@macromeh… 1st place was a cool costume that incorporated the childs wheelchair that wore it… it was a box painted like sky and clouds and had a stuffed superman costume on top but the childs head was supermans head… admittedly it was cool and deserved 1st place
I love planning out and creating Halloween costumes, but it has been years and years since I had the opportunity to really get into it again. Last year, I spent a couple weeks engineering a Corona costume and then everything ended up being cancelled so I didn’t really get a chance to wear it anywhere. So this year I’ll make a few accessory tweaks and grace the office Halloween party as Ms(ars). Coronavirus II (aka Rona)
I’ve slowly changed my costume over the years, but I’ve dressed up as a reaper forever. The hardest part was making the wings actually move. I originally had a pair of static wings. I made my scythe on Halloween day one year. I made the robe and the cowl. I repainted the mask. It used to be blue. I made the horns.
@Kyeh so that’s actually at my friend’s house. I’m on a dead end street so I don’t get trick or treaters.
I’m scary to all ages. Teenagers get super cocky and that’s usually the ones I scared the most. I love scaring adults though. I’m silent while in costume. Some people don’t realize I’m a person. They would pass me to go up the driveway to my friend to get candy. I would very carefully walk up behind them and just stand there. When they turned around… Man, I got so many people that way.
I’d scare people that wouldn’t get out of the car by just creeping up against their windows.
The wings though… That probably gets the most. They are cable driven. I made a hinge essentially and there’s loops that I wear in my hands. People don’t usually notice them. I’ll stand and have a stare down with people and when I’ve had enough, all I’ll do is take a step forward while simultaneously pushing my scythe forward which flips my wings open as fast as I can move. When all of a sudden a 12+ wingspan appears, they usually dip. I’ve had people run down the street from me. I get a sadistic giggle every time.
@RiotDemon It’s just such a shame that your street doesn’t have a ton of kids come down. In the center of a residential area you’d have a string of cars and families streaming by (and go through a zillion dollars in candy) and probably be on the news for your decorations and spookiness.
@RiotDemon That’s just amazingly wonderful! I love the standing like a statue and then creeping up behind thing - I know I would scream! It would be cool if someone made a video of you in action.
@Kyeh we haven’t filmed anything the last few years. Normally my friend’s wife would come out and record but she hasn’t been hanging around as much. Even the year she caught it, she only recorded for maybe 20/30 minutes and it was just blind luck that person came by then.
Really depends if I want to be scary or not. It takes a really good costume not to scare the children, or I just go as I wake up in the morning and watch the little ones run in terror! (sometimes the parents run faster)
I just liked to be creative helping my kids with their costumes: robot, pirate, Robin Hood, Woody (Toy Story), Ron Weasley, Ash Ketchum, Speed Racer; even a water molecule!
For me, it depends on whether I can get into the mood to do the costume at all, a factor which has been largely absent in recent years. In the past, I’ve done some relatively complex stuff, but my enthusiasm kind of walked off the end of the pier when I had to work on the relevant weekends several years in a row, and then spent two consecutive years being the primary caregiver to someone who was slowing losing the battle with cancer. 2019 was a recovery year, mostly spent not really recovering, and 2020 was, well, 2020. I’m not even sure I know what a party looks like at this point, I have zero ideas for how to get festive, and I’m working that weekend again. So it looks like I’m skipping it once more.
@werehatrack
I know grief is a long journey where the periods of intense grief eventually get further and further apart and last a shorter and shorter period of time although the intensity, when you get hit with it, can be nearly as intense. I think it took me 6 mo to even laugh after my brother was murdered by his wife (at the time we thought it was suicide) when I was in my 20’s. It was around 2 years before I even remotely felt “normal” and didn’t think about him every single day. When dad died, even though we knew it was coming over a 4 month period, and did a lot of grieving in advance, it was the same thing. I don’t think there is any way around that. As I am sure you already know you just have to keep walking, putting one foot in front of the other, even though you don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel. I don’t think there are any short cuts. I wish you strength.
@chienfou My favorite (and simple) pun costume: Dress up in classy clothes and put a postage stamp on my forehead - when asked about my costume:
First class male.
