hey guys I'm at Silicon Valley comic-con and it is now time for the costume walk
my costume is behind me in a couple of pieces you might be able to guess what
it is yes the bow caster is a good indication that I'm about to walk the
floor as the amazing Chewbacca but I must style this bad boy first
he has not been styled in a long time so I just got to fix him up for prime time
and then we'll put it all on and hit the floor I'm trying to make sure there are
no little hairy hairs right by my eyes because I won't be able to adjust them
once I put the mask on and they will drive safe
closed now you remember the bandolier here from my one day build oh look I
still have some lucky treats in the box would the bandolier is actually going to
cause me a little bit of difficulty today but you'll find out why in just a
little bit so one of the things I did I recently upgraded my Chewie costume I
know I did it off-camera I'm sorry is I added some shoulders into my undershirt
and that gives Chewie a little more of a football player stance because let's
face it I just don't have the I don't have the Chewie body and I'm not going
to get it soon so my Chewie costume is actually one of the lightest and most
breathable costumes I own because the hair is all knitted it's latch hooked on
to netting this is the way the original Chewbacca was built and it makes it very
breathable the the black stuff that I'm wearing is actually Under Armour and
it's wicks heat away from your body this is a key cosplayer trick because even
still this can get quite hot and I don't want to get heatstroke or anything like
that so we'll put on the pants first
okay the shoes remember built by my friend mark pro tennis from New England
wookie works they are sitting on top of about five and a half inches of blue
insulation foam covered with gaffer tape and he also molded the latex toes
beautiful work but the high risers mean that this costume is a little dangerous
and you have to be careful you can't have them to Luke's you got to tie the
shoes really nice and tight for the right ankle support
I was never happy with how the how the laces got covered so I added in a bit of
my grizzly bear yeah that's a part of my grizzly bear costume covering that over
and when this comes down it all blends in Oh starting to get that feeling but
my wife says that I get this like feverish energy when she's watching me
try on a new costume that sounds creepy maybe we should edit that part out I'm
kidding I don't think she'd added it out the bottom half of chewy is mostly ready
to go now it's time for the top half my eyes okay so I have to put in a contact
lens I've learned not to put in two contact lenses because I can't see
anything close up and I might have to so I'm going to put in a single contact
lens one of the other great things about having a Chewie custom is you don't have
to be that precious about storing it the more beat-up should we get the better he
looks I'm an idiot I totally forgot I'm missing a part of
this costume hang on there's an under structure to Chewie that I had to add
first and it's this what what is this oh you're about to find out this is going
to be freaking the best mm-hmm so clearly there's more afoot here than I
would be at the beginning oh I have Chewie half cousin it no one remembers
cousin it here comes the reveal I am NOT just Chewie
I am Chewie and it's good buddy three tail yeah I'm gonna be wearing Threepio
on my back now this isn't a totally original idea there are several people
have done this costume in the past most notably recently at celebration there
was a beautiful Chewbacca walking around with the Threepio on his back the
difference with this one is that he's animatronic I'm not going to turn him on
just yet not until he's on but the reason I'm
wearing the backpack is because it allows me to distribute the load of
three POS this is about 35 pounds and the Threepio comes courtesy not courtesy
paid him for it from Threepio Master Gordon Tarpley he put this together for
me in a record amount of time he supplied me with the three peel parts
that were vacuum metallized in gold and pre weathered I built it all into this
framework now when you're attaching resin parts like this it can get quite
difficult so I did a couple of structural things I added a web strap
that goes out through the thigh across the bottom calf back up through the
other thigh so that even if some of that starts to deteriorate from the wear and
tear of the floor it will still hold together I also included his foot down
here which will bounce around that gives us just a little bit of extra movement
adds a little veracity to it oh also yeah I've built it into this framework
so that I can put this on myself without any actual help oh we have liftoff so
this is 35 pounds but it's spread across the load of a backpack which is meant to
take like 50 pounds or more now we need to put on the bandolier and this is
where it gets a little tricky because I'm not sure where the bandolier goes I
never worked this out and the bandolier goes over I never remember left shoulder
so that's the left shoulder how does this look over here is it terrible no
it's all right it's kind of works excellent ok the entire thing has been
built off of a 20 volt 2 volt battery system don't worry we're covering the
entire build for Threepio on a separate video up on tested but here comes Oh is
he lit No
- I think I saw stool sugar back there geez sorry to oversee stop it haha
Threepio voice is actually Gordon Tarpley it gorgeous Gordon did these
recordings they're fantastic okay got to put on the masks in the gloves and then
we'll hit the floor there we go okay here goes
I like to hit the floor my probe chewy and Threepio this is a Silicon Valley
comic-con super here we go
Oh
I got assaulted
- thank you
Keith dr. Kathy and stuff to get open
although
well how did you figure it out well when you first walked in and provides leather
bro I look at that like that's really detail and I was like oh no no that's
got to be him and then I saw your second Oh what was the hate right I was like oh
well done what's your name Zack wasn't my enjoy school
whoa oh man black Mustang Boston whoo
this has been a Silicon Valley comic-con chewy and Threepio walk I want to thank
Gordon Tarpley for delivering Threepio parts in record time and Jeremy Williams
for the animatronics and soundboard work again all this will be covered on a one
day build even though it took more than one day I'm tested calm we'll see you
there