Retrofit - The Old School Operation Costume

I try somewhat hard to not be a total segment freak when it comes to the blog. Alas, despite some of my best efforts, I have yet another segment to add to the blog. This time, we’re going to call it “retrofit”.

It seems these days that throwbacks are always in. I suspect it will always be the same. Take any good piece of pop culture and bring back fond memories, and you’re sure to have a hit. This year for Halloween, I was lucky enough to see a few good retro costumes to make me say to myself “self, you should write about retro costumes!”. Therefore, the birth of retrofit. Hopefully I’ll be able to find some really knock-out costumes, instructions, news bits, or anything else retro/costumes for y’all to read. Once again, I do have to stress that we’re all about the collaboration. If you have an idea or something, please submit and we’ll include it as always.

Anyway, here goes.

The Illustrious Functioning Operation Costume

I had a huge notion to do a piece on retro looking photos to get that creepy old horror movie feel when taking pics of your Halloween costume. While I was busy scouring for ideas, I stubbed my toe on this article…

I didn’t ask permission to publicly praise this effort, but I will be contacting the admin at Avoision.com to hear more about his experience with making the Operation costume. It looks like to took a good amount of time, plenty of ingenuity, and a huge post activity mess to deal with.

For those of you who maybe weren’t alive during the eighties, Operation was a board game where you had to use endlessly steady hands to carefully extract the body parts of a sickly man. If you hit the sides of the openings where the tightly fit plastic organs were, you got buzzed at viciously like you just went out the emergency exit of a museum. Now, just imagine the same thing, except attached to a human body…

You have to give the guy credit for the work he did. And it’s fit to mention that there’s much more incentive in pulling a Reese’s from the costume than it would be to walk away triumphant with your own aorta. Everyone has their own thing though I guess. Either way, this is a classicly good retrofit for the blog, therefore it shall be the initial entry to this new segment.

Take a peek at the photos and please be sure to jump over to the actual article. The work is so clever, it needs no further explanation.

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