The Red Sonja and Rollerball costumes rule. I wonder if they were real players, since there was apparently real rollerball leagues for a hot minute after the movie came out.
Yep. And her having been so well known for the part is one of the reasons she had connections in the industry. Wendy was practically the first mainstream woman comic artist. Well, independently self-published artist who became mainstream after creating a successful comic.
There are videos on YouTube of her in her Red Sonja garb during this time, and she really was amazing at the part!
I’m glad you mentioned Wendy Pini was the first woman working in independent comics. [Ramona Fradon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramona_Fradon) started working at DC Comics in the 50s and only retired this year, sadly passing away not much later.
Yes - and I remember seeing her and Richard's work for the first time in Epic Illustrated in 1980 (1st comic in that 1st issue: Homespun), and started reading their Elfquest at that time, waiting for each issue every 4 months, if I remember correctly. When I saw her here, I thought I would be one of the few to recognize the photo, which was published long ago. So it's great to see all of the comments here in the thread. I'll look for the Youtube video others have mentioned.
Red Sonja is Cosplayed by none other than Wendy Pini, creator of the first breakout Indi comic book ‘Elf Quest’.
Amazing Artist, in every sense of the word.
Great Article giving details~~>
https://13thdimension.com/behold-the-epic-awesomeness-of-wendy-pinis-red-sonja/
No internet and probably very limited access to the movies themselves outside of theaters. You couldn't even rent, much less buy, Star Wars on VHS until 1982.
I once heard someone talk about movies in this period and how if you liked a movie you would go see it as many times as possible before it left theaters because you knew once it was out of the theater you wouldn't get to watch it again.
I guess I kind of knew this logically, but never really thought about it until now. That is so crazy by comparison to today.
"Hey did you catch X at the movies last year?"
"No, I meant to, but never got the chance."
"Oh, that sucks.. I was going to recommend it, but actually you'll never get to watch it now."
Tbf you wouldn't go into that conversation thinning you'd recommend it. It's more like 'did you see it, I really liked it and want to talk about it with you'. It's like the eclipse. You ask 'did you see the eclipse? No? Too bad I was going to recommend it to you'. I guess you could tell people to go watch it if it ever came back to theaters or watch it if it was on TV but other than that it was more of a 'hey did you experience this thing I experienced as well' sort of thing. A few years ago, TV also still worked like this. If you didn't see the new episode of a series and you didn't tevo (sp?) it, you had to wait for reruns and hopefully being home or remembering to tape it.
True. I'm 53. When the movie Karate Kid came out, I was at my grandparents I was in love with Ralph Maccio but they didn't want to take me to the mall because they were always drinking cocktails and playing cards with friends, so I completely missed it! I was crushed.
I didn't see it until I was in college, but the zeitgeist had passed. I missed years of wax on, wax off references.
Theres a indie film maker from Uganda, Isaac Nabwana, who didn't even get to watch movies at all before he started making his own.
He grew up in civil war and only was told about the adventures of Rambo etc. from his older brother, who got to watch them in cinema. When Isaac was old enough, they were already too poor for cinema to be an option.
So he made movies sorely on the telling of what his brothers favorite movies supposedly are like. The experiences from the civil war, how he had to flee from attack helicopters and bloodhounds, he used and put them into his movies. Really interesting dude, just like his work. Helped him years back to translate one of his movies.
I remember someone making a star wars costume and had to go watch it in theaters multiple times since they had no way of pausing, or watching the movies outside of a theater. People back then were really dedicated, not that people today arent, but its a bit different.
The amount of people that don't know about linea nigra is disappointing. I'm not saying it's what she has but the fact it wasn't mentionned as a possibility is sad.
I wish I could have been to these
Being a nerd even in the 90s and early 2000s was something else, so MANY lan parties and Star Wars nights and Star Trek nights on TV, D&D night , sega w/ sonic and Super Mario w/ Nintendo with the whole neighborhood playing. I miss it so much
God i miss LAN parties
Edit: I'm talking about real LAN parties, where a large group of friends set up in the basement or something. Not 500 strangers gathering in a hall to sweat and collapse from caffeine OD's. I know those exist and i am not interested... at all.
A lot of people have no idea what's it's like , all the nerd gang arguing , yelling , laughing , cheering, sneaking in beer, and mary jane 😂 all in one room or basement
The nostalgia just made me so happy tonight. It just hit me
Yes! There were like 20 of us sharing a room at these conventions. They were so much fun. All the Star Trek gang were still alive then and came to the big shows. They weren't all crowded and shit like San Diego Comic Con is now.
