Halloween Costumes

Holy moly, it even comes with the Bauer satchel.

Hmmm, bottle of wine cooler or satchel? This is gonna be tough.

I've been planning to go as Johnny from the Karate Kid for about the last 3 months.. had to buy a hoodie off Ebay with a huge Cobra Kai patch on the back and the little fist patch "strike first, strike hard, no mercy!" for the front . I was going to cannibalize the patches from the hoodie and sew them onto a black, sleeveless karate gi, then get a blonde, feather-haired looking wig and a headband and my transformation would be complete.

Problem is, the only retailer I could find that carried good quality, black sleeve-less karate gi top's, has my purchase on back-order and doesn't think the piece will come in till about November.. which completely screws me over. Curse you to hell, Century Martial Arts!!

So now it looks like I'm just suiting up as Batman for the upteenth time..

I'm thinking of trying to go as Velma from Scooby Doo. I tried once before but couldn't get the costume together (rural Texas doesn't have great hippie clothing in the resale shops). Hopefully the AIDS-fundraising shops in LA will have a better selection for me!

I'd get that costume but THERE'S NOT ENOUGH TIME!

If you're man enough.

Why is Jack Bauer a zombie?

My favourites would be these:

http://www.zoogstercostumes.com/landing/schoolgirl.php

http://www.zoogstercostumes.com/land...yhalloween.php

God I love Halloween. It's a rapist's dream day. Not that I'm a rapist or anything... you know.. cause... ah.. er... fuck.

Brendan, you've made a lot of jokes like that. Is there anything you'd like to share with the class?

The sexywhatever costumes can bite me. In the recent past, I have been -

~ The Mad Hatter
~ Hester Prynne (I knew I was saving that Cabbage Patch Doll for something!)
~ A librarian (yes, I did actually wear something other than my own clothes for this one)
~ Bonnie after being apprehended by the Texas Rangers (Dave was a smashing Clyde)
~ and Jack White (Dave was Meg)

I have no idea what I'm going as this year. School has me very, very busy, so I haven't put much thought into it. I was thinking of being lazy and going as Hermione, since I've kind of got the hair for it, but it seems like such a cop-out.

I've been watching too many Eastwood movies.

How about accessories for the Bauer costume. Do you think carrying a telephone line is a bit much?

I'll probably pull out my Pimp suit....Many muppets died in the making of this suit.

I don't think I'm doing anything this year... if I am, it's getting late for anything really creative.

My two favorite costumes I've done in the past were:

1. Senior year of high school - Hell's Grannies from Monty Python. I had to improvise on a few things that I didn't have at home. I wore an old lady dress, hair kerchief, little white gloves, and my brother's army jacket with "HELL'S GRANNIES" on the back in white medical tape, with assorted rock buttons all over the front, a cute little old lady handbag, and a fake cigarette dangling out of my mouth all night. Old lady makeup and hair, of course. My best friend was similarly attired.

2. Senior year of college - Keith Richards. It was very much cheating, as the semester before I had taken a stage makeup class, and along with the textbook, we had to purchase a professional makeup kit. My hair was pretty short at the time, and with the makeup kit, it was really an easier costume than you'd think. I messed up my hair and just left it sticking out all over. With the kit, I then did a bump on the bridge of my nose, salt and pepper hair, creases and lines around my face, general unhealthy pallor, dark purple circles under my eyes, and with a stippling sponge, some pretty cool razor stubble. One single small hoop earring in my ear, unlit cigarette hanging out of my mouth, black jeans, black boots, a white button up shirt, a black suit jacket (the outfit: think how he's dressed in the video for "Start me up"), a bottle of booze, and my roommate's guitar slung across my back. The theme of the party was "Come as your favorite British rock stars", and frankly, I'm not pretty enough to have gone as Nick Rhodes (that one's for Summer Smile). Plus, more evidence of cheating - in the stage makeup class the year before, one of our projects was "Make yourself up like someone famous", and provide a picture to compare. So I had already done the Keith makeup for the grade - got an A+, but grossed my professor the hell out.

I wish I had pictures of both, but I'm pretty proud of how they turned out on both occassions.

I'm slated to attend a party where the theme is '80s cartoons. I'm thinking of throwing on some ninja gear, a pair of ski goggles, and some toy guns, and Voila I'll be Snake Eyes. Any suggestions? Thoughts?

Lisa, similar to your Keith Richards costume (although yours sounds far more elaborate), I went as Dead Sid Vicious during my first year of law school. Belethedheliel, my friends and I went as the Scooby gang during our first year of law school. I'll try to throw some pictures up if I get a chance.

Why not don something like this...

The Chucks are what really make that costume for me.

That's just because looking at the guy's package made your palms sweat.

I think that might be the gayest thing I've ever seen. And I've seen some seriously gay things.

I'm thinking of something like this:
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I was probably going to dress up as Dr. House. It's a pretty easy costume to make plus I'll have excuse to pop pain pills.

I think what REALLY puts it "over the top gay" is the little green mitt he has on that's supposed to be Lion-O's bad-ass glove. Well, that and his bulging package.

I just noticed that he has NO body hair whatsoever. *shudder*

That's not his package. That's where he's hiding Snarf.

My buddy and I are getting ready to bulid a vacuum form table so I can bulid the costume I plan on wearing to DragonCon next year.




Yeah.....We're just a bit ambitious

To crib from EdHocken, I could pull off the Ninth Doctor - just has to shave off my goatee, and lose my glasses. Alas, no parties around me to crash, er go to, so....

