This Wall.E wheelchair costume was the first collaboration between dad and son (Picture: Solent)

A dad, whose son whose childhood cancer left him unable to walk, has started a company making totally badass costumes for children who use wheelchairs and walkers.

Lon and Anita Davis from Kansas are parents to two boys, one of whom, Reese, was diagnosed with childhood cancer Neuroblastoma at the age of two-months. He had a tumour on his spine which ended up crushing his spinal cord and left him with limited mobility in his legs.

When Reese was three-years-old, he was desperate to dress up as his favourite Pixar character Wall.E, so dad decided to customise his wheelchair.



Every Halloween since, Reese and Lou have worked together to build a totally unique – and awesome – costume that accommodates Reese’s chair.


Reese has been Buzz Lightyear and Peter Pan (Picture: Solent)

Now, seven years on, Lou and Anita have launched their Walkin’ & Rollin’ Costume business. Their mission: ‘To provide any child with special needs equipment a unique and custom built costume, free of charge to the family.’

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They are currently fundraising on Kickstarter, with a goal of building a minimum of five wheelchair costumes for disabled kids in time for Halloween 2015. For free.

And they have some grand plans. They’ve already got sketches ready to go for a Batmobile.

Who you gonna call? Yep it’s the Ghostbusters car.

And there’s Cinderella’s pumpkin carriage.

The fundraising campaign has already raised almost double its modest $1,000 (£640) goal with 19 days to go.

So, it looks like Cinders will be going to the ball.

Find out more about the business here, and read about the Kickstarter campaign here.

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