The Renton Reporter took a tour of local costume and thrift shops to see what adults and kids will masquerade as for Halloween 2014. The results of what’s trending this year weren’t that surprising as many costumes followed pop culture and classics.

Staff at the Highlands Goodwill store said that characters from the movie “Frozen” were top sellers as well as zombies from “The Walking Dead” TV show, the character Walter White from “Breaking Bad” and Dead of the Dead or Dia de los Muertos accessories.

“We sold out of a lot of stuff this weekend,” said Perla Zamora, Goodwill assistant manager, about the weekend prior to Halloween.

The Highlands Goodwill on Sunset was packed earlier this week with people perusing the costume aisles.

Sales have been really good at the Southcenter Value Village too.

“The biggest thing that’s helped us is Halloween being on a Friday this year,” said Jeremy Lamb, manager. “I think that makes a lot of people a lot more excited for the season; there’s a lot of parties going and things like that.”

Staff at Lamb’s Value Village store were constantly pulling out all the blue dresses, tiaras and blonde wigs they could find to make “Frozen’s” Elsa. Superheroes have also been really big and zombies at all the stores visited.

“I think a lot of people like shopping here because you can mix that whole new and used,” said Lamb of Value Village. “You can get the packaged costume or you can do the mixture of new accessories with used clothing and do your own creative costume.”

This year Goodwill did its first ever “National Halloween Poll” that found that 62 percent of women and 57 percent of men prefer do-it-yourself costumes over packaged products. Goodwill’s poll included a random phone and cell phone survey of 1,005 respondents conducted by ORC International and a separate in-store poll of 8,500 respondents in Washington, California, Nevada, Texas, Illinois, Wisconsin and Florida.

The Goodwill polls found that the iconic or classic costume was preferred by 11 percent of Americans, followed by couple’s costumes at 10 percent. Gory costumes were preferred by only 4 percent and risqué attire lagged behind the popular choices at one percent. The poll concluded that funny, minimalist and unique costume’s are America’s top adult choices for 2014.

Southcenter Halloween City staffers echoed previous picks for costumes, but added Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for boys and Monster High characters and Maleficent for girls.

So what are local politicians going as this year?City Council member Ed Prince will be Robin as his son is going as Batman. City Council member Marcie Palmer said she’s going to dress in fall colors, a pencil skirt and flats. In other words she’s going to be a City Council member.

Mayor Denis Law’s favorite part of Halloween is watching to see how city employees dress up different departments at City Hall.

“I don’t personally get into the costume mode, but I do look forward to watching all of the kids in their latest gear that come out on that evening,” said Law. “My wife really gets into it by decorating the outside of our house to welcome neighborhood kids.”

Party City’s Top Ten Costumes were as follows:

1. “Frozen” characters

2. Mad Minions from “Despicable Me”

3. Black and Bone accessories

4. Rainbow Ravers5. Geek Chic

6. Stylish Superheroes

7. Cirque du Burlesque

8. Monster High Fashionistas

9. Zombies

10. Disney Princesses