Google Carves Out Six Humongous Pumpkins for Halloween Doodle

As in every year for the past decade or so, Google is running a Halloween themed doodle. And this year, it really went all out. While regularly it just runs a simple image doodle, or perhaps an animated one, this year it's taking pumpkin carving to the next level.

The company got hold of six huge pumpkins, some over 1,000 pounds, 453 Kg, and carved out the Google logo and letters into them.

"To celebrate Halloween this year, the doodle team wanted to capture that fascinating transformation that takes place when carving a pumpkin," Sophia Foster-Dimino, a Doodler at Google, wrote.

"Instead of picking up a few pumpkins from the grocery store, however, we decided to work on six giant pumpkins, specially delivered from nearby Half Moon Bay (some weighing well over 1,000 pounds)," she explained.

Googlers then got to work carving out the humongous pumpkins, but also messing about, showing off their Halloween costume, including a Pegman one.

"What you see is a timelapse video of the approximately eight hours we spent carving in the middle of our Mountain View, Calif. campus," she explained the video.

"Googlers got into the Halloween spirit as well—you can see their costumed cameos if you have a quick eye," she added.

It's clearly the most spectacular Halloween doodle to date, but it's only running in the US. Granted, Halloween is largely an American holiday, but it's being celebrated more and more around the world.

You too can create your own Google-themed pumpkins, if you haven't already. The Google Maps team has made available several carving sheets for pumpkins with Google-Maps related themes, Pegman, the Google Earth logo, the Google Maps pin and the Schetch Up logo.

If you hurry, you may even be able to enter the competition Google is holding to determine the best designs and showcase them online for the world to see.