TF Cosplay by OzFormers

[GoktimusPrime]

Yeah yeah you've all seen my crappy TF cosplays, but here's a pretty decent one by Seishinkibou!
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=h0AwJU0xlx0&feature=related

That's a seriously awesome costume, even if it can't transform! :D Hats off to you, Seishinkibou!

[loophole]

very impressive indeed!!

[k.wong23]

Is the chick hot?

oh yeah nice costume too hehe

[hotaru_oz]

Really well done.
I'm planning a TF cosplay myself and I would like to know how she made it.

[liegeprime]

Looks really well planned and fitted. Thats a real good talent! She hasn't posted for months now in the board though :(

[kup]

lol Soundwave stole the show!

[The Scream Man]

Where was that? It was clearly Australia...

[GoktimusPrime]

SeishinKibou (http://www.otca.com.au/boards/member.php?u=196) lives in Queensland so I assume it was somewhere there... Brisbane perhaps?

[roller]

i want to beat the guy with the microphone up, its some kinda nerd fest


Every fanboys dream are those girls :D

[doubleclouder]

TF customs are really hard to come by, cool stuff there, very life like! memorable! give us more of such stuff in the future! :)

[springah]

guh, not a fan..

[GoktimusPrime]

i want to beat the guy with the microphone up, its some kinda nerd fest
Ever tried doing TF cosplay outside of a nerd event like a convention?! I have! I went out dining with friends once wearing a Megatron costume - I copped weird/dirty stares and verbal abuse from some stoner during a bus ride... (-_-) I also took the train from the Olympic Park Sprint platform at Lidcombe to Olympic Park for Supanova in my Ratchet costume - copped abuse from some guys on the train before mine.

Ever since then I go directly to conventions by car if I'm cosplaying. (-_-)

I actually did get shoved by some random guy in my Ratchet costume at Animania once - much to his surprise I actually gave chase... and caught him! ;) He wasn't so tough after that. :p

[STL]

Ever tried doing TF cosplay outside of a nerd event like a convention?! I have! I went out dining with friends once wearing a Megatron costume - I copped weird/dirty stares and verbal abuse from some stoner during a bus ride... (-_-) I also took the train from the Olympic Park Sprint platform at Lidcombe to Olympic Park for Supanova in my Ratchet costume - copped abuse from some guys on the train before mine.


And you're really surprised?

[jacksplatt11]

And you're really surprised?

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[STL]

I should add Gok I'm just trying to point out that that's how the community would react. I remember the time I wore the Optimus Prime voice changer to the movie. My mates basically disowned me for a weak and I copped a lot of laughs from the cinema staff. I rolled with them though b/c what else do you honestly expect if you come in like that? You're asking for a bagging. Especially when you're heading out for a meal on a Saturday night when people are about and already getting tipsy.

[GoktimusPrime]

Not surprised, but just pointing out to roller that there's a reason why people don't do full cosplay in public outside of nerd events. It was a response to roller's comment "it's some kinda nerd fest" and my reply was basically to say, "well duh!" - where else can you get away with doing TF cosplay in public? (conventions do count as public events) :p

I proudly flaunt my love for TFs in public and I don't care what others think. As I've mentioned on other threads, I regularly go out in public wearing TF clothes and carrying TF toys in my hands. Henkei Lambor accompanied me yesterday when my wife and I went grocery shopping. ;)

I did wear my Optimus Prime voice changer helmet to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras earlier this year and I mostly got cheers, kudos, hugs, high fives and several people posed with me for photos. :)

http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y227/goktimusprime/mardi%20gras/th_mardigras17.jpghttp://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y227/goktimusprime/mardi%20gras/th_mardigras12.jpghttp://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y227/goktimusprime/mardi%20gras/th_mardigras11.jpg

I also wore it to school on Halloween - the year 10s were doing a Halloween costume thing for fund-raising for their formal. Several kids posed with me for photos. :p

And of course, there's roller... ;)
http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y227/goktimusprime/Transformers/Transfan%20Meets/Sydney%20Meet%20February%202008/th_sydmeet0209_13.jpg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olyG3g_kxQs&feature=channel_page)

Anyway, I'm sure most of you have seen these, but here are pics of my previous TF cosplays...