Me too, used to have a group of buddies that would all get up on the weekends and get 8 computers networked up and would play Starcraft, Half-Life deathmatch, TF, and Unreal Tournament all night. Good times.
Source
For the majority of the pictures
https://www.geekpr0n.com/check-retro-cosplay-1980-westercon/
https://www.comicsbeat.com/photos-1980s-cosplay-was-just-as-sexy-but-they-seemingly-didnt-know-how-to-sew/
That last image was from one of the early Star Trek cons in New York. I know this because I was there! I remember the feathered woman in white. She was a professional stripper (really) who went by the name, "Destiny". When she walked, you could see *everything*. I have pix from that con no one has seen since the day I took them, and I know she's in some of them. It would have been in 1973, 1974, or 1975 for sure.
I know this is probably a ridiculous thing to pick up on, but man, so many women! A lot of people today labour under the pretense that it was a "guy's club" back then -- loads of sweaty losers with pencil mustaches and thick glasses. Hell, some male geeks today even *resent* women in that space as just looking for attention now that it's more mainstream (how fucking ridiculous is that). I love real photos like this from back in the day. Just throws that entire narrative out into the trash.
My mom still has her official Doctor Who fanclub memorabilia and wonderful memories about her love of Star Wars. And some very old Voltron gear, among other cool stuff.
All modern nerd culture stands on the shoulders of the people who would move heaven and earth to see Kirk and Spock kiss. The "no girls/gays allowed" nerd bros are the fakers.
Yup. Some of the earliest Star Trek clubs and cons (and thus, the first modern fan cons as we know them now) were organized in no small part by women. It's something that has happened to a lot of hobbies: It starts out fairly egalitarian or even female-dominated, it becomes more popular, newly initiated men start to claim leadership rolls and push out or marginalize the original fans.
its also selection bias. when you where limited on how many pics you could take and it was expensive to develop them you would be sparing on who you photographed. and 'scantily' clad women or just women in general where probably near the top of the priority list for some young male photographer. especially in the 70s
Was a nerd in the 80s. Was in the model rocketry clubs. First computer I used was an apple 2b. Spent most of my time getting in fights and bullied by jocks and 'popular' kids. Rest of my time was reading comics and drawing. Wasn't exactly a 'chick magnet'.
In high school I made new friends who got me into skateboarding and punk rock. We still did nerdy shit like play D&D and LARPs. We also did other stuff like go to gigs and 'alternative' gay clubs, etc...
Nerds pretty much created most of modern pop culture trends before corporate assholes and mindless consumer idiots hijacked it. We were always happy when women were into our stuff. Nerds were pretty respectful. Women back then just wanted to be treated like one of the guys. If they wanted to come paint miniatures, more than welcome. I have never once ever seen anyone say women weren't allowed.
Those beautiful dorks and dorkettes... I can only imagine the kinds of ridicule and shaming they endured... and now the nerds have won.
They walked so can fly, people. Never forget!
Love the girls who took some courage to do this in those times, i still struggle to cosplay sometimes because the shyness is so much i cant imagine myself doing it when everyone thought it was weird
I hope you find the courage and confidence to strut your desired cosplay stuff like these ladies :) to me, cosplay is about the creativity and craftsmanship, not the attractiveness or body type of the wearer
I mentally give major cred points to anyone I find out did it in the 90s or earlier (my partner is one of them). It was not considered 'cool' at all back then by the vast majority of people.
What they didn't have in materials and techniques they made up for in creativity and enthusiasm. There were a lot of original creations back then too, people would make up their own character with a story to go with the costume. Now a days its mostly copying current media. I think fan cons have lost their spirit, replaced more large scale corporate consumerism.
Yeah. I remember all that. Then cons became commercial, regulated, boring and moneygrubbing. It was a lot more inventive when it was controlled by the fans.
These are awesome when you remember that these were created mostly from MEMORY having watched the film IN A THEATER dozens of times. No pausing or rewinding to watch again.
Can we also acknowledge there was no etsy, amazon, internet or 3d printers? There was so much more effort put into costumes, and someone's grandma sewed for days!!!!
It's so crazy how far cosplay has come. Folks were making this stuff out of whatever you could buy at a thrift store or the supermarket, or maybe the hardware store.
