Good evening internet. Thought that maybe I should start a blog seeing as I've been pretty much silent since first visiting Destructoid (which is pretty much since the site began...so yeah... better late than never!). Anyway, here we go...
So, Halloween. What a night. I've never really been much of a fancy dresser, but this year, I decided I would give in and go all out. I wanted to go out as a group with some of my friends, and being the unoriginal quim that I am, decided that it would be amazing if we went out as characters from the Mario series. I decided if we were going to do this, we were going to do it
right.
First off, I decided that I wasn't going to settle for red and green baseball caps with the M and the L simply drawn on paper and stuck on the front, no! None of that! My friend Chris and I scoured many a market stall, searching high and low for the right shaped hats. Then finally, we found them. After spray painting them the right colours (they were impervious to fabric dye), and sewing on the M and L patched I made, we were part way there.
Next were the dungarees, we found some amazing cornflower blue ones on the internet, but as luck would have it, they were fresh out, so we had to settle for some navy blue ones, here we are testing them out:
So Mario and Luigi were pretty much done, next I needed to concentrate on a Bowser costume for my other friend Baker. This was going to be a tough one. Seeing as time was short, I quickly sewed a mask together using some foam sheets, then cut up a green t-shirt and made a balaclava. Baker would be providing the wig and the horns. He also had an old Ninja Turtle shell costume from when he was a kid, to which he stuck spikes to.
Here's how the bowser muzzle was looking:
And we were pretty much done, after adding a few little extra touches to the Mario brothers costumes (some yellow buttons, and some fake mustaches which I cut to the right shape), we were all set to go! We had Mario, Luigi, Bowser and Peach.
Here we all are. We don't actually know the guys dressed as Link and Zelda, we just met them when we were out and had our photo taken together.
Here we are showing off our geekness.
Extreme close up!
Some guy broke down...
SUPER MARIO BROTHERS TO THE RESCUE!
We celebrate an amazing night out.
So yeah, my first proper fancy dress night was absolutely crazy. There were sooo many people stopping us to take our photos, or asking to have our picture taken with them... I felt like a celebrity.
Niiiiice, my friend that was Mario couldn't get his mustache to stay on, rofl.
That really is amazing. I wish I had friends like that.
The Bowser one is awesome lol
Welcome to Destructoid, I love you.
Haha awesome. Good job!!
farst comnent!
Hellacious costume guy
Awesome- I tip my silly hat to you.
Haha, that's great. The bowser costume is epic. MrSadistic wants to rape you. Don't worry, it's the good rape, not the bad one. Welcome to dtoid.
welcome, don't let Sadistic touch you in the squishy place.
Last picture = Mario flying away to Mario Galaxy.
Love the group shot.
Yey! We can be Super Mario Costume Brothers. Check out some picks on my page. Also love the fact that you had a bowser costume.
Good start at Destructoid! Epic costumes and fucking rad header!
Never really seen a Bowser costume before, so this is the best attempt I've seen, but I mean it sincerely. Welcome to Destructoid.
@Benefactor: Thanks man! The Bowser costume didn't really go as planned, it was incredibly rushed, I only really had time to do the muzzle. All the rest was just cobbled together with what we had. But not bad for a last minuter!
But yeah, thank you to everyone for all your nice words! :D
Slick costumes. Great first blog. Welcome to Destructoid.
Great work, man. You should wear that Bowser face mask thing around on the streets. Kinda like one of those SARS masks, except kickass.
lol @ Luigi doing Chad's AMAAAAAZING face.
That's awesome