Purchased for my 8 year old son. They do run a little large at the waist but that is normal with most pants on my son. My son said the biggest con on these pants is that they give off a lot of static electricity. He wore these to school recently and said as he was walking around the material on the inside of the pants would stick to his thighs near his underwear and then give him an electric shock. He said the only way to stop it from happening would be if he reached down into his pants to pull the material away from his skin, or if he wore his pants a little lower down, however wearing them lower made them more baggier on him and ended up exposing his spiderman briefs, which was very embarrassing.

After all of this he will keep the pants but they won't be his top choice to wear