheral vision?