​In the last fifty years, dressing up on Halloween as your favorite action figure has gone from being totally unknown to relatively obscure to a big percentage of what you see trick or treating. It’s not exactly a mystery why — kids like toys, toys look cool, and so kids enjoy dressing up as the things they already have in their toy box.

Costume companies, on the other hand, have the tough decision on choosing what toy characters fickle children want most to trick or treat in. Sure, things like Transformers and Star Wars might be gimmes, but only a few companies get those costume rights. The rest are left to fight among each other for the rest… including the dregs. Here are six examples of really awesome toy-based Halloween costumes, and six of examples of toy costumes that most likely didn’t sell that Samhain (we’ll start with the saddest, because we’re assholes that way).

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