Anybody here has ever done cosplay?

And, if so, what of? :slight_smile:

I will inaugurate the confession booth myself: Years ago I dressed as Grossberg (aka Hoshikage Soranosuke) from the “Ace Attorney” videogame franchise. I am portly enough to do it :slight_smile:

Later on, with the help of some friends, I might (might, depending on whether we find the proper makeup) get together with some friends for a cosplay of Zootopia characters. This one will be hard to do, but hey, if we can pull it off… I would be cosplaying as Clawhauser, given (again) that I am portly enough to pull it off :slight_smile:

No, but I am Steampunk.

This means that dressing for an event is just like dressing normally except turned up to 11.

I wore a peasant blouse and a handmade fancy-assed chainmaille head adornment to a RenFaire once. Does that count? Probably not. . …

Hey, more power to you! In my book it would also count; I am not a cosplay “purist” ^.^

My wife does cosplay most years at Gen Con. She went as Squirrel Girl this year (there were a lot of Squirrel Girls, surprisingly!), and is gradually assembling a “steampunk Harley Quinn” outfit.

Me, I just wear my Captain America T-shirt and call it a day! :slight_smile:

Yep. I was Todd Chavez from BoJack Horseman (we cosplayed as a group - my gf was Diane, my buddy was BoJack and his wife was Princess Caroline) for one of the days of DragonCon this year.

I believe the correct term is a “dray” or “scurry”.
I once put on a latex mask and went to Toronto Trek as this guy. I also wore a tuxedo and for my presentation, pretending to be conducting an orchestra playing Beethoven’s Ninth.

I was…

Toskanini

I won for best latex mask and since that was my only performance, I’m batting 1.000 in costume competitions.

I went to a con with a duck head mask.

I’ve worn a Spock costume a couple of Halloweens.

I went to the midnight opening show of Star Wars III dressed as Vader; does that count?

And if I ever get a chance to go to a science fiction con, I’m planning to assemble a costume for Herschel Clay, from PS238.

Closest I ever got was back in my Rocky Horror days. That, and I was a camera operator at MidAmeriCon II this year. In my opinion, the best costume did not win the Masquerade.

Not exactly the same thing, but I’ve done Live Action Role-Playing-Gaming, in costume.

In an Indiana-Jones inspired game, I was a Big Game Hunter, with khakis and a pith helmet, and a gigantic rifle nigh as tall as I am.

In a superhero game, I was “Bluestreak,” a speedster, in a blue-on-blue spandex supersuit (yes, with a cape.) I actually got on TV with that one: it was the show “Real People” and they covered our local science fiction club’s Halloween Masquerade: broadcast date October of 1983.

Make life interesting!

Only for Rocky Horror back in the late '70s when I was a collegiate teen, or for Halloween.

I’ve been G.K. Chesterton (I own a pair of prescription prince-nez), Bix Beiderbecke, and Bunny Berigan. I have a cornet and a trumpet and am proficient enough to essay “St. James Infirmary Blues,” “Memphis Blues,” and “I Can’t Get Started.” And I can jam with other musicians who pass by in the Brooklyn Halloween parades.

If they count:

When I was about 10 years old I dressed up as Dennis the Menace (UK version with spiky black hair and a striped black and red top) for a school organised fancy dress event and really impressed my schoolmates, which felt awesome!

That self-confidence didn’t carry forward to later life though. I do know it’s all about having fun, and criticising a cosplayer’s efforts tends to be strongly discouraged in the conventions/cosplay scene, but I’ve just never really taken it that far despite generally having an attitude of not caring if the average person thinks I look very silly.

The closest I’ve done since is pony ears on a headband, modeled after the ones worn by the characters in the first Equestria Girls movie. Even that was only half an effort (I’d have needed a tail to go with it), so I don’t really tend to count it as ‘having cosplayed’. Also the painstaking amount of perfectionism I displayed in getting the ears just right and readjusting the angle over and over suggests anything more would take up too much of my life!

Hey! I have two fairly low-profile cosplay outfits. One is Dr. Simon Tam from Firefly/Serenity: basically just a three-piece suit very similar to the one he wore through the Firefly original pilot, especially the cut of the jacket and vest, all of which I found at thrift stores. :wink:

The other is cosplaying Harry Dresden: long dark raincoat, (unfortunately not leather,) large white pentacle, shield bracelet made from a leather thong with various colors and styles of shielding charms on it. I have a carved wooden staff, a makeshift Walmart-broom-handle blasting rod with runes marked in so-called permanent marker, and a Hungarian wizard’s wand I bought at a convention.
My mom helped make much of the Dresden outfit; the pentacle, the staff, and she helped me find and select the pieces of the shield bracelet. I have a pretty cool mom. :cool:

For some reason, the one item that got lost in my many moves happened to be the wench dress. But I wore that as part of the South Florida Chessmasters before the word “cosplay” had been invented. No, it’s not that we were a chess-playing society: our main shows were adaptations of well-known stories, played out on a chessboard with our people as the pieces. Whenever a piece ate another, they’d fight. You always knew who was going to win any fights, but they were still cool to act up and watch :slight_smile:

I have never cosplayed anything (well, I was Jaws (via a Collegeville costume) when I was 6 for Halloween) but just wanted to thank you for NOT including a cowboy-style hat in that ensemble. I just wish all the other Dresden cosplayers would do the same…

Yes - I’ve cosplayed as Farmer Maggot from LOTR , General Zhao from Avatar, a Dementor, a Jedi, a Bleach Soul reaper, Sgt Colon…I’m working on some Skyrim cosplay at the moment, learning the basics of sculpting foam armour.

Of course not! Harry doesn’t do hats. :smiley:

I am a 5’2" (158 cm) Middle-Aged Italian-American with a pot belly. I grew out my moustache, and went to AwesomeCon in DC as Super Mario, and had a great time. I had lots of small children want to take a picture with me. It was tons of fun. I wanted my 15 year old son, who looks exactly like me except he weighs 70 lbs. less, to cosplay Luigi, but he wouldn’t do it. He said it would be too embarrassing.

I will see if I can get a picture up for you guys to judge.