MHP - Best Costumes You've Seen at Party...

[IBLarsen]

I'm also not very creative. I usually have the kids dress up and I just wear a Disney Halloween tee I pick up at Target. Last year I bought the Halloween ears / witch hat, too.

One of my favorites I've seen was a non-Disney idea. The adults were dressed as construction workers (jeans, white tee, orange vest and hat) and the little kids were dressed as orange cones - SO CUTE

Orange Cones! That is Hilarious!! I'm always in awe of those creative types

 

[pixiewings71]

The best costume I have seen was in a party picture from a couple years back (can't remember if it was this site or another Disney site that I saw it). Someone was in a wheelchair and they had a small round table with a tablecloth over it and their head was in a clear ball. Looked exactly like Madame Leota from HM!!!!!! I thought that that was the most clever way to incorporate being in a wheelchair and it looked fantastic!

I know that probably won't help your family situation, but if anybody is going to be in a wheelchair for the party, this would be an awesome idea.

If my friend and I go to MHP this year, we will be Belle and Red from OUAT. I am so excited!!!

That would be the coolest Leota!!! How inventive! We have a HUGE group of people doing OuaT themed costumes this year, not for DL but for the bar we work at. LOL We have Regina (as the Evil Queen), we hope we have Snow & Charming but they are iffy, we have Red, Mr Gold, the Sheriff, I'm going to be the Blue Fairy. I want to go to DL this year for Halloween..............

I think the best ones I've seen have generally been secondary or obscure characters, instead of mainstream. We did Toy Story one year, and I swear I was the 473rd Jessie there that night. But my mom and dad were Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head, and they got tons of compliments!

Here are some of my favorites that I've seen in the last two years I've been:

Flora, Fauna and Meriweather
Sorcerer Mickey and brooms
Gaston and the three silly girls (this one got picked to ride in the parade)
Haunted Mansion CMs (sort of like french maid and butler, but with green and black, like the CM costumes on the ride)
Mary Poppins and Penguins
Dr. Facilier (Shadowman from Princess and the Frog)
Carl and Russell from UP
Random characters on the space ship from WALL-E (wearing padded red jumpsuits, carrying giant soda cups)



We decided not to do the party this year, and I'm bummed because I had a great costume idea! I wanted DH and I to be Gary and Mary from the Muppets! Complete with Walter doll

We saw F,F & M one year, they had amazing costumes! We also saw the HM couple you mentioned, they posed for a photo with DD because she was dressed as Constance.

My boychild went as Jack Skellington when we visited DLR in 2005 for Halloween.

Orange Cones! That is Hilarious!! I'm always in awe of those creative types

There are photos of the orange cones somewhere on this board. They were cute!

I like doing group costumes but sometimes it's hard. I want to be Jessica & Roger Rabbit one year, I also have a super cute Alice costume (with a wig because I have brown hair lol) and would love it if DBF was the Mad Hatter.

 

[trish.]

The garden gnomes are amazing!!! Thanks for the picture!

 

[jetskigrl]

I'm also not very creative. I usually have the kids dress up and I just wear a Disney Halloween tee I pick up at Target. Last year I bought the Halloween ears / witch hat, too.

One of my favorites I've seen was a non-Disney idea. The adults were dressed as construction workers (jeans, white tee, orange vest and hat) and the little kids were dressed as orange cones - SO CUTE

We did the Mickey Road Crew with my DS as a traffic cone in 2010. I'm not sure if we are the group you were thinking of. DH disneyfied the costumes by putting Mickey ears on the hard hats DS's costume managed to get us an invitation to ride in the parade

In the parade (although it was hard to tell what DS's costume was while riding in the car)

 

[Jazzheffa]

I've seen some great costumes! My favorite was a ghost family last Halloween. Even the baby was made up as a ghost! They were Victorian and very amazingly attired.

Last year my family went as garden gnomes.

You guys are so cute!

I'm not bad, I was drawn this way!

 

[dizneekrazee]

I want to be Jessica & Roger Rabbit one year.

Thats what we were going to be this year, but then I decided I wanted to wait until I bought some, umm, new accessories

So I think we are going to be Belle & Beast. Last year we were Snow White & Grumpy.

