2012年10月24日星期三

Monster High, ninjas hot Halloween costumes for 2012

Lions and tigers and bears? Not so much.

More like ninjas, Avengers and Abbey Bominable.

A. Bominable and Lagoona Blue are two of the popular Monster High line of costumes that have been big sellers for girls this Halloween season at Party America, according to Carey Horton, the store manager.

"We've sold out of stuff like the '50s things," said Horton. "We've sold out of the sock hop skirts, the poodle skirts."

The '50s look is one Party America stocks every year but she's not sure why this year the look has proved to be particularly popular, Horton said.

"It just seems like more of the girls were going for it this year over last year," she said.

"With boys, it's always ninjas,"

Horton added. "We're still selling a lot of ninjas. And Hulk, Avenger-type guys. And that even goes for the toddlers -- we have the Hulk, Captain America and Thor for the toddlers."

She said adults tend to buy later, closer to the actual day of Halloween, but they have been in buying a lot of accessories, such as fake mustaches and scars.

Avengers are also one of the hot sellers for boys at nearby Spirit Halloween, according to store manager Gary Beck.moncler coats

"This year the Super Skin Suits are a hot, hot commodity both with kids and adults," said Beck. "Those are generally unisex costumes -- both boys and girls can wear them."

There really hasn't been one outstanding girls' costume seller this year, he said. Pirates and vampires have been popular with girls, and grown-up girls have been buying costumes such as naughty nurse, naughty pirate and naughty Alice in Wonderland.

"That's been a real big one," Beck said.

So have "Hunger Games" costumes, he said.

"'Hunger Games' has been a most-wanted costume this year," Beck said.

What's also been hot at both stores have been the plastic, battery powered, animated creatures that range in price from about $50 up to a couple of hundred dollars.

"We've gotten down to where most of it is sold out,SKY Cycling the bigger things," Horton said. "I have very little of the mechanical stuff left."

For example,Garmin Cycling the $119 animated scarecrows? Gone. So are the $179 Freddy Kruegers. And it's nearly the same thing at Spirit Halloween.

"All my animatronics are practically sold out," said Beck. "My biggest sellers this year were the zombie swing girl and the electric chair man. And this was the second big year for the jumping spider.canada goose jackets"

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