Ever since I was a little boy (you just read that in Morgan Freeman’s voice, didn’t you?), Halloween has been a favorite holidays. For quite a few years, though, I got out of the habit of noticing it, an adult blindspot that was brought to a screaming halt by my daughter suddenly wanting to be a princess, superhero, or Captain Marvelous. (One year, she insisted on being a steampunk fairy princess, with winged goggles that we still have floating about the house somewhere.) Last year, my wife put on a striped shirt, beret and Paul Stanley’s makeup to become ‘The French Kiss”, while I went Tom Cavanaugh, if he wore a goatee and were much heavier. I still remember the joy of a good Halloween costume, though, like when Richard Castle (played by Nathan Fillion) put on a costume of Mal Duncan (played by Nathan Fillion,) only to have his daughter ask him “Didn’t you wear that thing like, five years ago?”, leading us to today’s greasepaint-and-pointy-ears query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) offers one shiny nickel to anyone who identifies the costume idea embodied in today’s header image, asking: What awesome Halloween costume idea would you most like to have tried?
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We don’t have Halloween like yours, with costumes, pumpkins etc. but if we did, well made Darth Vader costume would have been the best thing ever when I was a kid, which was in the 80’s.
I’d like to do an Aquaman or a Snake Eyes one of these days.
Except for really extravagant ideas (such as extremely complicated costumes or costumes with special mechanics like a fully functional Skeksis or Hutt or something), there isn’t a lot that I regret. If I want to be something, I find a way to do it (even if it is the cheap option involving cardboard, construction paper and other “found around the house” items).
But there is one idea that I still plan to do some time in the future for a Halloween party or con, but haven’t figured out the logistics of it yet: A Mothra inspired Tokusatsu hero (like a Super Sentai ranger/Power Ranger or Kamen Rider).
I could do a killer Ramirez/untransformed Kyoryu Cyan?