Becoming Ron Burgundy (Anchorman) w/Covert Microphone Flask

I. Love. Anchorman.

Ever since the movie came out on my birthday in 2004, I have wanted to become Ron Burgundy for Halloween. I gave up on this dream because I lacked the most noticeable piece of his persona - the burgundy blazer........until 2009 when the seas parted and there it sat in the salvation army.....THE blazer that would soon transform me into the Scotch loving newscaster.

Also, I must say that I had very little money to do this, not all the right tools/software and definitely not the foresight to take pictures of the process so bare with me . Hopefully I have enough to show you how I did it.

Hopefully there are some other Anchorman fans reading this that will enjoy and maybe use some of this stuff.

-Tom-

Step 1 Gather Materials

Clothing:

-burgundy blazer (luck - $4 at Salvation Army)
-tie/white collared shirt/khaki pants/dress shoes (you should have these)

Wig/Mustache:

-both from a Halloween store and slightly modified
-costume glue from the Halloween store

Microphone Flask:

-electrical tape
-hot glue gun
-glue stick
-microphone windscreen ($1 at guitar center)
-a sheet of foam core poster board (cheap from the grocery store)
-Channel 4 Logo (see below - found via Google and edited via Paint)
-any cylindrical bottle of water (the best shape I found was a brand name “Metro Water” because it wasn’t too thick and had smooth sides). This was VERY important because I didn’t want the microphone handle to look suspicious when going into bars on Halloween night since it was full of….umm….”water”

PressPass:

-cardboard
-logos/press pass template/real Ron Burgundy picture (see below - found via Google and edited via Paint)
-clear plastic badge holder (no idea – got it from work)

Coffee Mug:

-plainest white coffee mug you can find
-paper/logos (see below - found via Google and edited via Paint)
-clear packing tape

Optional:

I am blond and I needed brown eyebrows/sideburns. Keeping with the money saving mindset, the brown coloring at the Halloween store was expensive so I just bought brown eye shadow to temporarily color my eyebrows/sideburns brown. You may or may not need this but now you know in case you do.

Comments

[monkeyrevenge]

Thanks Tom for the post

[DDonohue23]

Great work. I thank you in advance for the logos I'm going to use on this year's costume.

[nebulize]

Hey! Do you live in Austin? I think that I have a photo of you and Champ from last Halloween!

[carpfluff]

Milk was a bad choice!

[thepaul1993]

I love lamp :)

[nickodemus]

IMO, you could make an entire instructable just from the mic flask. Nice work.

[kelseymh]

This is awesome!  A few months early for the Hallowe'en contest, but you can always add photos and videos of your exploits...

[TLMATX]

Thanks! Yea I wasn't thinking about contests, I'm actually just really LATE posting it from last year haha