Best geek Halloween pumpkins and nerdy Jack-o'-lanterns from around the 'net

(Pocket-lint) - Halloween is upon us and you tin afloat expect to spot a big of ghoulies, ghosties and altogether spooky shenanigans going connected passim the day. But fto america not hide that scariest of darkened country dwellers, the ghastly geek. They often look from their grisly abodes astatine this clip of year, moaning and a-groaning - chiefly astir JJ Abrams' overuse of lens flare effects connected the Star Trek/Star Wars franchises.

They besides airy up the net with their good examples of tech-tastically carved pumpkins. And we person curated a mighty good postulation of their wares for you truthful that you tin get successful the temper for a spot of instrumentality oregon treating.

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That's not the moon

This fantastic carving shows the celebrated Moon landing representation lone reimagined connected a pumpkin. 

You person to respect the fantastic attraction to item here. 

Wonder Woman

The Wonder Woman movie took the container bureau by tempest and adjacent managed an awesome 92 per cent people connected Rotten Tomatoes.

We're arsenic arsenic impressed with the Pumpkin Geek's representation of Gal Gadot successful the pb role. 

Khal Drogo from Game of Thrones

Khal Drogo is simply a menacing warlord of the Dothraki - a fierce warrior with a magnificent mane. The piercing eyes of this legendary warrior look backmost astatine from the husk of this Halloween lantern.

Rocket and Groot (Guardians of the Galaxy)

"I americium Groot!"

Rocket is excessively engaged to perceive the outcry of his chap Guardian of the Galaxy and is often frustrated by him anyway. We emotion these small critters and Alex Wers' attraction to item successful capturing each small portion of their characters. 

Subliminal pumpkin messaging

What database of awesomely geeky pumpkins would beryllium implicit without 1 that includes Pocket-lint's logo? We surely couldn't defy this one. 

Tetris

Gaming classical Tetris reimagined successful the broadside of a pumpkin. This 1 indispensable person taken a just portion to bash and a precise dependable manus indeed, overmuch similar the crippled itself. 

Gengar (Pokemon)

The Pokemon craze is not over. Pokemon mightiness person had its commencement successful 1996, but emotion for the characters and the satellite the games created has grown and grown. Gengar is 1 of the ghost/poison taxon from the Pokemon beingness and a instrumentality favourite. We usually spot him successful purple fur, but person to admit helium looks beauteous awesome carved into a pumpkin too. 

QR codification pumpkin

QR codes mightiness beryllium the bane of the selling world, but you surely person to respect the intricate enactment that goes into crafting 1 onto a pumpkin. We don't cognize whether this 1 volition scan arsenic easy arsenic a achromatic and achromatic printing though. 

A cheeky chappy

This quality is 1 of respective intricately carved pumpkins by Villafane Studios.

Some brilliantly elaborate works are disposable for viewing successful the company's assemblage and we'd urge checking them out. 

The Fail Whale

If you've ever seen the Fail Whale, past you cognize the symptom and misery of Twitter being down.

This is a celebrated net representation of a achromatic beluga whale being carried aloft by a flock of birds and is commonly seen erstwhile Twitter is overloaded oregon down for immoderate reason. 

Game of Thrones logo

Game of Thrones is proving to beryllium reasonably fashionable connected our database of geek pumpkins, and it's casual to spot why.

Fans of the bid person a definite flair for creating marvellous works of art. Here we tin spot the logo from the TV bid recreated successful fantastic splendour. 

Space Invaders

Another classical gaming legend, Space Invaders was 1 of the archetypal video games to deed the marketplace and bring gaming to the mainstream.

These pesky small aliens needed to beryllium dealt with swiftly successful bid to triumph the game. We're conscionable bittersweet this pumpkin astir apt doesn't diagnostic the classical taxable euphony to spell with it.

Pacman

Pacman and his arch-nemesis were captured successful a azygous pumpkin. We emotion that the shade is the 1 being chased here, erstwhile our memories of Pacman mostly progressive moving distant from the spooky fellows. 

Death Star (Star Wars)

The planet-annihilating Death Star mightiness beryllium an evident prime for pumpkin carving owed to its moon-like shape, but that's not to belittle the item that's gone into this one. 

RSS feed

The humble RSS provender mightiness not get the aforesaid emotion it utilized to, but we inactive get a lukewarm and fuzzy feeling erstwhile we spot this logo. Knowledge is powerfulness aft all. The younger procreation mightiness mistake this 1 for the Wi-Fi awesome though. 

Pixel Mario

Here helium is again, the fable that is Super Mario but successful his archetypal pixelated form. This 1 is simply a marvellous homage to a fantastic gaming legend. 

A wound retired of the Apple

This 1 is astir apt the simplest carving connected our list, but inactive a wonderfully geeky spot of artwork from an Apple fan. We're not definite we'd privation to instrumentality a large wound retired of this pome though.

R2-D2 (Star Wars)

Although helium doesn't person immoderate legs here, this pumpkin is an unmistakable likeness of R2-D2, the tiny but lovable astromech droid from the Star Wars films. We uncertainty he's susceptible of projecting holograms though. 

Mario portrait

Just erstwhile you thought determination couldn't perchance beryllium different carving of Mario, on comes this representation of his face. We emotion the item of this 1 and lit up it looks adjacent better. 

Red ringing of decease and a winky face

There's a small cheeky humour successful this one. One pumpkin has been carved with the infamous reddish ringing of death from the XBOX 360, the different with a winky look emoji.

Of course, we uncertainty anyone who had seen the informing lights for existent would bask seeing this but hopefully, the remainder of america tin bask the humour. 

Wii controller

Nintendo fans retired determination mightiness bask this 1 - a carving of the celebrated Nintendo logo and a manus holding the Wii console controller. 

Emperor Palpatine (Star Wars)

The Emperor from the Star Wars franchise is neatly carved, disfigured withered look and each into this humble pumpkin.

We conscionable anticipation the pumpkin didn't person the aforesaid destiny as its likeness. 

Zombie Pirate LeChuck

Inspired by the gaming classical primitively released successful 1997, this pumpkin carving is an awesome practice of zombie-pirate LeChuck from The Curse of Monkey Island. 

Darth Vader (Star Wars)

Perhaps the astir well-known villain from immoderate movie franchise, Darth Vader is instantly recognisable, adjacent erstwhile carved into a Pumpkin.

We emotion the simplicity of this one, present each it needs is simply a James Earl Jones soundboard to marque it complete. 

Yoda

Fear of pumpkins is the way to the acheronian side. Fear of carvings leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. These are the learnings of the Jedi master. 

Transformers

They're not apt to alteration into anything, but there's nary denying that these Autobot and Decepticon pumpkins are beauteous neat. 

Alien

We each retrieve that country successful Alien wherever a small critter burst distant retired of the thorax cavity.

We've seen immoderate clever fearfulness benignant pumpkins before, but this 1 is thing special. 

Lego pumpkin

If you've not got the skills to carve a pumpkin oregon don't privation to walk wealth connected thing that's conscionable going to rot anyway, wherefore not spell this way and put successful immoderate orangish Lego to physique thing that's going to past a spot longer. 

Cylon (Battlestar Galactica)

Cylons are the cybernetic warriors successful struggle with the humans successful the Battlestar Galactica Universe.

We emotion the item successful this carving, close down to the LEDs to correspond the Cylon visor. 

Predator

"You're 1 ugly..." Arnie's celebrated enactment from the Predator movie nicely sums up the hideous look of the Predator.

Nonetheless, this carving is thing beauteous peculiar - intricate, detailed, ugly. We emotion it. 

Spock

It's perfectly logical to person a Spock carving connected our database twice. There's contented successful those Vulcans. 

Winky look emoticon

We wouldn't beryllium amazed to spot much emoticon styled pumpkins this year.

Emojis are highly popular, but we're not definite anyone volition negociate to replicate Apple's Animojis. 

Master Chief (Halo)

Master Chief and the Halo bid has plentifulness of fans that'll emotion this one. 

Bird of Prey (Star Trek)

Star Trek fans mightiness beryllium up successful arms astir the latest iteration of the Klingons successful Netflix's bid "Discovery" but we'd ideate this Bird of Prey carving would marque them happy. We emotion the starry inheritance successful this 1 that truly makes it basal out. 

Minecraft

One of these was surely easier to marque than the other, but if you're a Minecraft instrumentality past you're definite to recognise these carvings.

Minecraft continues to turn successful popularity adjacent with the basal pixelated graphics and goes to amusement a crippled doesn't person to diagnostic bleeding-edge tech to bash well. 

Spiderman strikes again

Another radioactive spiderman graces different pumpkin. There's a spot much item successful this 1 that adjacent includes the spider logo connected his superhero costume. 

The Comedian (The Watchman)

The comedian is a cigar-chomping, gun-toting vigilante from The Watchman. This likeness is awesome arsenic it is accurate. Cracking movie too!

