Two-person AT-AT costume

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By Sean Michael Ragan
Posted 2009/11/05 @ 5:02 pm
Category Art & Design, Home

From Photobucket user 8jarjar8, this video of a Chinese-lion-dragon style AT-AT costume with lighted cheek-lasers. Don’t really know anything about the makers/wearers. Anybody with info, please feel free to comment. [via Geekologie]

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4 Responses to Two-person AT-AT costume

Jason on November 6th, 2009 at 10:48 am said:

I wore this out to First Avenue in minneapolis this Halloween. The entire costume was made of foamcore. It’s a rigid board made for the mounting of posters. Anyway, it was pretty lightweight and easy to wear. The inside of the head featured the correct vintage AT-AT drivers and commander figures and I put a couple rinky dink LED lights that blinked as lasers on the head. My brother and I were inside walking on reinforced buckets. (Which later broke.)

Overall it took me a month to build and cost about $150 in materials. I did win the First Ave costume contest so it paid for itself.

I got attacked by a douchebag who tied rope around the legs while inside the club. I had to use a ton of duct tape to put it back together in time for the costume contest onstage. The douchebag got punched in the face and thrown out.

Thanks for the props!
-Jason

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- Darth Vader on November 6th, 2009 at 3:29 pm said:
  
  “I got attacked by a douchebag who tied rope around the legs while inside the club.”
  
  Damn that Luke Skywalker!
  
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- jeff-o on November 9th, 2009 at 6:20 am said:
  
  Great story! Costumes like this always need a “keeper” to help out and keep the douchebags away.
  
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- staggerin on October 23rd, 2010 at 4:22 pm said:
  
  It’s bad ass! Please contact me if you’re still around and interested; we want it asap!
  
  erin
  
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