Usually the Internet has to wait for something to become popular before its denizens start dressing up like it. Alas, further proving that there is little typical about James Cameron's Avatar, it has broken that cycle by inspiring an enthusiastic YouTuber's Halloween costume nearly two months before the movie is set for release.

Attempting to pull off Sam Worthington's character of Jake Sulley, the fan in question explains that it took countless days of planning and roughly five hours of makeup on the final day, which sounds like a lot of a devotion, but if you ask me it was worth it. Baring the necessary facial reconstructive surgery to make it look like he was born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and taking some Skele-Grow to bump his height up another two feet to truly complete the look, I'd say this is a damned impressive bit of cosplay; particularly considering he would only have been able to use promo materials as his sources and not the end product.

His tail could use a bit of work, but the modded Nerf gun he has more than makes up for it. Plus the guy has a good sense of humor, as evidenced by a picture of him in front of a toy display at a store.

Watch the video and see the full costume over at SciFi Squad

Reminder: Cinematical's Fifth Annual Halloween Costume Contest is still accepting entries till this Friday, so keep sending them in.

If you're still on the lookout for the perfect movie-themed jack o' lantern patterns for Halloween, look no further because we've dug up something for everyone. Are you a stickler for the rules of Halloween (i.e. don't blow out the jack o' lanterns til after midnight...)? Try the bag-headed Sam from Trick 'R Treat. Jedi in training? Carve the Death Star so you can practice infiltrating it. Bonus: you and Lego Luke Skywalker can even blow it up once Halloween's over!

Personally, I always went for the grotesque or ironic celebrity pumpkins. One of my best Halloween creations was a glowing, sultry J. Lo pumpkin. (The best part was watching her wither and decay the next week. So evil!) I've always sworn by the patterns over at Zombie Pumpkins, where you can find just about every movie icon you can imagine. Download SUPER easy patterns like Freddy Krueger, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, the Joker, Jigsaw's puppet, Gremlins, and even assorted characters from the Harry Potterverse. (An Albus Dumbledore to protect your porch!) And yes, folks - they've even got new patterns from Twilight, Zombieland, and Michael Jackson, circa Thriller. Too soon?

Read on for more -- and the Death Star jack o' lantern -- over at SciFi Squad.

It's not exactly surprising that Stephenie Meyers' world of Twilight has gotten copycat merchandise like porn and sex toys. The entire series is about the -- at first -- pent up sexual urges of a human and her vampiric paramour. But this one makes me laugh to no end because it's more suggestive than blatant. The blog Twitarded has thrown up the following ditty -- Twilight underwear where Edward's face is not only on the outside, but on the inside. (Just check the pic over to the right.)

The underwear were custom-made with Pattinson's face on the front, his lips on the inside, his signature along the seam, and the hand carrying the apple along the tuckus, which has too many, erm, unsanitary connotations to be a coincidence. The underwear was made with the idea that when it is time for fantasy, RPattz is there. But... Is it going too far to make links between vampires and menstruation? Sorry, but when we're talking about underwear for girls and bloodsuckers, it's really the first thing that comes to mind. I can't help it.

Here comes confession time. I once made something similar for a friend with Colin Farrell as a joke, but it didn't turn out nearly this professional looking. Have you ever made yer own fan-centric underoos? I used to think I was the only one with Christopher Walken underwear (with the face on the outside, I swear), and found out on Sunday that I'm not the only one with homemade Walken briefs. Truth!

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Does anybody remember movie novelizations? They've made a bit of a comeback in recent history, but whoo boy was I a fan of them back in the '80s. Of course, as an adult that love has turned into nostalgia, and to this day, my Lost Boys novelization holds a prominent location on my bookshelf. But I'm not the only one with a soft spot for those books, because over at Spacesick they have won my heart by creating the "I Read Movies" series. Granted, these books don't exist (and how I wish they did), but you have to love these retro covers they've created for everything from Shaun of The Dead to Ghost Dad.

We do plenty of poster launches around here, but sometimes it seems like we just don't see the same effort being put into our movie one-sheets like we used to. You know you're in trouble when fictional book covers are more impressive than your average studio marketing campaign. But before I start to sound too much like a crotchety grandpa, I'm going to focus on the positive and that's where the fans come in. Take a look around and you'll see some pretty awesome work being done, so we can only hope that some of that creativity rubs off on actual studio releases.

