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My boys love, LOVE dressing up in costumes, and do so almost daily. We’ve been fortunate over the years to get some great deals in November, when many go on Clearance. Now, this is NOT a sponsored post, though some links may be affiliate links. That said, I have to tell you, that although the Disney Brand costumes run a little higher, they do tend to last quite a bit longer. We are on our second set of Woody and Buzz Lightyear costumes – the first set lasted over 5 years – which is quite a long time when three boys wear them so frequently. My preference is in the quality of the originals, the newer ones don’t seem as authentic, but the kids still love them. *Note, I’ve included some personal photos of kids in costumes from the past. During our move, my printer was damaged, and currently won’t scan pictures – these are pre-digital. So, I had to take a picture of the picture with my phone, upload it to instagram, download to PC, upload to Flickr, then paste in here – so the quality isn’t what the actual photo looks like:/
Obviously, Woody and Buzz Lightyear have to be ranked 1 & 2. Our original Woody had different boots, hat, a detachable belt, and separate pants/shirt and the shirt actually buttoned. Our original Buzz was plastic, zipped in back, had boots and a velcro jet pack.
As you can see, Woody and Buzz have been with us, since about 2004. Quality is key.
I couldn’t get the picture of the picture for Bob the Builder and Tigger to upload, but all three kids were Tigger for their first costume, and Bob for their second. The Bob costume we had, was purchased at a yard sale for a whopping $0.25 – and ALL three kids wore it! The one from CostumeZone I posted above is the closet I could find to match the one we used, and I could only get a thumbnail of the Tigger one we have (it’s packed away, but I can’t donate the boys FIRST Halloween Costume 
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Another year, Joshua still claimed Buzz, but Aaron wanted to be a Pirate from Pirates of the Carribean, Logan wasn’t feeling well, and did NOT want a costume. The photo of him with an unrelated inflatable sword, green Woody Socks (on clearance for $0.25 at the Disney Store) and the Pirate head piece, still cracks me up!
We also still have, and they still wear their Darth Vader and Jedi Costumes from Star Wars. We have some play light sabers that they love to use when they battle.
Joshua loved Thomas from a very young age, so for the year he was in Pre-K and they were allowed to wear their costume to school, he decided to be Thomas.
The year they wanted to be a Power Ranger, we had a tough time, because they couldn’t decide which color! Ultimately, the Red Ranger won out.
Finally, Spiderman – both the original Red costume, and the Black costume. These are literally falling apart they’ve worn them soooooo much, but I can’t find the style we have anywhere. Ours don’t have muscles or anything special, just the outfit and a mask.
They are mostly undecided on this years choices, I am sure they’ll change their minds several times over the next few weeks.
Love the costumes! My daughter’s favorite costume was a Gothic Princess. *sigh* I miss the plain princess days!
My favorite was a pumpkin costume made from an orange sweat shirt with black felt face pieces, green tights and a green pipe cleaner head piece.
I like the Jedi costume!
I like the Spiderman costume. My daughter loves dressing up as a princess every year.
i love the toy story costume
i think the thomas the train is a cute costume.
I enjoy seeing all the different princess costume little girls can pick from.
My favorite costume to dress in personally is a witch.
My kids dressed up as matching vampires last year and they were really cute
the spiderman costume would go great on my grandson
Cute costumes! I am a sucker for Toy Story!
I like the Woody one it is so cute and he loves Toy Story but I had made a gorilla costume one year . I bought and old fur coat at a thrift shop and stitched it up bought a monkey mask and found some glove at the thrift store that had hair ont them. Can you imagine a 3ft tall gorilla walking around it was so funny.
my fav costume was one i made for my daughter..she was a hula girl…and we went to a costume contest and she did the hula all around the stage..with no prompting….she was 2..and she won! lol
I always make their costumes…not that I’m especially crafty…but they give me the idea and we go with it. Last year my then 11 yr old daughter was Lady Gaga…we bought a skirt, tights, some boots, a couple tees to layer…etc. The only thing she didn’t re-wear throughout the year was the funky wig, and that went into the costume box to be recycled into something else. I like to make sure they can wear what they pick out
I’ve also made fire dog costumes, and skeleton costumes for the entire family by painting sweat shirts and pants… black splotches on white for the fire dog, along with plastic fire hats and furry black ears hot glued inside. The skeletons took longer because I copied the bones off of a long door decoration onto 6 sets of sweats with chalk, and then hand painted them with a mix of white and glow in the dark fabric paint… I keep all of these costumes in several large trunks in case anyone ever wants to reuse them for something… I may wear a skeleton this year with my hair on end and go as a lightning strike 
Loved when my kids were Zombies. Was the most fun! The had a good time acting like Zombies!
Great review on your family(the boys) and the costumes–I’m going as Grumpy from the Snow White and my kids are the other drawfs–and Dianna my wife she is Snow WHite– because she said so–lol–so since we have to go ,we might as well have a great time
I liked Thomas The Tank Engine costume the most. Just adorable!
The kids dressed up as Thing 1 and 2 – we have often turned to Dr Seuss for costume inspiration
Toy story ones are so cute!
Woody is a great costume.
I loved dressing in a vampire costume (that was well before the whole Twilight thing) and I even won a few costume contests
my daughter loves the new monster high costumes
I like the Red Ranger Power Rangers costume
I personally never made it a habit to dress up on Halloween, but my daughter was Minnie mouse and will probably want to be that again next year.
my favorite costume my daughter wore was a red teletubby one when she was 3! lol
love those toy story ones! it would be so cute for him to dress up as woody and have the boots & a short rope.
Those costumes were so cute.
Thank You