Most elaborate/best costume I ever did was Ghost Rider - had the leather jacket, spikes, chains, biker boots, etc. Took a Don King wig and spray painted it yellow and red for fire - worked out so well I wore it to two Halloween parties that week. At the second party, I first met a now-ex girlfriend - she was dressed as a witch, a most ironic piece of foreshadowing I ever did see.

If you succeed - I'll take two!

That's actually kind of brilliant. As soon as I read you went as Ghost Rider I was all.. "how'd you do the flames, smart guy?"

How indeed!

If I succeed I'm quiting my job.

I'm trying to get my buddy to do the new "Iron Spider" spider man suit.....but for some reason he's got this crazy idea to do the giant teddy bear from Akira(he pulled out the best V from Vendetta costume i've seen yet.

If the Iron Man suit works out we'll be moving on the Halo Spartan suits(And energy swords) as well as the battle suits Fenix wears in Gears of War.

EDIT: Actually if the Iron Man suit works the second project might be a WAR MACHINE suit.

A War Machine suit would pique my interest. How about a child sized War Machine, DJ? My 3 year old loves dressing up as superhero's. He already has two little spandex Spider-man suits with mask, gloves and boot covers. He has the red/blue and the symbiote version.

Well do understand that the odds are it's gonna take me months just to do this....I won't even be able to do the mold of my torso until the beginning of next year(When I hope to be under 200lbs)....I've never done anything like this and while my buddy has some experiance it's definatly gonna be a trial and error process.

However I never even thought about doing a child size suit.....That's a brilliant idea.

Thanks, Trejo - took me forever to come up with that idea, until I went to a costume shop with my best friend, and the wig was staring me in the face. I was going to use some foam rubber or something and cut flames originally; that or set my head on fire.

Ed, I know, Halloween hits on a Wednesday, so any parties will most likely hit on the weekends prior or after. Sadly, my best friend's out of town and isn't doing any parties this year. My co-workers are older than I am, and live way too far away, so it'll be me watching a ton of horror flicks back-to-back until I pass out (how I wish I had an HD TV so I could get Monsters HD!!!).

Hippie, after you pull off Iron Man, ya gotta do Iron Monger.

Ok let's see what we've got so far.

Iron Man

Master Chief

War Machine(Adult and Child size)

Iron Monger

Bender(A friend of mine has been wanting to do one for years....His Gir costume was one of the best i've ever seen....Anyone that went to DragonCon a few years ago saw it.....Cause it's fucking huge.)

Gears of War battlesuit

Turns out i'm actually good at this I may not have to deal with the fucking strip clubs anymore.

If you can pull all of that off you should just go into Special effects working on costumes like that.

No shit.

I'm thinking big of course....But I have the time....Other people smarter than me with knowledge and exp on this....Money isn't a real issue to start this up(I was stunned at how cheap you can buy a vacuum form table....as well as how cheap it is to MAKE one) and after 15 years as a DJ....I need a new challenge.

I've always wanted to find a girl to go with who'd dress up like Annie Hall (vest, sunglasses and hat), and I'd just wear a tweed blazer with some big dark-rimmed glasses and go as Woody Allen.

Too bad my gf's in NY this year. bah.

Yeah, it must get so tough spinning records for a living.

*Little Orphan Annie dances by*
"It's a hard knock life for us,
It's a hard knock life for us,
'Stead a treated, we get tricked,
'Stead a kisses, we get kicked,
It's a hard knock life!"

Actually I haven't spun a record in over a decade.....I'm uber lazy....I just point and click.

Seriously.....Everyone thinks I got the cool rock and roll job with strippers and drugs and firetrucks and shit(ok all that part is true). But I have to deal with usually about 10 strippers.....that breaks down to about 59 different personalities....Oh and when you get that many women working together....Let's just say they all sync up their monthly friend together....Yeah a dozen women PMSing and drinking....Just thinking about it makes me wanna Benoit myself.

6 days a week stuck in this pit.....Dealing with every backward fuck on the planet....My girlfriend is pissed cause I don't spend enough time with her....I haven't played Halo 3 in over a week....I just sit here surfing the net trying to find a way to nuke this place from orbit.

The boards convinced me to go as William 'D-Fens' Foster in my latest discussion of Falling Down. I plan on saying " I'm an American and you're a sick asshole." to pretty much everyone I meet. And if insulting random people ends up getting a ton of people pissed off and yelling at me, I'll look hurt and say "...I'm the bad guy?"

My wife and I are going as Fred & Wilma Flintstone. Which works really well, since both of our body types match up to the cartoon characters.

Do you guys typically buy or make your own? Ours are home-made, as I think it just feels wrong to buy a costume. Too little effort. DJ's got the right idea. Good luck with that one.

Yes....And a nice Pastrami sandwich.

I buy alot of stuff but I don't buy a costume....My pimp suit is a total Hot Topic ensemble....yeah I know Hot Topic sucks ass....But for a brief(Very Brief) moment they actually had some decent shit.

I got a black furry kid rock style pimp jacket.....Red velvet pirate shirt and the topper was the furry pants....Anytime I wore it all the girls would run up and ask if they could pet my pants....Yeah I went there.

Sadly I lost the furry pants a few years ago and the outfit just wasn't the same....But about 2 months ago while my buddy was out finding material for his V costume he found some great fur material....Took a old pair of jeans....Some Fabric tac and voila a new pair of pet-me-pants.

Brought the pimp back out this past weekend at Necronomicon in Tampa....Fur Jacket....Velvet Shirt....Fur covered jeans....Did I mention it was about 86 degrees in Tampa this past weekend....AT NIGHT!!!!!!

I swear I lost about 12 pound just wearing that shit.


EDIT......HOORAY SANDWICH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Carmen Sandiego would be a good female throwback costume.

Carmen Sandiego is an international prostitute.