You can see more details and how this costume moves in this home video: Coolest Lego Minifigure Costume Ever! Zombie! - YouTube
My son wanted to be a Lego man minifigure for Halloween. Our family participates in the annual Denver Zombie Crawl every year, so he and I determined it might be fun if he was a Lego zombie. The annual event draws thousands of people to downtown Denver, and this year we were swarmed due to the popularity of his costume.
Here is our family at the Denver Zombie Crawl.
I've seen other Lego minifigure costumes on the internet and have not been impressed with what I had seen. I felt it was important to have the costume as proportionately correct to a real Lego minifigure as possible, with the correct approximate movements to the toy. The feet are slightly elevated off the ground for safety while walking and trick-or-treating. The costume build is my own design based on sketches made from measurements of a Lego minifigure combined with measurements of my son. Due to human proportions, I had to cheat slightly in the length of the forearms and the length of the legs. Everything else should be precise scale to the toy.
How the costume moves like a Lego Minifigure - YouTube
The costume was fabricated primarily out of foam rubber, hot glue and latex paint. The head is a combination of a styrofoam wreath split down the middle, foam rubber and automotive window tint so that he could see out of it. The face also has a removable "normal" face. The inside of the costume is held together with velcro and nylon webbing.
While I've created things for costumes before, this is the first costume that I've completely fabricated on my own.
When complete, the costume is freestanding by itself. After Halloween, my son wants to keep it in his room next to his table where he builds Legos.
My son wanted to be a Lego man minifigure for Halloween. Our family participates in the annual Denver Zombie Crawl every year, so he and I determined it might be fun if he was a Lego zombie. The annual event draws thousands of people to downtown Denver, and this year we were swarmed due to the popularity of his costume.
Here is our family at the Denver Zombie Crawl.
I've seen other Lego minifigure costumes on the internet and have not been impressed with what I had seen. I felt it was important to have the costume as proportionately correct to a real Lego minifigure as possible, with the correct approximate movements to the toy. The feet are slightly elevated off the ground for safety while walking and trick-or-treating. The costume build is my own design based on sketches made from measurements of a Lego minifigure combined with measurements of my son. Due to human proportions, I had to cheat slightly in the length of the forearms and the length of the legs. Everything else should be precise scale to the toy.
How the costume moves like a Lego Minifigure - YouTube
The costume was fabricated primarily out of foam rubber, hot glue and latex paint. The head is a combination of a styrofoam wreath split down the middle, foam rubber and automotive window tint so that he could see out of it. The face also has a removable "normal" face. The inside of the costume is held together with velcro and nylon webbing.
While I've created things for costumes before, this is the first costume that I've completely fabricated on my own.
When complete, the costume is freestanding by itself. After Halloween, my son wants to keep it in his room next to his table where he builds Legos.
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