Every single year, we can’t wait for Halloween… and it’s not just because of all the delicious candy we get to eat and the cool pumpkins we get to carve (though we love those, too!). What really gets us hyped up is waiting for the grand reveal—Josh Sundquist’s newest imaginative costume.
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Brimming with positivity and a love of life, comedian, motivational speaker, and former US Paralympian Josh has been living with one leg since the age of 9 when he lost it to cancer. Every year, he somehow integrates his one remaining leg into his imaginative costume ideas. He always thinks outside the box. With great comedic effect!
And this year, he completely blew our minds on a whole other level. Seriously, we did a double-take. For Halloween 2022, Josh dressed up as Thor’s legendary hammer, Mjölnir. Scroll down below to check out how his Halloween ideas have changed over the years, leading up to the brilliant costume this year, Pandas!
Bored Panda got in touch with Josh, who was kind enough to answer our questions about this year's costume. "I'm a huge fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe so once I realized that my body is pretty much the shape of Mjölnir, I knew it had to be this year's costume," he told us. "I worked with the incredible prop master Calen Hoffman who spent 100+ hours creating this epic piece. You may remember that Calen is the genius behind my 2020 and 2021 Halloween Costumes: Baby Groot and a microscope. Calen even carved real runes into the top of the hammer’s head! I hope everyone enjoys it."
Meanwhile, if you’d like to take a peek at Bored Panda’s coverage of Josh's costumes over the years, you can check out our earlier articles right over here: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, and 2015. (If you didn’t get the hint, we’re huge fans!)
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Motivational speaker, book and show writer, and former Paralympian Josh Sundquist is known all around the globe
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He hasn't let the fact that he lost his leg when he was a child stop him from enjoying life to the fullest
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Bored Panda wanted to know a bit more about the costume. We were curious about what it's actually like to wear it. "There's a very clever see-through portal on one of the sides, so I can clearly see what's happening around me," Josh said. "Thankfully, it's not too heavy!"
Meanwhile, Josh shared a bit about the show Best Foot Forward and what lessons he hopes the audience learns while watching it. "I'm proud to be one of the executive producers and writers on Best Foot Forward, a heartwarming family comedy inspired by my childhood. It's now streaming in over 100 countries on Apple TV+ so I hope Bored Panda fans can check it out," he said.
"It's inspired by my book Just Don’t Fall and follows young Josh and his family as he transfers from homeschool to public school, making new friends and taking on the many exciting adventures of seventh grade. I hope the new series reaches kids who maybe have never seen someone like them authentically depicted on screen and just shows young people with disabilities on screen having fun. When I was growing up, I think something like Best Foot Forward would have been really meaningful and encouraging to me."
Every single year, he dresses up in a Halloween costume that integrates his disability in a comedic and quirky way. Here's how he dressed up over the years:
2010
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2012
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2013
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2014
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2015
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2016
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2017
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2018
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2019
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2020
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Here's the video from 2020 showing the costume-making process and the end result
2021
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Meanwhile, here's the viral video where Josh showed off his microscope Halloween costume last year
“People always say I look like Loki. But I think I look more like Thor's hammer, Mjölnir,” Josh quipped on social media, after uploading a video of himself putting on the brilliant costume.
The quality of the costume becomes even more apparent in the photo where his wife, Ashley, poses next to him, dressed as Thor. It is, hands down, the best couple costume we have ever seen. Josh revealed that the Mjölnir costume was made by Calen Hoffman, from Propcustomz.
And we know that it’s incredibly early to start thinking about next year, but… we really can’t wait to see how Josh is going to top this year’s idea. Some social media users have actually started sharing ideas for next year’s costume. Their suggestions include dressing up as a toothbrush, lightsaber, barber pole, and the Oscar statue in 2023, to name just a few ideas.
It’s hard to think how someone can keep raising the bar, year after year, but that’s exactly what he’s been doing. Just when someone thinks that he might have jumped the shark, he knocks it out of the park, yet again.
Josh’s Halloween costumes have a legendary status already in pop culture. So much so that he felt they just had to have a Halloween episode while writing the streaming show Best Foot Forward, inspired by his childhood.
It sometimes feels like Josh is a superhero in secret, considering how much energy and optimism he has, and how much he’s accomplished over his lifetime. Back in 2006, he joined the US Paralympic Ski Team. What’s more, he’s a motivational speaker who is inspiring people all over the globe. His social media presence alone is staggering. His videos have been viewed over half-a-billion times around the world.
He’s also the published author of several books, as well as the executive producer and writer of the show Best Foot Forward, based on his first memoir, Just Don’t Fall. The show follows young Josh and his family as he switches from homeschooling to public school.
2022: This year, Josh dressed up as Mjölnir, Thor's hammer
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Here's how he put the costume on
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And here's how he looks in all of his glory
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There's Chris Hemsworth's Thor (right) holding Mjölnir (left) on the silver screen, for reference
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You can watch the grand video reveal of Josh's 2022 Halloween costume right over here
Josh also posed alongside his wife, Ashley, who dressed up as Thor
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Moreover, Josh is a Celebrity Ambassador for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. He helps raise money for children’s hospitals across the US.
A couple of years ago, Josh told yours truly that he is ‘addicted’ to making people laugh. “As addictions go, this is a pretty good one. It has very few side effects. And it’s free (other than the annual cost of building a Halloween costume),” he quipped during a previous interview with Bored Panda.
Not one to shy away from speaking about the challenges that he had to overcome aside from losing his leg, the motivational speaker told us that, “like any good millennial, I’ve had to work through a standard quota of mental health issues.”
“But mental health, of course, is never finished or cured or overcome. It’s managed. It’s ongoing. It’s in progress,” he said.
“If you’re carrying a heavy burden, you have three options: You can hold on a little longer, you can find someone to share the load, or you can decide it’s time to let go. All three are equally valid. Wisdom is choosing the best one for this particular moment,” Josh told Bored Panda.
People were overjoyed when they saw the costume. Here's what some internet users had to say