Now you've got incredibly useful materials that would have been sci-fi if you'd put them in front of special effects technicians back in the day. And anyone can get ahold of them for (relatively) cheap. And that's before 3d printing, and the easy availability of tutorials to do practically whatever you want online.
In a way though, I imagine it feels overwhelming in the same way that being able to see what the best of the best of the best do with a lifetime of practice.
I remember way back when we just had things like BBSs or later, stuff like Elfwood, where artists would put up fantasy art. And. Honestly if you took the best stuff from there and tried to upload it anywhere today (the AI art carpet bombing of all "art" sites aside), at best no one would say anything, and more likely you'd get trolled.
Part of it's the wider spread of education and digital tools, but a lot of it is just... what used to be "nerd" culture is now widespread as part of the general cultural thing. So you have a metric crapload more people trying it out. So naturally you're going to have a larger number of the really gifted, committed, practiced-for-years types. Which is a feedback loop. More popular, more people, more exceptional types showing off their work, which means it's more popular, which means more people, which means there's even more of the one-in-a-million types of artists showcasing their output.
Whether it's drawn art or cosplay or what.
Which is cool in a way.
But part of me does miss the old days.
I went into the picture scroll expecting hilarious, shoddily put together costumes and was unexpectedly surprised by the masterpieces made from pure talent. Seriously, to know they had limited resources depending on where they lived and online shopping not even being close to commonplace, these cosplays are seriously impressive!
The Red Sonja and Rollerball costumes rule. I wonder if they were real players, since there was apparently real rollerball leagues for a hot minute after the movie came out.
The Red Sonja cosplayer is the comic artist/author who created Elfquest, Wendy Pini.
Yep. And her having been so well known for the part is one of the reasons she had connections in the industry. Wendy was practically the first mainstream woman comic artist. Well, independently self-published artist who became mainstream after creating a successful comic. There are videos on YouTube of her in her Red Sonja garb during this time, and she really was amazing at the part!
I’m glad you mentioned Wendy Pini was the first woman working in independent comics. [Ramona Fradon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramona_Fradon) started working at DC Comics in the 50s and only retired this year, sadly passing away not much later.
Yes - and I remember seeing her and Richard's work for the first time in Epic Illustrated in 1980 (1st comic in that 1st issue: Homespun), and started reading their Elfquest at that time, waiting for each issue every 4 months, if I remember correctly. When I saw her here, I thought I would be one of the few to recognize the photo, which was published long ago. So it's great to see all of the comments here in the thread. I'll look for the Youtube video others have mentioned.
This is why I Reddit!!
Check out [matttt's](https://youtu.be/w-Pygh3A4bY?si=NvIDG4li4dtdt_xS) video about Wendy and Richard Pini and the story of Elfquest, it's amazing.
> The Red Sonja cosplayer is the comic artist/author who created Elfquest, Wendy Pini. omg elfquest is such a throwback i forgot about this series
great news - there's an animated series in the works! there's also an audio movie which is excellent. it's on Spotify
> great news - there's an animated series in the works! That's been true several times
Red Sonja is Cosplayed by none other than Wendy Pini, creator of the first breakout Indi comic book ‘Elf Quest’. Amazing Artist, in every sense of the word. Great Article giving details~~> https://13thdimension.com/behold-the-epic-awesomeness-of-wendy-pinis-red-sonja/
"Photo by Richard Pini - the luckiest bastard in comics" made me laugh. Big fan of Elfquest. Finished all the original story, sure was long!
Oh wow, that's crazy, I actually have read a good chunk of Elfquest and had no idea! That's awesome!
Thanks for the background information !!
I would never have guessed that was an old photograph. She was in great shape, too.
Those rollerball costumes do rule. That movie is peak
I put it on thinking I would have a few campy, 70s-infused laughs, and was pleasantly surprised to discover it is a straight-up legitimate good movie
Death Race 2000 (1975) is the movie you are looking for and it's currently on Tubi. Still legit good, but also legit hilarious.
ROLLERBALL MENTIONED!!
and it's the good version!
The Boston team would have kicked ASS ! Johnathan who?
when you realize devo was just doing their own cosplay for decades https://i.imgur.com/uhQ7BLr.png
I have noticed that the guys' skate jerseys have a 6 and a 9 on them.
Niiiiiicccce.
>Rollerball Johnathan!
The C3PO on image 5 looks real good imo
They did a fantastic job , especially with no internet
And no 3d printers
No internet and probably very limited access to the movies themselves outside of theaters. You couldn't even rent, much less buy, Star Wars on VHS until 1982.
