A big crowd filled the Seaside Civic Convention Center parking lot Sunday, and a very, very big pumpkin.

This year’s pumpkin, grown by Jim Sherwood of Pacific Giant Vegetable Growers in Mulino, weighed in at 1328 1/2 pounds — about 400 pounds more than last year’s. The club specializes in giant pumpkins, tomatoes, gourds and marrow, a type of zucchini, Sherwood said.

Crane operators Ben Olson and Chuck Godwin, both of Seaside, dropped the pumpkin from 40 feet as a crowd of hundreds stood by with cell phone cameras raised.

The splat could resounded across the parking lot, as families skipped away from chunks of splattered pumpkin.

The drop was among Halloween Happenin’s events presented by the Seaside Downtown Development Association, together with Trunk or Treat, the Pet Parade, Halloween Dance Party and Witches’ Paddle.