Awesome Cosplay

Cosplay spotters Sneaky Zebra were at it again at the May 2015 MCM London Comic Con, where they caught up with a variety of creatively costumed folks, from Chappie to Fred Flintstone, from Baymax to Thor, and everyone in-between.

Cosplay filmmakers BeatdownBoogie show off some of the awesome and offbeat costumes, props and mechanical creations that surfaced at the Steampunk World’s Fair – an event we never heard of but must attend next year.

Need a quick and easy costume for Halloween? Steve Wintercroft makes polygonal mask templates that fit on A4 paper or card stock. The designs are blank, so feel free to spice them up with colored paper or doodles.

Our friends at Sneaky Zebra grabbed footage of some of the best and most creative costumes from this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, along with a couple of celebrity cameos. Is it just us, or is that actually Tom Hiddleston dressed as Loki?

Sneaky Zebra’s latest video takes us to Salt Lake City’s FantasyCon 2014, where fans showed off their spirit with costumes from all manner of science fiction and fantasy. The Hound and Arya win our top prize – while R2 and 3PO win nothing.

Kaiju fan Sean Sumagaysay took many months to create this (building) smashing Godzilla costume, which he recently paraded around in at the Puerto Rico Comic-Con. See the unfinished foam suit in motion here.

All kinds of cool costumes turned up at WonderCon this year, but this Predator cosplay might just be our favorites of all time. Sure, the tot has no idea what’s going on, but don’t little kids exist solely for our amusement?

While at the recent 2013 New York Comic Con, Kevin Maher and Bill Scurry captured cosplaying geeks speaking words we never thought we’d hear them utter. (Thanks to Kenny, who also suggested “Star Trek, Star Wars – same diff.”)

(NSFW: Language) Comic Book Girl Lindsay Ames puts her incredible cardboard Robocop costume to good use, reenacting a scene from the original film in her full paper regalia. Perhaps a better idea than a reboot of the franchise.

We already saw the giant mech suit that Stan Winston School and Legacy Effects fabricated for Wired. Here’s footage of the suit being tested by Bruce D. Mitchell, the man behind (and inside) the epic costume.

(Lyrics NSFW) Who doesn’t love the cosplayer highlights (and assorted other gems) from Comic Con every year, especially when they’re always put together with tremendous care by the folks over at Sneaky Zebra?

We usually see photos of cosplayers hamming it up with their fake weapons and muscles, but CollegeHumor curated this series of geeks doing ordinary things at conventions. We always wondered if superheroes went to the bathroom.

Wired commissioned the Stan Winston School and Legacy Effects – the studio that designed the mechs in Pacific Rim – to make a 9’9″ tall robot costume. It’s made of aluminum and polyurethane and has a voice modulator.

Composer and pianist Sonya Belousova and her costumed musician friends take us on a journey through Westeros to play the theme song from Game of Thrones. Who knew the Mother of Dragons could play piano too?

Sneaky Zebra compiled another great reel of costumed conventioneers, this time at the May 2013 MCM London Comic Con. Clearly, the UK cosplay scene is on fire. What’s your favorite costume?

Polygon’s short feature on Ger Tysk. Tysk immersed herself in cosplaying, from making props to dressing up and now documenting the culture. She reminds us to respect everyone’s right to self-expression.

Yes, they like cosplay in England too. Here’s a look at some of the best costumes to show up at the recent London Super Comic Con, edited together by Sneaky Zebra. The song is Up and Away.

Why didn’t anyone tell us how much fun Dragon*Con is? Props to beatdownboogie for capturing all the cosplay glory in Atlanta this year and to Panic City for the perfect soundtrack.

Mythbusters host and cosplayer Adam Savage talks about how he made his No-Face – aka Kaonashi from Spirited Away – costume and the amazing experience he had with fellow fans of the movie.

Not content with getting beat up by anime characters, Yung Lee is back for more (pretend) pain. This time around he duked it out with Western and video game characters at the FanExpo 2011.

This fun footage of DragonCon 2011 from YouTube user beatdownboogie has clips of renowned cosplayer Yaya Han, the Nightmare Armor costume makers and a seemingly perfect soundtrack.

Worlds collide in this awesome cosplay mashup between the Dark Knight and the Dark Side of the Force. We like to imagine that Luke Skywalker is wandering around on Tatooine dressed as Robin.

Bioshock Infinite isn’t even out yet, but it’s as if Elizabeth herself opened a tear from the game world and walked into ours, thanks to cosplayer Ormeli and her accurate and beautiful work.