Nov 16 2009WOW: Amazingly Amazing Tauntaun Costume
I hate out of season articles as much as you do, but this tauntaun Halloween costume by Scott Holden was too good not to post. Plus, I'd have already forgotten about it by the time Halloween rolls around next year (booze).
Scott made this amazing costume from scratch. Using designs made in Solidworks, he started to outline the Tauntaun. The head mold was detailed using clay, then a mold was made , then it was cast, and on and on. The horns were made in almost the same manner.
Never thought an animal would have a chassis did you? Well this beast does! This component too made completely from scratch and the best bit of this costume? The costume walks and is not a static display. Scott had to fabricate his own stilts to make this beast complete.
Good looking, Scott! The costume, not you. I mean, you're handsome and all, but that's not what this is about -- this is about the costume. But yours eyes....it's like you can see right through my computer screen and know I'm not wearing anything but a smile and Ewok pelt.
Hit the jump for a bunch of the process and a video of the costume in action.
Tauntaun Costume On The Loose [walyou]
Thanks to Pew³, who wold have laser-blasted that thing to all hell and ruined his chances of sleeping in it.
Reader Comments
1. Pyro - November 16, 2009 3:19 PM
SIMPLY FUCKING AMAZING!
2. naas - November 16, 2009 3:19 PM
badass..... looks a little warm too
3. naas - November 16, 2009 3:20 PM
yeah more like badawesome
4. Andrew - November 16, 2009 3:30 PM
LOL HOLY SHIT THATS TIGHT
5. somerandomguy - November 16, 2009 3:31 PM
Yeah, I can't imagine the man hours that went into that thing this but hey kudos to that guy. He's got the best costume for every consecutive Halloween to come!
6. Intermino - November 16, 2009 3:40 PM
Effing AMAZING! Major props
7. catch22 - November 16, 2009 3:43 PM
awesome but i bet that this is cumbersome after a while.. .no ability to sit and you are litterally carrying the entire thing the whole time. i bet the guy has rock freaking hard calves and thighs for stilting that thing around at parties for hours on end
i would have to incorperate a way to sit it, like a way to lock the stilts in place using thetail to complete a tripod.. then you can just lounge on a squatting tauntaun
and of course id hafta stick a jug in there or something... i imagine bathroom breaks are a no go in that
dont get me started on the dutch oven effect either
...and you thought they smelled bad on the outside
8. blow - November 16, 2009 3:43 PM
Also doubles as birth control
9. Leonidas - November 16, 2009 3:46 PM
@7:they might smell bad, kid, but at least they'll keep you warm.
10. I-Kill-Bambi's - November 16, 2009 3:48 PM
@4 hell yeah that's tight! *tighter than a 12 year old...*
11. Pat - November 16, 2009 4:18 PM
Holy. Freakin'. Crap. Scott Holden is my hero.
12. ~☻,_∫∫ ∕∕-][ Ỵ ([¦¦ ([]) ][-¦¦ ☻~ - November 16, 2009 4:31 PM
awesome
13. Uncle Eccoli - November 16, 2009 5:38 PM
I design with SolidWorks.
14. Uncle Eccoli - November 16, 2009 5:39 PM
I do not, however, read al-Jazeera.
15. Boost - November 16, 2009 5:54 PM
Amazing!
16. BlackSamTX - November 16, 2009 8:59 PM
Where are the zipper on the belly and the haunted house guts?
17. BlackSamTX - November 16, 2009 8:59 PM
GW writer needs to use these plans to make a mini dino real doll.
18. milan - November 17, 2009 2:15 AM
this is crazy,madness,superawsome,time wasting, equipment
i m working on transformer i have a car i only need the secret....
19. jong pill bae - November 17, 2009 4:12 AM
here we go taum taum . ^^;;
20. Annony Mouse - November 17, 2009 5:47 AM
@18
You don't need the secret. If you got the touch, you got the power!
21. Jaded Icon - November 17, 2009 7:46 AM
I do prefer seeing costumes created by people rather than store bought. Well done sir, well done.
22. dparks - November 17, 2009 8:15 AM
I'd like to see Tauntaun Scott hike a leg and take a squirt on the asinine giant Geico Stack-O-Money costume in the background.
Now get outta here you two; and just maybe the Slutty Nurse costumed babes will come back.
23. Timbo - November 17, 2009 8:34 AM
I WANT!
Come on Scottie Holden sell those mothers!
24. Don - November 17, 2009 9:30 AM
AWESOMEEEE With that idea you can get 100 of those inventions
25. AJ - November 19, 2009 11:57 AM
Wow. That's incredible
26. discount furniture - November 20, 2009 3:26 AM
wow that is so cool, now I want to make me one! to bad I don't have any room to park him though!
27. Lewis Nelson - November 20, 2009 1:39 PM
i'd love one of these
28. Neegerjoe - November 21, 2009 2:04 PM
I tap that.
He's got geek pusseh for years to come.
29. ITIL V3 - November 28, 2009 2:24 AM
This is a great piece as i dont know
what animal you have made but
you have done great effort to make.
I also want to sit once on this
animal.
30. Wes - November 30, 2009 5:49 PM
Very awesome. If this guy could mass produce this thing, maybe add some way to customize orders, he very well could make some dollars with the cosplay/dragoncon/comicon community. If he took it further made a line, he wouldn't ever have to be like the guy in the Virginity poster post, he'd get gold digger pussy out the ass. They may never love him like the ewoks, but ewoks just can't do the job a gold digger can.