To all you pumpkin-carving connoisseurs and jack-o'-lantern maestros out there, thank you for your submissions! Your pumpkins really blew us away, making our decision all the more difficult. So on top of unveiling the triumphant "King or Queen of Carving", we've gathered some of other favorites too, so you can love them as much as we did.
Winner! Bob Vila's First Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest
From movie villains to Mickey Mouse, cannibal pumpkins to true works of art, we finally found the ultimate King of Carving—and a few honorable mentions to boot.
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Honorable Mentions
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Best Kid-Friendly Pumpkin
America's favorite rodent makes a special Halloween appearance on this fantastic pumpkin. It may not be the scariest on the block, but it's certain to have been the biggest hit with the kids.
Rick Brink
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Best Use of Pumpkin Stem
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Hungriest Jack O' Lantern
Sometimes a pumpkin gets a grumble in his belly, which can only be soothed by the crunch of another pumpkin. Some call him a cannibal; others, a gourmet. What we call him is a super creative jack-o'-lantern.
Joe Olinger
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Best Use of a Funkin
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Biggest Fangs
Three-dimensional and quite frightening, this Cyclops pumpkin took our competition into high gear. With a single eye that glows when the lights are dimmed, this strangely haunting creation probably scared the pants off young trick-or-treaters on Halloween night.
Eric Henderson
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Jack O' Lantern Most Likely to Give Us Actual Nightmares
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Most Intricate
Not one, not two, but four ghoulish faces adorn this fantastic pumpkin-cum-sculpture. Halloween, schmalloween—this work of vegetable art deserves to be in a museum!
Mike Craghead
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Runner Up: Most Steampunk
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Winner! Bob Vila's King of Carving
Congratulations to James Hall, King of Carving! Creative, realistic, and a little mind-boggling, his pumpkin functions as both sculpture and mask—that's right, he's actually wearing it on his head. "It was lighter than I expected," James tells us. Woah!
James Hall
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