Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cosplay and Comikaze 2014

A few friends and I decided to Cosplay as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for Comikaze 2014.  My friend Chevy and I made most of the props. We were on a budget and this would be the first time my friend Jeandra and our pal, Katie would be dressing up for a convention.  In fact, this would be Katie and Jeandra's first pop culture con.

Donatello's Bo staff was made out of cardboard and duct tape.  I cut open wrapping paper cardboard and hot glued a few pieces together. 

I started out with light brown duct tape, then decided to go over it with dark brown.  The purple in the middle was just an 8 x 11 strip of purple duct tape. 

 

Chevy had extra brown fabric that she got cheap a long time ago.  She designed and sewed the shells.  They were very lightweight and made out of cardboard and stuffed with lightweight material.  (It also doubles as a pillow.)

I made Leonardo's Katana sword out of cardboard and duct tape.  The blade portion was painted silver. 

We were looking for costume shirts, but they all ended up being sold out.  Thus, I picked up a few cheap shirts at Joann's and made the chest out of brown fabric.  I traced the chest on cardboard and traced the pattern on the fabric I had.  

I had just enough fabric for four chest plates. 

It's hard to see from here, but the chest plate pattern is traced. 

I pinned the cutout chests to the shirts and hand sewed them on.

We wanted to make them adjustable, so I cut off the sleeves and collars. 

I cut the shirts, so each one of us could adjust them to fit. 

End result.

We bought masks and added tutus and legwarmers.  And Voila, the turtles all together and in action!

Chevy and I have cosplayed together in the past.  Jeandra and Katie had such a good time dressing up, so they are hooked!  We want to come out with another group cosplay for the next con we attend.  

Comikaze is always a good time.   Katie brought her niece Mia, (who dressed up as Wonder Woman) and Jeandra brought her daughter, Kaya (who wore her Medusa costume).  Kaya loves the Simpsons as well as Mindcraft and had a blast! 

Mia had a great time as well! 

 

Chevy and I, we of course, just chillin".

We only attended Sunday because we all either had to work or had prior engagements.  Here are some highlights from the show. 

I love the Lumpy Space Princess! She looked adorable! I want to do an Adventure Time cosplay soon! 

The turtles with an awesome Suicide Girl!

Katie and I love us some Vadar!

The dudes from Comic Book Men at their table.  I wish I could have gotten a better shot of Bryan Johnson. I was too shy to ask for a picture.  Tee Hee!

Yes, we met DMC! He had on the best shirt ever and actually ran into me on the way out and waved bye!
Jeandra and I felt special.

 Best cosplay of the day! The Walking Dead!

It was an epic time by all!  We will do this again soon!

Greatest find of the month! Generations Jetfire and Sunstorm!

Today was the day.   Today was the day the mister and I have had a mutual day off since our vacation to Philadelphia.  After I cooked breakfast,  I had the idea to give Toys R Us just one more chance to see if they had a Generations Jetfire on the shelf and not only did they have one, they had two. This figure is gorgeous!  We couldn't wait to one this one!

In addition to top it off, we found a Sunstorm and paid only 64.00 dollars, because we used a 20% off coupon! Regular price, it was a around 80.00 dollars.  This is why it pays to clip coupons.   We are going to wait to one this one.   We have a hunch that this was maybe returned due to someone's remorse buy because there was only one. 

New wave of Generations are hitting the stores and yes, I bought a girl version of a costume that will offend some nerds. Oh, and crochet too!

Oh generations transformers.  I have heard through the grapevine that Jetfire is at Toys R Us and even K-mart.  I tried TRU first and it was a bust.  Just left over Scoop figures, Mini-Con assault team and Whirl.  Maybe there was one Starscream Armada and one Rhinox. However, I found one Roadbuster at K-mart and the Mister found Jhiaxus!  (Although he passed on a Jetfire at TRU).  

Roadbuster is awesome! 

 

 

 

And now we await the arrival of Arcee........  I could order her from Big Bad Toy Store but it's more fun to actually hunt for the new figures.  

Ok all of you snarky nerds,  don't hate, but I ordered sexy cobra girl!  I couldn't help it.   I am going to modify this costume and make some extra accessories.   I love the pants!  After all of the nasty comments some of the snarky nerds make about the sexy ghostbusters costumes,  I get a kick out of some of the costumes that are coming out.  :) 

In addition, I have been working on various crochet projects.......

I still am reading my friends novel and the Joe Perry bio just arrived in the mail.  Gotta catch up on that too! 

Retro con 2014 day 2

Day two was a shop and browse day for me.   The raffle prizes were great, so much so that people were buying 20 dollars worth of extra raffle tickets. 

There was more great cosplay and the energy as well as attitude people had was wonderful!  I wish I saw more of this is in so cal.  

Me as Uhura......with Kilngons.  Rose insisted.  

Teri went as Skipper, Rose was disappointed that she didn't wear her Gilligan.  I have a professor in the works, but I need my coconut radio. 

Austin got a nice birthday surprise. Thanks Tony! 

As he represents Geewunner.

Rose and Maggie (Naggie). 

It's all about the doctor for Rose right now......

Teri and I spotted an Ursula doll for a great price and she is in the process of purchasing this in this pic. 

Connie and Krystal did great cosplay on a budget panel! 

As the day ended and we were breaking down, you can tell people didn't want to leave.  I think vendors wanted to make some final sales.. .....

A fun weekend.  This con is a dream for the retro toy collector!