Tate's Costumes

I've been meaning to talk about Tate's Halloween costumes.  The last 5 years, Tate has been the following costumes;

• Minecraft Creeper

• Star craft Marine

• Charmeleon from Pokemon 

• Picachu from Pokemon

• Ang from Avatar

 

First of all, you'll notice Tate's choices in custom is greatly affected by whatever movie or video game he's into at the time.

Secondly, you'll notice that most of these costumes are fairly obscure (Pikachu isn't too bad and Avatar is more known now - but it wasn't at the time). Not only does hardly anyone know what you are (the most common guesses this year were, "Are you a robot?" and "Are you a building?"), but it's really difficult to find a custom - typically resulting in me making one from scratch.

I've quickly noticed is that there is probably a reason there aren't any of these costumes out there; they are not very practical.

This year's was really bad. Tate's mask was cool but hard to look around in.  Once it got dark he had to lift it up and look out the bottom in order to see where he was going.

The worst was the cardboard appendages in front and in back of his legs. It was very difficult for him to walk (his legs kept banging into the cardboard).  He couldn't even walk up stairs. After only a few houses we decided to rip off the legs of the costumes, which made is outfit even more unclear. 

A little later, I ripped open the corners of his body box for flexibility.  By the time, we got home, Tate's costume was a pile of scrap cardboard.