Check out some of our favorites in the gallery below.

Oh, man. There are usually two groups of items on Fan Made: geeky-embarrassing and geeky-awesome. And my friends, this one-of-a-kind Bill Paxton pinball machine falls squarely into the latter category.

Corona's Coming Attractions steered us towards this pet project of one Benjamin J. Heckendorn, a pinball machine mod that takes its cues from Paxton's whole filmography, with references ranging from True Lies and Titanic to Apollo 13 and Aliens (and I heartily agree with the Corona-made suggestion that Paxton's Hicks Hudson better be the one saying "Game over, man!" when all is said and done).

On his own blog, Heckendorn explained that he's been cracking away at this since 2005 and hopes to have the machine done in time for the 2010 Midwest Gaming Classic in Milwaukee, WI. Check out his site for more photos and videos; we've included one of the latter after the jump.

(...man, he even made room for a Vertical Limit reference!)

I wasn't much of a collector when I was a kid. I could never keep a toy in it's package perched high on a shelf. In fact, usually the packaging would last about as long as it could take me to wrench my new She-Ra, Jem, or Barbie from their cardboard cage. But the one thing I did collect were trading cards, E.T. trading cards to be exact. But that was a long time ago, and those cards have long been misplaced (and I won't even dwell on the fact I had the complete set), so you can imagine the overload of nostalgia I experienced when I saw The Improbably Movie Cards over at Automatic Lifestyle Dispenser. Because, what these fine folks have done is made movie collector cards in that classic 80's style, but the catch is that these cards are for films that no person in their right mind would want to collect, and the results are pretty funny -- if not a little bizarre.

So how bad it could it be? Well, if you thought a Silkwood card might be in 'dubious' taste, wait till you get a look at the Schindler's List "Nazi's on The Move" card. Dispenser also made collector cards for good old Alvy and Annie, Sara Goldfarb, and even Charlie Meadows. But no trading card pack would be complete without the stickers, and luckily they have thought of that too, and we get collectible stickers of Colonel "The Horror" Kurtz, and Anton "Friendo" Chigurh. Unfortunately, these cards only exist online, but I don't think I would be the only one out there who would kill for their very own set of Annie Hall trading cards.

Now that there's been some time to digest the news that Disney and Marvel have joined forces, we can begin to have some fun with what could (but ultimately will not) be the future of this new partnership (we hope). The clever folks over at Worth1000 have just finished piecing together a photoshop contest that asked readers to design a Marvel/Disney hybrid in honor of the recent announcement ... and the results were, um, pretty hilarious.

We're talking characters like The Incredible Snow White, Spider Chicken, Buzz Iron Man, Captain Incredible and more. While there's a pretty good chance we'll never ever see these beloved Disney characters Marvel-fied, that doesn't mean we can't play pretend. (Note to Disney: Just because we can laugh at Spider Mickey doesn't necessarily mean we'll ever forgive you if Spider Mickey arrived in movie theaters a few years down the line.)

Check out some of our favorites below and the entire collection over at Worth1000.

If you happen to be a handsome ex-CIA agent who out of a rabid sense of patriotism let the US government turn you into a tech-savvy killing machine with no memories and a penchant for throat chopping people in all manner of office building and slum around the world, Matt Damon would like you to call Universal Studios and give them a heads up as to what your life is like. See, Universal wants to make a fourth Bourne film, as does series star Damon, but they currently have no idea how to plausibly bring the guaranteed money maker back to the big screen.

Damon explained to Empire in a recent interview the holding pattern America's new favorite ex-spy is in, "you can't see the guy saying "I don't remember" any more, because he's lost and regained his memory three times already! And he's not like Bond, who goes on individual missions. I mean, you could make Bond movies forever, because you'd start each film at the beginning of a new mission. But Bourne isn't built that way, unfortunately."

If your first thought is to somehow have Bourne go back to working as a G-man, toss it out right now; that's already been considered and dismissed by Damon and co. However, I'm pretty confident they haven't thought of the following. If they had, Revenge is Bourne would already have a trailer.

Let's be real here: every 11-year-old boy lives to one-up the kids he's friends with. When I was a young lad, the kid next door to me was always buying the newest toys and then conveniently playing with them out in front of his house constantly so that everyone in the neighborhood would know who the cool kid was. Well boys (and girls), here's something that will forever make you the most popular kid at your school: the Batman Tumbler Go-Kart.

