Star Wars fancy dress - warning!

[E36GUY]

Hmm. What to get for an 80's night New Year's party. I know. Star Wars.....

It seems someone somewhere has finally done a licensing deal to reproduce Star Wars costumes. Excellent.

Can't afford the awesome looking £650 versions but thought that this would do the trick:

http://www.escapade.co.uk/Star-Wars-Costumes-sale/...

So I ordered one for NYE party and sent Mrs out to colelct yesterday getting excited at the prospect of trying it all on when I got home.

What an absolute crock of ste this turned out to be. Absolutely nothing like the picture I took as my reference.

I will therefore be returning the item to the shop in Camden and shouting at people later on.

Be warned

[yorky500]

We need to see pics of you is said replica costume, purely as a comparison and general piss take.

[HRG]

yorky500 said:

We need to see pics of you is said replica costume, purely as a comparison and general piss take.

[pincher]

What's wrong with it?

It does say in the description that the armour isn't made of plastic.

[Boozy]

It's made of foam, hardly going to look that authentic I guess, was it still that yellow colour foam tends to be? that'd have been funny! send a pic so we can have a chuckle

[hornetrider]

Go on, cheers us up for New Year with a comedy pic before you take it back.

[E36GUY]

It does say hard crushable material but I took that to be slightly harder that it actually is. Which is softer than an eggbox with a rubbish black jumpsuit which doesn't even have a zip at the back with all the armour pieces just stuck on! Complete rubbish.

No pics I'm afraid. Too annoyed.


Where's a spare £650 when you need it!

[parapaul]

I had an equally crappy costume from escapade for Halloween. But having never bought a fancy dress costume before, I just assumed that £30 doesn't really get you a good one.

The £600 Star Wars stuff does look good though

[davido140]

I've been caught out the same way, very cheap tacky crap.

Best bet for fancy dress is to use your imagination a bit (and get some ideas from the Internet) and make your own!

Obviously Storm Trooper is a bit elaborate, but a day of Army Surplus, Fancy Dress Shop, B&Q, etc got me all the bits to make this

[R5GTTGaz]

What did you get from the army surplus? Boot polish?

[davido140]

R5GTTGaz said:

What did you get from the army surplus? Boot polish?

The Dungarees IIRC. you'll be surprised at how hard it is to get a pair these days!

I blame Kylie Minogue.

ETA I already had the Gola socks in my drawer.

Edited by davido140 on Wednesday 31st December 10:19

[ytrebil]

I ordered some masks from that site for Halloween like 2 weeks in advance (the Joker’s henchmen masks from Dark Knight). They then told me 2 days before Halloween that I won’t be getting them due to being out of stock! They also took 2-3 weeks to send my money back to me. Absolute bds.

[Rawwr]

I went to a fancy dress party in my ice hockey gear. This was a really stupid idea. Normally it's ok, as the one outstanding property of ice is that it's cold. Wearing full gear in a nicely heated house leaves you sweating like a rapist for the whole evening whilst trying to pretend you're perfectly comfortable.

I won't be doing that again.

[satchbot]

The pads do retain the heat don't they! You weren't wearing the undersuit as well were you??!!

[JamesNotJim]

Tape two hob-knobs to your heard and paint yourself red... You can be hellboy! (Not starwars, but no women would ever notice)

[Rawwr]

satchbot said:

The pads do retain the heat don't they! You weren't wearing the undersuit as well were you??!!

From the ground up: Skates (capped, obviously), shin/knee pads, socks, nuts holder, shorts, UA top, gloves, stick, elbow pads, chest armour, jersey, throat guard and helmet.

[satchbot]

Throat guard - I don't wear that. PITA irritable thing. Top marks for making the effort to go fully clobbered up.

[Rawwr]

Yeah, I thought that until I saw a particularly high blade :P

[satchbot]

Ahhhhhhh......fair enough

[Rogue_420]

http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v354/1...

http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v354/1...

how star wars trooper customes should look
thisis what the OH and friends do for charity

eta- sorry didnt check and am signed in on OHs id so this is what he does with his friends for charity

Edited by Rogue_420 on Wednesday 31st December 16:00