Be Excellent To Each Other

Everyone loves a good fancy dress party. Especially creative and talented people, with a real gift for making things. I'm not one of those people, so I've the need to put plenty of time and effort into this sort of thing. Well, time, at least.

For New Year, I'm seeing a bunch of friends, and, much like last year, it's fancy dress time. This year, the theme is "Sports that you invented that should be in the Olympics". With this in mind, I'm going to make a robot costume, as I'm comfortable with spray painting boxes together, it's about the limit of my talents. This one, however, I've decided is going to have TWICE the number of arms, which I wish to move in unison with my arms. I'd rather keep any mechanics of this inside the costume, so would some wooden sticks help, running inside the sleeves? Also, I want it to be 30 feet tall. however, physics, and the fact that people from Derbyshire are short, means that the ceiling of the place is unlikely to fit my GARGANTUAN FRAME OF AWESOME. I think wheels r tracks are a good form of locomotion for a robot, bipedal robots are a bit rubbish, so I'll need to accommodate those ideas. Any other ideas would be noted, and possibly incorporated.
Otherwise, I'm going to make a X frame and attach strings to mrsA's arms and legs and head and call her marion. Which would suck, and be really rather demeaning for her.



Is it possible to do that from inside the costume, you think? I'm going for the 'pro' look.

Any other ideas appreciated, not just robot ones. I've just thought that I could turn up as the master of the hunt and drag 20 stuffed toy dogs behind me, that'd be fun, too.

the only real requirements are limited by my skillset (low), my willingness to buy clothes from charity shops and spraypaint/rip/cut/glue stuff to them (high) and shaem threshold (high). I'd dress like Mila Jokovic in the fifth element, if I could, but I'm having trouble rationalising that.

Make this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nd1MfdbDx4

Ah, but you didn't invent the olympic sport of foxhunting.

You should go as the sport I helped invent at university: Extreme Darts.

It requires a regular dartboard, and a bike.

IDEA OF AWESOME!

I've decided that Shepherding should be an Olympic sport for this. So, I'll get MrsA dressed up as a shepherd, with a crook and stuffs (should be easy enough to do), and purchase a lot of stuffed sheep to tie ona string for her to trail behind her. I'll dress up as a collie dog thing.

I had a feeling you were a Furry.

Why don't you take Gaywood and go as a Dwarf tosser?

Why don't you take Zardoz and go as a tosser?

What is this? Everyone get at me week?

Has WTB put you up to this?

STOP ENJOYING YOURSELF!

It's my hobby.

Aw, I love you really Zardoz.

So does his mum.

(am I doing this right?)