This is my Super Mario riding Yoshi puppet! I prefer to call it a puppet rather than costume. With fake Mario legs on the puppet & my own legs inside the Yoshi legs, It gives the illusion that you are riding a real life Cartoon Dinosaur! To add to the realism, Yoshi has a full opening & closing mouth and exending toungue
Inspiration for the costume mechanic was the goblin riders from the silly battle sequence in Jim Henson's Labyrinth.
It took about 4 months from start to finish, with about an extra month for Research & Development. Final estimated cost was around $450.
Primary materials were:
memory foam, for the skin
PVC pipe & plastic canvas, for the skeleton
a whole lot of hot glue & duct tape, to keep everything together
paper mache of a dodgeball for the yoshi head
plastic hangers, screws, bolts & red leggings to create accordian mechanism for toungue
Spray paint for color. Latex paint wouldve been best, but the deadline had to be met
Most importantly, since a fake one just wouldnt do:
the willpower to walk around for 5 months while growing a big handlebar mustache!
Showing off the puppet at Wizard World Comic-Con 2010 in Austin, Tx:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FkxJjTW_M4
Inspiration for the costume mechanic was the goblin riders from the silly battle sequence in Jim Henson's Labyrinth.
It took about 4 months from start to finish, with about an extra month for Research & Development. Final estimated cost was around $450.
Primary materials were:
memory foam, for the skin
PVC pipe & plastic canvas, for the skeleton
a whole lot of hot glue & duct tape, to keep everything together
paper mache of a dodgeball for the yoshi head
plastic hangers, screws, bolts & red leggings to create accordian mechanism for toungue
Spray paint for color. Latex paint wouldve been best, but the deadline had to be met
Most importantly, since a fake one just wouldnt do:
the willpower to walk around for 5 months while growing a big handlebar mustache!
Showing off the puppet at Wizard World Comic-Con 2010 in Austin, Tx:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FkxJjTW_M4
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Making alot of Sketches, taking measurements, & going to Lowes & Home Depot to write down prices & figure out a budget. the best way to get something like this done is to spend a month drawing & thinking before you really commit to a plan. then start building, but not with the actual materials...
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as what mrmerino said ...this is awesome. It is really awesome!!!!!!!!!
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Again AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME!
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undeniably awesome. i would never have been able to make something so amazing for a costume/puppet thingy.
^_^
very nice though. 5 out of 5.
Kind of similar as to what I made a number of years ago only it was an interactive coin bank. Well you could either save real coins or you can save trinkets, curios and or chocolate gold coins. it was also made from paper mache and a few other things like a party favor for the tongue. It was hollow mostly, had a special back scale for opening the mouth, and the saddle can be opened for storage.
Here is a pic of it.
http://ktigress.webng.com/images%20ktcl/files/Yoshi.jpg
Not a very good pic but you get the idea. :)
This blows my Yoshi costume way out of the water!
It's people like you that inspire the rest of us. Fantastic job!