MARYSVILLE — The only thing Ava Miller was missing for Halloween were dryer vent hoses that fit.

Ava had already spent $30 on her homemade Bender Costume, using a small plastic trash can, large sections of foam, silver spray paint and lots of duct tape to turn herself into the cartoon robot from Futurama, but she couldn’t find any dryer vent hoses big enough to go over her arms.

“I plan on using a metal garbage can for Bender’s body next year,” Ava said, as she joined her siblings and their fellow trick-or-treaters in walking from Hilton Pharmacy on State Avenue to the 3rd St. Book Exchange Oct. 31.

Trusty Threads was one of the many Third Street merchants whose staff greeted costumed candy-grabbers of all ages, with Amber Jamison offering bowls full of goodies and achieving a striking resemblance to the Avengers’ Black Widow, thanks to her brightly dyed red hair and form-fitting custom-ordered suit.

“It’s really hard to sew through elastic, which is why I didn’t make it myself,” said Jamison, who spent just shy of $100 on her costume. “I ordered it very early, which is how I got it for as cheap as I did.”

For Dalene Barber, a pharmacy assistant at Hilton’s, this marked her first Halloween on Third Street, and she estimated that she handed out sweets and toys to more than 200 kids before the hour of trick-or-treating was through.

“I saw a lot of Power Rangers and superheroes,” Barber said. “There were a lot of Elsas and Anna from ‘Frozen,’ but also a lot of cowboy-themed costumes, for some reason. There were just a lot more people in general than I expected.”