Do you have your costume yet? Better yet, do you have your kids’ costumes yet? Or are they still deciding between a Smurf and a ninja, or between Smurfette and a mermaid? Yes, it is that time of year again, when we plunge merrily into make-believe for Halloween, seemingly right around the corner. eBay can help your planning, of course, and has created a Halloween mini-site full of great ideas to inspire your inner child.
But according to the news, one of the most popular Halloween costume and rubber mask combinations this year is for actor Charlie Sheen. We have seen a few masks for sale at giant Halloween superstores, and even some of the “usual” Charlie Sheen masks for sale on eBay. But we ran across an eBay Top Shared Halloween mask that we must tell you about. Take a look at the so-called ultimate silicone Charlie Sheen Mask “Winner”
The Charlie Sheen “Winner” mask being auctioned is one of only four made by Landon Meier of Hyperflesh. Of the other three, one is owned by Charlie Sheen, one is in the private collection of legendary FX artist Tom Savini, and the last one is held by Comedy Central Network.
From the auction description:
- “Winner” is made of a high-end silicone called “Dragon Skin”, a Smooth-On product noted for it’s superior tear strength and durability. Silicone is a preferred product in the FX industry due to it’s translucent likeness to real flesh.
- Landon’s own unique method of embedding varying pigment and texture into the silicone creates a new level of realistic skin.
- Hair is meticulously hand punched for eyebrows, eyelashes and frontal hairline.
- pupils are cut out for seeing. Clear lenses over irises create believable looking eyeballs.
- “Winner” is signed and numbered. ONLY 20 OR LESS WILL EVER BE MADE.
- Comes with optional Gold Teeth!!!
It’s an amazing likeness of the actor. See a video featuring the mask here.
Unless you have been living under a rock without access to any media in the last year, you have heard of Charlie Sheen’s antics after he was fired from the show Two and a Half Men on March 7, 2011. To recap, in early 2011 after months of allegations of drug and alcohol abuse, increasingly bizarre behavior, and visits to rehab, Sheen made derogatory comments about Two and a Half Men‘s creator Chuck Lorre during a radio program. Apparently, this was the straw that broke the camel’s back, and the network cancelled the show and fired Sheen, even though the season had only four episodes left to shoot.
After Sheen’s dismissal from the show, he took to various different social media channels with a vengeance to publicly berate Chuck Lorre and promote himself. His very first tweet on Twitter, once he had verified his account, was “Winning…! Choose your own vice” which immediately became an Internet meme, and the hashtag #winning became a top trending term on Twitter for weeks. It was hard to tune in to any kind of media without being overwhelmed with a number of Sheenisms. Some of our favorites include:
- “I am on a drug. It’s called Charlie Sheen. It’s not available. If you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.”
- “I have a 10,000-year-old brain and the boogers of a 7-year-old. That’s how I describe myself.”
- “I closed my eyes and made it so with the power of my mind, and unlearned 22 years of fiction … the fiction of AA. It’s a silly book written by a broken-down fool.”
- “I just don’t do it. I will not believe that if I do something then I have to follow a certain path because it was written for normal people. People who aren’t special. People who don’t have tiger blood and Adonis DNA.”
Although we can’t guarantee anyone Adonis DNA, were were able to find a couple of items related to tiger blood on eBay, if you want to round out your Charlie Sheen costume.
In a recent interview, Charlie Sheen refutes allegations that the time in his life following his dismissal from Two and a Half Men was the real thing. “He said he regretted his ‘silly’ slogans at the time, including his apparent obsession with ‘tiger blood’.
‘The tiger blood thing – it was so silly and people took it so seriously and I figured, “All right – I’ll continue to give the people what they want”,’ he said. ‘Looking back, I don’t think I would trade it, but there are portions of it I would have amended a little bit.”
Unfortunately for Mr. Sheen, the Internet never forgets, although it sometimes forgives. While this year some lucky person will walk away with this remarkable mask and get to be Charlie Sheen for Halloween, we can only guess at what it would be like to be Charlie Sheen everyday… #notwinning.
Related link:
The Best 2011-Inspired Halloween Costume Ideas: Part 1 – from eBay’s The Inside Source
This mask is awsome. A must have for halloween. Winning!!!!!!
The mask is cool, but way to big. It looks like a giant bobble head. Save your money
As Charlie Sheen would say, “Boy I know my way around latex and this latex is “WINNING!”
@Jose, It’s actually silicone, buuuut I’m sure he could say the same thing about that too