We've all seen it. People, otherwise normal(mostly) average everyday folk, with the insatiable urge to honer they favorite characters of film, cell or render by creating costumes to parade in front of fellow enthusiast and the general fandom. The vast majority manage to capture at least some spirit of their chosen idle. And thats fine, somewhat healthy fun. Others however...

There are some people, the few, the talented, who's homage captures the true essence. People who's devotion to detail and costuming goes beyond the norm. People who look like the character as opposed to people dressed up as the character.

There are others though...

A few brave (or stupid) souls who fail so spectacularly that they burn their horrific visage upon the collective.

So dig deep into the net and/or your collections and share the best and worst in cosplay.

To kick things off, something a little risky, but superbly pulled off.

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A pretty good one of Tira:
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This thread has Uncanny Valley Effect written all over it.

The more accurate they get, the more scary the cosplay.

I'll just leave this here.

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Dark's- Not that hard to do so would it be class as a real attempt? Still she's a looker
Fronzie- Creepy, took me a few seconds to remember were the character came form, but really good shoot at it.
L-Sama- They did a good job, more some then others.

Its incredible what some people can do, this is one of if not the best reason to good to things like manifest.

Darks one is more impressive for getting the surroundings right as well as the look of the character.

I've been impressed by some of the Samus costumes.

Samus



Zero Suit



Check out more of the first Samus (which is awesome) here and her site, unfortunately not all her links work.
The second Samus and Zero Suit Samus are both the same girl, and she does some good work, check out her site here

Some extra cosplay pics http://costumepop.com/costume-buzz/hot-vid...acter-costumes/


Anyone know how to resize pics?

Think this tops pretty much everything else I've seen.



Clearer shot, with Little Sister and a Splicer


Building process, more images and video of the drill working
http://volpinprops.blogspot.com/2009/09/bi...y-bioshock.html

And some team fortress 2 cosplay, based on Meet the Spy.

People in costumes at PAX 2009.... Some good, some not so good..

http://www.joystiq.com/photos/pax-2009-the-costumes/

The amount of time and money people put into this stuff is incredible, but well worth it.

Hell yeah. Anyone see the Gundam?

A few, some are boxes and the more hard core ones are full metal armor, do they buy this stuff? Is their a company which sells this, I know that some of the company's that own the rights to it sell merchandise eg Squall's [Final Fantasy 8] ring, necklace and even his gun-sword where sold at one point.

I haven't seen any that are made of metal, usually plastic/foam/cardboard.

Also in regards to the FF gear, at least 1 company has been told to stop making them, as they didn't have a license to do so.

While I have only seen the photos of them I am most likely mixing up metal and plastic, plastic can look really convincing these days. Also With FF, it depends on the company, some are allowed to do it.

This Gundam?

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XDD No! The one who was at Manifest.

kiddies..

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/03/voltron-d...able-than-this/

Well that is.......well the kid looks like she is going to kill some one soon, she doesn't look overly happy.

Here is all of her other costumes
http://thegrimz.multiply.com/photos

And one of the coolest

What the? Yeah I agree some of those costums are great but should a kid beallowed to were them? Some look heavy and very resrictive in how she can walk or move.

While googling for some anime screenshots for the website, I happen to stumble across this:

Good lord! That's taking accurate to a new level.

That is one way of putting it miy, what is that 'arm' made of?

Comic-Con 2010 Ultimate Cosplay Gallery

http://au.media.stars.ign.com/articles/110...066/imgs_1.html

For some reason this is hilarious to me.

This is really awesome...

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/09/it-is-dan...-tentacle-this/

Haha, just came to post this.
But also see this

More images here

Apparently they only came up with the idea the day before the convention.

I'm sure we've all heard of the Zelda Project...

http://www.sharenator.com/Good_Cosplay_Bad_Cosplay/
Compares good and bad cosplays of the same character, has about 17 different character cosplay camparison. Gave me a few good laughs XD