Now that we’ve had a few weeks to look at all of the photos from Phish’s Festival 8, we’ve put together our list of the best costumes at the event. It was a difficult decision as there were dozens of amazing ideas from multiple Festival 8 basketball teams to various Angry Mobs of Joggers to Pocahontas, but we whittled down the contenders to a list of ten.

10. American Gladiators

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[Photo by Melany]

Thank god these characters ignored the recent version of American Gladiators in favor of the original ’80s edition. They really do look like Nitro and Blaze. READ ON for the top nine costumes at Phish’s Festival 8…

9. Kentucky Fried Kiki

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[Photo by John Del Signore - LAist]

The LAist caption says it all “she even danced old.”

8. Ms. Pac-Man

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[Photo by Melany]

Believe it or not there were actually two groups of people dressed up as Pac-Man characters. We’ll give extra points to the crew of 10 for taking it beyond the original game into the realm of the Ms. Pac-Man sequel.

7. The Female Cop

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[Photo by Tony Landa]

She can put us under arrest anytime. There were plenty of complaints about folks who freaked everyone out because their cop costumes looked too realistic, but I don’t think anyone doubted that this woman wasn’t there to protect and serve.

6. Wookbusters

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[Photo via @UNOlker]

There were plenty of amazing group costumes, but Wookbusters was our favorite. We hope they bagged themselves #17 before the weekend was over.

5. The Robot

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We not only love this costume, we also love that The Robot kept in character while dancing the night away.

4. Man on a Llama

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[Photo by Adam Kaufman]

Our pal Bradley spent days building this costume only to have it break in shipping. Thankfully he was able to put it together with the help of his wife MacGyver-style.

3. Hacksaw Jim Duggan

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[Photo by Adam Kaufman]

We hear that ol’ Hacksaw didn’t break character all weekend.

2. Golden Shower

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[Photo by Jeff Miller of the OC Register]

We heard so much about Mr. Golden Shower before we saw the picture that we just couldn’t believe the costume would live up to the hype. We were wrong.

1. Phish Bobbleheads

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[Submitted by Piner]

They nailed it from the basic idea to execution. Bonus points for how good the instruments look and for paying tribute to the band who performed all weekend. Gotta love Page’s new shirt.

So what were your favorite costumes at Festival 8? Let us know what we missed by leaving a comment below…

Scott Bernstein

Scott Bernstein co-founded Hidden Track in October 2006 and was managing editor until taking over as EiC in January 2008. Scotty also writes for Relix Magazine and curates YEMblog.com.

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