Every year me and my girlfriend and a couple of friends go to downtown Orlando on Church St. for halloween. They close the main streets down and basically you see some of the best and worst halloween costumes. Most clubs also have costume contests in which they give out large cash prizes, ususally $1000 - $5000, however they are invite only, which means not anyone can enter, you get selected by the club management. The first two years we wore our ghostbusters costumes, everyone loved them and we got invites, but its hard to win when the judges are the audience which is made up of drunk people and you have to go against girls wearing only body paint or bras and ■■■■■■■. Not complaining, but I always felt like true craftmanship of other, more unique costumes were always overlooked. Not just mine, but many others as well. After two big upsets in the same fashion we decided that there was much more gratification in going and just being there to show our costumes. Every year we go, we can not walk one step without people stopping us to get pictures. This past year we decided to go as something different and a little more simple. My girlfriend loves zombie movies, so of course, we went as zombies. Again, people loved our costumes, we got an invite to a costume contest, however I noticed people had a lot different reaction to the zombie costumes then they did years before with the ghostbusters costumes. The reaction we were getting were people staring at us because they thought our costumes were so real. The costume contest seemed like a disaster, but I felt like we got the reaction we were looking for, dead silence and disbelief. There was not one person on that stage that had any kind of costume that was remotely scary or realistic in the way that everyone felt ours were. Here are some pictures that I was able to dig up.
Obviously our ghostbuster costume:
And zombie costume:
