My name is Chris. My best friend(Jason) asked me to help him build a costume for his nephew(Mikey). He wanted to be a robot from a recent film. Mikey was upset because every year the same girl at his school won the costume contest. This was all the motivation three boys needed.
So, for this Transformers costume we took measurements of Mikey-height,girth,arm lengths etc. Then we gathered supplies! A card board box was the jumping off point. Tape,glue,spray paint,dryer vents,PVC pipe,wood moulding,overhead projector film,and a bunch of household stuff.
We made the body,arms and legs. We purchased the voice changing helmet for the coolness factor.The costume had yellow cab lights,red tail lights and all the flames and logos were made with hand cut stencils.
The school decided that no one should win or lose so the chance to outdo a 8 year old girl and here mom was thwarted.But every dad and all the middle school boys thought Mikey was the coolest. My friend and I were completely jealous and if we could have fit in it Mikey may never have gotten to wear it!
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This has to be the coolest costume ever!!! I’m not this talented to make something similar for my son, but I would love for him to win the costume contest at school, so we are going to give it a try, if you have any pointers I would love them (as long as it doesn’t require any MAN power, my husband is currently in Iraq and I would love to send him pics of a costume I made :)
Thank you in advance!