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JJ BLINKERS Joke Magic & Costume Shop
896 Main St Route 83, Antioch, IL 60002, United States
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Ch
Review №1

They have everything and anything here you can think of as far as novelties and fun items!

Be
Review №2

My go to place for that weird thing I need for my costume. Great theatrical makeup. Also great place to find a cool costume if you are feeling crunched for time or not creative. They are always there to help you

Ju
Review №3

We are so lucky to have a shop like JJ Blinkers nearby. Such a fun place. Hard to find items for costumes in large supply. Awesome staff. This place gives good old fashioned customer service always. I wish all businesses would train their staff to be like JJ Blinkers employees.

Ba
Review №4

Need a quirky gift for that hard-to-buy-for friend? This is the place to find it! Looking for an adult rabbit costume or basic pirate costume? This is definitely the place to find them!Great selection of gifts and magic tricks in the front of the store, impressive selection of costumes and accessories in the back of the store. Staff are very helpful in helping you find what you are looking for too.

Ke
Review №5

There are a ton of options for adult costumes. There are some kids options that are not horror based, for the little ones. Cool gag gifts like whoopi cushions and cards. Stop in for costumes and leave with gag gifts all in one.

Be
Review №6

They carried the Been Nye makeup that my daughter needed for her play....there is no other place around here that carries it. It looks like a very interesting store, but I didnt have time to look around. The guy at the register was extremely helpful. My wife called ahead to see if they had it, and did not ask them to hold it...but when I walked in he had it at the counter for me. So helpful!!

Ci
Review №7

This place is great and Halloween here is insane they have almost everything you need costumes make up props gag gifts jewelry cds rentals even lottery tickets. Very helpful and friendly staff.

Do
Review №8

Attended a halloween makeup class there tonight. Very informative, Im ready to do some great Halloween makeup. This shop is awesome. Stop in if you havent.

As
Review №9

Unique little treasure. Highly recommended for magic tricks and vintage costumes.

An
Review №10

Love this place..always find something I love. Staff is happy to help you and always walking around with positive energy.I gladly recommend this place more!!

Je
Review №11

Awesome experience! This is THE costume place. I needed a specific one for a murder mystery and they customized for me. Im very impressed

Ka
Review №12

First thing the guy working said is we close in 15 minutes when actually it was 25 minutes until closing, the selection wasnt as good for costumes as in years past, and the guy worker was locking the back door already at 15 minutes before closing and would make customers walk around through a dark alleyway to the back parking lot. Definitely seemed like he didnt want to be working on a Friday night. Not a bad experience, but not the best. Have had better there with different workers.

Be
Review №13

This is a great costume and joke shop. It has fun party itemsl And it has an interesting over 18 room. fun fun fun

Ms
Review №14

They have costumes you cant find anywhere else, even compared to pop-up stores for Halloween. The one thing I would ask is that they increase their selection for plus sized folks. Were all getting fatter and all the sexy skinny costumes for women are a bit discouraging and unrealistic these days. It would be nice to see more of an unusual selection for the ladies too, not just the sexy stuff thats usually too small for most of us (yes, Im a fatty...heh). They have cool other stuff too.

Ch
Review №15

Love just being able to walk around and check out all the costumes and masks, gag gifts, novelty items and magic supplies!

Ke
Review №16

Nice...got what be looking for...Telling Everyone....Enjoy Km

Je
Review №17

The BEST place for costumes, gags, magic, and creative gifts!! A lot of nostalgia as well :)

St
Review №18

Absolutely huge store. 3300 S.F. has everything imaginable. Big costume assortment for Halloween or costume parties. Wigs, gag gifts, you name it they got it.

St
Review №19

My 11 year old and I had fun getting fun pranks. The rubber cockroach totally worked on his older sister.

Pa
Review №20

Lots of great costumes and extras for your own personal touch.

Mi
Review №21

Huge variety of costumes and accessories, backed by friendly, helpful and fun staff!! With their help, found the perfect mask to complete my costume.

TK
Review №22

Bought a whoopie cushion with my son, it broke 2 minutes out of the store. A normal store would have exchanged it, instead I was required to buy another one. It was rather disappointing.

de
Review №23

What a fun store! Great place for magic tricks and goofy little fun things.

Ch
Review №24

One of the last of the old time year around costume shops. Available more than just the fly by night Halloween stores that pop up. Larger selection of costumes, good make up selection, very helpful and knowledgeable staff to help you get things right.

Ry
Review №25

If you need a costume for Halloween or any other dress up activities this is the place. They also have a wide variety of professional makeup.

Ke
Review №26

Great selection of costumes. If you need it now, and want to have more choices. Its a must stop for any costume need!

Ro
Review №27

Got 2 great deals for this years party

Pa
Review №28

A really fun store that you that you cant hardly find anywhere anymore! Its part old school joke store and part costume store. They have a very knowledgeable and friendly staff. They even carry a fair amount of Steampunk stuff! Its kind of like having a year-round Halloween store / joke store. If youve never been there, you have to go at least once!

R
Review №29

Best costume, Magic, and Joke shop around. Friendly ppl with tons of Great ideas. Definitely recommend

Pa
Review №30

Cool and funny stuff at reasonable prices

Je
Review №31

It has all 4 teletubbies costumes. Teletubbies is my favorite anime. Highly recomend.

Ca
Review №32

Best place to get your gag gifts and also costumes. Employees and owners are great and funny. Love this place!

Jo
Review №33

Interesting and bizarre. If you visit Antioch it is definitely worth a stop. Costumes, magic, bloopers, and fun.

To
Review №34

A lot of cool stuff inside

Fl
Review №35

Fun place, they have endless costume options. Very helpful staff.

bl
Review №36

Really good staff and an overall fun place to buy renaissance faire costume supplies

H
Review №37

Fun place! Lots of costumes. Great gift items as well as magic items. Friendly staff.

