Fully Functioning Transformers Costume
Color me impressed! There’s definitely more than meets the eye here! John Landreneau, an engineering student at Pitt, created this amazing Transformers costume that actually transforms! College Humor was lucky enough to get an interview with this costuming genius and get the nitty gritty on how it all went down. 35 – 40 hours went into this masterpiece made from cardboard boxes, glue, paint and a whole lot of love.
Our original plan was to do exact replicas of Optimus and Megatron – steel bodies, lights, sounds, the works. Looking at the material order though, it was going to cost over $300 for each costume… so that was out. A few weeks later (last Monday), I found a dumpster full of cardboard behind the engineering building. I decided that if i could finish a cardboard helmet, I would commit to making a cardboard transformer. I got the helmet done that night in a couple hours.
This really makes me want to get on that working Inspector Gadget costume, now if I can just figure out how to implant that cardboard propeller in my head. (If you haven’t figured it out by now, just click on that big black square to see the video!)
Thanks, Clint!
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Posted to Videos on 1 November 2006
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I’ve seen transforming costumes before. There was one that won the Wizard Magazine contest a few years ago, and I saw another one at Ohayocon which was made of wood (of all things) and could be pushed around.