Halloween 2008

Yeah, yeah, I know. Halloween 2007 hasn't made it up here yet. I'll get back to it, I swear. Sorry for the delay, the conversion of Blogger to a Google property has made logging in more complicated for me. But I finally figured it out now.

So anyway! This was the year of Transylvania Polygnostic University's 2007 Mad Science Symposium. A collection of the brightest, evilest, and maddest practitioners of science out there. Good turn out with minimal body count this year:

In addition, we had a large variety of minions and henchmen:
Still, it is the Mad Scientists who were the primary attendees. We had your standards lab-coated ones:
We had some Mad "Pharmacologists":
A Mad Cyberneticist, with killer AI creation:
A Mad Necrotechnologist, with soulless monstrosity:
Horrifyingly cute Mad Medical Doctors and sexy mad Nurses:
Mad Veterinarians:

We even had some Victorian Mad Scientists fire up the old Aetheric Time Machine and make it:
Plus sundry other folks!

The Symposium had several events. First off was a Chemistry exhibition, with teams mixing up creations in test-tubs for judging:

After that, we had a Evil Laugh competition. The lovely judges:
Contestants:
Third, we had the "Build a Better Deathtrap" competition. Each team had to design a deathtrap that included three "iron chef" style elements: A robotic personality, an animal with something dangerous strapped to it, and defenestration. There was much intelligent planning:
Well, planning, at any rate.

Finally, there was a Science trivia contest with three categories: Science, Psuedoscience, and Technobabble. To "buzz in" the teams had to "ray gun" a henchman:
Good times! Thanks to all who came and dressed up! Some great costumes this year: