Wearable Boba Fett costume built from LEGO
I’ve been keeping an eye on Simon’s LEGO Boba Fett costume project for a while (and yet somehow missed his great LEGO Star Wars minifigs along the way), so I was very pleased to see the completed armor.
This may be the coolest homage ever to the beloved bounty hunter with only two four lines in Empire Strikes Back:
That’s right, Simon has built a complete Boba Fett costume entirely from LEGO (except the jump suit and cape, of course). The outfit includes a helmet, jet pack, chest plate, and blaster. Amazing stuff!
August 26th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Oh my… could this be too far or perfect?
August 26th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Uh, wow. That’s friggin amazing. I’d be deathly afraid of pieces falling off though.
August 27th, 2008 at 1:38 am
Ramone-
“He’s no good to me dead.”
*clinkity clink clinkity*
“Crud. Hold on a sec…”
*Boba Fett stoops over to pick up little colored bricks*
August 27th, 2008 at 1:49 am
Wow, that has the really uncanny effect of making him look like a life-size LEGO sculpture. I’d love to see THAT idea implemented again; if someone can come up with an entire wearable suit of LEGO and wear it to BrickCon then they win. Because they could hang around motionless in a corner, waiting to scare people by jumping towards them.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:33 am
wow. must be very heavy to wear this costume. especially the jetpack.
August 27th, 2008 at 5:53 am
My friends, thank you all for the kind words. It’s pretty stable thanks to hot glue and Velcro. (Actually, that sounds kind of kinky.) It’s light for the most part. All elements, even the strap added to the gun, are 0 LEGO. It’s not heavy compared to my Vader but the most problematic thing about it is the jumpsuit, it’s too short for me and makes me hunch over.
-S-
August 27th, 2008 at 7:23 am
Simon does a great job of building that pieces don’t fall off that often; for instance his gun has a lot of ingenious Technic building put into it, that he encourages people to pick it up & look at it. At one show, he loved disassembling a lightsaver that he built for his Darth Vader costume, and showed people how it was constructed.
He’s brought in his Boba-Fett costume to club meetings (long before what you see above, so it’s nice to see it more constructed), but you don’t realize it from looking at the picture, but around his belt are Duplo Treasure chests! They were on the Orlando PaB wall a few months ago.
August 27th, 2008 at 7:24 am
@onetwobrick the jet pack is surprisingly light weight!
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August 27th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
I do believe that could the world’s first lego codpiece.
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September 1st, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Actually Boba has four lines in ESB. They are:
“As you wish.”
“He’s no good to me dead.”
“What if he doesn’t survive? He’s worth a lot to me.”
“Put Captain Solo in the cargo hold.”
But anyway, great job!!!
September 1st, 2008 at 3:29 pm
^ I’ll withhold my sarcastic comments and simply thank you for the correction. ;) Off to fix my post…
September 1st, 2008 at 11:36 pm
holy crap!! that is so friggin cool! i built a clone rifle length blaster, and if u pull the trigger it actually shoots!
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September 11th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Your LEGO Boba Fett Costume looks GREAT !!! I’m proud of you for making one of your dreams become a reality. Take care of that LEGO room……Very “cool”…….
December 30th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Simon, I had to check this out for myself after talking with you. I’m very impressed. Nice job! I love the Vader one too. Good luck with the musical. I will keep an eye out. Happy New Year!