SneakyDerezzer
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This is a build I've been working on for some time now. Started around... February 2011. Couldn't have done it without several key people, including SoulInertia (awesome Disc Mod, man I OWE YOU).
Anyway, the look I was going for was the young(ish) Kevin Flynn from the flashbacks of Tron: Legacy. As a consequence of them being exact doppelgangers, this costume also embodies the version of CLU from the same time period, somewhere around the year 1989, when Flynn was about the age of 35.
This is a post-project post, as I completed it earlier in the year at a very quick pace. As such, there are no real wiring or work-in-progress EL lighting pics. I will say that all my lighting is powered by 9v Battery inverters, and my EL tape was purchased from the kind people over at Glowhut.com
First: The JACKET.
FILM VERSION: Okay, so here we first see the costume. Young Flynn (and CLU) are wearing, from what we can tell, an illuminated leather jacket, black shirt, and leather pants.
FILM VERSION: More jacket detail. We can see Flynn has one EL strip going up one side of the jacket (to the right of the zipper, on a narrow leather band on the jacket's interior) and one on the other side of the jacket, facing inward.
FILM VERSION: A look at the back of Flynn's costume. In particular, I wanted to see the detail on the Disc mount/hub/doodad. In this pic, you can also see that the leather closures/snaps in the bottom right and left of the jacket match the location on the scooter jacket I ended up using.
Since my costume was not going to cost me upwards of $1,000 (I'm a student on a budget) I went in some slightly different directions than the on-screen costume. However, I like my end result.
Instead of buying the Alpinestars NYC jacket the film version is quite clearly based on, I went with a cheaper alternative provided by AAOK.
MY VERSION: So this jacket matches the FORMAT of the Alpinestars NYC pretty nicely. It has the same type of neck-close, and the same leather strip lining the inside of the zipper, right where the EL strip went on Flynn's film jacket, as well as the same leather snap closures on the back/sides.
Camera FLASH off, EL on:
Here we can see the INNER strip on the left inner side, just like Flynn's.
MY VERSION: The back. HUGELY happy with how well SoulInertia's Disc Mod jazzed up this build! A tupperware lid and some dremel-ing gave me a pretty usable hub. Velcro'd it to the center back, and voila!
Camera FLASH off, EL on:
Just the Inner C-Ring lit.
Both rings lit.
Next up: The PANTS.
In the film, Flynn and CLU wear leather pants. I did not have the money and STILL do not have the money to buy leather motorcycle pants, nor would I want to, as I do not currently own a motorcycle, and live in Savannah, Georgia. Georgia is HUMID. So, I went with something a little more breathable.
MY VERSION: Levi's Black Skinny Jeans. They feel amazing, and are fun to wear. I was not buying leather pants, so these were (and are) still my best bet. I love 'em.
Next: THE SHOES.
From watching the flashback scenes in the film, particularly where CLU betrays Flynn, I saw that the shoes had EL accents (stripes) on both sides of the shoes. To get a better look at the shoes, I used two sources:
Flynn's shoes as seen in the present day (2010) in the film, aaaand...
CLU's (essentially Flynn's) shoes as seen in the game, TRON: Evolution. Not strictly as 'canon' as the film, but i needed some ideas.
MY VERSION: A pair of nearly-new Skechers that I wasn't getting much use out of, still lying in their box. I threaded cut lengths of EL tape through the back and side of the shoes aaaand...
Presto! Glow Shoes! :love
THE END RESULT:
Overall, I'm really happy with how the build turned out. It'll be my Halloween costume (and hopefully costume contest prize winner) this October, as well as a possible excuse to go to various other events. Let me know what you guys and gals think. Thanks for looking.
Anyway, the look I was going for was the young(ish) Kevin Flynn from the flashbacks of Tron: Legacy. As a consequence of them being exact doppelgangers, this costume also embodies the version of CLU from the same time period, somewhere around the year 1989, when Flynn was about the age of 35.
This is a post-project post, as I completed it earlier in the year at a very quick pace. As such, there are no real wiring or work-in-progress EL lighting pics. I will say that all my lighting is powered by 9v Battery inverters, and my EL tape was purchased from the kind people over at Glowhut.com
First: The JACKET.
FILM VERSION: Okay, so here we first see the costume. Young Flynn (and CLU) are wearing, from what we can tell, an illuminated leather jacket, black shirt, and leather pants.
FILM VERSION: More jacket detail. We can see Flynn has one EL strip going up one side of the jacket (to the right of the zipper, on a narrow leather band on the jacket's interior) and one on the other side of the jacket, facing inward.
FILM VERSION: A look at the back of Flynn's costume. In particular, I wanted to see the detail on the Disc mount/hub/doodad. In this pic, you can also see that the leather closures/snaps in the bottom right and left of the jacket match the location on the scooter jacket I ended up using.
Since my costume was not going to cost me upwards of $1,000 (I'm a student on a budget) I went in some slightly different directions than the on-screen costume. However, I like my end result.
Instead of buying the Alpinestars NYC jacket the film version is quite clearly based on, I went with a cheaper alternative provided by AAOK.
MY VERSION: So this jacket matches the FORMAT of the Alpinestars NYC pretty nicely. It has the same type of neck-close, and the same leather strip lining the inside of the zipper, right where the EL strip went on Flynn's film jacket, as well as the same leather snap closures on the back/sides.
Camera FLASH off, EL on:
Here we can see the INNER strip on the left inner side, just like Flynn's.
MY VERSION: The back. HUGELY happy with how well SoulInertia's Disc Mod jazzed up this build! A tupperware lid and some dremel-ing gave me a pretty usable hub. Velcro'd it to the center back, and voila!
Camera FLASH off, EL on:
Just the Inner C-Ring lit.
Both rings lit.
Next up: The PANTS.
In the film, Flynn and CLU wear leather pants. I did not have the money and STILL do not have the money to buy leather motorcycle pants, nor would I want to, as I do not currently own a motorcycle, and live in Savannah, Georgia. Georgia is HUMID. So, I went with something a little more breathable.
MY VERSION: Levi's Black Skinny Jeans. They feel amazing, and are fun to wear. I was not buying leather pants, so these were (and are) still my best bet. I love 'em.
Next: THE SHOES.
From watching the flashback scenes in the film, particularly where CLU betrays Flynn, I saw that the shoes had EL accents (stripes) on both sides of the shoes. To get a better look at the shoes, I used two sources:
Flynn's shoes as seen in the present day (2010) in the film, aaaand...
CLU's (essentially Flynn's) shoes as seen in the game, TRON: Evolution. Not strictly as 'canon' as the film, but i needed some ideas.
MY VERSION: A pair of nearly-new Skechers that I wasn't getting much use out of, still lying in their box. I threaded cut lengths of EL tape through the back and side of the shoes aaaand...
Presto! Glow Shoes! :love
THE END RESULT:
Overall, I'm really happy with how the build turned out. It'll be my Halloween costume (and hopefully costume contest prize winner) this October, as well as a possible excuse to go to various other events. Let me know what you guys and gals think. Thanks for looking.
I'm also going to dig up the photo of the director wearing the non-CGI version of the jacket to see if it looks the same there too.
