Legendary Costume Contest 2009

Aquarium Man Costume 
For Halloween I wanted to be the deep-sea diver aquarium man that releases bubble to aerate the water. When I was a kid I always wanted one of those plastic ...

Terminator T-650 Costume 
This is my Terminator costume I made this year. It is made out of card board tubes, poster board and styrofoam. It is connected to my back by a metal rod ...

Tim Burton's Mad Hatter Costume 
My girlfriend and I saw the movie trailer for the new Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland movie. We saw Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter in the movie and decided ...

Where The Wild Things Are Costumes 
Let the wild rumpus start!

My awesome husband, Ewan Anderson, made both the Carol & Max costumes seen in the movie version of Where The Wild Things ...

Headless Harry Potter Costume 
Over the years my son has received numerous comments on his resemblance to Harry Potter. Unfortunately, he has never wanted to be him for Halloween because ...

Bowser Costume 
Bowser SMASH!!!

This was the first time I ever picked up a needle. My costume turn out really well I think.

This is a homemade Bowser costume. One ...

Animal and Miss Piggy from The Muppets Couple Costume 
After going back and forth on costume ideas (Halloween is a big deal to me, my boyfriend - not so much!) So, he agreed that if he was dressing up, he was ...

Dark Knight Batman Costume 
This is my 2009 Dark Knight Batman costume all homemade. The main materials used in the making of this costume are paper, fiberglass, and aluminum.

The ...

Undead and Beheaded Marie Antoinette Costume 
This costume was something I found others had done. There were plenty of ideas/photos posted online, but I wanted to take it a few steps further. I watched ...

Vixen Pirate Wench Costume 
My fiancé and I have been putting this costume together to go along with his Jack Sparrow costume .

I wanted something sexy but at the same time not ...

Never Neverland Family Costume 
Never Neverland! My son, Elliott, really wanted to be Peter Pan for Halloween so we went along with a theme. I was Wendy, my husband Bill was Captain ...

"Blue Steel" - A Transformer Costume 
I began constructing this costume in June of 2009. The technical challenge of creating a working transformer greatly appealed to me, although it did turn ...

Evil Zombie Doctor Costume 
In a dark corner of the world, the dead are being created by a Mad scientist. Once a doctor himself, he attempted to raise an army of undead to serve ...

AVP Predator Costume 
My custom is a one of a kind latex costume of an AVP Predator from the popular movies Alien vs Predator.

Airbrush painting on the skin, fishing net ...

Lady Gaga Costume 
This is my take on Lady GaGa - a combination between her Poker Face and LoveGame videos plus the glasses from her album cover for "The Fame."

I made ...

Iron Man Costume 
My Ironman costume which is the MKV, which is the Extremis armor from the comic book series. But this build is the movie version of the Extremis. Only ...

Jack Sparrow Costume 
Where has all the rum gone?

Another popular Halloween costume, I set out to duplicate in the most accurate way possible the look of this iconic cinema ...

Edward Scissorhands Costume 
Sure, it's been done thousands of times and by thousands of people. But the temptation to do an extraordinary costume justice AND deal with the difficulty ...

Hindu God Ganesh Costume 
This piece turned out to be a art piece even though its a costume. Its made from 100 percent recycled materials like cardboard, duct tape, carpet underlayment,...

Barbie in a Box Costume 
I’ve always been a fan of Barbie and I used to dress up as Barbie when I was little. I saw the Barbie in a box costume online before and wanted to make ...

Boba Fett - The Bounty Hunter Costume 
This was made from formable plastic, molded and then painted to the scene accurate colors of the Bounty Hunter that everyone loves to hate, Boba Fett!

This ...

Lady Gaga Paparazzi Costume 
I created this costume by hand after being inspired by the 2009 MTV video music awards performance of Paparazzi by Lady Gaga. It was really impressive ...

Rudolph and Friends Group Costume 
Based on the 1964 Rankin and Bass holiday classic Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, the costumes were created to capture the true fun of the characters Rudolph,...

Max and Wild Thing Couple Costume 
Wild Thang.. You make my heart SANGGG!!

My boyfriend and I decided to go as characters from Where The Wild Things are this year since the movie came ...

Batman Tumbler Transformer Costume 
This is my vision of the Batmobile Tumbler as a Transformer. The costume allows me to walk and move with only slightly limited mobility. It transforms ...

Octomom and her Doctor Couples Costume 
I dressed up as Octomom this Halloween. I carried a bucket of babies that said "As seen on TV", and my boyfriend dressed as her doctor.... complete with ...

Smurfs Couple Costume 
Every couple wants themed Halloween costumes. So this year my boyfriend and I decided to be Smurfs. We were determined to be something original and not ...