So back to the topic, best I have seen would have been maybe 5 years ago, there was a group dressed up from Beauty & the Beast. It was Belle (in her blue dress), Gaston, Cogsworth, Lumiere, the wardrobe, & Babette. I think that was it. Just by chance as they were posing for pix, another group walked by (not in coordinated costumes), and one member was Mrs Potts, so she joined them for a photo session. So cute!!

 

[chrissiecutie]

Halloween is HUGE at my house. We are "that" house on the street and I always begin our Halloween preps in August.

Some of DS's past costumes:
Tigger carrying around a Winnie the Pooh stuffed animal (accessories are key!)
Winnie the Pooh dressed up as a honeypot- he was "stuck" in the honey pot
Nemo
3D Lightening McQueen- we used wire coat hangers to create a "car" around DS
a Lego...that's right, we used a big cardboard box & spray painted it red & glued on circles to create a wearable Lego costume
And finally DS was Batman and our dog was Robin- that one was my FAV!!

What I like to do is to also incorporate what my child is interested in at the time....so his very 1st Halloween he was Tigger because ALL he did was bounce. Ending with just this last Halloween where he's become obsessed with Batman. This is a fun way to remember your child's interests through the years.

This year because we are doing our very 1st MHP, I knew we had to do something Disney. Our original plan was to have the whole family dress up as the characters from Scooby Doo with our dog being Scooby. But that just won't work in Disney!

DS really wanted to go as Mickey but I wanted something more unique & creative. So we decided on Fantasmic Mickey. My Mom is actually sewing his robe, I bought some large white Mickey hands off ebay & he still has his Sorceror hat from our last DLR vist. Plus I knew that I wanted something that wasn't too bulky & easy to get on the rides & would keep him warm. Perfect!

My advice- think of dressing up as one of the classic characters & not the newer movie characters. Everyone will be doing this, along with the Jack Skelleton theme, Villans & Pirates & Princessess. Do something different from the crowd! How cute would your whole family look if you were Mickey, Minnie, Pluto & Goofy! Or even Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Rabbit & Eeyore.

Have fun!!

 

[bibbidibobbidibecky]

The best I have seen was actually at WDW but it still applies. A girl was dressed as the parasol lady from the stretching room in the Haunted Mansion. She had it down exactly and I loved it! I think a family could each pick a character from the Haunted Mansion and go with it.

I didn't have time to read the thread, so sorry if this was already mentioned!

 

[MrsPinup]

In 2010 we went as Phineas, Ferb, Candace, and Dr. Doofinshmirtz. I don't have a pic of the hubby and I, but we did a pretty good job of looking the part. A lot of people stopped to take pictures with our boys

 

[Jkpark]

We did the Mickey Road Crew with my DS as a traffic cone in 2010. I'm not sure if we are the group you were thinking of. DH disneyfied the costumes by putting Mickey ears on the hard hats DS's costume managed to get us an invitation to ride in the parade

I am assuming it was your group I saw - I was across the street so I didn't notice the ears - seriously GREAT costumes

 

[jetskigrl]

I am assuming it was your group I saw - I was across the street so I didn't notice the ears - seriously GREAT costumes

Thanks I have to give DH the credit for that one. It took us two tries to get the cone to hang right on DS. Then when we got there, we almost didn't have him wear it (we brought him the same outfit as the rest of us had also) because we worried it would be too much trouble. But DS said that he wanted to wear it because DH and I had worked so hard on it

He also wore it to his costume parade at school. It turned out that all the teachers dressed as construction workers So when they posed for a group picture, they asked DS to be in the picture too. And then the principal walked with him in the parade.

 

[dyljon]

These costumes all look amazing!!

We're coming to MHP this year, all the way from Australia! Do many people dress up as non-Disney things?

We have an idea but are not sure it's appropriate - a bride and groom which has been cut in half by our 4 yr old (who would be dressed as a mad doctor) then stitched back together wrong. In other words I would be top half bride, bottom half groom and my DH would be opposite! Our 7 yr old would wear his clothes backwards and have a scar around his neck to look like his little brother had sewn his head on backwards.

Is this idea way too weird, or would it go down ok at MHP? Any opinions greatly appreciated! Halloween is not big here in Australia and it's our first ever visit to DL so we want to get it right!!