I’m in a trick-or-treating inaccessible area so… But when kids have been here I have taken them and find the Halloween dance oddly fun. them and doing the whole “no its ok” “say trick or treat” “did you say thank you?” “Can you go back and say thank you? They were too scary? ok”
The houses that really put it on or dress up are definitely the most interesting. So hats off to your effort
I want to make a clown suit and do a makeup job with the wig and all and then finish it off with a mouthful of blood stained teeth and my whole lower face and front soaked in blood. Nobody will ever come down my street again.
Hmm…now I’m wondering if I should carry a leg from a lifelike baby doll around. Too much?
You should go up to a mall and ask the department stores if they have any broken mannequin parts they will give you… sometimes they won’t even charge you
I haven’t dressed up in years, I miss it. It was so much fun. I love putting on wigs, costumes and makeup. My dad always was really big into Halloween and got dressed up every year for work, he had some awesome costumes.
I’ve worn the same costume every year since 2013.
@PooltoyWolf The inflation mouthpiece needs to be a little lower.
@tweezak Ohoho! Actual toy has the valve under his tail.
@PooltoyWolf @tweezak
which of course made me think of this:
@chienfou @tweezak God I love that movie
@PooltoyWolf @tweezak
I know… so many classic lines and site gags.
Sadly it has been years since I have made a costume… my kid lost interest… but the last one I made won 2nd place on a local News contest
The year prior to that was the first attempt at making a costume… a minion
@Koolhandjoe Nice. If that was second place, what won first place? One of the news staff’s kids?
@macromeh… 1st place was a cool costume that incorporated the childs wheelchair that wore it… it was a box painted like sky and clouds and had a stuffed superman costume on top but the childs head was supermans head… admittedly it was cool and deserved 1st place
@Koolhandjoe Fantastic! The orange reminds me - @Carl669, are we going to see the traffic cone for Halloween?
@Koolhandjoe @macromeh Mac once lost to a kid dressed as a washing machine. Not my finest hour. LOL!
I love planning out and creating Halloween costumes, but it has been years and years since I had the opportunity to really get into it again. Last year, I spent a couple weeks engineering a Corona costume and then everything ended up being cancelled so I didn’t really get a chance to wear it anywhere. So this year I’ll make a few accessory tweaks and grace the office Halloween party as Ms(ars). Coronavirus II (aka Rona)
@bblood That’s excellent!
Super scary!
@bblood Just call yourself a variant.
I’ve slowly changed my costume over the years, but I’ve dressed up as a reaper forever. The hardest part was making the wings actually move. I originally had a pair of static wings. I made my scythe on Halloween day one year. I made the robe and the cowl. I repainted the mask. It used to be blue. I made the horns.
@RiotDemon
DAMN girl! That’s amazing!!!
@chienfou thank you! It makes me happy!
@RiotDemon
deservedly so
@RiotDemon Fantastically terrifying!
Do the little kids have the nerve to come to your door?
Also, how do move the wings?
@Kyeh so that’s actually at my friend’s house. I’m on a dead end street so I don’t get trick or treaters.
I’m scary to all ages. Teenagers get super cocky and that’s usually the ones I scared the most. I love scaring adults though. I’m silent while in costume. Some people don’t realize I’m a person. They would pass me to go up the driveway to my friend to get candy. I would very carefully walk up behind them and just stand there. When they turned around… Man, I got so many people that way.
I’d scare people that wouldn’t get out of the car by just creeping up against their windows.
The wings though… That probably gets the most. They are cable driven. I made a hinge essentially and there’s loops that I wear in my hands. People don’t usually notice them. I’ll stand and have a stare down with people and when I’ve had enough, all I’ll do is take a step forward while simultaneously pushing my scythe forward which flips my wings open as fast as I can move. When all of a sudden a 12+ wingspan appears, they usually dip. I’ve had people run down the street from me. I get a sadistic giggle every time.
@RiotDemon It’s just such a shame that your street doesn’t have a ton of kids come down. In the center of a residential area you’d have a string of cars and families streaming by (and go through a zillion dollars in candy) and probably be on the news for your decorations and spookiness.
@RiotDemon That’s just amazingly wonderful! I love the standing like a statue and then creeping up behind thing - I know I would scream! It would be cool if someone made a video of you in action.
@Kyeh sadly, there was video. Now it is gone.
@RiotDemon Oh! That IS sad!
@Kyeh breaks my heart a little. It was good too. Someone literally was running and screaming bloody murder.
@RiotDemon Wow. No chance for a repeat performance?
@Kyeh we haven’t filmed anything the last few years. Normally my friend’s wife would come out and record but she hasn’t been hanging around as much. Even the year she caught it, she only recorded for maybe 20/30 minutes and it was just blind luck that person came by then.
@RiotDemon Oh, that’s a shame.
This is as creative as I get, thanks to Walmart.
Normally, a fair amount. The past few years? I haven’t even haunted, and temps are too warm to casually dress for the season.
My last haunt gig, I was a humanoid bat. I contracted a really nasty respiratory bug. If that was the bat-human connection? I’m sorry.
Really depends if I want to be scary or not. It takes a really good costume not to scare the children, or I just go as I wake up in the morning and watch the little ones run in terror! (sometimes the parents run faster)
I just liked to be creative helping my kids with their costumes: robot, pirate, Robin Hood, Woody (Toy Story), Ron Weasley, Ash Ketchum, Speed Racer; even a water molecule!
@compunaut Speed Racer? That kid’s got class
For me, it depends on whether I can get into the mood to do the costume at all, a factor which has been largely absent in recent years. In the past, I’ve done some relatively complex stuff, but my enthusiasm kind of walked off the end of the pier when I had to work on the relevant weekends several years in a row, and then spent two consecutive years being the primary caregiver to someone who was slowing losing the battle with cancer. 2019 was a recovery year, mostly spent not really recovering, and 2020 was, well, 2020. I’m not even sure I know what a party looks like at this point, I have zero ideas for how to get festive, and I’m working that weekend again. So it looks like I’m skipping it once more.
@werehatrack
Sorry for your loss. Hope you will eventually get a chance to re-visit costuming and it will bring you some joy.
@werehatrack that sucks clearly horribly sucks.
@werehatrack
I know grief is a long journey where the periods of intense grief eventually get further and further apart and last a shorter and shorter period of time although the intensity, when you get hit with it, can be nearly as intense. I think it took me 6 mo to even laugh after my brother was murdered by his wife (at the time we thought it was suicide) when I was in my 20’s. It was around 2 years before I even remotely felt “normal” and didn’t think about him every single day. When dad died, even though we knew it was coming over a 4 month period, and did a lot of grieving in advance, it was the same thing. I don’t think there is any way around that. As I am sure you already know you just have to keep walking, putting one foot in front of the other, even though you don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel. I don’t think there are any short cuts. I wish you strength.
Totally depends on the year. Sometimes insanity other times not so much.
One of my co-workers brought her daughter in one year in a white tee shirt with a big “P” on it. She put a bunch of mascara under one eye and she was…
A black-eyed pea!
@chienfou My favorite (and simple) pun costume: Dress up in classy clothes and put a postage stamp on my forehead - when asked about my costume:
First class male.
I’m in a trick-or-treating inaccessible area so… But when kids have been here I have taken them and find the Halloween dance oddly fun. them and doing the whole “no its ok” “say trick or treat” “did you say thank you?” “Can you go back and say thank you? They were too scary? ok”
The houses that really put it on or dress up are definitely the most interesting. So hats off to your effort
I want to make a clown suit and do a makeup job with the wig and all and then finish it off with a mouthful of blood stained teeth and my whole lower face and front soaked in blood. Nobody will ever come down my street again.
Hmm…now I’m wondering if I should carry a leg from a lifelike baby doll around. Too much?
You should go up to a mall and ask the department stores if they have any broken mannequin parts they will give you… sometimes they won’t even charge you
definitely add the baby doll leg it finishes up nicely or a bloody sledge hammer
I haven’t dressed up in years, I miss it. It was so much fun. I love putting on wigs, costumes and makeup. My dad always was really big into Halloween and got dressed up every year for work, he had some awesome costumes.
POPSOCKETS! SPROCKETS! DAVY CROCKETT! AWESOME!
Eh, got a few in rotation. Star Trek, Queen of Hearts, witch, Louise, cat.
None.
Everything is better in costume!
@dptalia
I love it when SWMBO wears her “Eve before the Fall” costume.
This year’s a wash but started on next year’s starting the day as a clown, leaving as a werewolf