1978 Collegeville Halloween Costume Catalog

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With it being October, I tend to get a little nuts with the Halloween costumes especially my favourite company Collegeville.

1978 was a fun year for Collegeville, sure they didn't have Star Wars but did Ben Cooper have the Hardy Boys? Not a chance. The 1978 Collegeville catalog is exploding with characters and creations that made the 1970s great including Jaws, Grizzy Adams, Farrah Fawcett, Superjoe, TV Super teams The Osmonds, Laverne and Shirley, Starsky and Hutch and the Monster Squad, just to name a few. It's like some weird TV special that probably happened...




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[toys2cool]

god I love those costumes

[HardyGirl]

Wow! Those are great! And I could be wrong, but I think I have a pic someplace w/ the Shaun Cassidy costume w/ a star in the middle w/ just Shaun's picture. But they had some cool licenses. Charlie's Angels, Emergegncy +4, Underdog, and of course the Hardy Boys, but the one that has me confused is The Deep. Seriously?

[kryptosmaster]

I love the total Star Wars ripoffs, Space Robot & Space Warrior.
LOL
Rich

[DocDrako]

I actually remember seeing that Witchiepoo costume although it's in such a shadowed part of my memory that I can't recall where. I'm thinking it was in a store but it might have been while trick or treating.

[Meule]

Dracula or the skeleton... oh, it would've taken me forever to decide... they both look so cool

And that C3PO rip-off is funny

[TEXASFETT]

I wish they would bring back all Ben Cooper's costumes or the other as well.Like a retro kind of thing on a certain anniversary.If they bought back the Challenger this could happen as well.Ole well those where some good you say!

[The Toyroom]

That Underdog looks very familiar......

[ScottA]

Cool pics. Road Runner looks high as a kite.

I went as a skeleton one year but couldn't tell you if the costume was from Collegeville or Ben Cooper. I think my Mom has a pic of me in it somewhere.

[Wee67]

Looking at these now, I enjoy their glorious cheesiness. Some of the jumpsuit designs are wonderfully pathetic.

As a kid, however, I have scoffed at simply putting a star-filled background behind a vampire and a witch and adding the word "space" to their usual titles. I never liked had they had a picture of the person on the chest rather than what the character would have been wearing. Ben Cooper did this also, but I've leaned more Ben Cooper.

[generic]

Looking at these now, I enjoy their glorious cheesiness. Some of the jumpsuit designs are wonderfully pathetic.

As a kid, however, I have scoffed at simply putting a star-filled background behind a vampire and a witch and adding the word "space" to their usual titles. I never liked had they had a picture of the person on the chest rather than what the character would have been wearing. Ben Cooper did this also, but I've leaned more Ben Cooper.

I'm with you 100% on that. As a kid, I never understood why there was a picture of the person you were supposed to be dressed like on the chest. Seeing the masks as an adult, I now understand it's because no one would have had any idea who you were supposed to be otherwise!

My mom always made my costumes when I was a little kid and, even though she couldn't sew, I actually really liked what she came up with. I was just talking to her about my childhood costumes earlier this week and we were laughing about how she would sometimes staple them together since she couldn't sew. One year when I wanted to be a skeleton, she bought one of those cardboard poseable door skeletons, took it apart and stapled it to a black shirt and a pair of black pants. It didn't look like a store-bought costume, but it was actually pretty cool.