I've been waiting 8 years (since my son's birth) to walk into a store and see these on the shelf for sale:







Finally GI Joe Halloween Costumes!! I figured my son would go for Snake Eyes...but he had to have this one, glad he went with it...it isn't real thick material, but overall...it is a nice costume. Picked it up at Walmart...it is the Storm Shadow Deluxe one for 20 bucks. I know he will get alot of use out of it...he wanted to wear it as pajamas tonight. lol
I'm thinking of printing out a Cobra logo on iron on paper and slapping it on there...gotta see what my son decides on that.

Even greater was...walking out the store, a couple kids were eyeballing him with it and telling their parents to drag them to the costumes!

Yeah, know how you feel. My five-year-old has started a collection (about 12 figures). He brought them out a few nights ago and was schooling my wife on them. The only 2 names he couldn't remember were Star-duster and Cutter. He's gotten them down by now though.

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"Aren't you a little short to be a Stormshadow?"

It is gonna be interesting to see all the kids out this year. Some of the costumes at the mall look way better than the ones when I was little(r).

Gotta post pics updated pics in a month, apac...

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That is awesome!! The hobby is great...but it really is even better when you have someone in the same house to talk joes/play joes with! It is nice to have someone around to customize with.



Definately will do with the updated pics! With him getting the SS costume...that counts me out on buying one. Guess I go as Flint with a mustache again this year. lol

Like I said...the costume isn't the greatest material...but compared to what they were like when I was younger...these are leaps and bounds ahead of those days. Heck...the Snake Eyes one even has the puffy chest and six pack ab muscles on it.

Spent some time tonight working on this....gonna suprise my son with it in the morning.

This year I've got a 6-year old Storm Shadow, an 11-year old Dr. Rex Lewis, and I'm going as a really out of shape Cobra Trooper (Nerd Viper?).

It is a GOOD time to be a Joe fan of any age!!!

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I've always had the belief that there were other Crimson Guard personnel besides the 'Fred' series. Maybe that's an option, VL?

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Except that I'm buying Halloween costumes for 4 kids on a shoestring budget as it is which leaves very little money for my own costume. With an expensive CG suit, Professor Appel would be a no-brainer as he was a portly CG. But fancy costumes = cash I don't have.

So my costume consists of: My Cobra T-Shirt, an old Nazi-Style plastic helmet I already have spray painted blue, and a black or red bandana. I'm trying to find a cheap way to do the webgear and looking for some bright blue sweatpants that are close to the shirt, but that's the extent of it.

Not the most accurate, but cheap and cheerful.

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You're doing better than me. I'm still trying to squeeze into that kids Snake Eyes costume. Forget about the kids. I've been waiting years for this for myself.

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Tell me about it Pluv...I splurged on this:












CC costume from 80's tees.com . Awesome quality...if you are buying one...I recommend the XXL. Not that we are all XXL...and frankly an XXL person aint fitting into it anyway. The inseams on it make it just about a large or big medium. Especially get the XXL if you are going to wear clothes under it. It is only tight getting your arms in...as the shirt is cut high...you can see it in the pics. The black belt is in belt loops...but the belt is well above my waist. It must be modeled after a spytroops version torso. lol

Anyways...the quality is freaking awesome...well worth the price tag!

Apacolypse, how does that hood stay on your head? Is it a heavier material? I tried to make on of those a few years back and it wouldn't stay lined up with my eyes, so I used a surgeon's skull cap and pinned the hood to that, but the material was a bit too "flowing" and didn't hang down as well as it does in pictures of CC. I sewed some flat weights into the hem and that worked OK. Used a chef's shirt dyed blue so as to have the high collar and buttons going down the side.

When I was a kid, Storm Shadow just came out and ninjas were all the rage. A friend of mine went as a white ninja and I was going to go as a black ninja.
I didn't realize the ninja outfit was a gei (?) with a scarf like wrap for the face covering (which is what my white ninja friend's costume consisted of), so I wore my sister's black stirup strech pants, a black turtle neck and a black balaclava.
We each made our weapons out of cardboard and his mom came up something to use as the sash that SS wears.
Just before we left for school on Halloween it dawned on me to put on a set of ski goggles, suddenly he was SS and I was Snake Eyes.
If I could find a black beret, I could go as RoC's Sgt. Stone this year (though, would anyone know who in the heck I was supposed to be?)

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It stays on pretty well..it must be the way it is sewn...as it is made of nylon (I believe -as it isn't heavy and is breathable).

I remember the days of making weapons from cardboard. lol One year...me and my buddies did the "Running Man" theme with ourselves and our bikes...making chainsaws, swords and armor for our bicycles. lol

Trick or Treat night pics...

Me and the kids:



And CC with the haul....."Ssssssssnickers are Mine!!!" lol



I got alot of comments on the costume...and a good bit of people actually knew who the costume was, surprised me. It was a fun night....wife didn't dress up, and alot of people (including myself and the kids) told her she should of...maybe next year. lol

I remember being a Joe fan in the late 90's there wasn't much, so I had to improvise one year with a white ninja outfit with the sleeves cut off, and another year with ski goggles, a book cover with eyes cut out, and a black rashguard and black jeans, and I was Snake Eyes. Joe costumes are a great way to show Joe fandom in a new way. But I will need to pick up some sort of Storm Shadow mask and jacket for halloween.

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My soon to be 5 year old son. He decided to be Snake-Eyes around July 11 when I bought him a ROC SE. He changed his mind ten times bewteen but always came back to this. Being able to carry a sword helped.

Those pics a great guys. I took my niece, nephew and sleeping daughter to a kids party today at the community center. There was a kid there dressed as Storm Shadow that could have been the movie's childhood storm shadow's stunt double. Every time my dad would say "Hey Storm Shadow", the kid would whip out his sword slash it through the air a couple of times and then hold a martial arts pose for us. It was awesome! We had him do it like five times.

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