ha ha justin b justin b wants to know
uh they said i've recently hinted sorry
here's their question you've recently hinted at making your own mando lori and carl cosplay
this is true your blaster replica is amazing don't compliment me compliment war machine
paintball it's a lovely kit uh and you've shown a little bit of the ambient face ambient phase
phase pulse disrupter rifle your 3d printing well everyone can figure everything out can't
they i've gotten emails about the exact drawings i was printing and it wasn't even a video about that
when it comes to a character whose outfit and accessories change through the series i'm sorry
he's referring he or she justin b is referring to uh uh how mando has one outfit in the beginning
of ser of the first series of the first season uh and different one at the end
and they want to know how adam do you go about deciding which one you want to create
yeah you know it's funny because when i first told norm that i was going to do a mendo cosplay he
was like you're gonna do the beginning of the of the first season because it's the one that's all
calico and chocoblock and just the kind of weathering narrative that i really dig
and surprisingly i said no he was shocked um i really really like the arc of of
of mando and his growth being exemplified by the armor that he gets over the course of series one
i think that's a really i i found that very moving i'm sorry i didn't mean to talk about it like i'm
a film reviewer talking about it objectively because there's nothing objective about this
subjectively i find myself moved by his best car steel armor i think that pedro pascal you know
my first exposure to pedro pascal is in the film uh kingsman 2 which is
a hugely problematic film and a hugely problematic series despite containing some amazing stuff
i mean when i say hugely problematic again i don't mean that objectively
i have huge problems with those scripts and some of the characterizations
yeah significant problems with some of the aspects of those movies but um
pedro pascal and kingsman 2 is shockingly charismatic i mean like it's just it doesn't
jibe with what you see it's hard to jive with what you see in his characterization of the
mandalorian but what i see in that is how much swagger he can bring to that character
and there is a gunslinger way in which pedro pascal is quoting on the whole history of the
gunslinger from gary cooper to uh clint eastwood and using his deep understanding of his charisma
which i think is a real thing and infusing the mando with it and there is a strut
it's that simple there's a stretch of the way he walks in that vesgar armor with the with the
uh the beast mark on his shoulder i i i really dig it um in the case of captain america it was
i actually didn't i considered that suit too difficult to get right uh deborah doolman landis
took me on a walk through her amazing exhibit of costumes uh down in l.a a few years ago and we
did a whole tested story on it we can link it to it in the in the comments when we air this
um and explained to me that the costumer for captain america had done this printing of
uh she had made four-way stretch dance fabric look like ballistic nylon by screen printing
a ballistic nylon texture on it and then the subsequent costumes had even more elaborate screen
printing to make the textures uh shift and change and like i heard that and i thought well there's
no way the costumer is going to help me she's got her agreement with the film studio they're not
going to help so i kind of wrote that costume off until the guys that built my first captain america
costume uh i found them through the rpf found that they made an incredible and incredible uh suit and
so that started the commission of the first suit which took honestly over time maybe a couple of
years to come to fruition it wasn't their fault it was mostly mine and then once i had that i was
like how do you guys feel about a stealth suit and they're like we're working on the stealth suit but
between my uh civil war captain america suit and my winter soldier captain america suit i feel like
uncover there's one other capsule i love and it's the first avenger suit with all the big heavy
buckles and straps um it's almost too expensive to make i mean right now it'd be a very expensive
commission because there's a ton and ton a ton of labor of some heavy-duty materials in that costume
um no i kind of think i don't know that i have a specific answer for you justin b but that there
goes a little bit of the process of my thinking into two different costumes um it's always about
which one i've i feel like putting on more i i my preference is the empire strikes back boba
fett because i prefer that boba fett to the to the jedi one so that's the one i put together what you
have a full mesb boba you've never worn it this is true this also may happen well now that we're back
here's the thing cons are about to happen they're going to start to happen when they do i think
it's going to be like domino's so i'm setting up costumes some you've heard about some you've seen
me build some you haven't so that when those cons happen i'm ready i'm ready coach send me in um
oh ben campbell says i recently discovered that my three-year-old son is fascinated by your cosplay
build videos adorable uh his favorites are the c3po backpack also one of my favorites and totoro
you know totoro actually now he lived in my living room for a long time but uh for various
reasons when we changed around the living room for covin to make it more cozy and more
habitable we moved uh totoro into the dining room so he now stands in the corner of our
dining room and he stands next to this beautiful piece of artwork that was drawn by my sister
my older sister and it has a cartoonish aspect even though it's very
evocative drawing there's also a cartoony uh characteristic about it and totoro and
my sister's drawing stand next to each other and they kind of comment on each other in a lovely way
it's really beautiful which is my sister kate savage she's a wonderful artist
um sorry but i haven't finished your question what are the most and best unexpected reactions
from children to your costumes when you cosplay um my favorite reaction from a kid
in cosplay happens the same interaction happened exactly the same way twice
uh in the first one i was wearing hold on just a second
in the first one i was wearing my magnificent mon calamari
yeah it's just this is beautiful uh i actually sourced an original casting uh latex casting
from phil tippett's original sculpt of this beast frankie toledo turned it into my uh the
mon calamarian of my dreams and i wore this but i didn't dress in akbar's tunic no no no i dressed
in admiral lord nelson's trafalgar uniform now i was inspired by this great set of paintings
that uh that show famous comic book characters in military dress like old paintings uh and i decided
to make that a costume still smell the foam latex anyway i'm walking out on the floor with
this dressed in lord nelson's trafalgar uniform and this like six-year-old boy looks up and says
that costume is so great it could only be adam savage i mean literally i heard him from inside
the costume and we were like come here little man give him passes to the to the uh to the
panel that i was doing that day um and it was just delightful to be spotted by such a great young fan
there we go and then at silicon valley comic con a couple years later i went as hellboy but a
different kind of hellboy i actually commissioned a much more cartoon looking version of hellboy
uh from a wonderful foam smith on etsy if i'm correct i i might have some of those details
wrong but in the way that the hellboy's comic book character has his big chin and he's much more
illustrative right it's it's drawing whether it's mike mignolet or any of his other collaborators
um and i i at that point was wearing hellboy's one of hellboy's real dusters
um and again this young kid came up made a beeline i mean i feel like he saw me from across the floor
at silicon valley comic con now silicon and came over and was like that costume has to be
that is i mean like you set out to do something and you you know you want to do something as a
public performance i want to i do cosplay it is a semi-public performance you want a reaction from
the audience i had no idea how much that reaction would like plug right into my lizard satisfaction
brain my endorphin rush to hear these kids just like give me pay me the highest compliment of
their obsession and enthusiasm about my obsession and enthusiasm and
i love i love it when kids get inspired by me doing cosplay
because i definitely was when i was a kid embarrassed my by my joy of putting
on costumes don't get me wrong every little kid loves putting on costumes and is encouraged to
but there are certain ages past which it seems like your peers don't appreciate it as much
um so uh when it comes to kids and cosplay i like to think of myself as a permission machine i
want my enthusiasm to infect their brains to go and try out the things that they want
to try out put on the costumes transform themselves into the heroes they want to be