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It's hard to believe, but yet another Halloween passed us by. It was perhaps a bit quieter than we are used to, but fun nonetheless. And, in some respects, it was so insane that we still talk about it, even after every piece of the night's candy has been devoured.
Today we're doing that thanks to Ford and its Product Design Director Ryan McManus. You might know the name in relation with Halloween because last year McManus came up with the idea of turning the frunk of a Mustang Mach-E into a candy bar of sorts, complete with added teeth, to make kids feel they're reaching into the mouth of a monster.
Well, McManus took things a lot of steps further this year, as he devised something Ford proudly calls Dr. Frunkenstein. It's an F-150 Lightning we're talking about, with candy in its frontal storage compartment, but also with a few extra touches that make it a sight to remember.
The teeth we get to see at the front are the same ones deployed last year on the Mach-E, but everything else on it, all the elements that make for this incredible visual spectacle, is new.
First up, we get a TV placed in the frunk, facing the opening. It was used to play a video loop of swirling mist and a lightning storm in red. Above it floats a curtain of smoke, made to look scary by means of a strobe light.
From underneath the truck lights spew a purple haze on the ground, which flickers to the tunes of the music that's played from the inside.
The highlight of the Halloween build, if you ask me, is the set of eight-foot-long (2.4 meters) tentacles that reach out from inside the truck, making their way into our world through the side and rear windows. We don't know what they're made of, or who actually made them, but they sure do add a certain creepy dimension to the whole thing.
Ford says the truck as you see it, which, as far as we can tell, is a personal build by McManus with no direct involvement from the carmaker itself, was shown prior to this year's Halloween at a school event somewhere in Massachusetts. On October 31, it was used as a display in a neighborhood somewhere in the same state.
The kids going around it trick-or-treating were probably more impressed by the large amount of candy packed in the thing's frunk.
It's clear now that Ford will use every avenue at its disposal to promote the new range of vehicles, and that means this is probably not the last creation of this kind we're going to see. Looking forward to what Ford employees have in mind for Christmas. A Dark Horse sleigh, perhaps?
Well, McManus took things a lot of steps further this year, as he devised something Ford proudly calls Dr. Frunkenstein. It's an F-150 Lightning we're talking about, with candy in its frontal storage compartment, but also with a few extra touches that make it a sight to remember.
The teeth we get to see at the front are the same ones deployed last year on the Mach-E, but everything else on it, all the elements that make for this incredible visual spectacle, is new.
First up, we get a TV placed in the frunk, facing the opening. It was used to play a video loop of swirling mist and a lightning storm in red. Above it floats a curtain of smoke, made to look scary by means of a strobe light.
From underneath the truck lights spew a purple haze on the ground, which flickers to the tunes of the music that's played from the inside.
The highlight of the Halloween build, if you ask me, is the set of eight-foot-long (2.4 meters) tentacles that reach out from inside the truck, making their way into our world through the side and rear windows. We don't know what they're made of, or who actually made them, but they sure do add a certain creepy dimension to the whole thing.
Ford says the truck as you see it, which, as far as we can tell, is a personal build by McManus with no direct involvement from the carmaker itself, was shown prior to this year's Halloween at a school event somewhere in Massachusetts. On October 31, it was used as a display in a neighborhood somewhere in the same state.
The kids going around it trick-or-treating were probably more impressed by the large amount of candy packed in the thing's frunk.
It's clear now that Ford will use every avenue at its disposal to promote the new range of vehicles, and that means this is probably not the last creation of this kind we're going to see. Looking forward to what Ford employees have in mind for Christmas. A Dark Horse sleigh, perhaps?
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