How to Dress Like Hamburglar
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Best Hamburglar Costume Guide
Hamburglar is one of the key characters and mascots of McDonaldland. If you grew up between the 1970s to the 1990s, you might not remember McDonald’s as simply a fast-food chain but as a place that served food with toys (aptly called Happy Meals) and a food joint that came with a playground and some mascots that many would say was equally amusing and creepy. These mascots were based on the characters McDonaldland created to represent the chain and Hamburglar was one of them, along with Ronald McDonald himself, Grimace, and Birdie. Of these characters, Hamburglar, as his portmanteau name suggests, is obsessed with McDonald’s burgers and goes around trying to steal them. Get the look of the unruly hamburger thief with this Hamburglar costume guide.
Steal Hamburglar’s thieving look by wearing a specific Hamburglar costume, white and red sneakers, red gloves, an orange wig, and carrying around a toy hamburger.
Hamburglar Cosplay Costumes
Hamburglar is the true rascal of McDonaldland. Despite his attempts to steal as many burgers as he can, he is still widely accepted and loved as one of the key characters of the franchise. His look and character have gone through many transformations, from the downright horrific (a creepy old man character) to the comedic (a Captain Crook character based off of Peter Pan’s Captain Hook). But most will only know and remember the childish-looking man in black and white stripes. Anyone who dresses as Hamburglar will surely be recognized. Who else pairs a full jumpsuit of black and white stripes with a red necktie printed with hamburgers? To make the look more recognizable, put on an orange wig, white and red sneakers, and a pair of red gloves.
Take the whole Mcdonaldland gang with you! Let your friends cosplay as Ronald McDonald, Grimace, or Birdie!
About Hamburglar
While many assume that Hamburglar’s look is related to his character’s possible background in prison, him being a hamburger thief and all, a look into earlier McDonald’s commercials actually suggest that this is not the case. According to the age-old McDonald’s commercial released in the United States, Hamburglar used to dress in all-black. This was until he tried to steal some of Ronald McDonald’s hamburgers. The McDonaldland’s head boss grabbed him and held onto a piece of his all-black clothing. In his trying to run away from that and the boss holding him tight, he was spun round and round instead – tearing his black clothing in strips and revealing white clothing underneath. Thus, the black and white stripes. Other old commercials also suggest that these black stripes actually have superpowers. One released in Japan, particularly, shows Hamburglar’s character pulling his black stripes off to make a lasso that can snag some burgers off of Mcdonaldland.
