Tron Legacy Costume

My lights arrived today from elwirepros!

Faaast shipping. I just need to go down to the office and collect it.
Disc should be here tomorrow.
Done with the suit, need to resew gloves and make the cutouts for Quorra.

Helmet update: (inspired by Harrison!)
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had to make one since I look NOTHING LIKE QUORRA. Frankly, speaking she's white and I'm asian...
also..
Previous updates heeere on my bloggerrr\


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Anyone from Seattle or the Bay Area? I live in San Fran but gonna hit up Seattle for the premier.
 
... different TRON characters in 'regular clothes/attire' and with lighted parts in them - just like a REGULAR CLUB/BAR.

I feel the GOTH/Club/'ElecTRONica' world are really gonna be the TREND for next year!



YouTube - TRON: LEGACY - "Sam Meets Castor" - Clip



^^^^ That indeed!! ^^^^
 
My lights arrived today from elwirepros!

Faaast shipping. I just need to go down to the office and collect it.
Disc should be here tomorrow.
Done with the suit, need to resew gloves and make the cutouts for Quorra.

Helmet update: (inspired by Harrison!)

had to make one since I look NOTHING LIKE QUORRA. Frankly, speaking she's white and I'm asian...
also..
Previous updates heeere on my bloggerrr\



Anyone from Seattle or the Bay Area? I live in San Fran but gonna hit up Seattle for the premier.

#1, Elwirepros have been very prompt with their shipping and without them I couldn't have completed this project.

#2, I think one of the promo posters have Quorra looking a little Asian although it could be my imagination. (plus it's not what you look like, you make a costume and you're one of the clan so to speak...)

#3, If I can fly across the US from Philly, you can join us in L.A. ;)
 
#1, Elwirepros have been very prompt with their shipping and without them I couldn't have completed this project.

#2, I think one of the promo posters have Quorra looking a little Asian although it could be my imagination. (plus it's not what you look like, you make a costume and you're one of the clan so to speak...)

#3, If I can fly across the US from Philly, you can join us in L.A. ;)

you're flying to LA just for the premiere????
It's too late for me, I already have flights to seattle and tickets to the show~
I'm so jealous of you LA people :<
 
My lights arrived today from elwirepros!

Faaast shipping. I just need to go down to the office and collect it.
Disc should be here tomorrow.
Done with the suit, need to resew gloves and make the cutouts for Quorra.

Helmet update: (inspired by Harrison!)
del.jpg

had to make one since I look NOTHING LIKE QUORRA. Frankly, speaking she's white and I'm asian...
also..
Previous updates heeere on my bloggerrr\

Your Quorra helmet is looking terrific! I read your blog. I love that you used expanding foam. I have an old bike helmet from a thrift store I may use as a base and use your method to make a Quorra helmet for myself for SDCC next year.

Only thing is. What are you going to do about seeing out of it? Are you craving a hole in the front and putting a reflective shield cover to see out of?

Nah. Let's just walk around blind and bump into things :lol
 
:confused ~ Hey, question: I'm about ready to mount my craft foam armor to my Under Armor compression shirt and Baselayer leggings, and whereas I've read here that SuperGlue Contact Cement is the best thing to anchor it, how is the best way to hold the form when anchoring the armor?

I don't have a dress form, and most dress forms don't have arms and legs anyway, so how is the best way to do it outside of being IN the shirt and pants and having the glue stick to you? I was thinking maybe to wrap myself in plastic sandwich wrap and do it that way, but I'm guessing I'm missing a rather clever method someone else has devised. Any help would be great! :)
 
You can try something from here
Mannequin, Mannequins - Male

Remember these are mannequins, nothing else.
Haw haw haw.


:confused ~ Hey, question: I'm about ready to mount my craft foam armor to my Under Armor compression shirt and Baselayer leggings, and whereas I've read here that SuperGlue Contact Cement is the best thing to anchor it, how is the best way to hold the form when anchoring the armor?

I don't have a dress form, and most dress forms don't have arms and legs anyway, so how is the best way to do it outside of being IN the shirt and pants and having the glue stick to you? I was thinking maybe to wrap myself in plastic sandwich wrap and do it that way, but I'm guessing I'm missing a rather clever method someone else has devised. Any help would be great! :)
 
:confused ~ Hey, question: I'm about ready to mount my craft foam armor to my Under Armor compression shirt and Baselayer leggings, and whereas I've read here that SuperGlue Contact Cement is the best thing to anchor it, how is the best way to hold the form when anchoring the armor?

I don't have a dress form, and most dress forms don't have arms and legs anyway, so how is the best way to do it outside of being IN the shirt and pants and having the glue stick to you? I was thinking maybe to wrap myself in plastic sandwich wrap and do it that way, but I'm guessing I'm missing a rather clever method someone else has devised. Any help would be great! :)

I would have someone put the panels on while you are wearing the under armor. If you do it on a mannequin, with differing proportions, you risk having the fabric stretch where it shouldn't, and panels touching where there should be a gap. Id' try backing the undergarment with wax paper. Any cement that might adhere to the wax would just come off the paper without tearing it.
 
