Ride Em Cowboy - Inflatable Adult Fancy Dress Costume

The reality of the costume is nothing like the picture shown. The fan for the costume is not strong enough to inflate it and the draw cord to stop the air coming out is not strong enough. Complete waste of money!

Good quialty and the 3D bones look amazing and more realistic. It will look good and be fun at our halloween party, Mask also good and makes it more realistic. Overall it does the job.

Excellent costume children loved it. Washed beautifully and was worn on three occassions over the halloween period.Prompt and efficient service i recceived it in good time for halloween parties.

My daughter needed this for a fancy dress party and she really looked the part. It was very good value for money too.

This is made out of a tent-like material so it is very thin and light. Therefore you have to treat it carefully when putting it on and taking it off. Once on, it is fine.It has to be made from tent-like material so it can inflate – ordinary material would collapse under its own weight (or it would have to be rigid which would make it heavy and bulky).People’s faces lit up when they saw it. People repeatedly came to chat to me about it with a wide smile on their face. In that respect I have never known anything quite like it. It has a massive feel-good factor.It inflates with a fan, powered by 4 AA batteries which are not included. You need to pull the drawstrings around your ankles tight to prevent air escaping. The second drawstring is around your waist - again you need to draw it tight. I found that it inflated within about 3-4 minutes.I made a mistake the first time I wore it – I held the reins as if I was riding a horse rather than put them around my neck. The second time I wore the costume I put the reins around my neck and it was so much better – it made the horse’s neck look far better inflated (it isn’t struggling against gravity) and - a massive bonus - I had both hands free at all times.I did not want to wear this driving to the party – I feared putting a hole in it or tearing a seam (no good with an inflatable costume). I also had visions of the Only Fools & Horses Christmas Special (the Batman & Robin scene). Because this is so light and compact, I took it in a bag to the party and changed there. People said it was a bit like Clark Kent – people saw me arrive as myself and reappear as a cowboy and horse. They loved it.The hat is odd – it looks cheap (it is made from tent-style material too) but, once on, it is effective. I said to my wife that the hat looked cheap while she was laughing at me in the costume and told me to put it on. She replied that the hat was fine and the whole costume was great. And that is what everyone else thought. In other words, you can criticise the costume because it isn’t great quality yet everyone else thought it was superb, and I soon forgot about the cheap hat. Yes, it looks cheap but no one sees that.This explains why some people (in reviews) don’t like it and others think it superb. I can understand both points of view.One warning – it is almost certainly highly flammable so keep it away from flames.Any problems? The drawstring around my waist keeps slipping – the spring-loaded toggle (designed to stop the nylon cord moving) can’t grip the cord firmly because nylon cord is slippery (as anyone who has had man-made cord will know). I may replace the nylon cord with string or paracord.A great costume. Don’t forget to buy some batteries (I took a spare set too).

Brilliant item. Caused a stir on rugby tour :)