Gothwerk - Steampunk crap at Party City!!!

[kommander]

Cheap, mass-produced, ultimately disposable junk for cheap, mass-produced, ultimately disposable people.

I'm going to have to use this now, it is really quite funny. As for the costumes I think that buying cheap pre-made costumes of any type at a place like party city shews a lack of ingenuity, regardless of the costume type.

[SolarCenturion]

Cheap, mass-produced, ultimately disposable junk for cheap, mass-produced, ultimately disposable people.

I'm going to have to use this now, it is really quite funny. As for the costumes I think that buying cheap pre-made costumes of any type at a place like party city shoes a lack of ingenuity, regardless of the costume type.

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[MWBailey]

Those costumes are appalling!! They're just run of the mill crap Halloween costumes with added (cheap crap)goggles. I mean, seriously..'Steampunk Witch'!!??? WTF?

Speaking from some authority, I married a steampunk witch and quite frankly she has never looked like that. If she did my eye would probably start bleeding. Still, it has all the makings of a brassgoggles challenge;

Make one of these outfits look good!

Ha...hahha...heehee hahahahahahahahahahahaHAhaHAhaHAha*cough*splutter8Wheeeezzzee...

Obviously, I've seen these incredibly lame excuses for SP outfits

Hmmm... for starters, a pair of GOGGLES* that one can ACTUALLY SEE THROUGH would be a step up... Maybe a huge wrench to clout people who simply bought the outfit and used it as is...

Spirit Halloween Store has a pair like the ones the LOEG wore in Siberia, but in silver poly plastic and replete with pleather shrouds and oddly-shaped gold metallic add-on hoop things that seem to offer no serious functional options...

EGAD, what am I saying...

[bicyclebuilder]

Obviously the crap we are talking about here is... ehr, well... crap.
But just as the name of the shop reveils, it's for a party.
Just like any theme-party, people try to make the best by buying a cheap, plastic, "disposable" prop to fit in the theme. Just like piratehats, hawaii shirts, horror-outfits, cowboyhats. All props to make a theme-party, nothing more nothing less. If the prop breaks or gets lost at the party, no harm done.
The thing is... theme-parties are hot these days. So "cheap" disposable crapy props will be baught no matter the prise. So why not, as a salesman, sell cheap stuff for more when the demand is hi?
Now look at it this way: you go, as a non-steampunker to a theme-party with expensive crappy goggles. The goggles malfunction but the party makes you think:"hey, this is fun. I have to digg deaper into the concept of steampunk. But first I have to make a better pair of goggles." And a new steampunk enthusiast is born.
I know some people are going to disagree with this statement, but I think it's like downloading music. It's cheap but many times crappy because of the quality of the sound, but if you like the music and the artist, you want to here more. So you go and buy the whole album, because you want the best quality of sound and you want to feel and see the real cover in stead of the scribbly handwriting on a copied cd.
You've gotta start somewhere, right?

[rosalynwinters]

I seem to remember a time when folk dressed up in impressive outfits for parties, not donning painted rubbish-bags in place of ones clothing.

Thin plastic in multiple colours glued together in some aproximation of another 'alien' style. What are these poor party goers to due when they discover someone amongst them is in actuality a true murderer?

Surely the flimsy things will not hold together whilst one flees. Soon there shall my many fleeing half nak... OH! now I get it! Right, right carry on.

[Aleister Crow]

I seem to remember a time when folk dressed up in impressive outfits for parties, not donning painted rubbish-bags in place of ones clothing.

Thin plastic in multiple colours glued together in some aproximation of another 'alien' style. What are these poor party goers to due when they discover someone amongst them is in actuality a true murderer?

Surely the flimsy things will not hold together whilst one flees. Soon there shall my many fleeing half nak...

Drat! She's on to my cunning plan!

OH! now I get it! Right, right carry on.

All right then.  

[Man of Steam]

The only thing I see that I would actually like is the goggles, and that's because I really don't have the time to make a set(they still look like they would break very quickly). But seriously, vampires, really? *sigh*

[Andi]

I seem to remember a time when folk dressed up in impressive outfits for parties, not donning painted rubbish-bags in place of ones clothing.

Was that back when they had walk to the parties, 3 miles in the snow, up hill both ways? 

[Ginny Blundy]

I saw these at Party City tonight. Had quite a laugh at them, imagining the conversation that must have gone on at Gothwerk costumes.
"So, what is steampunk?"
"Well, they dress kind of goth but kind of not... and I KNOW they wear goggles. And lots of brown."
"Hm, goth you say? Like vampires?"
"Yes. And pirates. Vampirates."

[Xenos]

When you get right down to brass tacks, bicyclebuilder is right.  Theme parties are the "in" (dear god, it was so hard not to say "scene!") thing right now.  Who knows?  These cheap (and lord, are they EVER cheap) immitations may be the springboard for new people to come on board. 

