Geek Syndicate
BOOM. £11 cosplay!
Saturday at MCM, I had no wardrobe malfunctions. Yay! Except they’ve gotten very strict on
costume weapons since last year and I got my bat confiscated. Boo.
Atomic Wonder Woman Makes Her Debut
A weather warning of storms had been issued for Saturday night and Sunday evening around
London. When I woke up Sunday morning, it was wonderful and sunny!
I got into my Atomic Wonder Woman gear and headed off to MCM. I had to run for the first bus
and managed to get the six foot seven inch chainsaw on the bus with no problems whatsoever.
However, getting off the bus, the biggest gust of wind EVER broke the blade off my chainsaw. I
want into panic mode and ran to buy superglue and tape, knowing they wouldn’t be much help.
We managed to get the blade reattached, but it was still pretty unstable. Not great for trying to
move through a big crowd on the convention floor! It held up for half the day but I couldn’t keep
an eye on it for any longer. People still seemed to like the costume and it got a great response,
despite the casualty!
To see the finished costume, check out the photograph on the following page, where Atomic
Wonder Woman makes a debut appearance with Classic Wonder Woman at MCM Expo.
To Sum Up
In total, I think I spent about £80 on materials for Atomic Wonder Woman (over a quarter of
which was on those buckles!), £11 for Shaun of The Dead and around £30 on what I call ‘arty stuff’
which I’ll use again for future projects. A total spend of £121. Considering the amount of detail
and work I put into this piece of cosplay (and the fact I had to create a second costume on the
fly), I don’t think that’s too bad. But it’s not the best budget cosplay… The main culprits in the
stupidly expensive department were the buckles, but I know where to go next time if I need to
use more in my next costume!
There are still a few tweaks I’d like to make to this costume, so I think I’ll be developing it again
for next MCM! Maybe I can find a better way to get that chainsaw to stay put…
Jess Hawke
Photography:
Jess Hawke
Patricia Gomes
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