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One of my favorite movies of all time has to be Heavyweights! I watch it quite often and seeing it recently gave me the idea of a homemade Tony Perkis from Heavyweights costume, the new camp director at Camp Hope. If you don’t know who he is, or haven’t seen the movie, I suggest you … Read more
I made a Homemade Rambo Costume, not a Mexican refugee as some may perceive at first glance! I happen to be a fan of weapons and of Rambo, so…walla! A great costume idea. I got together various items that one would relate to our famous friend. I began with muscles (fake cotton ones of course), … Read more
This Mothra Costume is a 12 ft wing span on each side of body, total 24 ft. Painted canvas wings, fake fur material body. Head plastic formed, head mounted to bike helmet, feather antenne. I am a 6’2″ man inside body. Wings can move in flying motion. Included are the 2 mothra faries from the … Read more
This Homemade Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century Group Costume was inspired by the Disney channel Original Movie Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century. We have the three main characters of the movie, Zenon, Nebula and Protozoa. We bought most of the costumes at the Salvation army and then doctored them up with lots of … Read more
This R2D2 costume was a very simple, inexpensive costume to make, but it got really great reactions from everyone. We purchased a garbage can with a dome lid from Home Depot for the base of R2D2. We spray painted the lid silver, removed the flip opening (where trash would be thrown through), then screwed it … Read more
This homemade R2D2 Halloween costume started off with a rubbermaid trash can. The exterior details are foam, carved to different shapes and sizes. The legs have a PVC base with foam exterior. The feet are supported with the PVC and have caster-base electrical conduit boxes over them. The LED lights on the lid are from … Read more
My Ring costume was the evil girl out of the Japanese film ‘The Ring’ (also the USA remake of the same name). I wanted to come across, as the scariest person at the party, so I thought this would be a good choice. I made the costume out of an old box (which in fact … Read more
I went to college without a firm idea on what I was gonna be that year. I had an idea a few months ago, but I couldn’t remember it, so I figured if I couldn’t remember it by October, that I would make a Homemade Samara Halloween Costume from “The Ring”. “The Ring” is one … Read more
This Spaceball costume is a homemade costume put together after scouring thrift stores, shopping online, and crafting stuff ourselves. Dark Helmet’s Helmet (though it’s hard to see in pics) was made from a planter and hand-painted, Barf’s name tag actually has Barf embroidered on it, and Dot has a light-up LED”Virgin Alert” and is on … Read more
I decided that I wanted to make a costume this year instead of buying one as per usual. I started off this Homemade Barf Costume from Spaceballs with going to an military surplus store and purchasing a flight suit. I then got a custom patch made at my local mall (from one of those stands … Read more
I decided to make this Chewbacca Costume for my husband for Halloween after seeing the price it was to buy it. I gave myself a $25.00 budget for the two of us. I went as Princess Leia Slave Princess. I bought yak hair at the local beauty supply that was $1.27 for a long pony-tail … Read more
I’m kind of a Star Wars geek, and what better to celebrate Halloween then creating my own modified storm trooper outfit! I built this Homemade Heavy Storm Trooper Halloween Costume with cardboard, duct tape, electrical tape, white spray paint and a whole lot of time and love. I used reference images from all 6 Star … Read more