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Pirates league costume questions...[cost? + variety? + do they do pictures?]
We have scheduled pirates league for our boys (10 &6) for our September trip. The lady who did the booking recommended we get their costumes there, but I just wondered what other people experienced. Are the costumes crazy expensive, and do they have a big variety to choose from? Also, do they still offer pictures?
I would love to hear other people's experiences.
Thanks for any info
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I'm curious which package are you doing? My son is doing the Jake and the Neverland Pirates and when I booked his for Sept them never mentioned anything about costumes. Curious as well.
We did Pirates League this past Feb. There was really only the one option for girl costumes and yes, I call a pirate dress for $55 crazy expensive. yes we did cave. My mom offered to pay for one and I paid for one. My girls even went to a pirate-themed VBS last week and were so happy to wear their pirate dresses!
as for boys, I believe there was only one or possibly two options. they also have plenty of t-shirt options for kids and adults. I love my dad and hubby's t-shirts: subtle mickey with pirate cross-bones. it's really not necessary to get a whole costume, the t-shirts are great.
It's supposed to be a secret and we were sworn to secrecy, but yes, they do take your photos and then want you to pay the big Disney photo sucky prices. which again we did it for the memory. only time during any Disney experience where we've been specifically told we can't take our own photos!! Even BBB lets you take your own photos!
Pirates League is a decent value for all the extra knick-knacks they give you to take home and it was a thoroughly enjoyed experience for all 6 of us in our family (check out the photo below)
Personally, I would probably bring some pirate costumes from home for them to wear for their pirate makeover. I know that's what we're doing but with a princess dress for our granddaughter's appointment at the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique.
we, too, would never buy the princess dresses at WDW. the exact same ones that are $65 at WDW are $45 on Disney store online and they often go on sale for $27 or $33. we always wait for a sale! though I think we're out of luck for deals on Sophia dresses because they're so hard to get in the bigger sizes!
I have never seen the pirate dresses in the Disney stores or noticed them on-line, but we only get to a Disney store once or twice a year - including next week in New Hampshire, yippee! an outlet even!
When in Sept. are you going? You might hit the stores for Halloween costumes before you go. We did that for my youngest when we went before. We didn't do the BBB, it was just to expensive for us, but she got to dress up as a Princess when we went to our Character breakfast and she loved it!
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We had bought costumes online before our trip. I think my niece and nephews costumes were less then $15.00 each. My son was being Jack Sparrow for Halloween so we had that with us too(we were going to the Halloween Party the night they went to Pirates League). I had also made them a pirate mickey shirt. They had the shirts on at Pirates League because it was to hot for costumes. They did put their costumes on at night for the party for a little bit, but again it was really hot so they took them off. I know they did have a few costumes you could buy but not many choices. I would look online to see if you can find something on sale. They did have their picture taken at the end which we did purchase.
my little one desperately wanted the Izzy costume that they brought out for Halloween last year. we don't live anywhere near a Disney store, so we missed out. I called about 25 U.S. Disney stores and everyone was sold out. then I found someone selling hers second-hand on-line and she didn't even overcharge. DD was thrilled! she wore it for breakfast with Jake at HS. She was supposed to wear it for Pirates league makeover, but quickly decided she needed the pirate dress!
Yes! They are very expensive! The first time we did the experience, I did not realize we would be asked about this option (in front of our kids)--we felt pressured; and ended up compromising and buying the pirate t-shirts they had for our three.
The second time, we came prepared with costumes bought online from home! When they asked, we held up our bag and said, "we brought our own, do you have someplace they could change!" Worked like a charm!!!
It is a very fun experience--highly recommend!
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For little girls the current crop of Halloween costumes at Cracker Barrell restaurants is very Princess! Lots of lace and 'jewels' attached. Disney does sort of extort you into some very expensive in park purchases.
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We did that for my youngest when we went before. We didn't do the BBB, it was just to expensive for us, but she got to dress up as a Princess when we went to our Character breakfast and she loved it! 
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