Father dresses up baby in awesome mechanized robot Halloween costume
Ryan Bowen is bringing parent/baby Halloween costumes to an entirely new mechanized level.
In the above video, Bowen dresses up with his 6-month-old son Geraint as Sunder, a character from the MechWarrior video game series. Bowen's wife describes the inspiration for the costume in an Imgur photo gallery.
My husband had this costume planned for several years, long before we had a child. The inspiration was a computer game he played in high school. When we found out we were having a baby, he got to work. Ryan sketched out the rough designs probably two months before Geraint was born. With so much baby stuff coming in the mail, we had plenty of boxes for him to work with, so he just had to buy a few things to make it.
The process for building the costume was extensive.
Ryan built a frame for the body out of PVC and wrapped a cardboard shell around it and secured it to the frame with zip ties. He then cut and sculpted the other pieces out of cardboard, with some foam board details to add a true 3D effect. The joints are all fastened with Velcro cable wraps, and the head and other pieces attach to the main body with Velcro tape. The legs are supported by a belt, which is hidden under the body. His arms slip into the gun pods and he has more Velcro straps on the inside in order to hold them. The feet just fit over his shoes by gluing toilet paper tubes on the inside to take up the extra space.
Clearly the extensive process was worth it, as baby Geraint is completely in awe of his weaponized costume. Check out the locked and loaded costume in the video above.
