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Ghostbusters in the 40th millenium... Tuudutuututututu!

malfred wrote:You can find them yourself. Google image search Man Faye.

I just hurled......Thanks a lot.

Ok more pictures except for Man Faye!.

GG

namegoeshere wrote:

stonefox wrote:There's this group of guys who pretend they're real superheroes and dress up in spandex to thwart thieves or some crap like that.

They have youtube vids and everything. It's amazing.

That sounds cool - but you haven't given me enough info to search it up myself, do you feel like rustling up a link (yes yes lazy b*gger etc, go fetch me a coffee etc)

Here you go champ. Search "real life superhero" on youtube.

Wehrkind wrote:
That said, the only issues I have with cosplay or whatever is that people wear completely inappropriate clothing for their body, and go insane. There is something to be said for not dressing like a whore in general, and when your nylons stretch to the point they look like fishnets, you need to reevaluate your clothing. Not that fat people need to wear burkas, but people just need to realize that clothing that models can pull off does not necessarily work for everyone.

Well if you wanted to be technical....they can dress up as Yarna from Jabba the Hutt's escort:

That, and it worries me when people make up completely fictional persona's for themselves, and talk endlessly about how cool they are and all these things they "did". There is something rather sick about that.

But I enjoy my cheetoh-eating, mountain dew-drinking persona of sloth. :(

i think the sisters of battle is a guy :s

Osbad wrote:[potentially racist comment]Is there a reason why only the Americans and Japanese seem to take Cosplay seriously?[/potentially racist comment]

Are there any Europeans who do this kind of thing at conventions (other than the odd 12 year-old at Gamesday), or is this just a Western Hemisphere thing? I've been to many UK game shows and never seen anyone dressed as such an arse! Maybe its just not a UK thing.

Well, sort of - any town founded by the Romans will have at least a few of those guys who build their own armour and march about being drilled in Latin by their centurion (or whatever). And I once went for an afternoon stroll through Tatton Park just after The Sealed Knot had finished doing their thing, and they were all getting ready to go home. Standing behind two cavaliers in the queue for an ice cream while they talk about whether to install Novell Netware 6.0 or 6.5 is an odd experience.

Both of those groups seem to take it awfully seriously, though. At least convention-goers seem to be doing it for fun (I hope).

jammy wrote:i think the sisters of battle is a guy :s

I already asked who the dude in the SOB outfit is.. No one seemed to want to address that issue..

There is cosplay in the UK but it's a younger crowd who are into anime and manga, and it's not that big yet.

BTW if you think cosplay is weird, check this out...



It's a "doller", someone who cosplays as a doll of an anime character.

I don't like it.

Kilkrazy wrote:BTW if you think cosplay is weird, check this out...



It's a "doller", someone who cosplays as a doll of an anime character.

I guess that's one way to get a date if you don't have any teeth . . .

I wouldn't buy that for a doller.

First up a minor gripe:

[potentially racist comment]Is there a reason why only the Americans and Japanese seem to take Cosplay seriously?[/potentially racist comment

Since when are either Americans or Japanese a distinct race? That's almost as bad as people who claim that bad mouthing a particular religion is somehow "racist" as well. Yet another example of why the accusation of "racism" has become so watered down and misused that it's pretty much meaningless now.
But anyway....

As someone who has been involved in historical reenacting on and off for years (REAL reenacting, not the bad joke that is the SCA which someone mentioned previously) I really can't talk too badly about the cosplay crowd despite how odd as some of their antics seem to be at times. I'm alot of things, but I try not to be a hypocrite.

Currently my period of choice is WW2. I portray a senior NCO in a Volksgrenadier division circa December 1944. (It's an impression that is in keeping with my age and level of physical fittness. Nothing looks odder than some overweight 50 year old trying to portray a meth-fueled Waffen SS trooper or a lean and mean US paratrooper) There are a couple of photos of me in uniform floating around the 'net so I'll leave that for you all to locate. One of the perks of this hobby is that I often carry a live MP40 sub machinegun. How cool is that?

TR

I'll go you one better trench. Was out on Ft. Jackson, motored past the USMC Reserve center on the base on my way to an exercise. Saw a fat reservist in cammies. I don't mean a few a little heavy. I don't mean a bit big. I mean "Is that guy [language] pregnant?!" F-A-T. A Marine. What. The[Language].

Well this give me two things to do.

1. transfer pictures on camera for space.

2. try and fins legal swat armor - helmet in my size so i can spray paint it green by saturday

thats right...i'm going to mega-con!

Ok, that Space Marine (despite looking like he suffers from dwarvism) gets props for having a customized Nerf Vulcan. That's just wicked cool...

But somewhat inappropriate to the costume, I think. Is that supposed to be a heavy bolter, or what?

Oh and yes, the SOB is most likely a guy. But I'm cool with that. We're living in an enlightened age.

chromedog wrote:

I'm a on-again/off-again costumer (NOT cosplayer. The difference? We 501st members aren't cosplayers. We do stuff for charity.) and yes, I mock and laugh at cosplayers. Usually while dressed as a Stormtrooper (you can't tell I'm snorting in derision under my helmet).

I love this post. It's pretty rare to find an example of hypocrisy this blatant and extreme. Kudos to you, sir.

"My Cosplay is organized! This makes my cosplay cooler than your cosplay! So I'm going to look down at you!"

Though I suppose they are fairly different genres. As Cosplayers typically make their own costumes from scratch, and to be a member of the 501st all you need is a credit card and internet access.

grizgrin wrote:I'll go you one better trench. Was out on Ft. Jackson, motored past the USMC Reserve center on the base on my way to an exercise. Saw a fat reservist in cammies. I don't mean a few a little heavy. I don't mean a bit big. I mean "Is that guy [language] pregnant?!" F-A-T. A Marine. What. The[Language].

oh. my. GOD! That made me laugh REALLY friggin hard. a marine? Good lord I have to tell my brother about that one.

as for the "dollar" thing. Those are mostly reserved for bizarre sex acts. Just dont ask me how I know of this

The best part about "dollers" is that they're all dudes.

Some (most?) cosplayers make their costumes, others buy them from shops.

I priced up the costume for an Engineer from Team Fortress 2 (I don't have the physique to be Haruhi Suzumiya) and it was going to be well over £100 including boots, hard hat, adjustable spanner, welding goggles, tool box and so on. So I didn't bother.

Loads of fangirl cosplayers here.

http://www.just-whatever.com/2009/02/24/sexy-cosplay/

The fine lady dressed as Mystique is my fav.

She is not dressed up she is painted up.

sonofruss wrote: She is not dressed up she is painted up.

Only a thong and a lick of paint.

The guys that do that for hef get like $200 a girl and they are not wearing a thong just paint.
Link and the girl weren't bad ether.

I want some of that hot dog. Just look at it! So large and delicious, I could be fed for a month!

I don't know of all of them the hot dog was the most unoriginal I see that costume here all the time not the girl it is usually a guy selling hot dogs on the corner.

It's the only costume that doesn't scream "HEY GUYS LOOK AT ME I'M A GIRL TEEHEE GIRL HERE IN YOUR NERD CONVENTION ".