When I was 11, my oldest brother bought a humongous pumpkin. He carved it, and put my 7-yr-old brother inside to scare the heck out of people.
The eyes made a pie, plus. I had never heard of a pie pumpkin until I got married. We always used whatever.
Sounds like fun to me I hide in a coffin the guys have for like 15 years and do the pop out