POLL: After a decade, which of Mike and Daintre’s Halloween costumes are the best?

By Karen Bartko Global News

Posted October 31, 2018 8:49 am

Updated October 31, 2018 9:00 am

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WATCH ABOVE: For Halloween 2018, Global Edmonton's Mike Sobel dressed up as mass murderer Michael Myers from the Halloween films, and Daintre Christensen was the bride of Frankenstein – Oct 31, 2018

Every Halloween for the past 10 years, Global Edmonton weather specialist Mike Sobel and traffic reporter Daintre Christensen surprise viewers – and staff – with unique costumes.

Christensen says they start brainstorming ideas around the first week of October, and come up with two or three options before making the final selection.

They follow two rules: Nothing too scary or elaborate. Since they also start work very early in the morning, they shy away from characters that require a lot of makeup, and from masks that are difficult to speak in.

But for their 10th year, they bent both of those rules: Mike dressed up as masked-mass murderer Michael Myers from the Halloween films, and Daintre Christensen was the bride of Frankenstein. Christensen said her transformation took an hour and several layers of white makeup.

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POLL: After a decade, which of Mike and Daintre’s Halloween costumes are the best? - image

Christensen says her favourite costumes were 2013’s Sonny and Cher. “It was a fairly simple costume and we had a laugh recreating some of their shtick. I had to stand on a platform to look much taller than Mike!”

Sobel’s favourite was 2011’s Invisible Man — so much so, he wore it again in 2017.

His craziest costume memory goes back to before Christensen joined the crew, when the morning news was on from 6 to 8 a.m. “I would wear a different costume for each half hour. That gave me very little time to change in between segments so it was run, run, run.”