I haven't done anything for the past couple of years, but when I was in NYC in '04 my then-kinda-girlfriend and I made our own Cobra Commander and Baroness costumes. We wore them on the subway from the top of Manhattan down to walk in the Village parade and we were treated like celebrities, everyone wanted their pictures taken with us!
My user icon is me as CC, and if I got the code right the full pic of the two of us with our friends should be below:
