This is a video of a guy showing off his homemade Diablo III costume in what can only be described as his grandmother’s guest bedroom. I’m diggin’ the bare lightbulb, bro. Obviously, the costume still needs some work. Namely, in the crotch region. Sure Diablo III isn’t even out yet, but I get the feeling the demons won’t be wearing acid-wash jeans. Regardless, it still amazes me how people can create such intricate costumes but can’t decorate a room to save their lives. I dunno, paint a mural of hell or something — anything but that wallpaper, shit! Hit the jump for the video.

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Die Demonspawn!: Homemade Diablo III Costume

MIT student Tyler Christensen went and made himself a dual-resonant solid state Tesla coil , then strapped that sucker to a hat and pumped the Mortal Kombat theme through it. Unfortunately, it broke the night before Halloween, leaving him no other option but to go trick-or-treating as his backup, “guy with a bomb on his head.” Hit the jump for a video of the hat in action.

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Sing In The Rain!: Kid Makes Musical Tesla Coil Hat

This is a short video of Chubbs the pug dressed up in her homemade wampa costume. It’s worth watching for the first five seconds alone because SHE IS COMING TO ATTACK! The remaining 30-seconds are pretty much just her showing her ass to the camera LIKE MOST DOG VIDEOS. *ahem* Chloe! No laughing Einstein, you do the same thing except worse because you’ve got that little nubbin tail and your butthole actually shows. Shhhhhhh! It’s staring at me. Hit the jump for the the happiest Hoth monster you ever did see.

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Run Luke!: Star Wars Wampug Comin’ At You

This is Geekologie Reader Owain’s killer robot Halloween costume. He’s particularly proud of it because he found a way to still drink while wearing a mask . Clever, Owain. I mean I’m still gonna kill you, but clever. Picture

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This is Batman’s costume from the Arkham City game made in real life by the folks at The FX Labs. Am I going to steal it and wear it on Halloween? No. Am I going to steal it and wear it everyday except Halloween? Yes (I’ve already committed to going as a sexy XBox controller). Although it was difficult to make the suit wearable because “nobody in the world is proportioned like [Batman],” the FX Lab pulled it off by stitching together several flexible pieces that move with the wearer. They didn’t sacrifice accuracy, either. They even emulated the way the suit can look blue or grey depending on the light. Awesome, it even gives you fake muscles and everything — not that I need them! *flicking syringe, injects* “Please tell me those weren’t steroids.” Oh f*** no, that was 100% horse tranquili– *collapses drooling onto own crotch* Hit the jump for a couple different angles/closeups.

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Batman’s Arkham City Costume Made IRL

Note: This is NOWHERE NEAR the whole graphic, click HERE RIGHT HERE LAST CHANCE! to see the entire colorful-ass thing. This is a giant infographic examining the color choices of comic book characters , the differences between Marvel and DC’s palettes, and character’s color changes over time. It was…very informative. “No it wasn’t.” You got me, I didn’t read it. It was colorful though. “Soooooooooo…you posted it because it looked like a rainbow?” I thought it was a treasure map to a pot of gold. The Colors of Good vs. Evil: Comic Book Color Palettes [colourlovers] (I love purple and glitter!) Thanks to Britt, who agrees the best color in invisible because then you can spy on people changing.

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Look At All Your Different Colored Hats!: The Color Choices Of Comic Book Characters

Andrew Ainsworth is a Londoner who designed the original Storm Trooper helmets for George Lucas’s Star Wars . Ainsworth has been casting new armour from his original moulds for the past eight years, selling them to fans at up to 1,800 a throw. Lucas sued Ainsworth in a US court, which held that he had violated Lucas’s copyright; but because Ainsworth has no US assets, Lucas had to bring suit in the UK to collect. However, UK law affords only limited copyright to costumes, and the UK Supreme Court held that costumes are not sculptures, and only get a 15 year term of copyright in the UK, meaning that Storm Trooper armour is now in the public domain in Britain. The court also found that Ainsworth had violated US copyright. Mr Ainsworth sells his Stormtrooper costumes for up to 1,800 A prop designer who made the original Stormtrooper helmets for Star Wars has won his battle with director George Lucas over his right to sell replicas. Andrew Ainsworth, 62, of south London, successfully argued the costumes were functional not artistic works, and so not subject to full copyright laws. George Lucas loses Stormtrooper battle at Supreme Court ( Thanks, @erichhugo ! )

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UK Storm Trooper armourer can go on selling his gear; Brit copyright on Star Wars costumes has lapsed

Nobody told me it was bring your superhero to work day. A Chinese telecom worker, having decided casual Fridays were just way too f***ing casual , decided to show up for work last week in his homemade Iron Man Mk 1 costume, scaring the tech-supporting shit out of his coworkers, who probably assumed he was the lovechild of the Tin Man and a Terminator coming back to seek revenge for poor cell phone reception or something. That, or that he was a walking time-bomb. ‘No colleagues knew my mission, and some of them froze there in seeing me approach,’ he said. ‘Some were even screaming for being scared.’ He began building the costume at the end of February and it took him around three months to complete, at a cost of around $450. But Wang said the effort had been well worth it - with his costume drawing praise from his bosses and compliments from women. He claimed some had even ‘fallen in love’ with him because of it. ‘They said I am a happy and creative man, and they wanted to know me,’ he said. Oh sure, this guy wears a homemade Iron Man suit to work and gets praised by his bosses and worshipped by women and I wear my Superman pajama set and get “sent home early” and “asked why there’s skid marks on the ass.” THEY’RE FROM A BOTCHED LANDING, GOD. Hit the jump for a couple more shots and a video that really could have used a tripod/not a spaz filming.

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This is a video of TRON guy Jay Maynards (as in, *kick* OOOOH MAYNARDS!) “performing” on ‘America’s Got Talent’, a freakshow where three questionably talented judges gauge the talent of a bunch of weirdos. U.S.A.! U.S.A.! Unfortunately for the Matrix or whatever, TRON guy performs about as well as a computer loaded with shifty porn site viruses and doesn’t make the cut. Wow, who would’ve thought telling the story of how you became an internet celebrity (”OMG — have you seen the picture of that fat guy in the TRON leotard?!?!”) wouldn’t be deemed talent-worthy? SPOILER : TRON Guy. :/ Hit the jump for three full minutes of sadness.

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Ben Heck, modder extraordinaire , went and created a Portal t-shirt. I assume for Halloween, but possibly just for fun. It’s almost identical to this guy’s “hole through the chest” shirt, except that one doesn’t have a Portal theme, making it forgettable at best. What was I just talking about? Exactly. Hit the jump for an entirely-too-long 17-minute video of the shirt from conceptualization to building to finished product.

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