Gone are the days when parents could get away with dressing their children up for Halloween with drawn on cat whiskers or a witch's hat and be done with it.
Halloween costumes for kids are getting more original and this kid is the proud owner of possibly one of the coolest costumes ever.
Dressed as the lamp you'll recognise as the mascot for Pixar Animation Studios (actually called Luxo Jr.), the child brings the character to life by jumping round just like the animation.
Can you beat it?
Halloween Costumes You Need To Avoid Forever
Race(01 of13)
It’s 2015 and this should go without saying by now, but race is not a costume. Reducing another culture to a performance has been a clockwork controversy every year, with celebrities like Selena Gomez wearing a bindi and festivalgoers wearing headdresses last year, drawing criticism for appropriating symbols of cultural importance for purely aesthetic reasons. Last year we were gifted with the grossness of dads doing blackface to become Ray Rice, women becoming Sexy Chinese Takeout, and families doing caricatures of the Kardashian-West family. And one university has made headlines already this year, for a “Kanye West”-themed UCLA party that allegedly had white sorority and fraternity members donning blackface. Just. Don’t.
Syrian Refugees(02 of13)
People were outraged after Hungarian photographer Norbert Baska did a “migrant chic” photoshoot with a model in tatters using high society accessories. Making light of the refugee crisis affecting more than nine million Syrians displaced because of civil war surpasses even Zoolander’s Derelicte on the inappropriate scale. Don’t take after Baska. Going as a Syrian refugee or any migrant communicates a clear message: you’ve got the privilege to look like you’re dying, and the lack of taste not to care. (credit:Huffington Post)
The man who killed Cecil the Lion(03 of13)
Walter Palmer, the dentist who killed beloved Cecil the Lion early this summer, has become one of the most hated men on the Internet. PETA was one of many animal activism organizations to lambast Palmer, issuing the Halloween costume “Cecil’s Revenge.”A good sign you shouldn’t dress up as this dentist? His death threats haven’t dwindled. He’s not sorry for hunting Cecil down and has taken a lot of heat from around the world. (credit:Washington TImes)
...Or actually Cecil the Lion(04 of13)
Pretty Little Liars star Ashley Benson recently took a selfie wearing a Cecil the Lion costume, her face peeking out from Cecil’s mouth. When she asked her Instagram followers if they liked it, it was wholeheartedly rejected. Benson quickly edited the caption to read “lion costume” instead and released an apology on Instagram saying the post was “in poor taste.” We’re not sure which is worse out of the two costumes, but we don’t have to ask Instagram to know that pretending you’re wearing the carcass of a beloved feline ranks high in bad decisions. (credit:Instagram.com/AshleyBenson)
“Bro” who hiked up HIV drugs(05 of13)
Never mind Palmer, Martin Shkreli is definitely the most loathed man online right now. The pharmaceutical entrepreneur hiked the price of the drug Daraprim, which fights parasitic infections that are deadly for people with AIDS from $13.50 to $750, up by nearly 5000 per cent. It doesn’t help that his social media presence came across as vapid or “hedge fund bro.” Think twice about dressing up as the guy who can’t even catch a break on Tinder -- it’s a surefire way to ensure you won’t catch one in real life. And no one wants to be the party host who has to say, “Yeah, I’m friends with Hedge Bro”, even if it’s just for a night. (credit:Twitter.com/MartinShkreli)
Bill Cosby(06 of13)
Don’t dress up as someone accused of sexually assaulting and drugging more than 50 women. Just don’t. (credit:Coed Magazine)
Jared from Subway(07 of13)
Jared Fogle, the former face of Subway restaurants, plead guilty to child porn charges in August.It goes without saying that this is an inappropriate costume choice any day of the year, but on a holiday that is predominantly a night where kids roam the streets freely, it’s all the more offensive. Avoid at all costs. (credit:Daily Mail)
Miley Cyrus circa MTV Video Awards (08 of13)
She’s been met with an onslaught of criticism for past fashion choices, but Miley Cyrus’ dreadlocks at the MTV Video awards in August have many taking her to task for black culture appropriation. In a double whammy, Cyrus was also called out onstage by Nicki Minaj: a particularly bad look for the pop star. As a result, Cyrus was the target of a takedown that became one of the best memes of 2015, spawning merchandise and a club song. So aside from racial insensitivity, mimicking the pop star would probably make you the butt of every “Miley what’s good?” joke for the entire night. You probably don’t want that. (credit:The Huffington Post)
Caitlyn Jenner(09 of13)
Many stores were already selling Caitlyn Jenner costumes in August, advertising as unisex but featuring cis men. Others like Anytime Costumes sold wigs called “Miss-ter Olympian”, jabs at Jenner’s athlete career. Jenner herself has said she was “in on the joke” during a Today Show interview, but for those boycotting and signing a petition, the costumes are exploitative.Transgender people have a long history of being mocked, scrutinized, and policed for their appearances. For people who have to perform gender for the public everyday perfectly in fear of assault, wearing Caitlyn Jenner, especially if you’re a cisgender man, says that you think her gender is the punchline to a transphobic joke. (credit:Business Insider)
Rachel Dolezal(10 of13)
Remember what we said about race not being a costume? The disgraced NAACP chapter president who faked her ethnicity pulled the long con, with over a decade of posing as a black academic, writer, and wearing black women’s hairstyles. She’s already been parodied, with Saturday Night Live actress Maya Rudoph doing a perfect Dolezal impersonation, but if you’re white, dressing up as someone else who was white pretending to be black might go over some people’s heads and just look like blackface, and blackface is never ok. #ApproriationInception. (credit:Vanity Fair)
No dead celebrities please(11 of13)
This year we lost many, including reality show star Bobbi Kristina Brown and actor Leonard Nimoy. Of course, it’s perfectly fine to dress up as a character a celebrity played out of respect, such as Nimoy’s Spock from Star Trek. If you go trick-or-treating, you might even score some extra Mars bars and Rockets from geeky parents. But we think the line between offensive and homage lies in presentation. If you’re choosing to spend the night throwing up Vulcan gestures as Spock in your meticulously designed cosplay, fantastic. But if you’re dressed up as a celebrity in their final moments (such as the awful asphyxiating Mrs. Doubtfires last year post-Robin Williams’ suicide), that’s crossed the line from paying tribute to immediate party disinvites. (credit:Hypable)
Ahmed Mohamed(12 of13)
There are lots of non-offensive ways to pay tribute to the ninth grader who inspired #IstandwithAhmed this Halloween, especially if, like him, you’ve experienced Islamophobic discrimination and want to highlight that. But this costume borders being in poor taste and a bad idea, and tips over into racist if you do brownface. (credit:Telegraph)
School shooters(13 of13)
Ever hear of hybristophilia? It’s basically loving somebody because they’ve committed a crime. Think Bonnie and Clyde, or those women who send fanmail to murderers in prison. Romanticizing school shooters can have consequences, like Holmies (fans of the movie theatre shooter in Aurora, Colorado) or toxic 4chan discussion boards that glorify violence. When you’re dressing up as a school shooter, you might not be directly supporting their killings, but you are making light of a tragic, devastating situation that will always be “too soon.” (credit:HBO Films)