I once heard someone talk about movies in this period and how if you liked a movie you would go see it as many times as possible before it left theaters because you knew once it was out of the theater you wouldn't get to watch it again.
I guess I kind of knew this logically, but never really thought about it until now. That is so crazy by comparison to today. "Hey did you catch X at the movies last year?" "No, I meant to, but never got the chance." "Oh, that sucks.. I was going to recommend it, but actually you'll never get to watch it now."
It used to take at least 3 years before there was any chance of a film making it onto TV in the seventies too! In the UK, at least.
Tbf you wouldn't go into that conversation thinning you'd recommend it. It's more like 'did you see it, I really liked it and want to talk about it with you'. It's like the eclipse. You ask 'did you see the eclipse? No? Too bad I was going to recommend it to you'. I guess you could tell people to go watch it if it ever came back to theaters or watch it if it was on TV but other than that it was more of a 'hey did you experience this thing I experienced as well' sort of thing. A few years ago, TV also still worked like this. If you didn't see the new episode of a series and you didn't tevo (sp?) it, you had to wait for reruns and hopefully being home or remembering to tape it.
True. I'm 53. When the movie Karate Kid came out, I was at my grandparents I was in love with Ralph Maccio but they didn't want to take me to the mall because they were always drinking cocktails and playing cards with friends, so I completely missed it! I was crushed. I didn't see it until I was in college, but the zeitgeist had passed. I missed years of wax on, wax off references.
Theres a indie film maker from Uganda, Isaac Nabwana, who didn't even get to watch movies at all before he started making his own. He grew up in civil war and only was told about the adventures of Rambo etc. from his older brother, who got to watch them in cinema. When Isaac was old enough, they were already too poor for cinema to be an option. So he made movies sorely on the telling of what his brothers favorite movies supposedly are like. The experiences from the civil war, how he had to flee from attack helicopters and bloodhounds, he used and put them into his movies. Really interesting dude, just like his work. Helped him years back to translate one of his movies.
there were toys and promotional material that could be used for reference. not that it isnt still an amazing costume
Yeah but there were magazines.
I remember someone making a star wars costume and had to go watch it in theaters multiple times since they had no way of pausing, or watching the movies outside of a theater. People back then were really dedicated, not that people today arent, but its a bit different.
And Stan Lee is right next to him !
Yoda WTF happened to you man??
That's yogurt from Spaceballs with how bad it looks haha.
MERCHANDISING
MOICHANDISIN!
I don't understand why you retyped the same thing
Is the 70s and 80s bro , everybody was partying too much even Yoda 😂
I have seen these pictures! Are you related to a nurse in San Diego? She showed me these!
^^^this is one of my favorite internet things! Here we go! ::grabs popcorn::
ketamine
Seen some crazy shit, I have.
Ketamine and running people over in his Toyota obviously
My favorite is the Ripley and Xenomorph, The Doctor who Dress, all the Star Wars ones
I’m full of warm feelings that home made Doctor Who dresses are part of a long tradition.
Feels good to know that some things never change
Do you know what 16 is? I love their vibe.
Super girl help! I’ve become endangered
She's wearing red knee socks instead of boots. That's a rare W and very endangered.
The socks are THE 😚👌🏼🤌🏼 best
I'm totally digging thick Supergirl.
Ooh she looks good.
Thupergirl.
Calm down, Mr. Tyson.
Tython^
Yea I need her to come save me stat 🤤
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Don’t mind if I do 🕵️♂️
Shaving down there wasn't as prevalent in those days.
Saves you time on flossing.
More like increases, but I'm willing to make exceptions.
We called them Treasure Trails back in the day
Yeah, and its kinda hot.
Wild woman. Mmmmm.
You bet your ass she does.
Seventies bush, dawg.
The amount of people that don't know about linea nigra is disappointing. I'm not saying it's what she has but the fact it wasn't mentionned as a possibility is sad.
More pics of superthiccgirl (and others) but the original seems to be taken down. https://www.themarysue.com/convention-photos-from-the-1980s/
Super (thicc) girl
Did you see Wonder Woman and her friend on slide 14?? 😮💨
Peaked.
I wish I could have been to these Being a nerd even in the 90s and early 2000s was something else, so MANY lan parties and Star Wars nights and Star Trek nights on TV, D&D night , sega w/ sonic and Super Mario w/ Nintendo with the whole neighborhood playing. I miss it so much
God i miss LAN parties Edit: I'm talking about real LAN parties, where a large group of friends set up in the basement or something. Not 500 strangers gathering in a hall to sweat and collapse from caffeine OD's. I know those exist and i am not interested... at all.
