What happens when Halloween rolls around and you haven't gotten around to buying your almost one year old daughter a costume for the holiday because you've been spending too much time playing and writing about the World of Warcraft? Well, you make her a murloc costume, of course!

From the moment my daughter was born, I just knew I had to dress her up as a character from my favorite game. I initially wanted to make a Moonkin costume but thought that it'd be best if she wore that when she was already walking proficiently. A miniature Moonkin waddling around would be priceless.

This year, however, found me short of time and ideas so I decided to steal the idea of a baby in a murloc suit from last year's crop of Halloween costumes over at the Blizzard site. Since I don't have mad sewing skills, I made a quick jaunt to a shoe supplies store and picked up a bunch of slice foam and some cyanoacrylate.

A few hours and adhesive-encrusted fingers later, I pretended to be Shelbi Roach and cooked up an odd half-murloc helmet just in time for us to go out Trick or Treating around the neighborhood. Using Glenn Rane's murloc art as a rough guide, I slapped together the slice foam and some acrylic paint for my version of murloc goodness. And just because I was on a roll, I made my daughter a murloc Trick or Treat bag to match her outfit.

I guess you know you play love World of Warcraft too much when you dress your daughter up as one of the most reviled creatures in the game. She had a lot of fun with her costume, even though pretty much nobody else quite understood what it was supposed to be. Some thought it was a dragon, others a crocodile, and others still thought it was supposed to be some mutant dinosaur. To the few WoW players we bumped into, however, there was only one appropriate response upon seeing my daugher's outfit -- Aaaaaughibbrgubugbugrguburgle!*

If you dressed up as a character from WoW, don't forget to send us your pictures! We'd love to see the different kinds of crazy we Warcraft players are capable of as long as we're given a proper excuse. And Halloween is as good as an excuse as any!

Tags: Events, Foam, Halloween, Murloc, Murloc-Costume, Trick-or-Treat

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