Friday I was assembling a few odds and ends for my last minute costume when I encountered the above abomination at the Halloween store. Generally speaking, they choose a model for the packaging that at least bears some vague physical similarity to the person or character they’re trying to market – but in this case, WTF?! Obviously they weren’t even trying to go for a Chris Pine lookalike, and he’s fatter than Shatner ever was, so, all I can come up with is they wanted a model that made men say “hell, I’d be a better looking Captain Kirk than this guy!” Unless the costume is supposed to be bloated Kirk after McCoy injected him with the comedy virus. What was my costume, you ask?
What, you never saw The Vulcan Chainsaw Masacre?
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UPDATE: Our good friend ‘XXL Kirk has made quite a splash – click here to see what happened next…
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Darth Mojo 
Looks a little more like they were going for the more typical uniform-wearing Trekker lookalike. ;)
I saw this at a dealer table during Shore Point. The one thing I’ll say is that I too did a double-take, so it’s rather effective at getting attention.
Vulcan Chainsaw Massacre? Well done!
I think that costume is supposed to represent how Kirk may have looked at the end if TREK TOS had ran for all 5 seasons.
That’s funny. My only thought is that maybe they used different models for different size. You know: small, medium, large, whale…
That Vulcan Chainsaw Massachre costume is hilarious.
I guess that they were going more for that “Truth in Advertising” look.
Mojo, by far… the best costume I have seen this year! Brilliant idea! Ha!… by the way, that is the “over-sized” model for the ST costume… the “regular” sized models look like Pine.
And hey, are those Commodore stripes on the sleeves?
That picture is so wrong.
Kirk never had a goatee!
It’s Mirror Kirk… in more ways than one…
I applaud them. Finally placing a model on the product that represents 85% of their target audience.
Live long and in parts, and pieces.
I love that costume! Especially the LLP hand on the chest, bit of a mixed message, eh?
Dea: I’d replace the salute with a failed neck pinch. :)