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A small update; I've been thinking about doing a new big costume this year, but I feel like I should get at least two years out of the PacMan and Ghost since I spent so much time/money on them. I figure that they're due for some kind of update though, so I'm planning on adding EL wire to them so the...

Hey everyone, please follow the link and vote for my costume on Instructables. It just requires a quick registration. The link is for my instructable page on the costume. Also, if you liked the costume please pass this on to help me get more votes. Thanks, Matthew http://www.instructables.com/id/Gia...

I'm officially done!



I realize that the order is reversed. I was in a rush.

Today saw some more work done. I only have a crappy cell phone picture right now, but I'll have better ones soon. The eyes are all done on both sides, insides are all painted black, the red screen on the front of the Ghost has been replaced with the same black stuff that makes PacMan's mouth. This h...

A little more work has been getting done. It’s all about finishing touches at this point. At the advice of someone on YouTube, I’ve painted the inside flat black and it’s made a world of difference. I’m working on putting black cloth inside the mouth frames. This is turni...

Video at the end of this post! Here are a couple more pictures of the finished costume, first is one looking through the mouth. You can see the speakers, the little round speaker battery pack/amp, and the fan all mounted to the inner wall. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v646/techy101/PacMan/2009/...

By the way... The suit weights 37lbs now that's it's totally done. Thing is freaking heavy to lug around, and I don't think it'd be doable without the hip belt. A few delays, but PacMan himself is done. I need to snap a picture of the inside since it has changed a fair bit. As of now I have the litt...

A little bit more work done yesterday and today. I had an issue with the mouth pieces getting stuck on the outer fabric, so I cut it away, extended the cardboard sides and re-wrapped those sections with muslin. Here’s one side done, the other in process http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v646/...

A little bit more progress. The ghost is wrapped and I just got the red sheer fabric installed so that someone can see out of it. It needs some more trimming where it's glued into the muslin, but that can't happen until the glue dries. The PacMan also got one side trimmed down so I can cover the pla...

I've also got some battery-powered speakers that I'll be installing somewhere in this thing, as well as the wakka wakka sound that repeats for 10 minutes (enough to make anyone insane) and 2.5 minutes of PacMan game play audio.

I'm actually professional theatre technician by trade, but in the recent economic downturn have started back at school for electrical engineering. I've actually run this by one of my professors for some extra credit, I'm not sure if he'll go for it, but there's been a ton of design work, troubleshoo...

I'm new around these parts, but am looking for a place to show off a bit of hard work. This project started about a month and a half ago as an idea, about a month from the initial design sketches. (Pardon any grammatical mistakes, I'm copying/pasting/editing multiple postings from a car forum I'm on...