[Moogs]

Dude you've started a trend! Bless you for making the American Parade -a perennially boring and contrived institution- fun again!

[drewprops]

Thangyoooo.
(Now you know that's really not George Lucas in that picture.... right?)

[crazychester]

Originally Posted by drewprops Thangyoooo. (Now you know that's really not George Lucas in that picture.... right?)

Altho' he's got just the right amount of porkiness about him.

What I really want to know, is how you avoided bumping into things? There appear to be no eye holes.

(And I note, like father, like son in the anal fixation department. My dad used to call his ginormously loud farts, "bombers".)

[Moogs]

Originally Posted by drewprops (Now you know that's really not George Lucas in that picture.... right?)

Who's George Lucas?

[drewprops]

He's the guy who played "disappointed man" in Beverly Hills Cop 3, I thought everybody knew that. I always try to remember to whistle the Axel F Theme whenever I think of him.

I always fail.

CC, we DID have eyeholes and you can kind of see out of them... end up using your buddies as "curb feelers" to warn you of curbs, potholes, sleeping bums, stairs, escalators, elevator shafts.... etc. The real problem is DRINKING through the eyeholes. Beer bottles work fine through the eyeholes... drinks with long straws are bad because you might keep jabbing your friend in the nose until he starts to laugh so hard that when he finally gets a mouthful of rum he loses it and does a spit-take inside his helmet. That sometimes happens.

[drewprops]

I bring you: Chewboxxa. (Click for instructions on building this costume)




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[Moogs]

Gotta love it.

[drewprops]

SO we walked in Dragon*Con parade for the 2nd year in a row yesterday... this time around I built our friend Alfeo a Darth Vader costume out of Mac Pro boxes (and a wine box, and a Jack Daniels box).... it's pretty badass (for cardboard)... found photos....

You HAVE to see these shots...
Shot #1 on Flickr
Shot #2 on Flickr

And then... Holy crap!!
Our friend Elliott snuck off and actually BUILT one for this year!!!

[psmith2.0]

Hahahaha! You guys is silly...

[Freewell]

Ahhhh.... I *love* it!!!! This is what drew me out of the shadows of lurking on AN in the first place! I think you guys are absolutely hilarious!!

[Bryson]

I love the iCrotch™ on the Darth Vader suit!

You, sir, are a genius. I bow to you.

[Mac+]

Drew - any chance that you can host these photos on your website, as opposed to Flickr please? (China has not been liking Flickr of late - and I'm not a Firefox user ... apparently there is some hack for it to enable viewing of images hosted on Flickr.)

[Bryson]

http://bryson.albassamtheatre.com/boxtroopers1.jpg
http://bryson.albassamtheatre.com/BOXTROOPERS2.jpg
http://bryson.albassamtheatre.com/chewboxxa.jpg


Try those. (I assume Drew doesn't mind!)

[Mac+]

Thanks Bryson.

MacPro Darth looks great!

I also love how it's OK in the Imperial Army to carry url advertising on box trooper uniforms. Cool.

And one of the troopers is wearing some mighty platforms it appears ... perhaps Luke himself? "Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?"

[Moogs]

ROFL@chew-eyzOMGZ!1one

Seriously... that's pretty cool. You guys are having fun livin' life. +1 for your team.

[drewprops]

Originally Posted by Moogs ROFL@chew-eyzOMGZ!1one

Yeah, he did an AWESOME job of it!!

Originally Posted by Mac+ MacPro Darth looks great!

A girl came up to take our picture and she told us that she worked for Apple... maybe just at an Apple store, but I'm sure it'll get sent 'round to all the Mac folks~

Originally Posted by Bryson Try those. (I assume Drew doesn't mind!)

Not at all!!!
They're not on my Flickr account anyway, those are from people who were along the parade route.
Look for more to pop up over the next month or two as people get back to their machines~

[Foj]

Originally Posted by drewprops

It seems the guy in the background wearing the black shirt is thinking "Holy shit, a cardboard wookie!"

[Eugene]

I love the fact that cardboard Chewie is still about 8 feet tall.

[spotcatbug]

Originally Posted by Eugene I love the fact that cardboard Chewie is still about 8 feet tall.

Yeah, look where the eye holes are. I mean the real eye holes, where the costumed person is looking out of.

[drewprops]

Oh you should see this one.... my favorite so far....

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...4864989&size=o

[psmith2.0]

Future character suggestions:

- Sandpeople
- C3P0 (find some gold tin foil?)
- Boba Fett
- Han Solo frozen in carbonite

[turtle]

Drew, this is awesome. I love what you've been able to do with this. That was a great picture BTW!

[Mac+]

Bloody China, bloody Flickr, bloody Google video, bloody "noblog" policy, bloody wikipedia when the school starts, bloody illegal DVDs, bloody ... oops wrong thread.

[drewprops]

Aw crap... I keep forgetting!! I'm just pointing to other people's Flickr accounts right now... hate to copy and put their photos up without giving them credit... mumble mumble mumble.....

[709]

Yeah, that last link wants me to sign up for a Yahoo! Account!...which I'm Not!.

[Mac+]

Originally Posted by Mac+ Bloody China, bloody Flickr, bloody Google video, bloody "noblog" policy, bloody wikipedia when the school starts, bloody illegal DVDs, bloody ... oops wrong thread.

I think Hu Jintao might have a minion reading 'an' because this morning I can see Flickr.

Drew - No worries about linking to other people's photos and not posting them in here. I can fully appreciate that. Note, that like 709, I'm not signing up for a Yahoo! account though.

[Capella]

Those are awesome photos of the boxtrooper costumes. Brilliant idea, brilliant execution.

[drewprops]

Gallo Trooper uploaded some video his girlfriend shot.....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1WDJoL9CYGA

[turtle]

That's great Drew. I love it.

Hopefully everyone there gets as much of a kick out of it as we do.

[Kickaha]

You guys need box versions of:

R2D2: come on... a trash can!
AT-AT walker: put a big-assed fridge box on your head.

Classic guys...