ladies and gentlemen adam savage here at jacob javits center i am at new york comic con with la
josh and owen and these three human beings represent i think a bigger organization am
i right or is it just the three of you uh the paladins of costa the paladins of cosplay okay
tell me about the paladins of cosplay what is that well it started out as a just two friends uh we
tried to go to near comic-con in 2006 and we were not very noticed okay so eventually we started
making our costumes and growing growing the group of like-minded individuals that love cosplay love
to build and now we're maybe a group of 25 i think 30 plus actually cosplay builders photographers
entertainers and uh we we have workshops in our homes similar similar to yours maybe smaller but
yeah definitely tons of uh things being built every day let's say your first attendance at new
york comic con you came for the cosplay experience and felt like something was missing and then you
banded together to help each other make the best possible costumes and take great photos and have
electronics and all of that stuff correct that's amazing and you really got noticed this year
well i wouldn't say that i mean technically we're in some of the publications for new york comic-con
already amazing i love the ethos you guys even have a repair booth here yes so you're like
you're you're in this you'd like understand the cosplayers experience and you're here to make it
better definitely definitely we've been repairing cosplays all uh last this thursday and all today
i have done a little bit of cosplay repair and it feels so good to help someone because you show up
at the con something always breaks right yes what uh tell me about some of the repairs that you've
had to do in the last couple of days uh majority majority or like uh velcro repairs
um elastic sometimes foam gets ripped from the seam um sometimes the super glue repairs even so
it's just easy as that um if sometimes people will be like oh i don't know how to do this
i think it's impossible i can't do it right now and then we just whip it together like i'm in a
minute or two and then we give it to them they're like in awe but it's a great feeling to actually
like do that and give back to the cosplay community we did one law and i did one where this
gandalf staff made of resin i think shattered the top of it shattered and everyone was walking by
saying we were doing surgery we're like wiping our foreheads because i had super glue i had ca glue
and i had accelerator and i was just like right in there trying trying my hardest we finally got it
this is my favorite thing about the cosplay community because like i've been a member of the
rpf since 98. and back then there were people who would show costumes and then tell you to go screw
if you ask how they built them but i haven't seen that in years on that or any other form
and it's also i have to say i'm trying to talk to you guys rationally but all three of you look
amazing thank you and i would really love you each to tell me why would you start just tell me
about your costume tell me about its construction tell me i'm actually from the movie uh pacific rim
uprising yup this is gypsy avenger uh i whip this up in about one week worth of uh working
hours hold on you need a reaction shot for me one week and uh you know it's it's really simple it's
a lot of it's all analog i've got switches and i can i can turn off the switch with my chin
uh combat boots with some yoga blocks and wood for platforms i would wear those just out on
the street those boots are gorgeous they're very comfortable um everything is clipped together with
you know buckles and and for the most part it's just running on nine volt batteries as you can
see from here you look way more comfortable than i feel like you should oh this this fan takes in air
so i'm actually cooling off as well amazing wow that is incredible josh tell me about this
thank you um this cosplay is based from the dark knight middle comic book series this character
is the merciless uh basically batman that has the powers of ares the god of war okay and uh
this took about at least five and a half months i started back in january and i finished in mid-june
um yeah so the helmet is 3d printed my gloves are three yeah oh yes oh look at that and it has
some foam detailing um on the outside and uh and the lenses for the eyes are actually led lenses
there's actually two switches here you can turn them on one of these for the fans inside ones
for the leds and so you can see through those illnesses in bright light um the well-lit room
you can see right through them and then it gives the effect that my eyes are glowing
and he's got little fans there to keep your eyes cooled get my eyes cool and defogged the lenses
right yes absolutely and the hell and the sword is also 3d printed oh let's see this
thank you five and a half months also still seems like a fairly short period of time thank you thank
you yeah and i had this on displaying cosplay central by a repair booth and a lot of people
especially yesterday would keep asking questions and admiring it and i just it felt so nice because
also i would just tell them like how i built it how long what materials and then they'll ask for
tips and i'll just gladly give them and yeah have you built an oh i see you've got some uh some foam
chainmail there uh yes foam chainmail because i didn't want that to leave like just be smooth
i don't want to have some sort of texturing um so yeah and my undersuit you can see underneath the
pit yeah i really like this and this is the same stuff as this um no actually it's a it's only it's
a costume a fake chain mill it looks amazing i bought it from amazon actually and i just
uh dusted it with some of the paint that used to paint the armor it looks great do you have a
do each of you end up building a stand for the costume so it can pose oh really i actually
built mine that's supporting this uh back on wednesday before the con i built mine last night
all right uh owen tell me about your costume this is absolutely a gorgeous helmet i've been
really admiring it this is the ncr ranger from fallout new vegas uh i made everything here
except for the pants and the boots i'd say and the gloves i guess so i made the coat i made all this
it looks really gorgeous i honestly can't tell you how long it took i made this when i was 16 i think
i don't know how old you are now 19.
that's amazing right i mean have you been slowly adding stuff to it over the years i really like
your not many people get the brightness of rust in a corner yeah and that's a really key
attribute that it's not everywhere but it's like it's really nicely done that texture there that
was i always say that's a happy accident because i was i made this for us this is cinnamon in there
yeah and uh just a bunch of crap acrylic paints but i was trying to singe it a bit and i used
a butane torch and the plasti dip that's and it looks sort of no that's this is the thing is that
my best paint jobs are when i'm trying to fix a paint job that i just messed up every single time
and i have a i have oh you've got a sidearm it's a plasma pistol from the game i can't actually
this weighs maybe three ounces here let me show you this i forgot to turn it on it's got inside
it's supposed to be glowing with green plasma on the inside
and the battery comes off locks back into place this comes off for repairs on the light
this is my favorite thing just someone excitedly walking me if you came to my house this is exactly
the way it would go yeah oh and then there's this thing about this thing la josh owen
paladins of cosplay um can i join of course okay good good yes um i'm adam savage one of
the paladins of cosplay and this has been tested these guys are amazing thank you for joining us