Halloween Costumes 2009

This time of year sees the build up to the traditional Halloween fancy dress parties. Five years ago I wrote a piece Where to find Justice League Halloween Costumes and it has proved to be surprisingly popular. I wrote it after I got several e-mails from parents asking if I knew where to find costumes for their children. The cartoon was still going strong and licensed costumes were available for kids, but I found there wasn’t a huge range for adults. It looks like there is still the full range of Justice League, Teen Titans, Robin, Batgirl, and pink variant Batgirl and Wonder Woman costumes for the children. Some of the more obscure stuff may be hard to find, but it’s still out there on the costume sites.

One particular costume that has been in demand is an adult Green Lantern costume. Well it looks like Rubies, the official producer of licensed costumes, have heard people’s requests and have added several new adult sized costumes. These include a ladies variant of the Flash costume ,

a ladies Green Lantern costume (based on Arisia I think),

and the long awaited man’s Green Lantern costume.

I’m a little disappointed that its being marketed as a Hal Jordan costume. From what I’ve seen, the demand was created by interest in the cartoon John Stewart. A GL costume is better than no GL costume, however, while the women’s costumes are relatively easy to find the male Green Lantern costume is in rather short supply. Every website I’ve seen lists it as arriving this year, but doesn’t have it in stock. The above image is from buy.com (I couldn’t find it at all on Amazon).