I would have to put this pumpkin right up with my Dark Dsurion from 2006 as one of my best carvings.

I also added landing bays into the Death Star.  If you want to carve this yourself, go to the Carving the Death Star tutorial.

I contacted Molly about making a carving out of her Autumn Red.  This was probably my most complicated pumpkin this year, due to the hair, the leggings and the wings of course. Molly Harrison, the artist, asked that nobody use this for commercial purposes.

The latest Eragon book, Brisingr has a wonderful dragon on the cover,  done by John Jude Palencar, who also did the previous two covers.  This pattern took me about 8 hours to create, and another 12 to carve.

I originally planned on doing my Robby the Robot pattern on this 89 pound pumpkin, but ran out of time.  So instead, I went back to my Eastern Dragon from 2003-2004.  I think it worked out well.

Here's my castle pumpkin for the year, from Lord of the Rings, Barad-dûr, or the Dark Tower which houses the Eye of Sauron.  I started it out from a sketching I found online, but I ended up modifying this a lot.  I never really did get a final pattern to work with.

Gandalf from the Mines of Moria made for a great cut-through pattern.

My nephew, Joseph, got into the pumpkin carving act this year.  This is his third pumpkin carving ever! Truly great stuff for that.

Wall-E was one of the really terrific movies this past year.  I did patterns for both (but can't share 'cause they're Disney).  I carved Eve, while my wife Nam did Wall-E. Everyone loved these.

This wonderful anime makes a terrific cut-through pumpkin.  I just love the shadows on this picture. Carved by my wife, Nam.  Iron Giant got far more luvin than I thought he would.  Many know and love him.

My nephew, Joseph, carved a wonderful Joker pumpkin. Many found this to be their favorite.

Joseph also carved a cut-through of the Silver-Surfer. He looked great in different colors.

My wife, Nam, carved Batman nemesis, Harley-Quinn

My sister-in-law, Teresa, also got into the act. Here's her first and only carving, Hellboy.

I took a stab at an Indiana Jones shadow pumpkin.  This really went over well.

My son, Justin, has really started to come into his own with pumpkin carving.  He did a really cool Demon Skull pattern.

Justin also carved the game cover, Diablo II.  I did the original Brom painting last year.

Justin also whipped out a quick Spawn pumpkin from a fairly shoddy pattern on my part.

My nephew Joseph also carved Bane from the graphic novel, Vampire Wars.

My wife Nam did a nice version of my Forbidden Planet monster.  This is where he tries to break through the electric fence.

You always need a pirate pumpkin.  This year, Nam carved a nice Skull & Crossbones pattern from a guy named Sage.

Pinocchio made for a really nice carve.  A wonderful carver on the carving pumpkins board had done this previously, and I thought I'd take a shot at it myself.

If Harry Potter was a cat, perhaps this is how he'd look.  This one got lots of ooohhs and aaaahs and a few favorite votes.

We meant to carve this last year but ran out of time.  Nam did a great carving of Dumbo.

This is my nephew Joseph's first carving. Sponge Bob is always one of the top pumpkins, and this year was no different.  Joseph did a great job.

This was my son Justin's first carve of the year.

Sarah's carving of Harry Plopper was definitely a hit.  Lots of kids loved him.

This was Sarah's first carve.  Not the scariest looking ghost, ey?

I didn't get a picture of this one until Halloween night.  Unfortunately, the pumpkin started rotting earlier than that, so we ended up freezing it.  The effect was pretty neat though.

The crowds were overwhelming.  During peak times we were averaging somewhere between a constant 40-70 folks.  It was so bad that when one of my wife's work associates came, it took me a while to find her - in my own front yard!

The shot in the upper right was a display we made for the Fox 5 News crew to get a night shot of the pumpkins prior to our interview.