Check out this amazing Wampa costume from Empire Strikes Back! Absolutely incredible!
Wow, lately I’ve been getting the best submissions from super talented costumers. This Wampa costume was made by Jeremy Naylor, who was kind enough to let me know that he finally finished this costume.
You can read about this costume on MyWampa.com. Jeremy also has a lot of in-progress photos on his Flickr account.
In his email, Jeremy said he plans on taking this costume to Star Wars Celebration V coming up next month in Orlando. We wish you the very best, Sir! Thanks so much for sending this in!
Here are some complete costume pics with me in it. Yesterday, I put the complete costume on for the first time. Mobility of the body is pretty easy though the arms don’t have the full range of motion I had hoped for. They are heavy and even with the weight being distributed through the backpack, you still have to make a dead lift to raise them while hoping to keep your balance.
The head on the body looks better than I thought it would, there was a moment when I thought it looked too small. But being my own worst critic, I still think the arms are too thick. But can’t change that now. But there is one big benefit of having the arms this size. As you can see below, I can slip my arms out of the “pits” and be able to adjust the head, or take a drink. My last costume I had to remove the arms all together to do this, now they stay in place and keep the illusion alive. This is also great when i want to take a break from holding them, I can just rest my arms inside.
[via MyWampa.com]