Megatron
http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y227/goktimusprime/cosplay/th_cosplay2k2.jpg
That's the one I wore on the bus. And yes I know... it's crap. :p

Optimus Prime (G1)
http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y227/goktimusprime/cosplay/th_goki_matrix.jpg

Ratchet
http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y227/goktimusprime/Conventions/SupaNova%202006/th_supanova01.jpghttp://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y227/goktimusprime/Conventions/Animania%20Sydney%202006/th_animania_day1_07.jpg

Optimus Prime (G2)
http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y227/goktimusprime/Conventions/SupaNova%202007/th_supanova08.jpg

:D Transfan Pride FTW!! :D

[NoenGaruth]

SeishinKibou (http://www.otca.com.au/boards/member.php?u=196) lives in Queensland so I assume it was somewhere there... Brisbane perhaps?

Yep, that was at Gencon in Brisbane during the start of July. (SK is a RL friend of mine) I still can't get over how awesome that costume is, so much cooler seeing it in person!

I also do cosplay but it's mostly Final Fantasy and Anime stuff, tho I can say that SK and myself are doing something TF related for SDCC next year. (Tis a secret ;) )

[SilverDragon]

Ever tried doing TF cosplay outside of a nerd event like a convention?! I have! I went out dining with friends once wearing a Megatron costume - I copped weird/dirty stares and verbal abuse from some stoner during a bus ride... (-_-) I also took the train from the Olympic Park Sprint platform at Lidcombe to Olympic Park for Supanova in my Ratchet costume - copped abuse from some guys on the train before mine.


And now you understand why Megatron is so angry all the time. Everyone picks on him when he rides the bus. His anger at this led to him forming the Decepticons and trying to take over the universe.

Seriously, Megatron Origin should have been like that. :P

[GoktimusPrime]

If IDW offers me a writing job I'll take it. Will work for toys. :D

[jacksplatt11]

If IDW offers me a writing job I'll take it. Will work for toys. :D

Well you know what they say... You pay peanuts, you get monkeys... You pay toys, you get... kids?

[GoktimusPrime]

You pay toys, you get... kids?
...so by that logic the writers for Animated must be getting paid with toys! :D

"A witch!"

[jacksplatt11]

...so by that logic the writers for Animated must be getting paid with toys! :D

Zing

[yukitora]

i'm doing a cosplay and i'm not a sexy dude. what should i expect? i'm just a short shit in a mesh box, do i need to make my costume in a way that i can bolt if i need to? do you recomend hard hats? where should i put most of my padding? (besides in my bra!) i've only met one cosplayer up here and that club is now dead and burried.

GOKIIIIIIIIT... i see you too like the 'one box, and feet in tissue box' effect. at least you can pee!

I'm scared to cosplay now!

[liegeprime]

Ever tried doing TF cosplay outside of a nerd event like a convention?! I have! I went out dining with friends once wearing a Megatron costume - I copped weird/dirty stares and verbal abuse from some stoner during a bus ride... (-_-) I also took the train from the Olympic Park Sprint platform at Lidcombe to Olympic Park for Supanova in my Ratchet costume - copped abuse from some guys on the train before mine.

Ever since then I go directly to conventions by car if I'm cosplaying. (-_-)

I actually did get shoved by some random guy in my Ratchet costume at Animania once - much to his surprise I actually gave chase... and caught him! ;) He wasn't so tough after that. :p

Weird dirty stares.... hmmm Are you sure you didnt follow Megsy's "look" to a tee? Coz you know even he is asking himself... "The trigger is in my crotch!? Why are the humans playing with my crotch?!?" hence the dirty stares heheheheh:D

[GoktimusPrime]

yukitora: the only other Australian female fan that I know of who's ever done a TF cosplay is Seishinkibou (also a QLDer!), but she doesn't really actively post these days. Perhaps you could drop her a PM on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/seishinkibou). :)

[Sleeve]

yukitora: the only other Australian female fan that I know of who's ever done a TF cosplay is Seishinkibou (also a QLDer!), but she doesn't really actively post these days. Perhaps you could drop her a PM on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/seishinkibou). :)

Yeah, she's currently off gallivanting around the world. Well, California to be precise, went over for SDCC. Dressed as Blackarachnia and met Cree Summer. Come to think of it, she should be getting home any day now.

[Yukitora]

depthcharge. coming soon.

[Yukitora]

this fish gun is currently 80cm.:eek:

[1AZRAEL1]

Oh cool, looking forward to the finished product.

