Lego Indiana Jones Costume

Last year I saw a great "ible" about making an adult lego costume. I loved the idea of the big minifig head so I proposed this to my six year old. He immediately agreed but upped the ante. "How about Lego Indiana Jones?!?" How can a father say no to that kind of enthusiasm? This is my first instructable, but I have been lurking for a couple years so let me know what you think, or how I can improve future posts. It is specific to Lego Indiana Jones, but could obviously be applied to any lego figure you are interested in making. (Lego Freddy Mercury?)

Step 1 Supplies

For the minifig head, upper body and hat you will need:
1 2' x 8' sheet of 1.5" thick and
1 2' x 8' sheet of 1" thick extruded polystyrene insulation board. It can be pink or blue, whichever your local big box home improvement store sells. 
2" thick foam square (only needs to be a little bigger diameter than your neck)
White Glue
Sharpie
Compass
Metal ruler / tape measure
Face mask or respirator
Extendible Exacto knife (must have enough blade in it to cut all the way through the styrene
Various colors of craft paint
Paint brushes of various size (small craft for the details, larger for the base coats)
Sand paper (100-220, plus drywall mesh)
Optional: band saw or hot wire, circle cutting jig, oscillating spindle sander.
Photoshop or other free layer based image editor

Comments

[jhernandez23]

Grandiozo voy a hacer uni para mi hijo...!!

[mds64]

I made a similar one for my son. The front is the screen so he could see and breath. I was a little hard for him to see but another boy helped him on the steps. It was fun, and we're already looking at something bigger for next year.

[Vovan151]

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[zrcochran]

So awesome! Here's how the one I did for my 3 year old turned out. Thanks for the great idea! I have photos of the build on my site: http://zanecochran.com/entry.php?blog_id=212

[niboras]

This is great! hope mine was helpful. How did trick-or-treating go?

[zrcochran]

It went great! He didn't have any overheating problems, but the head was a bit bulky, so after a while we carried it for him from door to door. The greatest thing was that everyone knew who he was, so it was a success! Thanks for sharing this awesome idea!

[ksj1717]

I LOVE Legos...and this costume is fantastic!

[mr.frob]

Awesome.

[nerdmom920]

I have to say, my son was crazy impressed with this costume. He is slowly working his way through video game right now. Perhaps some black netting for the eyes and making vent holes out of the stubble to improve ventilation? Otherwise, this is perfect!

[jtalvy]

Thats incredible. You deserve alot of credit and your son must have had a ball!

[Honus]

That is fantastic!

[gladreal]

ab fab!!

[tmarie]

Maybe you could have paper mached the hat and face so the lighter weight material could be used? I don't know how it would do, but just an idea. :)

[jeff-o]

This is made of pure gold-pressed WIN.

[jamwaffles]

Second to that!

[ac1D]

This costume is EPIC!

[D00M99]

Seeing this, I'm sure you could actually mod this so that there are different "stickers" you can apply and take off to change the face and body for anyone who wants to be able to reuse this and be a different LEGO character each Halloween.

[wtf is 555]

Awesome, I'd reccomend a small 9v fan in the head to try and fix the heat problem though. 5 stars.

[adamazing]

Yeah, just make sure you fix it very very securely....

[porquerias]

Fantastic! If for whatever reason my kids don't want to go as Lego minis, then I will make it for me!! Great job!

[The House]

Amazing. That is just amazing.

[seamster]

This is awesome! Very cool, indeed.

[thomaskovac]

I am going to try this!

[angelabchua]

YESSSSSS! I love this! and its a lego that won't hurt like hell when you step on it with bare feet!

[fungus amungus]

So freakin' good!

[generalsk]

Nice work! Five stars.

[adamazing]

Absolutely awesome. 5 stars.

[kelseymh]

Awesome! Getting your son's buy-in was critical; the fact that he ended up bailing due to being boiled alive is no reflection on the awesomeness of the concept -- you just have to do it better next year (this year?) :-)

[Culturespy]

Absolutely brilliant.