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The Roster

I present here a list of the future Cosplays I’ll be attempting.

1.) Warduke, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

Kind of an old school D&D character. I had the action figure as a child and was always struck by the design. Fear not though, I have no illusions that my physique is anywhere comparable to the Duke’s. I’ll be wearing a flesh tone muscle suit with rendering. The nice thing about the muscle suit is that it has loads or cosplay potential beyond Warduke. It’s nice to get to stretch the budget.

2.) Bionic-1, The Bionic Six

Bionic Six was a short lived and strangely forgotten animated series from the 80s. The concept was essentially what if the The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman got married and had a family? Bionic-1, aka Jack Bennett, is the patriarch of the Bennett family and Co-Leader of the Bionic Six.

3.) Marshal Shane Gooseman, Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers

The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers was another tragically short lived and forgotten animated series. I have it in mind to do two Galaxy ranger costumes. First, a reimagined Galaxy Ranger uniform. I like the classic, but I think it could be modernized a bit. Second, a likewise updated version of Shane’s black uniform. I’m toying with the idea of doing that spiky blonde anime hair in foam. We shall see.

4.) The Spectacular Spider-Ham

I’ve been dying to do a Spider-Ham costume for ages. As much as I love Into the Spider-verse, I won’t be using their design. Don’t get me wrong, love the movie, love John Mulaney as Ham, but they changed the design too much for my taste. He looks more like Hampton from Tiny Toons. I’ll be going with the ultimate version of Spider-Ham as depicted by the late, great, Mike Wieringo!

5.) Sam, Sam & Max: Freelance Police

Sam & Max are one of my favourite comic duos of all time. Sam is a 6 foot tall anthropomorphic hound dog who, along with his best friend Max, a disturbingly violent Lagomorph, fight crime as freelance police. They had a short lived animated series, a popular video game series, and an upcoming action figure line from Boss Fight Studios. Fairly well known characters, but they don’t see a lot of cosplay love. The furry community has already done a lot of the design work for me, I’m not expecting it to be a problem to find a fursuit maker capable of handling the head. Thankfully the rest of the body is mostly an ill fitting, big, grey suit.

6.) Steel Brigade, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero

In the 80s and early 90s, Hasbro had a promotion where in you could send away for your own custom G.I. Joe. A figure meant to represent yourself as part of the Joe team. Steel Brigade wears a helmet, thus concealing their face and make each figure the embodiment of its owner. They made you up a dossier file based on the answers to the questionnaire you filled out when ordering. It was pretty spiffy. There are a lot of G.I. Joe cosplayers out there, but I don’t see Steel Brigade very often. I think there’s room here design something true to the spirit of the original, that looks a little more tactical and bad ass. Probably starting with ditching the khaki pants ;)

7.) Strato-Viper, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero

Always my favourite action figure from the entire G.I. Joe line, the Strato-Viper is the pilot of the Cobra Night Raven. I just think it’s a cool looking outfit. I’ve seen one cosplay of it. It’s pretty decent, but I think there’s room to be more accurate. The helmet is the especially tricky part. This one it going to take some time.

8.) Captain Power, Captain Power and the Soliders of the Future

A strange live action children’s show from the 80s that was way darker and better than it has any right to be based on its origins. Designed to support and sell a toy line by Mattel, Captain Power is a post apocalyptic story of a small band of freedom fighters with incredible “power suits” who fight against the Fascist dictatorship of Lord Dredd and his Bio-Dredd Empire. I’m thinking I’ll build the armour of foam, and then wrap it in gold vinyl. I do not know if that approach will work, but it’s worth testing.

I’m sure there are others I’ve forgotten, but this seems like an overly optimistic place to end the list. This listing is presented in no particular order. I will get to each of them as I can. I will abandon whichever projects turn out to be unfeasible as I make those determinations. Hopefully fun times ahead though.

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