A dude by the name of T-Man created this go-kart (which he calls the T-kart) from scratch and filmed his every step so that you, too, can build a Batman Tumbler in your very own garage. The only downside is that it doesn't go in reverse or come with a host of different weapons, but one of those is an easy fix. You can follow T-Man's entire journey over on YouTube, but we posted video of the final product after the jump. Check it out.

Anyone can buy an official movie poster or a t-shirt, but what happens when an artist re-interprets the official movie artwork and filters it through his or her own unique imagination? You get a whole collection of amazingly cool, crazy, sometimes downright twisted stuff, as showcased on the young blog reelizer.com. The blog started this past April and nothing new has been posted since May, but there are currently 7 pages of amazing artwork that I have gone back to look at several times now. (Many items are for sale if you follow the links.)

Some of my favorites include a series of re-designed, re-interpreted movie posters, done using only red, black and white (by Olly Mos). There's a striking print of the three main characters in No Country for Old Men by Blake Loosli, and a original, unused, potentially eye-straining movie poster for Moon. There's an ad for a complete Travis Bickle wardrobe, some gorgeous Star Wars hoodies, and some official Gremlins Reeboks. Dave Macdowell has done a mind-blowing Wizard of Oz/Pulp Fiction mashup fan poster. You can even see the unblemished artwork for the Criterion Collection's Monsters and Madmen DVD box set. Above is a tribute to Léon (The Professional) by Ruben Martinez that I would be proud to hang on my walls.

Admittedly, most of this stuff is done by professional artists, and some of it is official movie artwork, but there's some amateur stuff here too. Overall, it's a museum-quality exhibition of amazing cinema-stuff, and up-and-coming artists can submit their own work. Check out some of the images below.

It's late at night, you've had an adult beverage or two, you fumble with your keys, stumble into your living room, snap on a lamp, and wham! You're face to face with a great white shark, ready to eat you. The latest Jaws collectible isn't quite life-size -- the shark in Steven Spielberg's classic was described as a 25-footer by Quint (Robert Shaw) -- but it's big enough to throw a decent scare into the unsuspecting. According to a press release (available at Dread Central), the "Bruce NTT piece is a full-length nose-to-tail maquette and dwarfs Sideshow's latest rendition at a little over 3 feet."

This looks pretty awesome. Maybe I could just run around with it, scaring the neighborhood kids. Self-described "finfan" Mike Schultz says he's spent years researching the project; he's a Missouri 911 operator by night and an artisan by day ... No detail, tooth, or scar was ignored in the process. Spielberg's art director Joe Alves has also been brought into the project as a consultant to ensure its attention to detail." Schultz even details which original prop shark inspired his work: "This model represents the more detailed and slimmer 'platform Bruce,' post Shark City build, but pre-waterlogged/damaged Bruce depicted later in the film." Glad we got that cleared up!

The model is scheduled to be manufactured as a licensed, very limited edition collectible, to be available next summer to coincide with the 35th anniversary of the release of Jaws. More information will be available at Operation Orca. Schultz thinks this could be "the ultimate conversation piece." Personally, I think you're gonna need a bigger living room.

Forget saving money in this bad economy. Why not go for broke and drive around in the style of those infamous Ghostbusters 25 years after the first hit theaters?

Production Weekly's Twitter pointed to a car auction at eBay for an Ecto-1 ride. Not just any vehicle -- one from Universal Studios. Bidding has ended for the item, but even though the highest bid is ranked at the pricey $45,100.00, the reserve has not been met, so this puppy could go back onto the market. The 1959 Caddy is in a museum right now, and I'd surmise that that's the only place for it -- save for a few very special and slow rides around the block. Expensive, one-of-a-kind cars do not make for relaxing rides. The horror of getting keyed, dinged, or crashed is surely scarier than any old ghost.

But if that's too rich for your blood, do you know that you can grab decent replicas? There's a 1968 Cadillac in Virginia that has a Buy It Now price of $9,500.00, and a 1973 model in North Carolina whose starting bid is listed at $7,500.00. The former is a carefully restored Caddy sticking to the outer ghost-busting particulars, and the latter comes with high-tech rider perks inside like a TV/DVD/VHS system.

Do you love Ghostbusters enough to grab an Ecto-1?