Kids love dinosaurs, and there are plenty of dinosaurs making appearances in Land of the Lost that be fun Halloween costumes. Originally Land of the Lost was scheduled to be released as one of the summer blockbuster movies in July of 2009 but once the release date of the Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince movie was pushed back to July of 2009 the movie studio producing Land of the Lost changed the release date to June of 2009. The movie studio didn’t want Land of the Lost to be competing with the Harry Potter film for an audience. Land of the Lost is an updated remake of a 1970’s television series that followed the adventures and mishaps of a scientist and his two children who were sent back in time to the Pre-Historic era when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. The updated version is slightly different than the original and is written with many satirical references to the television series.

In the new film the main character Rick Marshall loses his job as an academic scientist because of his theories about time warps and time travels. He ends up teaching a science museum where he continues to work on an invention that he designed to trigger earthquakes which would in turn trigger a time warp. Instead of bringing along his children, as was the case in the original TV series, in the movie Rick Marshall ends up dragging with him the tour guide at a roadside attraction where he sets off his device named Will Stanton and a friend who had encouraged him to continue making the device named Holly Cantrell. After the device, a tachyon amplifier, is set off they end up trapped in a time warp. They also lose the tachyon amplifier as they are transported into a parallel world.

The parallel world contains dinosaurs like the T Rex, Allosaurs, and Velociraptors. It also contains cave men like the one that the three find to act as their guide, named Cha-ka. While they are running from a T Rex that they nicknamed Grumpy and looking for the tachyon amplifier so that they can return home they stumble into a evil plot to rule the world. The Zarn, played by Leonard Nimoy in the film, is thought to be the villain for most of the film but ultimately it is revealed that Enik is the actual villain who has been using an army of creatures called Sleestaks. Enik tries throughout the film to steal the tachyon amplifier for himself. In the end the trio of Rick Marshall, Will Stanton and Holly Cantrell find the tachyon amplifier, defeat both the T Rex and the evil Enik, and return to their time with proof of the existence of time warps which leads to the restoration of Rick Marshall’s career as a paleontologist.

Land of the Lost has lots of great characters that would be fun costume ideas for kids and adults for Halloween. If you live in an area that is cold by the time that Halloween rolls around a dinosaur costume is a fun way to stay warm and look great when it comes time for trick or treating.