Wow. Those are all incredible! I love the Serenity one, but my perrsonal favourite has to be Gollum. I have no idea how those guys can put that much detail on a fruit!

Resolute | October 30, 23:52 CET

Hm. The carvings are very good, but not very pumpkiny. More like merchandising on a pumpkin.

Sunfire | October 30, 23:56 CET

I'm loving the Pan's Labyrinth pumpkins, but I wanted more Serenity ones!

embers | October 31, 00:03 CET

Wow.

Not being American, the only carved pumpkins I've seen are the ones on TV shows, which tend to all be the same triangle-eyes design.

deird | October 31, 03:29 CET

Sunfire: What is a pumpkiny pumpkin? heh.

fortunateizzi | October 31, 04:31 CET

A pumpkiny pumpkin is carved by a person who accepts that it's a pumpkin, and that the point is to be creative and have fun. I don't doubt that the people who made these had fun, and carving even a likeness takes creativity, but the trend bothers me.

My favorite jack-o-lanterns as a kid were the creative ones where people used the contours of the pumpkin to make funny expressions, surprising outlines, or scary faces. An odd growth could a protubering eye. A tall skinny pumpkin could be a thin ghoulish face. There's a current trend where the purpose is to recreate some design, whether it's from a movie or a magazine craft gallery. It's Halloween. It's the holiday for unscriptedness. People choosing scripts bothers me. I guess I'm trying to say that I miss the playfulness and the spontaneous creativity. Jack Sparrow is already everywhere. Someone please carve a scary monster I've never seen before.

I guess I'm officially old now that I'm becoming a purist. Much as I love the Serenity logo, and think the pumpkin is gorgeous, it strikes me as one more data point in the pattern.

Sunfire | October 31, 05:31 CET