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Disguise Men's Bowser Costume Kit - Adult

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I bought most fabric and foam from Jo-Ann fabric store. The Balaklava was bought from Cal-Ranch. And the pipe insulation foam was bought from Lowe’s home improvement store. Like most mascot-like costumes the head is the most important and also the most difficult. I’ll try my best to mention most that when on during the process of making it. I added the jaw at a time thought of having a hinge to make it ‘move’ but alas it did not work with what I had and decided to have his mouth partially open as many of his picture depict him acting. The jaw was re-adjusted many times.

Plus it came in many colors. Yellow, white, cream/Ivory, dark green, gold, and orange. I got a full bolt ( 8 yards) of Yellow, but only used about 5-7 yards of it. 4-6 yards of dark green, 3 yards of Ivory, and one and a half yards of white. little amounts of orange, and gold. At first I wanted a semi-realistic approach and wanted to add ‘hair’ or ‘fur’ for his hair on top and eyebrows but it turned out looking rather ridicules. The main structure is made out of a body suit, round snow sled (shell), lots of Upholstery foam, and tons of hot glue. Well, it took a lot of effort, but you managed to do it. You kidnapped Princess Peach and took over the Mushroom Kingdom. Now, not only are you the King of the Koopas, you’re king of the entire land! They laughed at you when you said you were going to do it, all those months ago. They said there was no way that a bipedal tortoise could conquer a kingdom. But you showed them… you showed them all! The only thing that’s left is to convince the beautiful Princess Peach to marry you. It will take some time. You admit you’re rough around the edges. But you know if you’re patient, and sweet, and remember to brush your teeth and not set her dress on fire with your flame breath, you’ll win her heart eventually. There’s nothing standing in your way…Spirit Halloween is the largest Halloween retailer in North America, with over 1,450 pop-up locations in strip centers and malls across North America. Celebrating nearly four decades of business, Spirit has cemented its position as the premier destination for all things Halloween. Known to many as an exciting and interactive event for shoppers, Spirit stores offer complete selections of costumes and accessories for infants/toddlers, children, 'tweens, teens, and adults, along with exclusive jaw-dropping animatronics and décor you won't find anywhere else. In fact, Spirit knows how to have so much fun, it's scary! So, we have a really good question for you. Here goes: why on earth would anyone want to be a portly plumber when they could instead be the king of a race of evil turtles? The king! Yeah...we don’t really get it either. Geez, those guys get on your nerves. You’re trying to run a kingdom and woo a princess, and they keep breaking into your castles and wreaking havoc. If you’re going to keep your crown, you’re going to have to fight for it and protect it with all you’ve got.

The eyes where made at a early stage of sculpting the head. They’re mad from a easy cast clear casting resin kit. With acrylic paint to color. They where placed and removed multiple times while making the mask. I also did a lot of research on the internet and looked over Deviant art, Cosplay.com, and Google images to find ANY and all previous Bowser costumes I could find. With a mix of Gijinka, poorly built, well built, and intriguing designed ones I gained an understanding what I’d be faced up against trying to build such a monstrosity. I also looked up and gathered original art form Nintendo. As well as Fan art from devoted fans of the franchise and games, also fans of King Koopa himself. This gave me an understanding what Nintendo wanted the character to be portrayed as and what the fans saw Bowser as. I also take still shots of animation and videogame animations to get a understanding. I tried to find a well made 3-D model of Bowser, or a toy of some sort but I found nothing I would be willing to buy as a reference. This suit ended up being 8 detachable pieces. Head, shell, suit, Left hand, Right hand, Left foot, Right foot, and tail. During the designing process I also tried to visually putting it on and what process I would take to do so. This ended up being a bit of a ritual but the time spent on putting it on is quite easy if no steps are skipped. I wanted to make it as a Balaklava foam technique. And started with the frame of the eyes. I wanted to make the eyes deep so they could have a ‘follow-me affect”

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I then added the pipe insulation foam for the ‘rim’ of the shell. Cutting and gluing to make the perfect indents and curves. I covered that in quilt batting and then white fleece. The spikes where a small base of upholstery foam, polyfill stuffing, white fleece cone and gold fleece ban around each cone. The spikes where glued and sewn onto the shell itself. First thing I did right from the start is draw possibilities of designs. I drew the head and as I draw I sketch, and draw ‘layers’ this helps my brain figure out what I should do and how I should put it together. I’m sure this may help others as well. The hair on top was one of the last things to finish. Made into sections of curved ‘triangular’ pieces. Much like a plush and stuffed with polyfil.

With deliberation on if I should have the thigh, knee and leg padding on the suit and the foot separated I decided the look would work if I put the whole leg as a boot, ant that’s how it ended up to be. At this point I was running out of funds and foam to build from so the structure of the boots is very flimsy. But this is how I made it happen. I’d highly recommend others to try a different approach. I made elastic ‘grab’ pants leg that was the lining inside the boot, and then I built from a base upward. I attached my pair of shoes to the foam mat that was cut out to be the bottom of the foot. Made the shoes removable by elastic straps. And started to build with pieces of foam upward to make the foot and the leg. It turned out to be a rather hodgepodge of a mess. I re-used the thigh padding I built for my previous costume Renamon, I know it’s horrible, costume cannibalism :~:After much research I began to calculate what necessary materials I would need to make this costume. I had to debate what colors of fabric would be suitable since I’m not familiar with dyes to get the ‘exact’ color and plus the fact there was a lot of debate already made what exactly is the ‘right’ color. So I just went with what I could get my hands on and see what matched well with each other.

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