Hi all, this thread helped me a lot with my project so I thought I would include my experiences with making a Tron Legacy inspired suit. I had roughly 12 days to complete the suit and a budget of nothing, so this was definitely not a movie-grade replica, but it was fun to make and everyone thought it looked pretty cool.

Base items:

- Slim fitting black pullover $1
- Ladys stretchy pants $1
- Gumboots $2
- Old hardhat
- Safety visor $15
- Work gloves $2
- Old shin pads

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- Foam yoga mat $2

EL Wire and inverters:

- 5 x 7.5ft el wire skyblue
- 2 x 12v battery inverters
- 2 x el wire splitters

~$50 on ebay (trader name: bluericewin)

Other items:
- Spraypaint $15

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- Ados F3 $15

Everything else was tape, screws, glue etc. that I had lying around the house or nicked from work. So total was around $85 - $90

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I cut templates out of paper for the body armor and traced these to the foam mat. The foam is about quarter inch. I cut out the shapes and lightly taped them together.

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I soon realised the small female mannequin I had borrowed wasnt going to work so I used an old sponge matress and towels to pad it out, and make arms. I tried to get it fairly close to my dimensions, but it wasnt exact.

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After tracing around the foam panels with white chalk, I applied the Ados glue, ready for the foam panels. I dont know if they sell Ados in the US. Its mixed with gel, so its really nice to use, nice smooth consistency to the bottom of the can.

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Panels on, tied up overnight.

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More panels on, and a few coats of white spraypaint that will be masked for the light channels.

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Rear view. I installed magnets above and below the circular area, for the disc to connect to.

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Drawing out the light paths that the EL wire will run along. I cut a length of speaker wire the same length as the EL wire and used that to decide how the lighting would run.

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Running the EL wire. I cut slits with a craft knife for where the wire dives and surfaces. I glued it to the suit using a hot glue gun. When the suit was finished I taped over the internal wiring with duct tape so it wouldnt snag.

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Masking up the gumboots. I ran EL wire along the feet, but there was too much flex through that area ... by the end of the night, both loops had come free from the boot.

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Once the EL wire was in place, I masked over it and sprayed the whole thing in satin black.

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The finished garment. The trousers followed the same process as the torso. I used the shin pads on the forearms and lower leg.

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I hacked up a few plastic containers for the disc. Try and find the nice soft plastic containers, they're easier to cut and wont crack. That blue plastic was the harder, more brittler type and it was a nightmare to cut.

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I ran EL wire inside the disc, taped the driver inside, and pushed the switch to the outside of the disc. I also taped some magnets in so it would stick to my back.

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Inside view of the helmet. First I sprayed the helmet black. Then I masked the inside of the visor, and sprayed it black. I screwed and glued the visor to the back of the helmet and ran the EL wire. I didn't hot glue the wire to the visor, instead I held it in place with white electrical tape. I also masked out 2 little holes for the eyes which gave me enough visibility to not walk into a wall. I screwed the inverter to the back of the helmet.

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Finished helmet. I used a little extra wire length to run it past those 3 holes.I also added foam padding, a chinstrap, and a rear hood made from 1/8 inch foam to cover the back of my head.

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Suiting up. Getting it off the mannequin was tricky, I had to carefully remove the padding first before I could get it off.

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Fitting okay.

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Working out some cool poses.

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I had a malfunction in the legs, that I fixed later.

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At the party.

Okay so here are the lessons I learned, and some tips:

EL Wire:
I used the cheapest stuff I could get on ebay and didnt seem to have any problems with quality issues etc. If youve never handled EL wire before (as I hadn't), dont be scared to get a bit rough with it or bend it tightly (within reason), it is quite durable. Also, I found that sometimes when you cut a length of wire, the cut can cause the whole length to stop glowing. I found this out a few minutes before we were due to leave for the party. I connected the 12v driver for the first time and switched it on. The suit flickered, then nothing. My first though was that the driver had burnt out the wire somehow. As i was checking it over a grabbed the termination point, and it lit up. I moved the cut end to a better position and then glued it down.

Power:
After reading something about "overdriving" EL wire with a 12V, 8 AA battery inverter to get a brighter glow, I decided to run the suit with 2x 12v drivers, one for the torso, one for the pants. However I ended up with the arms and shoulders connected to a regular 4v driver (2 AA batteries). I did this as I was running short on time, and I didnt want to have to solder the regular wire around the shoulder area, 4 connections for each shoulder, to connect the arms to the torso. So I ended up with 2 x 1 metre runs up each arm, and maybe 3 metres total on the chest and back. When I connected the torso to the 12v driver, heres what happened:

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I could smell burning plastic in the car and was wondering why my back was so hot ... so I wouldnt recommend running less than 6 metres on a 12V driver. When I got to the party, I connected the torso and legs to a single 4v driver, which worked well. But if you compare the first couple of photos with the photos at the party, you can definitely see a difference in brightness and color. The next day, I connected the torso and legs (roughly 6 metres) to a single 12v driver, which gave excellent brightness, and more importantly stayed cool. Eventually I will connect the arms, Im pretty sure there will be almost no reduction in glow. Lesson: a single 12v driver is plenty to power an entire suit.

