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This is an OLD project of mine... circa y2000 infact... but I figure you guys hear at DeviantArt would enjoy it nonetheless.

These are two wearable Speeder Bike Costumes in the vein of man-riding-horse style costumes. We entered one costume contest with these, the DragonCon 2000 Masquerade, and won Best in Show.

The bodies of the bikes are vacuumformed .125 guage (1/8 inch) vacuumformed styrene, with a 1/2 inch metal-tube subframe holding it together. We wore weightlifting belts under our clothes to fasten the 47 pound costumes to. Years later chaffing from the weight belts forced us to change to a load-bearing-support-harness to hold the weight of the bikes. Much easier to walk around when the weight is not solely on your hips. :)

The front cowl of the speeder bike bodies could flip-up at a hinge point that you can see in these pictures, the front forks would then telescope down and we could navigate through doors and crowded halls when needed. The folding frontend actually was a life saver transporting these to conventions. We could easily fold and store both bikes in the back of a single pickup truck and get them on and off with one person. Cheralyn Lambeth owns one of these bikes nowdays and is known to haul the behemoth in her compact Dodge Neon because of the folding design. Woohoo!
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Mood: Wow! ~TojiX Aug 17, 2011
Guys you are amazing!!!!

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Behold my elite ninja deathsquad. Fear me for I am Hattori Toji
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ninja battle cry OI OI OI OI OI OI OI OI O
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*StudioCreations Aug 17, 2011  Professional General Artist
Oh, Thank you so much. We aim to inspire others to create monstrosities like these costumes too you know. :)
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~Evilted40 Mar 18, 2011
Fantastic work! Well, done!
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*StudioCreations Mar 19, 2011  Professional General Artist
Thanks. I am attempting to beat these costume's awesomeness within the year. Encouragement from pros like you help fuel the cause. :)
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~Evilted40 Mar 23, 2011
Thank you! I started just like you, being a fan and making costumes. I was 14 years old when STARWARS came out! It blew my mind!
So I got white poster board to make a Storm trooper suit, well the rest is history!
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~TheSUNGlassKid Feb 1, 2011  Hobbyist Photographer
Hopefully you don't have to go down narrow corridors with these on.
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*StudioCreations Feb 1, 2011  Professional General Artist
Actually, I once had to go down 14 flights of stairs in a narrow hotel staircase with one of these strapped to me. The elevators were overpacked and we were running late for the costume contest, so to the stairs we went. It got 'hairy' near the 3rd floor, because my legs were getting really tired and my balance was beginning to get wobbly. We made it down to the ground floor with no incident, but it's not something I will ever try again. Thank the gods for my two "crowd handlers" who helped me turn the corners. (Costume tip of the day,: when wearing big bulky costumes,a always schedule a friend of two to act as crowd handlers.)
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~mostlymade Jan 29, 2011  Professional General Artist
Oh, look! It's the coolest thing EVER!
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*StudioCreations Jan 30, 2011  Professional General Artist
Hahaha. Thanks for the compliment.
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~Grumbleputty Jan 23, 2011  Professional Digital Artist
Pure genius!!!
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