 

[Eeee-va]

We're coming to MHP this year, all the way from Australia! Do many people dress up as non-Disney things?

Definitely a LOT of people are not dressed as Disney. I believe the original poster requested Disney-themed costumes? When I went in 2010 the people who were chosen to be in the parade were a group dressed as Ghostbusters. One of the more memorable costumes was someone dressed as a character in an American insurance advertisement (Flo from Progressive, for you Americans).

As for your idea, I think it should be fine, though you might want other opinions. It's definitely very much in the spirit of American Halloween. Disney frowns on bloody/very scary things; costumes are supposed to be family-friendly. Your description SOUNDS rather gory to me, but there's a difference between the description and what it will look like in person, if that makes any sense. I think it won't LOOK gory at all, so you should be OK.

(Never mind I've heard stories of people having bloody costumes in the park and not being turned away at all.)

 

[maberlyne]

Some of the best ones I've seen are just very elaborate - like of the princesses, with full on gowns, make-up, wigs, etc.

Some of the neatest ones I remember off the top of my head ...
-a group of Ghostbusters (someone prior mentioned it, too)
-a group of chimney sweeps
-a guy as a Disneyland Annual Pass - he had made basically a huge card and attached it to his head so his face was in the photo spot!
- Electrical Parade

That's all I can think of right now

 

[scrappinsandie]

Definitely a LOT of people are not dressed as Disney. I believe the original poster requested Disney-themed costumes? When I went in 2010 the people who were chosen to be in the parade were a group dressed as Ghostbusters. One of the more memorable costumes was someone dressed as a character in an American insurance advertisement (Flo from Progressive, for you Americans).

As for your idea, I think it should be fine, though you might want other opinions. It's definitely very much in the spirit of American Halloween. Disney frowns on bloody/very scary things; costumes are supposed to be family-friendly. Your description SOUNDS rather gory to me, but there's a difference between the description and what it will look like in person, if that makes any sense. I think it won't LOOK gory at all, so you should be OK.

(Never mind I've heard stories of people having bloody costumes in the park and not being turned away at all.)

We are a group of 14 adult women coming from Australia too and we are going as nuns.

 

[dyljon]

Your description SOUNDS rather gory to me, but there's a difference between the description and what it will look like in person, if that makes any sense. I think it won't LOOK gory at all, so you should be OK.

(Never mind I've heard stories of people having bloody costumes in the park and not being turned away at all.)

I should have explained better - our idea is not going to look gory, but is meant to be funny. We are going to wrap gaffer tape around ourselves as though we have been stuck back together. There won't be any blood or scary stuff!

Thanks

 

[IBLarsen]

Definitely a LOT of people are not dressed as Disney. I believe the original poster requested Disney-themed costumes? When I went in 2010 the people who were chosen to be in the parade were a group dressed as Ghostbusters. One of the more memorable costumes was someone dressed as a character in an American insurance advertisement (Flo from Progressive, for you Americans).

As for your idea, I think it should be fine, though you might want other opinions. It's definitely very much in the spirit of American Halloween. Disney frowns on bloody/very scary things; costumes are supposed to be family-friendly. Your description SOUNDS rather gory to me, but there's a difference between the description and what it will look like in person, if that makes any sense. I think it won't LOOK gory at all, so you should be OK.

(Never mind I've heard stories of people having bloody costumes in the park and not being turned away at all.)

As the OP, I just wanted to clarify, that although my family and I are wanting to do Disney themes (my childrens request), I thought it would be fun to just hear about any and all costume ideas along with best costumes you've seen in the parks.
I'm loving all the posts so far!

 

[Lucille1963]

The best I have seen was actually at WDW but it still applies. A girl was dressed as the parasol lady from the stretching room in the Haunted Mansion. She had it down exactly and I loved it! I think a family could each pick a character from the Haunted Mansion and go with it.

I didn't have time to read the thread, so sorry if this was already mentioned!

My husband and I dressed as HM stretching portrait subjects years ago at WDW. We had a blast!

 

[rowan1813]

My husband and I dressed as HM stretching portrait subjects years ago at WDW. We had a blast!

That is so awesome!!! Fantastic costumes!!