Soldering: This was probably the most difficult part for me. I cut in regular wire through the knees and elbows to allow for movement. Trying to consistently strip the EL wire without breaking the angel hair strands was a problem. I was soldering around the arms right up until a few hours before the party, so my connections were shoddy. By the end of the night, both arms were shorting out. I guess the lesson here is to take the time to get your connections bulletproof, if you have the time.

Paint:
The paint is flaking off, I probably shouldve used a primer or something on the foam.

Photos:
Make sure you are with people who are sober enough to take a good photo ... what I posted are the best shots I have :unsure

edit: beg borrow or steal a mannequin, I can only imagine how hard it would be to do without one ...
 
Pretty darn good. Balancing brightness is a tricky part with EL. I have the opposite problem with EL sheeting. I have tons of it on my costume and it slurps battery juice like a vaccum. One day I'll just be lazy and stick my finger in a light socket.

Justin, by the way you were right about the TRON font. I didn't think the '3' was drawn that way on the back of Flynn's right leg until I froze a frame of the Derezzed video and took a close look at the 'scoreboard'.

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bays, for the price, time given to build, and plain old fashion hard work.. REALLY well done TRON suit. Gratz.
 
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Bays! most excellent costume build! I like the body armor and the helmet! Glad you were able to get something done in time for the premiere!
 
Hi all, this thread helped me a lot with my project so I thought I would include my experiences with making a Tron Legacy inspired suit. I had roughly 12 days to complete the suit and a budget of nothing, so this was definitely not a movie-grade replica, but it was fun to make and everyone thought it looked pretty cool.

WOW! you don't call that movie grade quality??? that was alot of work you did there and looks damn good! Exactly what I go thru when I make my costumes! Lovin it! :D
 
Pretty darn good. Balancing brightness is a tricky part with EL. I have the opposite problem with EL sheeting. I have tons of it on my costume and it slurps battery juice like a vaccum. One day I'll just be lazy and stick my finger in a light socket.

Justin, by the way you were right about the TRON font. I didn't think the '3' was drawn that way on the back of Flynn's right leg until I froze a frame of the Derezzed video and took a close look at the 'scoreboard'.


We are SOOOOO anal with every little detail..... LOVE IT!! :thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup
 
and finally after days off fitting this thing to me, I finally got the right fit. This bodyform is not my size and my chest armor will be tight fitting to me. Plus the front and back sides will have metal boning added to it so the latex sits stiff on my body, it will not be all wrinkly when I have it on as it looks here in my photos. There are metal bones at the top side of my back to my neck which gives the latex a more molded shape like her armor and not all flopping around and stand stiff.

The back side, where the hole is located, is where the hub will protrude, the bowl I have it epoxied to is the "hump" shape Quorra has molded to her suit, this is how I am achieving it. But only that paper clay hub I made will be showing which my disk will sit on. This whole thing will be painted black.

Now let's see how many hours it will take me to get the lights on??? I average around 5-6 ;P already spent 2 hours on the side hips lights.

A-symmetrical skirt attachment will be last if my latex would ever arrive from the UK. I am getting so stressed out! :eek
 
Was invited by a friend to go see the premiere at the El Capitan in Hollywood 2nite of TL but passed. I want to see it for the 1st time suited up with you guys!!!! :D
 
excellent work everybody on your suits! :)

thought i'd chime in with some movie costume news. for those in the area you can take a closer look at original costumes from the movie. they're on display for a limited time. i have yet to see them in person. this blog has taken plenty of pics for those who can't get there:

Hollywood Movie Costumes and Props: Original Tron Legacy movie costumes and props on display... Original film costumes and props on display

many of the pics remind me of the ones used in elecTronica with the cw-x gear and all.
 
Pretty darn good. Balancing brightness is a tricky part with EL. I have the opposite problem with EL sheeting. I have tons of it on my costume and it slurps battery juice like a vaccum. One day I'll just be lazy and stick my finger in a light socket.

Justin, by the way you were right about the TRON font. I didn't think the '3' was drawn that way on the back of Flynn's right leg until I froze a frame of the Derezzed video and took a close look at the 'scoreboard'.

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i like what you did with the '3' :)

it's also found on some of the action figures.

and, thought it would be worth mentioning that you can also refer to the art of tron legacy book page numbers for all the number fonts.
 
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