Awesome Costumes

YouTuber crackrockcandy dressed up their pet beagles Maymo and Penny in a variety of Halloween costumes. What would merely be a cute video turns into comedy when you see the helpless and humiliated looks on the dogs’ faces.

ThinkGeek powers up their Mega Stomp Panic noisemaker for 2013. The Mega Stomp Battle has almost 100 different sound effects and a hand control for weapon sounds. The perfect finishing touch for your Halloween costume.

(Gore) Morphsuits and Mark Rober make costumes that work with a mobile app that displays creepy clips, like moving eyes or human organs. The iOS and Android apps are free, so you can use them in your own costumes.

Balloon sculptor and humanitarian Jeff Wright created this epic Iron Man suit in just under 10 minutes. Oh, did we mention that he wears it at the end? Of course all The Mandarin needs to do is bring a pin and it’s game over.

Turn your little one into the crawling dead this Halloween with Stephanie Davidson’s half-body baby costume. It has guts spilling out of it that your child can chew on. It’s made from safe materials and will fit babies up to 9 months old.

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.

An early screen test of the Boba Fett costume, as sound designer Ben Burtt describes the Joe Johnston-designed outfit, including many details we never knew. It’s weird to see him without his trademark green and red armor.

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?

Maybe it would have been easier to understand Bane if he wore Etsy seller Rose Pope’s crocheted wool mask instead. Note: don’t click on the “Add to Cart” button to order; contact Rose first.

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.

Wyrd Studios is behind this documentary about the history of the talented, yet seldom seen performers who have taken on the surprisingly challenging roles of wearing creature costumes on screen.

Unless you can call permanent lifetime humiliation animal cruelty, no harm came to Greg Christenson’s tortoise Frankie, as he sauntered around a Petsmart store dressed up as a UFO.

Felipe Orozco spotted this clever couple outside the T Zone in Bogota. Their costume made it look like they were sitting on a roller coaster. Either that or they’re on a roller coaster dressed as people.

We’re assuming that this was a Halloween costume, but we’ll never know if that was really Aladdin and his flying carpet gliding through campus. Our three wishes: hoverboards, hoverboards, hoverboards.

Probably not official Star Wars merch, but it could still be the droid costume that you’re looking for. It zips up all the way to the top of the hood. All you have to do is mimic Artoo’s sound.

Be the reckoning of your next costume party with this rubber replica of the mask that Bane wears in The Dark Knight Rises. Available in kid and adult sizes. Start practicing your Bane impression.

Grab your wig and fix yourself a White Russian before you don this sweater that’s a dead ringer for the one worn by Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski. We wonder if a rumpled bathrobe would be better.

While we don’t know if you’ll ever approach the creepiness of Jackie Earle Haley in Watchmen, you can try your best with these masks which actually change patterns from the heat of your breath.

We need to give it up to the talent at XworkZ right here; they’ve created a simply spectacular rendition of Batman from Arkham City, right down to the colors and cowl. (Thanks Ian!)

Get in the spirit of the season and take 25 seconds to enjoy this creative canine costume, made from cardboard and paper clips (for the tracks). It may only be chihuahua-size, but it’s mighty.