Jigsaw from Saw Costume 
The costume in total cost me a whopping $2.80! My son wanted to be Jigsaw for Halloween this year, however I thought the mask would be a bit big on him ...

The Yellow Submarine Costume 
This costume took me nine hours to make but it was definitely worth it. I constructed the whole thing out of cardboard and taped the periscopes to the ...

Big Bad Wolf & Little Red Riding Hood Couple Costume 
Little Red was walking through the woods to her Grandmother's house and came across this creature in her Grandmother's Bed.

What big ears you have ...

Jewelry Box Ballerina Costume 
I was sitting at home one day and my daughter's jewelry box was on the table in front of me, I opened it up and saw the ballerina dancing and I thought ...

Octomom Costume 
I wanted to be Octomom for Halloween. I browsed online for ideas and seen a picture of someone who had long hair and big lips and babies taped to their ...

Custom Zombie Costume 
I designed this after looking for days on end trying to find a good zombie costume for Halloween. I couldn't find one that did it for me, so I decided ...

Ohh La La Lady Gaga Costume 
Well I made my costume from a leotard, diamonds, hot glue, lace and a needle. I made my face and designed my hair with spray paint. I loved every second ...

Frosty the Snowman Costume 
I took one of my husband's old hooded sweatshirts and decided to turn it into my 3 year-old son's Halloween costume.

First, I cut the sleeves off ...

Character 9 from 9 Costume 
I created this costume for my son. This costume is based off the main Character "9", from the movie "9".

Me and my wife worked on this costume for ...

Las Vegas Costume 
Every year my costume seems to get bigger and crazier, and this year was definitely no exception...

I am a HUGE fan of Vegas and go out there several ...

Black & White TV Housewife Costume 
I wanted to look like I walked right out of a black and white tv show.

I started with the apron. I dyed fabric and lace different shades of grey using ...

Scary Jack-in-the-Box Costume 
I am the Giant, Scary, Jack-In-The-Box. I came up with this idea since it seems like everyone is a little scared of clowns. However, I did not just want ...

The Simpsons Costumes 
We had a wedding reception to go to where costumes were required. I wanted our family to have a theme, of course, I thought of The Simpson’s. It was ...

Michael Jackson Costume 
All handmade, hand beaded jacket, sash, trousers, socks and beaded glove. It took me over 2 1/2 months of working on it for 14-16 hours a day!

Jacket ...

Jack Skellington Costume 
"Don't fall, don't fall, don't fall..."

Incorporating both stilts and arm extensions with articulating fingers, this monster of a costume, based on ...

Billy Mays loves his Oxi-Clean! A Couples Costume 
"BILLY MAYS HERE WITH ANOTHER FANTASTIC PRODUCT!"

What better way to remember one of the all-time greats than to be him! Billy Mays was truly one-of-...

Wikus from District 9 Movie Contest 
This is my take on Wikus from the movie District 9. In the movie he begins to turn into an alien. I found this alien hand at the costume shop known as ...

Octomom Costume - 2 
Well I'm Octomom - pretty obvious... The black wig with braid --- stunna shades, and sexy lips... ooo yea and lets not forget the 8 kids... and 6 at home....

Yoshi Costume 
When my son wanted to be Yoshi for Halloween, we knew that meant homemade.

We started early and used felt to create the body, leaving lots of room ...

Bic Lighter Costume 
This costume was made at home with the following items:

cardboard
vinyl fabric - on sale
duct tape
tissue paper
thumb tacks
tag board
felt
spray ...

A.R.L.E.N Robot Costume 
My 5 year old son decided he wanted to be a robot for Halloween. Instead of buying one I thought it would be a good opportunity to make the costume and ...

Iron Man Heavy Artillery Costume 
I'm wearing the Homemade Iron Man Heavy Artillery Costume. It's a different suit from the red and gold Iron Man suit you see in the movie. The reason why ...

Light Up Robot Girl Costume  Not rated yet
Girls can be robots too!

My six year old daughter wanted to be a robot for Halloween. I used the following items and we made the costume together:

Cardboard ...

Queen Elizabeth and Henry the Eight Couple Costume  Not rated yet
All handmade and designed by me. 10 /12 yards of purple velvet. 6 yards dalmatian fake fur. 6 yards maribou feathers. 1 1/2 yards chicken wire. 10 yards ...

Merry Brandybuck, a Hobbit Costume  Not rated yet
I was inspired to make this costume by my friend, who I think looks like Dominic Monahan. There we had three parameters for the costume: (1) hand-sewn ...

Mystique Costume  Not rated yet
I made my costume in about a week. I used blue liquid non stretch fabric for the unitard and embellished with lace and paint and glitter.

