Mega Man Costume

This year I wanted to build costumes for my family from scratch. Since I am a Retro Gamer, I wanted to make a cool costume for my three year old. The Original Mega Man from the NES was what I had decided on. What follows are the steps that I took to create the Mega Man costume for my son. All of these steps can be sized up for an older child, or even an adult.

This costume was built as cheaply as I could make it. Many of the components came from local thrift shops like Goodwill. You should be able to find suitable materials to replicate my work.

There are a lot of steps, so I will break them up into the major components.

Step 1 Mega Man's Helmet (Materials and Tools)

I was not looking to spend alot of money, so I tried picking stuff up from the Goodwill's in the area around me. The actual helmet alluded me the longest. I decided on going to Walmart and picking up one the right size.

The first step after I got the helmet was to extend the back/ears and add details like the widow's peak to make it look more like Mega Man's. But first here is a list of Tools and Materials that I used to create the helmet:

Tools:
Hot Glue Gun
Heavy Duty Scissors
Marker
Electric Knife
Rasp
Dremel
Wire Cutters
Soldering Iron
Needle
Sewing Machine

Materials:
Bike Helmet
Frisbee
Hot Glue Sticks
Blue Foam
Red LED's
Resistors
Battery Pack
Wire
Switch
Solder
Electrical Tape
Velcro
Thread
Tupperware
Sand Paper

Comments

[builderkidj]

Heh heh do you kids even know what a nes is?

[khoneck]

Thank you so much for this instructable! It made it so much easier for me to make my costume this year! It was a big hit with my friends and the folks at the costume party I went to! :D

[craineum]

Awesome! Glad it came out so well!

[rdalton1]

Your costume was a HUGE inspiration for my son's costume this year. I tried to follow what you did pretty closely and I think it turned out great!! Thanks for the ideas

[craineum]

Frickin' fantastic! I love it! Good job! Thanks for including the picture.

[ile]

We did a Megaman costume for a friend because he really likes Megaman.

[Tomcat94]

I'm not sure if I should feel creeped out by this, or mildly amused.

[yoshiherder2]

I love this mega man costume and I want to make one for myself! ^_^ But I'm a little in the dark about where to get some of the supplies...

What exactly is Blue Foam and where can it be purchased? Also, I have no idea where to get LED's...

Help please! T.T Thanks so much! This costume rocks!

[craineum]

The blue foam was picked up in goodwill, I have no idea where to get it. You could substitute regular styrofoam, you would just have to form it properly to fit the helmet. Also check out my Proto Man Costume as I did make some design improvements with it.

If you mean the blue foam for the boots, that is just yoga mate material.

LED's I got from http://www.superbrightleds.com/ Good prices and quick shipments.

[KoD_zodiac]

I have to say, I just joined instructables so I could view all of your pictures. I plan on making some of these for my family for halloween 2011 and I will be using your instructable as a guide for sure! We're doing mega man(my 5yo), mega man X(me) and either Alia or cinammon from the X series(my wife).

[craineum]

Thanks so much these were a ton of fun! Please let me know if you improve on the design. And I would love to see the end results.

[sigmesis]

hey man, I did some parts of "X" were actually 2 helmets and two guns, for my nephews who are twins: D
I'm from Arequipa, Peru

[craineum]

NIce! I bet they enjoyed them!

[Wo0kiE]

wow! very creative and your son is adorable!
What's next??? Mega Man X???

[craineum]

Actually this is from two years ago, last year I did Yoshi and Mario, this year I did Proto Man and Dr. Light.

:)

[alex_meng]

so cute the baby! so smart the dady!

[SinApodo]

I saw your son at Anime Banzai and I thought it was amazing

[craineum]

?!? Is that a web site? If it is a convention, it wasn't my son ;) I know of at least a couple people that have made this costume because of the directions. I would love to see some pics!

[SinApodo]

http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&global=1&q=megaman+banzai#/d30lzz4
there is a picture, it was an anime convention they used your suit, but looking at the two children they look different

[craineum]

Thanks so much for this picture! It is great to see the instructable actually get used!

[mcc10828]

Do you know of any other place I could get foam? Those water dumbbells seem kinda expensive just for foam.

[craineum]

Understand, I picked these up for next to nothing at a thrift store. So this year I am using hair stopper sink drain covers for the ears. And for the widows peak a piece of plastic (like the frisbee in back). For the other pieces you could use a different kind of foam.

[mcc10828]

What is on the inside of the foam?

[craineum]

Just the shoe, which I glued velcro to the shoe and the foam to keep it in place, plus the strap that went under the shoe. This wasn't the best design. I am making something similar this year, and am probably going to use some kind of foam under underneath these forms. I will get back with you on this :).

[muscleflex]

this is so cool! i'd like to copy this but an ASTROBOY costume for my 3yr old! he likes astroboy!

[craineum]

Haha! :) We almost did Astroboy last year, but ended up doing mario and yoshi :)

[superMacaroni]

Next time, use a coke 12 pack box from the grocery store.

[dansowten]

Love it!! :D how much did you spend on all the parts?

[craineum]

Probably between $75 to $100. But I bought a few variations on items to make sure I got the right thing.

[mary candy]

so sweet!

[smeata]

its a pity that the kid isnt old enough to properly apreciate how awesome this is

[guitardude99]

cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hailtothkngbby]

Wow. Just wow... Great job! Sometimes I wish people this creative and talented could spread it around so we could all have a taste...

[hailtothkngbby]

Quick follow up question...Anyone think it would be weird if a 28 year old man were to build one of these to wear? I don't mean on Halloween, just, you know, all the time. All the time.

[elyador]

just a little.

[sarcosis_machina]

all I gotta say is that the kid is adorable and the costume is awesome. I'm going to try to make somthing akin to this sometime soon. when I do, I'll see about useing some of your designs for the Buster and the leg armor for the boots.

[lashermayfair]

That sooo awesome!! you could make a short-movie ~_*

[TINY PIGY BOY]

 That is the coolist costume ive evered seen plus u made it urself wich is even cooler. I like the lights lol.

[xstarsprinklesx]

Hi! I just wanted to let you know I featured this in my weekly column on Fandomania:

fandomania.com/fandomestic-5-adorably-geeky-kids-costumes/

[Sunshadow Firemoon]

I thank you for sharing this bit on how to replicate the Megaman feel for a home-made costume. I am wanting to make one of these for myself for this season and I agree with most of the steps outlined here, but I would consider making my variant a more macho-looking Megaman, possibly more like the Megaman in the Anime series than the game version of him. In essence, I would switch the briefs with a pair of boxers for the component, and possibly use some padding underneath the clothes that  I would use for the outfit to make the torso a bit more muscular, being canon to the Megaman of the Animated series of the 90s.  Aside from that, I would obviously rotate the square on Megaman's helmet 45 degrees to complete the appearance. It's true: we CAN  scale up the appearance for other ages, BUT  it should also be known that some OTHER  modifications might need to be made on HOW  to put it together.