I saw some great work at London Comic Con today, and if I took your photo you can find it in my Picasa album here.
If I took your picture and you’re not featured here, don’t despair! check back later in the week to see if I mention you on Monday ;-).
This post is dedicated to the cardboard warriors! Those brave souls who slave over an old ikea box with nothing more than an inkjet printer, a glue gun, some paint, and a rocking sense of humour to create the costume of their dreams:
Yea, that’s what I’m talking about! Think outside the box cosplayers, embrace the cardboard… or embrace the cardboard and step inside the box… meet Rubiks girl:
I just wanted to cuddle this cube-shaped-lady… to dress like something that’s not-at-all the shape of a person takes some work… well done!… here’s another cuboid wonder:
I asked him how easy it was to store a costume like that… he said he’d actually had to chop it in half to fit it in his car and then re-assemble it at the venue that morning… that takes dedication (and perhaps some duct tape).
Want all the pointy edges of a cube, but the maneuverability of a more anthropomorphic character… I got just the thing… try this:
Yup, a God among cardboard men, right?
“but I haven’t bought any furniture recently, the only cardboard box I’ve got is this one from my new kettle… ” – I’ve got the costume for you!
(there were, like, a billion creepers, but this was my favourite minecraft costume :-) )
When you’re ready to move on from cardboard boxes, you can foray into the mysterious world of papier mache and construct something beautiful like this:
He’s an Ice Lord, from 1970’s Pertwee Dr Who … I completely didn’t know that either… but the husbot educated me :-) he got very excited about this costume!..
But these are my favourite cardboard virtuosos from today. Throwing aside all considerations of practicality and the shape of a human being, this pac man duo are awesome on so many levels:
When I asked to take this photo the ‘ghost’ looked at me and asked “red or blue?!”… I was so confused… I just shouted back (we were in a crowd of people, not conducive to great photo-taking) “err, red!” … but of course… the ghost was double sided!
excellent costuming people, well done!
Don’t forget to keep checking back for more of my favourite costumes from the Con!
Were YOU at the Con too? you can use the Submit a Geekcraft link to show us your costume!
Haha! I’m so glad we got on the internet :’) I was the ghost in the pac man duo – and I have the bruises from the cardboard on my shoulders to prove it!
It took 14 hours of work to get them respectable, and obviously the train ride there was an.. interesting… experience…
And that second snap you got was actually my friend Danii. I Matt and I got sick of the cardboard ’cause we couldn’t reach our bags through them… and Danii was desperate to try it. I’ve been told she then had lots of fun outside the con and around London, terrorizing innocent citizens with my labour!
I hope you don’t mind me saving the photos for myself? I want to put them on my tumblr and I didn’t get any photos! >_< Because I'm an idiot… And maybe if you find any videos of us -we ran up and down screaming four times, which was hard what with the wind resistance- and I'm sure someone caught us on video! But yes, please let me know if you could? :D
Hopefully I will see you next October – I have no clue what we are going to attempt. Either legendary pokemon, might to pacman again, or some other ridiculous card board structure…
Hello, I was the Ice Lord! As a slight nitpick the armour was actually coated in fibreglass(my first attempt, it was MEANT to be smooth but the lumpyness actually fit really well with the costume so I left it at that.:)) but the helmet was initially made with card, then layered with papier mache to provide a surface for the fibrglass. The breastplate also started as two bits of cardboard duct taped together.
The latex gloves also had a papier mache backing, but that kinda disintigrated. On the plus die that meant I could actually move my hands!:)
Anyway, it’s a great photo you took, and thanks for including it in the blog! :)
haha thanks for that Andrew – lets face it – even if it was a completely cardboard/papier mache costume it was probably much more well made than the original DW costume :-) but fibreglass eh? that’s impressive! :-)
and Alice! I thought that must be a different person in the second pic (because of the sleeves) but I was certain I hadn’t seen any other ghosts that day (actually – I lie – I did see another cardboard pac-man VERY early in the day and their costume was falling apart at the seams… poor people!) I didnt take any videos I’m afraid, but I hope you find some! feel free to take my pics but please link back to the blog :-) thanks
kudos to both of you (or, I guess… all four of you!) those costumes took a lot of wearing!
I was the Rubik’s cube, thank you for taking this picture and thank you for the lovely things said, the cosplay took a fair bit of time! :)