By COLlive reporter
Some 97 entries have been submitted to the COLlive Purim Costume Contest, an annual online competition for the crowd’s most favorite masquerade from around the globe.
With 8 days to go, votes are beginning to come in on the wide variety of cute, dazzling and original costumes – many home-made, while others seem store-bought.
Families such as the Biggs from Crown Heights, the Kumers from Crown Heights and the Browns from Pittsburgh used their numbers to get dressed as a group of Giants fans, Lego Megafigures and a family of Dr. Seuss’s “Things”, respectively.
The family of Yissi and Esther Freeman of Crown Heights got dressed as characters of Christopher Awdry‘s Railway Series story books: Sir Topham Hatt, Lady Hat and their Really Useful Engines.
Notable vote-getters so far are the Victorian couple, a pair of scuba divers, Mickey Mouse, a masked Italian queen and a person named Chaya Z in academic regalia with the slogan “Graduate of Golus.”
We also got an entry in video from a couple pair dressed as riders of an amusement park roller coaster:
There will be 3 winners chosen by online voters. Voters can cast 1 vote per entry per day. Submissions will end March 25, 12:00 pm Eastern Time.
The prizes are sponsored by Focus Camera, the oldest and biggest camera store in Brooklyn offering friendly service and a variety of camera and camcorders for professionals and beginners at great prices.
Grand Prize:
Canon EOS Rebel T3i
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or $500 gift card*
2nd Prize:
Apple Ipad mini
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or $300 gift card*
3rd Prize:
Nintendo Wii Red Gaming System
or $250 gift card*
(*Gift card to Focus Camera Stores at 895 McDonald Ave Brooklyn, NY or to be used online at FocusCamera.com)
Vote and check out more costumes on COLlive’s Facebook page
Hahaha
Go Yoel Sebbag
Go kumers!!!
The “Victorian Couple” are late 18th-century. Victorian refers to the reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1876. (The tricorn fell out of style by 1800)
Thomas and Friends teach very valuable lessons of taking responsibility, being useful, teamwork, taking ownership of mistakes and putting every minute to good use.
That’s a lot more than most Jewish videos out there can say about their videos.
COSTUMES WERE MADE FROM SCRATCH.
so many cute ideas and humor! but i think the rollercoaster costme might have been the cutest….
The Best! so cute!!!
miss saudi arabia – that’s hilarious! someones got a great sense of humour!!
go giants!!!!!
Don’t rewrite history!
The Lag BaOmer parades with the Rebbe in front of 770 always included pop-culture characters from Micky Mouse, Donald Duck, the Flintstones – all carrying Yiddishe messages.
One year, they built a massive Superman (with the big S and all) out of wood.
Preach chassidism, not extremism!
The father son Troll is amazing.
go P
Go Yoel mountain sights
U guys look gr8 but why didn’t u include ur new little family addition?
NON-KOSHER animals, NON-KOSHER characters, and GOYISHA themes and images?!
You wouldn’t have Mickey Mouse marching in a Lag B’omer Parade, you wouldn’t have CATS, DOGS, BEARS – and any other NON-KOSHER animals in books and pictures – AS PER THE REBBE’S CLEAR INSTRUCTIONS in published, (and edited) sichos, why does it become “kosher” on Purim?!
Purim does not make something that’s essentially traif – all of a sudden – become “kosher” just because it’s Purim!
Somehow, I don’t think it would be “okay” if one made a “seuda” on Pork Chops (R”L) – because “v’Nahapoch Hu”!?
could you make a link for those of us that dont have facebook?many thanks
Vnahafoch Hu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a question, thats what we need today.
lego people win it by far
seems lke one can only vote if they have facebook, please enter my vote for chaya z “graduate of golus” an obvious winner. If there is one thing the purim story should have taught us is that we should not have to “party with the goyim and their ways” why are we then dressing up as secular characters? col would be sending a powerful message with the winner and I hope it will be a positive one.
it’s wonderful to see how many participated in the Purim festivities – B’H !
surely this makes Hakadosh Baruch Hu smile – but where have our true heroes gone? why are they replaced with characters that have nothing to do with this wonderful yomtov?