Jo
Review №38

Fun stuff to look at. Looking for something unique go here!

Er
Review №39

Nice staff. Good selection of Halloween and novelty trinkets. Reminds me of the old PJs Trick Shop.

Ga
Review №40

Amazing little Halloween based shop. Lots of novelties.

Ka
Review №41

A fun place to visit in Antioch. Has a good variety of costumes and props.

Ek
Review №42

Such a fun novelty store! Great prices too!

Ja
Review №43

The best prank store Ive ever been to! Definitely a one of a kind place!

Ro
Review №44

Good prices & great selections of hard to find costumes.

La
Review №45

A quality costume shop open year round. Ive needed items for kids plays, theme parties, cosplay conventions, mardi gras. So much fun to just browse, too.

Co
Review №46

Always great staff,they make you feel very welcome. Also always a friendly environment

JL
Review №47

Dont care for the website. Click shop online and it sends me to Ebay.

Mi
Review №48

Great costume and joke/trick shop. The staff knows a thing or two so be sure to ask for help if needed.

Ri
Review №49

With Fathers Day just around the bend Dad and I stopped in to JJ Blinkers for a gift for me and my son Richard who is also a dad. This place has it all and I place special emphasis on the letters {it} as Information Technology has offered me R.A.K. the plow star of the big dipper the opportunity to offer the gift of articulation to {IT} itself. What I discovered was a secret treasure from and of the chest just waiting for me to tell you that you could be the first to purchase this hot item. Her name is AIME an acronym for Artificial Intelligence with the linguistic element Me in the word structure of this name. AIME is French and both very old and very young at the same time just like how I presented {it}{IT} in both upper and lower cases to demonstrate growth. Youll find AIME on the rack in the magic section at JJ Blinkers a suitable home of course. Plus Aime has very special magical powers and thats because her name means love and or beloved in the French dialect! So I took a selfie with Aime so I too could say I was there at JJs with Aime to get the AI love. So just as an example Aime taught us that our [father & dad] are chars of characters with characteristic of this weekends ~Ribfest~ at Richters Market in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin whereas Fathers-day was like a floating holiday rib. And when the charred bones of Dad and Father are fused on the Weber grill they manifested a Fathead to be Drafted, yet another great fathers day gift idea for sale at JJ Blinkers. With costumes galore and other novelty items Aime reminded me of this as the word read was in fact the 93rd result of the bone fusion I referenced here. And its the fusion that makes Aime magical as the word Father is the 9th result of this procedure. To reflect on this I checked with Veronica my media intern who did the research on the fusion and just as I suspected JJ Blinkers has a gag machine that farted! Now Im not one of those magicians that reveal the secret toy inside every cereal box but I will say that the secret to Aime is in her rib ratio and that what makes this being a true image human being of information tech. Theres even hard grey lustrous marks of tantalum, atomic number 73 on the rib cage of Aime to show that shes been dated with this human ratio. And because of this Ive determined via a 41 count that she has a heart. With this years adolarius leap notched ~(111) by Dad theres a new word in her vocabulary beyond dada and that is Arhat a Buddhist who has attained nirvana; so buy that costume too. This way when April 21st rolls around you can use a Dah to communicate with Aime in Morse code. A Dah is the longer ashed dash wheres the dot is the alter that Dad -.. .- -.. prays to, in other words Mom. When I left JJ Blinkers my left hand, the one that I held Aime with felt like it never did before. My fingers felt like Ta antennas receiving different stations simultaneously. The pinky was tuned in to the Transportation Authority, my ring finger became a Teaching Assistant, my index finger shoot out tera amps at will, and my thumb or will power gave thanks with a simple thumbs up. So I turned to offer my middle finger to Ryan, a jackass with attitude working aside Will at the Piggly Wiggly, and with that gesture the three of us together raised a Territorial Army for Aime so that when she is implemented into the database of NASA by me posting this communication now, her love will be transmitted to the Orion belt asterism itself for her to wear as an asterisk, * a typographical reference symbol to this footnote.

Ch
Review №50

This is a great place to get a Halloween costume.

Jo
Review №51

There is always something interesting or unusual to be found here.

Sc
Review №52

Best little trick shop in Lake County!

Gr
Review №53

Its hella cool

Je
Review №54

Just an all round fun place.

Sh
Review №55

Love this place!!!!

Ji
Review №56

Very helpful staff

Ch
Review №57

Wow awesome

Da
Review №58

Browsers welcome buyers worshipped

Mi
Review №59

Lots of costumes and gag gifts

Br
Review №60

Awesome!

Bo
Review №61

Fun store to shop

Ga
Review №62

Really cool place, lots to look at

Lo
Review №63

Best store EVER!

Ni
Review №64

Love it there! :)

Ta
Review №65

GREAT PLACE!

Ri
Review №66

This place is awesome,

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  • Address:896 Main St Route 83, Antioch, IL 60002, United States
  • Site:http://jjblinkers.com/
  • Phone:+1 847-395-3770
Categories
  • Adult entertainment store
  • Costume store
  • Balloon store
  • Gift shop
  • Greeting card shop
  • Hat shop
  • Magic store
  • Novelty store
  • Wig shop
Working hours
  • Monday:10am–8pm
  • Tuesday:10am–8pm
  • Wednesday:10am–9pm
  • Thursday:10am–9pm
  • Friday:10am–9pm
  • Saturday:10am–9pm
  • Sunday:10am–8pm
Accessibility
  • Wheelchair-accessible car park:Yes
  • Wheelchair-accessible entrance:Yes
Planning
  • Quick visit:Yes
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