CloroxBot Recycled Giant Robot Costume!

Last Halloween I built a robot costume out of laundry detergent bottles, crutches, football shoulder pads, and several stoned days with a hot glue gun.

Step 1 Gather Materials

I spent a week raiding laundry mats trashcans in search of empty bottles gathering about 60 of assorted shapes and sizes. I also found two pairs of crutches (for stilts), and a pair of football shoulder pads.

Comments

[costumeshorizon]

This giant Iron Robot  is looking fabulous and the article is fantastic to make a special robot at home

[PikminRed]

I posted a comment on this didn't I? I got bored yesterday so I started with the head... Any Ideas where I can get ALOT more for free? If so how did you get them for free?

[PikminRed]

Oh Here it is. I did it. This is just the prototype and its Six feet and 5 inches tall. :) I'm working on more 'DANGEROUS' Additions. Its just a lump of buckets as of now.. but not for long :)

[PikminRed]

Adding this laser when i find the wattage.

[chaintool]

Awesome

[atombomb1945]

You know, it wouldn't take much to change this into a cool Mark1 Iron Man costume for Halloween.

[PikminRed]

I mixed Mine with the CloroxBot and The mark I (look above, You can see the mask and reactor)

 

[etsywhore]

I have aluminium crutches would this still work? and did you stand on the crutch handle? I would love to be this for halloween it is the only costume I have found that has given me inspiration to dress up :)

[chaintool]

Each leg was made of two aluminum crutches. They where arranged upside down so that the piece that usually rests in your armpit would be on the ground. I cut one of the crutches all the way across about a foot from the top at one of the handles. The other crutch I left kinda long, I trimmed it at the point where it would meet my knee while I was standing on the block I used to lift my feet off the ground.and would be strapped to my lower leg. Wow, that sounds kinda confusing, I hope it works for ya.

[PikminRed]

I  did easy stilts like, 2x4's to make a rectangle

[Lancer G]

I am soo going to use this on halloween! Congrats on your awesomeness and ingenuity.

[PikminRed]

I just did.

[cowscankill]

Wow. I thought their were comments on this ible... I remmber commenting on this a while ago.... Anyway, you mention using crutches? How would I use crutches for stilts? I want to do this, because I have some old worn out brown leather crutches I got from a yard sale. I also Have an old pare of shoes. How would I make them into stilts?

[RetroTechno]

Hope the bleach fumes didn't make you too woozy...unless that was what you wanted. :-)

[shooby]

Pretty intense

[etsywhore]

how did you attach the crutches?

[chaintool]

I drilled the crutches to two blocks of wood, one higher and one lower. It was a little heavy.

[ojochris]

OMG, That is TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTALY AWESOME!!!!!!!!

[HAL 9000]

Very creative, very nice!

[sharkilepsy]

holy crap man, that is awesome!

[Freek_Kid]

hehe nice....buttholes

[chaintool]

Well, you have to ventilate somehow

[AndyHope]

haha awesome im in the process of making an optimus prime costume for this comming halloween, ill bee sure to post it