The doomed phablet might have been discontinued by its manufacturer, but it makes a great (if risky) fancy dress option

Everyone knows that the best Halloween costumes are the topical ones. And usually the worst, too.

On top of the obvious ones – there are going to be a lot of Trumps and Clintons hitting the streets at the end of this month – there’s the all-important meme selection to pay attention to.

Harambe costumes are easy enough: just dress up as a gorilla and carry a doll. Ken Bone, who is a man who asked a question, requires nothing more than a red cardigan and an air of bafflement. But the Galaxy Note 7 is harder to pull off.

That did not deter Imgur user excit3d.

The costume.

Yes, that’s a smoking stack of Note 7 boxes. The phone, which has been on fire (not figuratively) for several weeks now, has officially crossed the threshold to “Halloween costume”.

As well as giving a brief breakdown on how he made it (spoilers: a lot of empty boxes and a tube for blowing smoke through them), excit3d also described his fiancée’s matching costume: “The finished costume will add caution tape and my fiancée is dressing as a firefighter and she will be following me around with a fire extinguisher.”

It might not be such a good idea to copy him unless you’re pretty sure you won’t need to go in a public space wearing your costume, though. Even online, people have confused his costume for a fake suicide vest to the point where he had to post a disclaimer.

“The Galaxy Note 7 sizzles and catches on fire, which is really shitty but it doesn’t ‘explode’ like everyone in the media is saying. So though it may LOOSELY resemble a suicide vest, that was not my intent.” Please do not get shot by police who think you are wearing a suicide vest. That would be a bad Halloween for all.