I watched ...

Pop Art Costume  Not rated yet
I love color, and thus, I love pop art. This Halloween I used the works of Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol as inspiration and came up with this costume-...

Lady Gaga Homemade Costume  Not rated yet
My friend and I were inspired to make this Lady Gaga outfit/costume. We made the crystal sunglasses and disco stick (unfortunately not shown in this photo)...

Destroyer Strukt Costume  Not rated yet
This all started as a build for a show, which is still in the works, but I decided to make it my Halloween costume as well. It was a little tricky to make ...

Mr. & Mrs. Garden Gnome Couple Costume  Not rated yet

After weeks of debate, my husband and I finally agreed on the perfect “couple” costume – Garden Gnomes. We had an absolute blast making our costumes ...

Cupcake Goodness Costume  Not rated yet
Olivia's costume is homemade. She carried a wooden spoon and mommy dressed as the baker and wore a chef's hat and oven mitt!

Star Wars R2D2 Costume  Not rated yet
It was simple really to make a homemade R2D2 costume.

Just take some plaster strips on an exercise ball add some silver and blue paint, add 1/2 a plastic ...

Gossamer (aka Big Red Monster from Looney Toons) Costume  Not rated yet
I’m a bit of a packrat, and I’ve had about 20 yards of this red plush fur cluttering up my house for a while (somebody was going to throw it out… don’t ...

The Watchmen Group Costume  Not rated yet
This year we decided to do a group costume from The Watchmen. It was a little tricky, since there were tons of inexpensive ready-made costumes out there ...

Mario Party Group Costume  Not rated yet
Super Mario Brothers!

Homemade Bowser costume and 1-up mushroom box with Princess Peach, Mario and Luigi!

Whether you were born 30 years ago or 10 ...

Zoltar Costume  Not rated yet
Zoltar, fully operational fortune teller built on a Segway. Completely DIY (took 9 months to build) with 1000W of sound, over 400 LED's - UV lights and ...

The guyPhones - "Working" iPhone Costume!  Not rated yet
Reko Rivera (Left) John Savio (Right) -- World's first award winning "working" iPhone costume created by Reko Rivera and John Savio. Specifications are ...

Bob Barker Costume  Not rated yet
Growing up watching Bob on TV, he felt like part of the family. It was daily routine to sit glued to the tube and the tanned face of the jovial man who ...

Kanye West & Taylor Swift "Reconciled Friendship" Couple Costume  Not rated yet
"Imma let you finsh, but...."

My girlfriend and I decided to be Kanye West and Taylor Swift upon trying to find a good costume for an interracial couple....

Headless in Henderson Costume  Not rated yet
Duct tape is NOT going to fix this!

I made this costume for my boyfriend's daughter for $5.49. The bust was made from paper mache. I did this old-...

Cyborg Bride Costume  Not rated yet
Behold the cyborg bride. Although I was asked repeatedly what movie this was from, no such source exists. I thought bridal beauty and robotic force would ...

There's Something about Mary... Ted and Mary Couple Costume  Not rated yet
How did you get the Beans above the Frank?

This year we decided to go as Ted and Mary from There's something about Mary... At the Halloween party we ...

Rihanna Disturbia Costume  Not rated yet
My Mind is in Disturbia. My inspiration for this costume came from the video for the song Disturbia by Rihanna. I was so intrigued by the video's creepy,...

Hootin' Whoooo Owl Costume  Not rated yet
This is a homemade costume by his grandma. She doesn't know how to sew so she hot glued it all together! She used a plastic table cloth and cut it into ...

Before and After Michael Jackson Costumes  Not rated yet
My roommate and I went as the before and after Michael Jackson for Halloween. He was the black MJ and I was the post-op white MJ.

Authenic Jack Sparrow Costume  Not rated yet
My fiancé and I have been putting this costume together from all over the world for several months. Each piece was individually ordered such as the belt ...

The Anti Nun Costume  Not rated yet
I made this costume myself, bits and pieces of stuff sewn together. I glued razors to my face I suffered, lol. They don't celebrate Halloween here in New ...

Where the Wild Things Are Couples Costume  Not rated yet
We’ve always been a fan of Where the Wild Things Are, but when I saw the trailer with one of my favorite Arcade Fire songs playing I was enchanted! So ...

T-Pain and a Really Big A$$ Chain Costume  Not rated yet
I saw that Grammy award winning hip hop artist T-Pain come out with a "Big Ass Chain" so I figured I'd top him with a "Really Big Ass Chain". Will he respond ...

