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Highway Rat Costume

Fail

Demand is soft, at -96.8% this quarter, so Highway Rat Costume is a Fail.

Flapen Score
34
34 / 100
Ranks 1,428 of 1,773 Toys & Games niches · −10 vs the category median of 44
Market size
£13K/yr53K searches / yr
90-day growth
-96.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
77%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 10 sellers

Flapen Score

Highway Rat Costume against its category

The dotted line is the Toys & Games average. Past it, Highway Rat Costume is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

34Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Highway Rat Costume market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Highway Rat Costume 53K times last year and spent an estimated £13K. The top 5 brands take 92% of clicks. Demand peaks in Feb–Mar. Flapen scores it 34 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 1.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 53K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 1.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -96.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £13K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
53K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-96.8%
Conversion, latest week
1.7%
Market size, estimated
£13Ka year
Peak month
March70.7× the quietest month
Top search term
highway rat costume42K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £15.38.

Listings sell for £15.38 on average, from £9.94 to £24.40. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 2K to 3K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £15.38 that is £2K to £4K a year per listing.

Average price
£15.38inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£9.94–£24.40
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
2K–3K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£2K–£4K
Returns
2.2%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

58% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 58% ship with Prime. On an average day, 15.4% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #2,614 within Fancy Dress. It carries 43 reviews at 4.27 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
58%
Prime listings
58%
Out of stock, average day
15.4%
Average rank
#2,614in Fancy Dress
Average rating
4.27 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
43per listing
Listings tracked
12

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 9 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

9 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 23 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
9
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
23 months

Products

Top Highway Rat Costume products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 29, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 77% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£1K£3K£4K£5K1101001K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

8 rising

Sellers

10

Est. top-5 brand share

92%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

77%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

4%

  • Gruffalo30%
  • iZoeL27%
  • Blues Group19%
  • Creerluces8%
  • Soireeparty7%
  • I LOVE FANCY DRESS4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 4%)

Demand

Highway Rat Costume search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

15K10KSpike '24Spike '25Spike '26Prime Day '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Feb, Mar · busiest ÷ quietest = 70.7×

Search terms

Top Highway Rat Costume search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with estimated yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • highway rat costume42K/yr
  • highway rat costume age 3-44K/yr
  • the highway rat costume6K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Highway Rat Costume

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

29%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
29%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
2.2%of orders come back
“Not great quality”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”29% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

15 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Highway Rat Costume questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data