Most people enjoy dressing up once a year and becoming something they are not. Some make up their costume the day before a Halloween Party or stop by a Costume shop and pick up a mask and outfit. But then there are those of us who start planning in July and construction in August. Quiet Autumn evenings spent busily building masks and sewing capes. We like to stretch out that joyful time spent becoming something we aren't. Plus we usually end up with a bizarre decoration for an upper shelf, a trophy head of a beast we once were.

Well, Welcome to my collection of trophy heads, costumes that I have been over the the past decades. I no longer have many of these costumes, but I have photos and memories of time spent having trouble breathing and seeing in an ET head or dancing as a Dinosaur skeleton. And so here they are for you to enjoy. Maybe you will get some ideas for Halloween this year.

Of Course, this page is UNDER CONSTRUCTION, actually it will probably be constantly UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
Hopefully, most of the gaps will fill in soon.

Year	Photo	Description	Prize?!
Apr 2005		General Grievous, from Star Wars EIII, Revenge of the Sith	"Best in Show" in Costume Pageant at SW Celebration III!! First Place in Villian Category at SW Celebration III!! Best Costume at the Celebration Party, too.
Oct 2002		Hobbit in a Cage, being carried around by a RingWraith	Won Grand Prize at the Seattle Bump 2002!!
Oct 1999		Wolfman 1999 and his Colorful friends!!
May 1999		Guess Who will be my first costume from "STAR WARS, Episode One: The Phantom Menace"?	Appeared on Local and National Television and Newspapers
1998		Max from "Where the Wild Things Are" My favorite children's book; I have been Max since I was six, just ask my mom.	First Place at ARO.space's Dead Celebreties Ball with T-Rex
1996		Martian Trooper from the "Mars Attacks!" Trading Cards (before the Movie came out) This has been my favorite Martian design always: big brain, bulging eyes, and a boney skull in my favorite color, chartreuse!	Best Costume at R-Place
1996		Venom & Carnage from the "Spiderman" My Little Brother's favorite is Venom, He was Venom, so I got to be Carnage!	Easily the best time I have ever had Trick or Treating!
1995		Two-Face from "Batman Forever" This was a throw back to my Phantom make-up and every bit as fun.	.
1994		Jack Skellington from "The Nightmare Before Christmas" A quick Halloween day costume to celebrate the day as Jack.	First Place at St. Mark's Hunchback Costume Contest with T-Rex and the Flamingo
1993		Tyrannosaurus Rex Skeleton Easily, my very favorite costume and most proud work.	Grand Prize (and First Individual) at the Bump!
1992		Borg Three Blind Borgs, see how they Assimilate
1991		Universal Monsters with Fangs! The (Blond) Wolf Man, Dracula, and even a designer Mummy!
1990		Road Warriors? & Marvel Heroes Don't ask me? It wasn't my idea, I just made the costumes.
1989		Gremlins! And this one was fed after Midnight!
1988		The Many Faces of The Phantom of the Opera	Gee, this crowd pleaser won First place individual at Work (Hewlett Packard) and the Emerald City Bar, Boise, ID
1987		Audrey II from "Little Shop of Horrors"	I won first place as Audrey II at a Friend's Haunted Barn Halloween Party: A bottle of Champagne that I saved till after the Play was over.
1986		Stay Puff Marshmallow Man from "Ghostbusters" and Alien Marine
1985		Sid Vicious as a Dead Punker
1984		Billy Idol
1983		Jabba the Hutt My first try at a Soft Sculpture costume made quite an impression my first year on the job in Boise.	Best Group Costume (as Jabba and friends) at Hewlett-Packard First Prize costume contest at a local video store competition
1982		E.T. the Extra-terrestrial
1981		The Tin Woodsman from "The Wizard of Oz"	Won 2nd Prize at a College Football game Costume Contest, which we all spent the prize going to see "Raiders of the Lost Ark"
1980		Yoda, the Jedi Master
1979		Boba Fett, where? Need I say anything more about this Intergalactic Bounty Hunter? Perhaps that my helmet uses one of my mom's stainless steel bowls.
1978		ALIEN: At least what we thought it looked like before the toys and pictures.
1977		Darth Vader	My First, First Place Prize: a Ten Speed Huffy Bike from a local grocery store contest!
1976		Cornelius from "Planet of the Apes"
1975		Two Headed Monster.. or was it Three heads?

Let me know how you like them and if you have posted any of your own exciting Halloween Costumes, I would love to see them. e mail me at: earlb@boneboy.com. Oh, and Happy Halloween!!

All photos and text © Earl Bergquist, 1979-2011, except as noted. Please e mail earlb@boneboy.com for permission before copying or publishing. Thanks.