Jon & Kate Plus Eight Couples Costumes  Not rated yet
My boyfriend and I decided it would be funny to dress up as Jon & Kate Gosselin. I figured I would just buy the wig and he would wear an Ed Hardy t-shirt ...

Swine Flu Pandemic Group Costume  Not rated yet
First step: find a handy pig costume. Luckily we found ours online with a simple google search. Next step: procure either dusk or surgical masks from ...

Dr. McBloody Costume  Not rated yet
In the living world you know and love Dr. McDreamy..... but in the underworld I'm known as Dr. McBloody, sometimes my surgeries don't go quite right.

The Joker from Dark Knight Costume  Not rated yet
This is my 2009 Dark Knight movie Joker costume.

This costume was created using clothing purchased from thrift stores. The long purple over coat was ...

Romeo and Juliet of Fast Food Couples Costume  Not rated yet
This year, we decided to have a little fun with some homemade costumes. It all started out whenever I wanted to dress up for work, but didn’t want to ...

Dead Head Found In Freezer Costume  Not rated yet
My son, who is 4 years old, dresses up every-single-day-of-the-week, so for Halloween he was on board with doing something a bit different.

The dead ...

Flying Monkey from the Wizard Of Oz Costume  Not rated yet
Looking for Dorothy! Beware Beware!! He will get you and your little dog too!

This costume evolved all because of my little dog, Mocha, who is a cairn ...

Master Chief from Halo Costume  Not rated yet
This year I went as Master Chief from Halo. I made it out of fiberglass and Bondo. It was pretty much made by forming paper into the shapes that I want,...

Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" Costume  Not rated yet
I captured a scene from my favorite Alfred Hitchcock movie, "The Birds."

Lady Gaga at the Video Music Awards Costume  Not rated yet
I made my costume from scratch to replicate Lady Gaga's infamous entrance to the 2009 Video Music Awards, with her date Kermit the Frog.

Wii Remote & Nunchuck Controllers Costumes  Not rated yet
Devin and Dyanna are brother & sister – Devin is almost 8 and Dyanna is 6. Along with their many interests, they also enjoy playing games on their Nintendo ...

Noah the Gnome Costume  Not rated yet
I made my 18 month old son a gnome costume complete with a forest themed stroller complete with mushrooms. The stroller was made with a piece of brown ...

Welcome to America Jack Sparrow Costume  Not rated yet
After traveling the long journey over the seas, Captain Jack Sparrow reached the United States of America and he couldn't believe what he saw. Not only ...

Robo 3,000 Costume  Not rated yet
I am a robot! My name is Robo 3,000 and I am homemade.

I created the Robo with only boxes and it is more powerful than I could have ever imagined. Robo ...

Bulma Briefs Costume  Not rated yet
This Bulma Briefs costume is from Dragonball, the episode titled "Changes". I had a lot of fun making this costume. The dress, logos, dragon radar and ...

American Gothic Painting Couple Costume  Not rated yet
We decided we wanted to be something unique this year for Halloween. My boyfriend is currently enrolled in an art course this semester and there our idea ...

Mr. Chow from The Hangover Costume  Not rated yet
I wanted to be something extremely humiliating and funny at the same time. I decided to be Mr. Chow from The Hangover from the scene where he jumps out ...

Wurlitzer Pipe Organ Costume  Not rated yet
This is my daughter Phoenix she is a Pipe organ made from 100% scratch it took almost a month to make it.

It all started from a cardboard box and glue ...

Traveling Gnomes Costumes  Not rated yet
Traveling garden gnomes Felix (250 years old) and Olge (a young 95 years old). Both are 10 times stronger than humans and protect from Goblins and Trolls....

Hillbilly Family Costume  Not rated yet
Billy Joe, Peggy Sue and lil Barbara

Trying to think of a creative use of my pregnant belly and still be original, I thought that my husband and I could ...

Candy Bot Costume  Not rated yet
This is a costume I made for my 3 year old son. The store bought costume that I originally purchased for him ended up being too small by Halloween. So,...

Zoltar Mechanical Genie Costume  Not rated yet
This year’s costume started with a request from our 9 year old to help build a “mechanical genie” costume from a popular children's cartoon program.

My ...

In the Shower Costume  Not rated yet
I'm singing in the rain. Just singing in the rain..... So what can I say I like to sing and dance in the shower so I like the idea of being able to take ...

I Wanna KISS You!
Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley Costumes  Not rated yet
"You wanted the best and you got the best...the hottest band in the world...KISS"

My beautiful wife of nearly 20 years was undoubtedly the best sport ...

Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas Costume  Not rated yet
I absolutely love the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas.

One year I decided that I wanted to be Sally from the movie. Unfortunately, all of the ...