'Super Plumber Boy' and 'Minegame' costumes are good at avoiding lawsuits

Halloween is sorted.
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No one likes a lawsuit. So when it comes to ripping off popular characters for costumes, you'd best stick to generic descriptions that won't attract the ire of high-priced corporate lawyers.

Luckily comedian Andy Corrigan took photos of these absurdly-named costumes for our amusement, posting them on Twitter on Sunday after finding them in a discount store in Adelaide, Australia.

From "Super Plumber Boy" to "Where's the Stripey Dude?" and the relatively unimaginative "Minegame" -- you can imagine they've also got costumes like "Yellow rat-like game character" and "English magician boy" in their collection somewhere.


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Feel free to take a guess as to what well-known characters these costumes happen to resemble. But if you hold the intellectual property rights to them, please don't sue!

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Johnny Lieu

Mashable Australia's Web Culture Reporter.Reach out to me on Twitter at @Johnny_Lieu or via email at jlieu [at] mashable.com

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