The best reason to have a baby? You can use it to pilot a nearly to-scale replica of the P5000 exoskeleton from the Power Loader in Aliens. I think I might have just found my biological clock.
Proud Papa and master cosplayer Carsten Riewe provided more details about the costume on his youtube channel earlier this week:
The arms and legs are full moveable and the top-light and LED were powered by an 12 Volt battery pack stored in the backpack. The on/off switch is in the left arm. Also in the backpack a Bluetooth boombox ist installed to play mechanical robot sound fx or music if preferred. It took 100 working hours to finnish [sic] the costume and I built it for the “Karneval”-Parade in my hometown in Germany February 2014 .
Riewe’s masterpiece also comes with a built-in boombox, because the pair aren’t sufficiently conspicuous without musical announcement. But where could they be hitching a ride to? The alien queen’s egg chamber?
Enjoy the fun while it lasts, Riewe. Pretty soon she’ll be all grown up and piloting exoskeletons on her own.
(via Neatorama, image via Aliens)
- Hopefully this baby will experience a cosplay culture where this doesn’t happen
- However, there were some impressive finds at Toronto ComiCon 2014
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