TheLoneGoldfish wrote: > Found via fark... http://www.flickr.com/photos/fcb/sets/1267693 Ah, that takes me back. I remember making a cube costume in, I think 1982 or '83. Mine was unarticulated, just a corrugated box covered in 27 pieces of contruction paper and 3 or 4 rolls of electrical tape. I think there were a few similar costumes in my elementary school that year. Dale Newfield wrote: > If you just make the cube smaller so that it just fits around your > body under your arms, the top layer can be turned 45 degrees and > have your shoulders in the corners, with your arms able to come out > through the exposed surface. The main benefit of his larger design is that the layers are separate and can be rotated. You design would be more static. Only the bottom layer could rotate without severing your arms. (Although a Halloween costume with arm-severing, blood-squirting effects would be cool.) > It'll make for a fairly small (torso sized cube), so you'd basically > have to wear all black to make it still look good. You'd also be able to eat and drink normally, and be able to sit down if you were careful. These are two absolute requirements I have for costumes. Another absolute requirement is that my arms must be free to move (yours: yes! his: not so much.), a lesson I learned the hard way at a very young age a due to my father's stunning(ly dangerous) Artoo Deetoo costume. -- Elliott C. "Eeyore" Evans eeyore@xxxxxxxx