Trooper armor is easier to duplicate once you've made your bucks (which are simple in design). For the most part, you just form, cut, assemble. Every Kylo will require a lot more work and cost way more in materials. Plus, Kylo's helmet is far more complex than anything on a trooper.
I'm sorry, I think it's insane that they would actually advertise ANOTHER pre-order item. At what point do they stop worrying about the money grab and fulfill the pre-orders that people have been waiting over 2 YEARS for?! I know that this (the RPF) is their home court, but every time I see yet another e-mail hawking a pre-order item I just delete it. There is absolutely ZERO reason that a cosplay item should take over a year to receive, let alone 2 years.
It just depends. If your doing a scratch build. Storm trooper has more parts and it takes more time to assemble and then vacuform them and get everything correct. Kylo its mostly just the helmet then putting the clothing together. When I made my cap phasma from scratch It took a total of 9 months to get everything done and thats without painting.
I strongly disagree for the reasons I already stated. How long it took you is a bit irrelevant because of repeatability (see my previous reply). You seem to not be considering cost of materials and actually scratch building a Kylo (aside from cast helmet, they're all essentially scratch built). It's not just "putting the clothing together", it's a **** ton of sewing every order.
No prob everyone has a right to disagree.
My stand just comes from that there are about 22 parts of armor you must build from scratch and then mold or vacuform including the helmet for any kind of trooper armor.
While kylo ren its just the helmet you have to do this to and the rest is clothing and a belt buckle.
Its a bit easier to make a kylo ren costume from scratch then a full armor costume.
Sewing is easier for some and you dont have to mess with making molds after you make your original.
Well, if you want to make multiple fabric costumes, you have to trace/cut fabric from patterns, and in the case of Kylo's undercoat, do pleating and ironing, then sewing, finishing seams, installing zippers, hemming, and whatever other small adjustments.
Vs armor, which would be vacforming sheets of plastic, trimming, gluing, and adding straps, installing lenses.
I'm not saying one is easier since I don't have extensive experience in both, but in the case of multiples, fabric costumes might be more time consuming. Also, with Kylo Ren's, it's 3 different coats (under, mid, and outer), pants, boots, hoot, belt, gloves, and neck seal.
He wears both in these pics:Did anyone ever find out if Kylo ever wears the mid coat and outer coat at the same time?? I feel like I've really searched the movie over and can't tell. I can't even tell if the mid coat is on in the exhibit pics either. Is the mid coat strictly a star killer base outfit?
Kylo is definitely wearing it on Takodana, it's visible there. Maybe there are more scenes but the dark lighting makes it impossible to tell for sure. Promo pictures have nothing to do with the movie outfit. Often times the promo shoots depict a slightly different costume, for various reasons.Those were the only pics I could find also that he has both of them on. Problem is it's not in the movie. I guess I'm wanting to know if it's 501st approved without the mid coat. I would assume the anovos is 501st approved as is but I could be wrong. I just can't seem to find any other time where he has both of them on other than those two pictures. I looked at some of the Toronto exhibit pics and it seems to me it's not on in that exhibit.
Is it just me or in the Adam Savage's video of him wearing Kylo undercover on Comic Con outer robe and sleeves look... plasticy? I mean they look very stiff, like made from vinyl or polyester.