[Hursticon]

Oh cool, looking forward to the finished product.

Make that 2! :eek:
Depth Charge Cosplay? - Awesome! :D:cool:

[Yukitora]

(Hopefully this is alex with fish gun. Upload via mobile so can't c it)

[1orion2many]

Hey Yuki, keep it coming:). Can you put up what materials you use and the like, I see you use butcher paper to draw your templates, Do you pin this in place and just cut along the line?

[SuspectimusPrime]

I wonder if you could get the face mask to move like it does on the cartoon :p

Very cool looking dude!

[Hursticon]

Indeed, some awesome looking beginnings for sure! :cool:

[Yukitora]

Hey Yuki, keep it coming:). Can you put up what materials you use and the like, I see you use butcher paper to draw your templates, Do you pin this in place and just cut along the line?


Hell no. i only use paper to work out a scale. the rest is drawn directly onto the material i want to use. after if there are mistakes, i just simply 'cut n paste/touchups/customise' and build around the problem as i hit them. Materials are 'what ever works for this bit' as you may know, Prototype Sunny was mesh and yoga mat and flock, (chia pet) Sunny 2.0 is 2cm thick foam and felt with some yoga mat joins. Depthcharge is likely to havea mesh and yoga mat. each wing being 2m. 4m metalics each side. at up to $16 per metre... just the wings. i will most likely seek out pvc pipe for the arms and general craft foam for the face. i'm thinking that the fish gun shoulda been a pvc pipe... but everyone like a plushi fish gun. i'm also tossing up doing a red transformer afterwards, but i like my headmasters and old sandstorm, cyclonus and my SIM2 thundercracker. he works at the florist....

[1orion2many]

Thanks for that, I keep meaning to go down to clark rubber to buy foam for the outfit I want to make, Just have to get motivated:D

[Yukitora]

Can I send my cosplays down to a tf group so they can get some pics at a tf fair with it? U know, depthcharge needs some fan kisses!

[GoktimusPrime]

Most of us have our hands full carrying toys! :D ;)

[Yukitora]

Sunny in progress. Your thoughts....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/84552714@N03/sets/72157631015464150/

[Hursticon]

Sunny in progress. Your thoughts....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/84552714@N03/sets/72157631015464150/

Looks promising so far, good luck with the rest. :)

[jazzcomp]

Expensive but perfect cosplay costume

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/toys-games-transformers-3-dark-of-the-moon-movie-optimus-prime-3d-theatrical-w-vacuform-adult-costume-x-large/22561574?ean=39897285269

[tinyJazz]

But that takes the fun out of building your own costume! Which could potentially cost you the same amount in materials and equipment :p

[GoktimusPrime]

I agree. But in Japan a lot of cosplayers actually hire professionally made costumes rather than making it themselves. The Cosplay culture there is quite different -- here it's more about having fun and having a go, but in Japan complete accuracy is paramount and other fans will nitpick you ruthlessly if any part of your costume is inaccurate. There'd be parts of that costume that would be nitpicked on too.

Some fan made costumes are more accurate than that -- like the G1 Optimus Prime costume that Randall Ng made for his son who wore it at BotCon (and other cons) this year. That was adorably accurate. :) (took him freakin' months to build it -- I was following its construction online and for jokingly referring to it as an Ultra Magnus costume because it was all white until he painted it in the final phase ;)).

[Yukitora]

Its sad when people take a fun hobby and turn it into a war zone. I like my cosplays to have some plan and effort put into it and get pissed at people who don't care enough about the character to even try, but i wouldn't go round going 'fracking lights are the wrong size you dumb beep beep beep'. I just hope that the Ozformers will 'Ok' my Cosplays when they see them and be happy with them.

Heres a full shot in progress. I put all the bits together so i could take a look at it and its a weird weird feeling. NOT finished, not even touched up. just what i have so far.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/84552714@N03/7847661658/in/photostream

[jazzcomp]

Cosplayers are different now. There are professional ones and not just the ones who do it for fun. If you are doing it for fun, there's no point for criticism. You are not doing it for them. :)

If you don't wear cosplay, I don't think you should criticise as well. But I think it's ok to identify some mistakes in a non-confrontational way. :D

[Yukitora]

Its nice when someone points out something that you could improve on, when you know you've been struggling and input in general is welcomed, but when people start picking to the extreme it becomes sad. Of course i'll make my own design from input that i get. I've herd some things from anime cosplayers in general when they go to conventions, and this extreme hate from perfectionists seems to be still around. Nut-jobs! I just want to make sure i have made the best I can for the characters i'm doing and that others will feel i have done a good job in general.