When you look at it in THAT light, it's not so...  Ok, so yeah, the stuff's still junk, but you get what I mean, right? 

[Camillia du Chine]

I saw these at Party City tonight. Had quite a laugh at them, imagining the conversation that must have gone on at Gothwerk costumes.
"So, what is steampunk?"
"Well, they dress kind of goth but kind of not... and I KNOW they wear goggles. And lots of brown."
"Hm, goth you say? Like vampires?"
"Yes. And pirates. Vampirates."

VAMPIRATES!  Oh, ow!  I was eating hot soup when I read that!! 

[Ginny Blundy]

I saw these at Party City tonight. Had quite a laugh at them, imagining the conversation that must have gone on at Gothwerk costumes.
"So, what is steampunk?"
"Well, they dress kind of goth but kind of not... and I KNOW they wear goggles. And lots of brown."
"Hm, goth you say? Like vampires?"
"Yes. And pirates. Vampirates."

VAMPIRATES!  Oh, ow!  I was eating hot soup when I read that!! 

Terribly sorry! I hope that you are recovering, without any need for an exsanguination or an eye patch. 

[markf]

Arrgh... Vampirates!  markf     

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[Sir Nathaniel Wolf]

I'm a little offended that they choose to merge Steampunk with vampires

On the contrary.  This merely gives me the excuse to fetch my best nocturnal tracking goggles and pneumatic stake-driver, and go a-hunting for the unholy bloodfiends making mockery of our otherwise magnificent genre.

After all, we all know what the last big "vampire" trend was, and I highly doubt any of us wish that sort of infection to corrupt our ranks...

[SolarCenturion]

*SPARKLE*


*giggles like Wrenfield and runs away*

[Sir Nathaniel Wolf]

all the costumes for women can be described as 'low budget porn film fantasy.'

Sad, but true.  And usually quite ridiculous in their "it's like ____ but SEXY!" ridiculousness.  I do not care how ambitious or sexually-deprived you are, things like Freddy Kreuger, the Wizard of Oz cast (no, not just Dorothy or the Witch), and the Ninja Turtles should NOT be given "hot girl" versions!

[SolarCenturion]

all the costumes for women can be described as 'low budget porn film fantasy.'

Sad, but true.  And usually quite ridiculous in their "it's like ____ but SEXY!" ridiculousness.  I do not care how ambitious or sexually-deprived you are, things like Freddy Kreuger, the Wizard of Oz cast (no, not just Dorothy or the Witch), and the Ninja Turtles should NOT be given "hot girl" versions!

But I rather like the "Arisia" Green Lantern costumes that have hit the market in the past year or so

[Lord Nicholas Horsethorn]

My favourite so far: gunmetal-black-goggles

I particularly like the comment "The perfect steampunk gothic punk costume accessory"

Not only perfect, but doubly punk.

[Sir Nathaniel Wolf]

*SPARKLE*


*giggles like Wrenfield and runs away*

Do that again, my good man, and I shall have you bludgeoned soundly about the head and shoulders with a blacksmith's maul.

[SolarCenturion]

*SPARKLE*


*giggles like Wrenfield and runs away*

Do that again, my good man, and I shall have you bludgeoned soundly about the head and shoulders with a blacksmith's maul.

You overstep your authority, Sir! Only my wife is permitted to make such threats against me!

*SPARKLE*

[Sir Nathaniel Wolf]

*SPARKLE*


*giggles like Wrenfield and runs away*

Do that again, my good man, and I shall have you bludgeoned soundly about the head and shoulders with a blacksmith's maul.

You overstep your authority, Sir! Only my wife is permitted to make such threats against me!

*SPARKLE*

...do not think I would be unwilling to give her the maul to use in my stead, in that case...

[SolarCenturion]

*SPARKLE*


*giggles like Wrenfield and runs away*

Do that again, my good man, and I shall have you bludgeoned soundly about the head and shoulders with a blacksmith's maul.

You overstep your authority, Sir! Only my wife is permitted to make such threats against me!

*SPARKLE*

...do not think I would be unwilling to give her the maul to use in my stead, in that case...

right... she'd use it too... I surrender

[Andi]

I came across this picture of 3 characters from ALW's new musical (I use the term lightly), and for some reason it made me think of this thread.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/7407506/Love-Never-Dies-at-the-Adelphi-Theatre-Andrew-Lloyd-Webbers-sequel-to-the-Phantom-of-the-Opera.html?image=3

[Time Lord Victorious]

I'll just leave this right here.

http://www.entertainmentearth.com/hitlist.asp?searchfield=steampunk+costumes&eeshop=

[bicyclebuilder]

I'll just leave this right here.

http://www.entertainmentearth.com/hitlist.asp?searchfield=steampunk+costumes&eeshop=

You can smell the cheap plastic!
I like the "WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD" signs at the bottom. They should have one warning about choking on a beaverage whilst looking at that website. Accidentally spraying cola out your nose is serious buisiness.