Rad Kostumes

With Halloween right around the corner, everybody’s been searching high and low for the perfect costume. Skaters can find this time of year particularly difficult, trying to find a costume that either incorporates a skateboard or can be easily skated in. The planks going to make sure you don’t trip all over your toilet-paper mummy costume. The only ‘it’ you’ll be eating this Halloween should be chocolate or fruit flavored.

Bart Simpson

Bart Simpson has become a literally ageless skate-icon. All you need for this costume is blue shorts, a red shirt, hair gel, and a skateboard. Put up your hair in some spikes and hike your shorts up. Wallah! You’re Bart Simpson. Also, Orchard now carries The Simpsons brand skateboards. A replica of Bart’s animated ride may still be available.

Hey Arnold

The lovable, urban, football-headed cartoon character of our youth is an excellent costume for skateboarders. If you are well versed in the show, you’ll remember that both Arnold and his best friend Jerold, skate. Therefore, your buddy could dress up as Jerold and you can make this a group costume. For this one, you’ll need a tight blue pants, a little hat, blue sweater, and a flannel that’s significantly longer than the sweater.

Marty McFly

The Back to the Future trilogy features Marty McFly, the protagonist, with a skateboard throughout different time periods. In the present (1980’s) Marty is seen with a conventional skateboard riding to school. In the first movie, Marty goes back in time to the fifties and pays homage to the creation of the original skateboard. He builds a skateboard out of roller-skates and a two-by-four. The coolest skateboard that Marty has is in the second movie where Marty goes to the future. In this scenario, Marty takes a flying scooter from a little girl and snaps off the handlebars, making it a skateboard. To make your board look like the hover-board in Back to the Future II, you could paint your grip-tape pink. Also, you could add streamers to the perimeter of your deck to create the illusion that the board is in-fact not on wheels and is hovering. For the rest of the costume all you need is white Nikes, blue jeans, and a red ‘life vest’ style down vest.

Ninja Turtles

Who embodies skateboarding culture better than the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Not only do all of the turtles skate, but they also eat a lot of pizza and hang out all hours in the street and underbelly of the city. This makes the Ninja Turtles perhaps the best skateboarding involved costume yet. Another plus is that a group of friends can be all of the different turtles. If you have more friends than there are turtles the rat, Splinter, and the villain Shredder, also make great costumes.