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Masquerade Costume Superstore
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Categories: Adult, Hobby Shops [Edit]
Neighborhood: Pennsport1100 S Columbus Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19147
(215) 952-0980
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
8 reviews for Masquerade Costume Superstore
If you love to torture yourself with massive amounts of screaming children, and trashy girls looking for revealing costumes then come to masquerade!!!
I guess it's okay if you're into that pre-packaged Halloween thing, but that kind of makes my skin crawl. After going to the amazing Pierre's, I wandered into this place because I wanted a cheap tube of white greasepaint. That's it. To my amazement they carried ben nye makeup as well-- all marked up about 3 -5 dollars more than the place I was previously at. Super lame. However they do carry woochie prosthetics which is really cool.
After I found the greasepaint, I went to go over to the line... which went from the registers wrapped around an aisle, and snaked to the back of the store. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh. Luckily, it only took me about 5 - 10 minutes to get to the front. I promptly checked out, and went outside only to notice there was now a line to get INTO the store. It went down the building towards the awesome bagel place.
All I know for sure is the day after halloween, they better discount the shit out of their inventory so I can go crazy with cheesy home decorations. Everyone needs a bleeding candle year round, don't they?
This Masquerade Costume Superstore is sheer chaos.
Women tearing down costume-in-a-bag packages from the highest heights of the store's narrow aisles; groups of girls clamoring over the last girl scout costume; old ladies tearing through the wig section; college boys stretching their imagination ("Dude! You be the cup, I'll be the ping pong"); girls looking to be creative with their bunny costume ("I'm going to be a zombie bunny!" Friends: "Eww"); Guy to his bro friends, "One of you has to be Hannah Montana if I'm going to be Billy Ray Cyrus"; Mom to employee, "Do you carry fishnets for four-year-olds?"
They've got it all, but it comes at a price, you'll surely walk out of there needing a pint and a pill.
This place is f*cked up. Its choc full o crazy ass families looking for easy to do Halloween costumes. This includes the Wal*Mart posse. Anyway, I give it 3 stars for having a pretty nice over all selection. I can't get over the fact that this store is actually pretty adult orientated. A 5' walk from the left side (were the children's costumes are) to the back and you're in stripper costume land. You know, the outfits they don before they take it off? Up the stairs and you're in a porn shop!!
Were else can you get the necessities to be IronMan for Halloween and a rubber fist?
Insanity ensues.
We came here for the 3rd consecutive year to place our balloon order for our little one's birthday bash. They were out of some of the Mylar designs we wanted.
Also the costumes for kids were NOT cheap - ours cost $24.95 - which isn't awful - but Target had similar cheesy costume for cheaper. Masquerade definitely has way better selection of sizes and types of costumes though.
Asusual in October it is a PACKED madhouse. We got there at 10:20 - they open at 10 - but drove by at about 9:50 AM and there were people waiting to get inside. Wow!
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10/24/2008
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It was the thursday before Halloween and my friends and I still needed to get those finishing touches for our costumes. After walking down south street and only finding stores appropriate for those dressing up as things with "slutty" attached, we decided to get out of there and hit Columbus boulevards Halloween superstore.
When we got there we saw that everyone in Philadelphia thought the same thing. After driving around the parking lot multiple times we finally found a spot and then had to wait in line to actually get into the store. What, was Dracula signing autographs? Thankfully the line moved quickly but we entered into chaos. There were people everywhere, Mom's on the phone with their children picking out Disney Princess costumes, Sorority girls getting their handcuffs or nurse hats, and employees dressed up as creepy clowns pointing us in the wrong direction when looking for temporary tattoos.
Two of my pack had to actually leave the store because listening to the Cha-Cha slide while bumping into people was just too much to deal with.
I finally located the "Punk Rock" section, picked up some Sailor tattoos, a studded cuff and hoped that I would pay a somewhat accurate homage to Axl.
"Okay, let's go pick up a case and get out of here" were my words upon exiting.
If you need to go to Masquerade, go weeks in advance during the daytime. You'll save yourself from a headache.
I admit that I'm usually the type of person who creates his Halloween costumes on the fly. I just find it to be a lot more fun that way. But I'm moving on Nov. 1st, and spent a lot of time making the arrangements. throw in a big band interview that I had, and my time for creativity is seriously starting to dwindle. thank god for this place.
This is the absolute best place to get costumes in all of Philly. and because costumes aren't just for Halloween, it's open year round. and they even have *special* costumes upstairs as Caitlin says.
So not only will it help you prepare for Halloween weekend, but it will help you send in the clowns during Juniors surprise party. And it will even help you out if you need to play a game of good cop/bad cop with that special someone.
Happy Halloween!!!
It's okay to shop here if it's not October. You will find Santa Clause outfits for Christmas, Easter Bunny for Easter and a huge chicken costume for . . .interviews?
The top half of the store also has some kinky wares and outfits for those above 18 and those under 18 who like to live on the proverbial edge.
HINT: Come here on Nov. 1st to get Halloween costumes and decorations for about 75% off!
we were in here yesterday, on the lookout for a smallfry halloween 'stume. we didn't find anything, but that wasn't because of the selection. even this late into october, they still had LOADS of choices for the little folks. actually, it also looked like they had plenty of adult costumery, too.
i have to say, though, what the hell was i thinking about going here during the final weeks of october??!! it was like wearing a meat suit into a lions den. people get crazy, man. they just....do.
