Myself and housemate Allan as Bernard and Purple Tentacle from the legendary 90's LucasArts adventure game 'Day of the Tentacle.'

This was our group cosplay effort for AyaCon 2005, though Purple made another appearance at MCM London Expo Oct'06, and generally stands as an attraction in our living room otherwise.

Bernard was mostly a side effort to act as Al's spotter since it's pretty hard to see and move in that thing. He's not short, just very flexible.

It's a foam 'skeleton' consisting of a cone shape with holes for the mouth and arms, and a fabric skin. The shrink ray lights up when a button inside is pressed; it's barely visible in daylight, sadly. The arms are stick-cored foam controlled from inside by Al crunching his hands behind his head

The mouth/middle sucker opens, as is a little too obvious from the rucked elastic, but a huge arm-controlled tongue can indeed lick his lips in true Purple Tentacle fashion!

Plus, he can hop around and chuckle to himself.


All of the foam and sewing-machine work on PT was my doing, Al did the handstitching and (hardest of all) piloting. End result: awesomeness. The convention staff liked it so much, we got thrown into the masquerade whether we wanted to or not After the submission deadline, and despite it not being anime-related. Hurrah.