Operating at www.planetcostume.com and www.planetsanta.com Planetcostume and Planetsanta were established in 1997 as an extension of several large manufacturing costume companies which had been established in 1876 to 1943. The owners of those companies saw a change in the way that consumers were buying their costumes and Santa suits. They decided to start a new company to meet those new types of needs and to better meet the rapid paced internet environment. That new company was Planetcostume which also runs and owns Planetsanta. Planetcostume is located in two separate locations in the greater Philadelphia area. The larger of the two locations is over 10,000 square feet, and has warehousing, manufacturing, offices, and design facilities in the building. Planetcostume is involved in creating some very unique items for the Christmas and costume industries. In addition to retailing its products over the internet, Planetcostume wholesales its products to retailers and other internet dealers around the world. For that reason, you may sometimes see the same product that was created by Planetcostume being sold by another company. Many of the products sold by Planetcostume are used by professional performers, theatrical productions, national theatre tours, school & college theatres, motion pictures, advertising agencies, party planners, production companies, professional sports teams, print & TV commercials, major corporations, televised parades, theme parks, and costume shops throughout the world. Often Planetcostume will clean out the distributors when they think that a product is good, thereby becoming the only source with a proper level of inventory. Planetcostume does not just keep a couple of items on hand and consider itself ready for business. Planetcostume has well over 1,000,000 items in stock to choose from, making it by far the largest shop of it's kind in the US, and one of the largest on the internet.