Ghostbusters

The classical Ghostbusters logo from the archetypal films. We emotion this 1 and cracked a small grin astatine the clever usage of toothpicks to support the eyes and rima successful spot connected the ghost. 

Linux penguin

There's a beardown accidental that this is the geekiest pumpkin connected our list.

A carving of a Linux penguin would surely amusement radical however nerdy you are if you had this successful your window.

Windows 7

If you're looking for a spookier pumpkin, past the Windows Vista logo mightiness person been a amended option. Perhaps this pumpkin was conscionable created to observe the bug fixes and improvements that came with the caller operating system. 

Wordpress

People are specified nerds. We cognize Wordpress is popular, but we ne'er expected to spot the logo connected a pumpkin. 

Link (Legend of Zelda)

Often mistaken for Zelda, but really known arsenic Link, this is the main leader from the Legend of Zelda games. 

Link is an everlasting hero, with galore incarnations, adjacent this 1 connected the broadside of a pumpkin. 

Bill Gates

We stake erstwhile Bill Gates was a young antheral helium ne'er imagined that 1 time helium mightiness beryllium 1 of the world's astir celebrated and richest men.

We ideate helium besides didn't ever deliberation idiosyncratic would instrumentality the clip to carve his likeness into a pumpkin either. 

The Tardis (Dr Who)

The Tardis is said to beryllium larger connected the wrong than it appears from the outside.

We'd ideate this is arsenic arsenic existent with this pumpkin, but determination aren't arsenic galore absorbing things going connected wrong this 1 arsenic determination are successful the real-time travelling constabulary box.

Cassette tapes

The youngest procreation mightiness not adjacent cognize what this 1 is, but it fills america with nostalgic joy. Though we're gladsome we don't request a pencil to rewind this one. 

Big Daddy (Bioshock)

Big Daddies, besides known arsenic Protectors are characters from the Bioshock games.

These elephantine chaps are really genetically enhanced humans with diving suits grafted to their bodies. Their superior intent was to escort Little Sisters astir Rapture, but this one's intent is conscionable to marque this pumpkin look awesome. 

Pi

Pi is the awesome utilized to correspond the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. We uncertainty a pumpkin would number arsenic a cleanable circle, but it's surely a geeky usage of 1 if we've ever seen one. 

Apple logo and Steve Jobs

This is the 2nd Apple logo carved into a pumpkin appearing connected our list, but this 1 is thing special.

If you look cautiously you'll announcement that alternatively of the wound retired of the broadside of the apple, there's a caput that looks similar Steve Jobs. 

Tetris

We emotion this Tetris carving. A classical gaming fable brought to beingness successful afloat pumpkin glory. 

Pacman, Ms Pacman and immoderate friends

We person a peculiar fondness for Pacman, truthful that's wherefore he's snuck onto this database twice. We emotion the postulation of Pacman characters here.

Ms Pacman and the ghosts marque an quality too, arsenic bash the nutrient Pacman snacks connected arsenic helium makes his mode around. Brilliant.

Gears of War

You person to respect the attraction to item with this one. There indispensable person been immoderate cautious carving to get the logo successful the mediate without the pumpkin breaking. The Gears of War logo has ne'er looked truthful good. 

Wii controller

Nintendo fans retired determination mightiness bask this 1 - a carving of the celebrated Nintendo logo and a manus holding the Wii console controller. 

PlayStation symbols

This elemental gaming carving is arsenic arsenic recognisable arsenic immoderate of the others connected this list. The gaming symbols from Sony PlayStation. 

Little Big Planet

Little Big Planet's Sackboy has ne'er looked rather truthful cool. We emotion that little knitted character, truthful it's large to spot his cheeky look connected the broadside of a pumpkin successful afloat glowing glory. 

Xbox logo

This elemental Xbox logo is astir apt the easiest pumpkin plan connected our database but certainly shows immoderate emotion for Microsoft's gaming brand.

Angry Birds

Angry Birds mightiness not beryllium arsenic fashionable arsenic they erstwhile were, but we inactive emotion this acceptable of characters from the gaming franchise. Though we bash consciousness similar it's somewhat cheating to conscionable overgarment a pumpkin alternatively than carve it out. 

Angry Bird's pig

If you emotion Angry Birds but privation to spot due pumpkin designs alternatively than paintings, past this 1 mightiness beryllium for you. 

Borderlands Psycho

This pumpkin carving features the psycho from the screen creation for the Borderlands game. These deranged maniacs were a symptom to woody with but are instantly recognisable arsenic being from the Borderlands franchise. 

Spiderman

Another spiderman pumpkin shows america that the web-slinging fable is simply a fashionable one. This elemental carving works truly good and looks large lit up too. 

Zoom

Alex Barnard's parent managed to propulsion disconnected rather perchance the champion pumpkin plan for 2020. The acquainted show of a Zoom league telephone but successful pumpkin form.  

The Android vs Apple rivalry

The classical rivalry betwixt Android and Apple fans resulted successful this representation that rapidly made its mode astir the net and adjacent tin beryllium seen connected assorted t-shirt designs. This carving, though somewhat vulgar is astatine slightest awesome and mildly amusing. 

Cthulu

This agleam and superb depiction of Cthulhu shows the cosmic entity archetypal created by H.P. Lovecraft. Impressive attraction to item present shows a dependable manus and plentifulness of patience. 

Pumpkin Trump

Even if you disagree with the sentiment, you've got to respect this one. A pumpkin wrong a pumpkin, carved to look similar Donald Trump down bars. 

A Spock pumpkin that's wholly logical

The Pumpkin Geek, aka Alex Wer, creates immoderate magnificent works of creation connected "faux" pumpkins that past overmuch longer than a mean pumpkin that'll rot fixed time. 

These pumpkins are a logical prime if you privation thing that volition unrecorded agelong and prosper. We emotion this Spock portrait, the attraction to item is superb. 

U2

People mightiness not person appreciated the free U2 medium connected their iTunes account but there's nary denying this representation of Bono and co is impressive. 

Negan and his bat Lucille (The Walking Dead)

Negan mightiness beryllium a menace to the Walking Dead universe, but he's acold little threatening connected a pumpkin. Lucille is nary little intimidating though. 

BB-8 (Star Wars)

We anticipation this pumpkin doesn't rotation astir arsenic overmuch arsenic the small BB-8 droid does. Even without the accompanying sounds, this carved droid is beauteous awesome. 

Elsa (Frozen)

Parents crossed the satellite are astir apt sick of seeing her look and proceeding her voice, but this depiction of Frozen's Elsa mightiness really beryllium the champion we've seen and it's not philharmonic either, which is simply a relief.

Frodo Baggins and Gollum (The Lord of the Rings)

My precious! Forget the ring, this pumpkin is simply a happening of powerfulness and beauty. We surely wouldn't privation to spot it thrown into the fires of Mount Doom though. 

Full-sized Groot (Guardians of the Galaxy)

Although the mini Groot mightiness beryllium cuter, we inactive person a brushed spot for the archetypal full-sized Groot from the archetypal Guardians of the Galaxy film. This carving shows conscionable however intricate the designs tin be. 

Winifred Sanderson (Hocus Pocus)

Winifred "Winnie" Sanderson is the person of the Sanderson sisters successful the 1993 movie Hocus Pocus, but this pumpkin carving isn't magic, it's marvellous skill. 

Hogwarts overgarment of arms (Harry Potter)

Harry Potter designs are ever a steadfast favourite some for Halloween costumes and for pumpkin carvings. Here, The Pumpkin Geek has re-created the overgarment of arms from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The schoolhouse mightiness beryllium fictional, but this carving is simply a existent enactment of art. 

Super Mario

Super Mario is good implicit 30 years old, yet he's ne'er aged. This representation of the ace plumber is instantly recognisable crossed the satellite and we're definite this pumpkin would beryllium fashionable for years to travel too. 

Pennywise the Dancing Clown (IT)

Pennywise primitively reached the large surface successful 1986 and returned again successful 2017. If you're frightened of clowns, he's scary enough, but this pumpkin carving is peculiarly creepy. 

Smaug the Golden (Lord of the Rings)

The past large dragon to beryllium successful Middle-earth, Smaug the Golden is 1 heck of a monster.  Smaug is besides a monolithic hoarder. He's known for hoarding golden and treasures each to himself for implicit 200 years. So it's rather apt to spot him formed successful this aureate light.

Spiderman

Spiderman, spiderman, does immoderate a spider can. Can helium be carved connected a pumpkin? Take look, yes helium can. Uh-oh, helium is simply a spiderman. 

Star Wars vs Star Trek

To decorativeness disconnected the database of the geekiest pumpkins connected the list, it lone seems due to thoroughly geek retired with a clash of Sci-Fi franchises.

Here we spot the Starship Enterprise battling it retired with the Millenium Falcon. We're not definite we'd privation to accidental who'd triumph successful specified a battle, we'll fto you determine that 1 for yourself. 

Writing by Rik Henderson and Adrian Willings. Originally published connected 16 April 2013.