Which leads me to some last little touch-up questions because my data is too varied and i'm uncertain.
1) Sunstreaker has either yellow or black front part of the shins. which is more widely appreciated?
2) When did the spolier disappear from his form, and does robot mode have one? my g1 toy has one in robot mode... any others?
3)i forgot to put doors on the legs. -.- (after i planned them in to begin with), is placing that black triangle on the side of the 'shin' sadly ok? ooh so embarrassed, forgot a vital leg part! lambo doors! awww.

[Yukitora]

I am stuck between making A Depthcharge Ray sleeping/beanbag or Depthcarge cosplay. The cost is the same, the frustration likely to be the same to.
I can stick my kid in Depthcharges mouth when its a beanbag, along with using it as a general rug, play thing, kite ect. With a cosplay, I can at lest get to use it before my kid grows another 30cm and can wear it too! And just dribble over the fact i made another bot for my collection! Both have same play and excitement value. I would also like to do Armada Starscream, cause its a pretty plane.

[UltraMarginal]

Which leads me to some last little touch-up questions because my data is too varied and i'm uncertain.
1) Sunstreaker has either yellow or black front part of the shins. which is more widely appreciated?
2) When did the spolier disappear from his form, and does robot mode have one? my g1 toy has one in robot mode... any others?
3)i forgot to put doors on the legs. -.- (after i planned them in to begin with), is placing that black triangle on the side of the 'shin' sadly ok? ooh so embarrassed, forgot a vital leg part! lambo doors! awww.

1: Personally I am more partial to the G1 toy design, so I lean towards the black shins. it also breaks up the figure a bit, giving some variation and more than just a whole lot of yellow to look at like the generations toy.
2 the other two I'm aware of (The generations toy and the Alternators toy) both have spoilers but they end up being part of the legs/hanging off his back. otherwise <shrug> I'm not sure
3. I think the black triangles are a good mid point. who's to say the rest of the door hasn't folded around the leg.

either way, it's your Cosplay design, you should pick what appeals to you the most. :D

[kup]

Its sad when people take a fun hobby and turn it into a war zone. I like my cosplays to have some plan and effort put into it and get pissed at people who don't care enough about the character to even try, but i wouldn't go round going 'fracking lights are the wrong size you dumb beep beep beep'. I just hope that the Ozformers will 'Ok' my Cosplays when they see them and be happy with them.

Heres a full shot in progress. I put all the bits together so i could take a look at it and its a weird weird feeling. NOT finished, not even touched up. just what i have so far.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/84552714@N03/7847661658/in/photostream

That is totally inaccurate! It should be at least 20 feet tall with real tyres and real Lambo parts! You fail at show accuracy you dumb beep beep beep :p

Nah, it looks cool. It strongly resembles the G1 toy down to the painted details.

[GoktimusPrime]

Bought a DotM Optimus Prime costume from Target for my daughter. The mask it came w/ was too big, so I let her wear the Transformers Prime Optimus Prime mask instead (which also looks better anyway). :) It's her first cosplay, and she enjoyed the experience. Hopefully I can get her used to wearing it a few more times and see if she's willing to wear it at outside. Might see if there's any Halloween events coming up; could be a test run before seeing if she'll wear this to a con next year. ;)

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y227/goktimusprime/Yuki/20130719b_zps2eb99fe5.jpg

[lancalot]

:)that cute man..... well there smash! (http://www.smash.org.au/details/about-us)convention coming up 10 August, 2013
Sydney Convention Centre .... she could make her debut there

[Bidoofdude]

Bought a DotM Optimus Prime costume from Target for my daughter. The mask it came w/ was too big, so I let her wear the Transformers Prime Optimus Prime mask instead (which also looks better anyway). :) It's her first cosplay, and she enjoyed the experience. Hopefully I can get her used to wearing it a few more times and see if she's willing to wear it at outside. Might see if there's any Halloween events coming up; could be a test run before seeing if she'll wear this to a con next year. ;)

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y227/goktimusprime/Yuki/20130719b_zps2eb99fe5.jpg

Very nice Gok. :cool: