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Make Your Own Fandango Puppet

With Halloween just around the corner, it is easy to become overwhelmed with options for designing a costume for your child. With the new `100% Fan-Made` Fandango Bag Puppet Contest taking place, you could not only win a year`s worth of movie ticket`s, you could also use the idea for your homemade costume. If you win, your puppet will even be featured in a commercial spot.

To enter the contest, Bag Puppet-makers should e-mail digital photos of their designs to Fandango no later than Halloween morning (October 31st, 2005, 9:00 a.m. PST). Fans will be able to vote online for their favorite `100% Fan-Made` puppet entries during the first weeks of November, and winners will be announced on November 19th, 2005.

Fandango, the nation`s largest movie ticketing service, is celebrating the widespread fan following for its Bag Puppet campaign (now in its third year) with its `100% Fan-Made` contest. The Grand Prize winner will receive movie tickets for a year, plus a role for his or her winning puppet in Fandango`s 2006 - 2007 advertising campaign. Runners-up will receive $250 worth of movie tickets.

First introduced in 2003, the colorful Fandango Bag Puppets took on a life of their own, with hundreds of fans contacting Fandango with examples of their own home-made creations. To date, the puppets have inspired Halloween costumes, school art projects, short film spoofs and even museums events. And so the concept for the `100% Fan-Made` contest was born.