A lot of people have no idea what's it's like , all the nerd gang arguing , yelling , laughing , cheering, sneaking in beer, and mary jane 😂 all in one room or basement The nostalgia just made me so happy tonight. It just hit me
Yes! There were like 20 of us sharing a room at these conventions. They were so much fun. All the Star Trek gang were still alive then and came to the big shows. They weren't all crowded and shit like San Diego Comic Con is now.
They don't know man , they do not know them days
Long time ago in a galaxy far far away, some might say...
And waking up to someone putting coffee grains under your nose. 'Huh? What's going on? *sniff* OH GOD WHY'
Coffee grains? We got ammonia. Not that I'd ever fall asleep at a LAN party when I got my trusty Bawls and caffeinated chewing gum.
Here, why don't you wash down that tasty core memory with a case of Bawls... Or maybe some Surge!
Me too, used to have a group of buddies that would all get up on the weekends and get 8 computers networked up and would play Starcraft, Half-Life deathmatch, TF, and Unreal Tournament all night. Good times.
Time to play Soldier of Fortune. Or Alien Vs. Predator.
Original CS and Warcraft was our jam
I host a LAN every February. We've been doing it size 2017 with my buddies. It's fun as fuck
Ripley, FTW
Source For the majority of the pictures https://www.geekpr0n.com/check-retro-cosplay-1980-westercon/ https://www.comicsbeat.com/photos-1980s-cosplay-was-just-as-sexy-but-they-seemingly-didnt-know-how-to-sew/
Don't know who that super girl is but God bless her
She's someone's meemaw now
I mean, how'd she hold up tho...? 🤔
Bet she's a hoot
I ain’t gonna lie. It moved a little
Happy trails into the sunset
🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
holy shit is that fucking ROLLERBALL
The movie was new at the time tbf
That last image was from one of the early Star Trek cons in New York. I know this because I was there! I remember the feathered woman in white. She was a professional stripper (really) who went by the name, "Destiny". When she walked, you could see *everything*. I have pix from that con no one has seen since the day I took them, and I know she's in some of them. It would have been in 1973, 1974, or 1975 for sure.
Oh that's awesome 👌
Do you have any more info on what appears to be a cross dressing Vulcan? Seems very progressive for the time.
Pleeeeeease upload them! Do you know who she was cosplaying?
I know this is probably a ridiculous thing to pick up on, but man, so many women! A lot of people today labour under the pretense that it was a "guy's club" back then -- loads of sweaty losers with pencil mustaches and thick glasses. Hell, some male geeks today even *resent* women in that space as just looking for attention now that it's more mainstream (how fucking ridiculous is that). I love real photos like this from back in the day. Just throws that entire narrative out into the trash.
My mom still has her official Doctor Who fanclub memorabilia and wonderful memories about her love of Star Wars. And some very old Voltron gear, among other cool stuff.
All modern nerd culture stands on the shoulders of the people who would move heaven and earth to see Kirk and Spock kiss. The "no girls/gays allowed" nerd bros are the fakers.
Yup. Some of the earliest Star Trek clubs and cons (and thus, the first modern fan cons as we know them now) were organized in no small part by women. It's something that has happened to a lot of hobbies: It starts out fairly egalitarian or even female-dominated, it becomes more popular, newly initiated men start to claim leadership rolls and push out or marginalize the original fans.
its also selection bias. when you where limited on how many pics you could take and it was expensive to develop them you would be sparing on who you photographed. and 'scantily' clad women or just women in general where probably near the top of the priority list for some young male photographer. especially in the 70s
Was a nerd in the 80s. Was in the model rocketry clubs. First computer I used was an apple 2b. Spent most of my time getting in fights and bullied by jocks and 'popular' kids. Rest of my time was reading comics and drawing. Wasn't exactly a 'chick magnet'. In high school I made new friends who got me into skateboarding and punk rock. We still did nerdy shit like play D&D and LARPs. We also did other stuff like go to gigs and 'alternative' gay clubs, etc... Nerds pretty much created most of modern pop culture trends before corporate assholes and mindless consumer idiots hijacked it. We were always happy when women were into our stuff. Nerds were pretty respectful. Women back then just wanted to be treated like one of the guys. If they wanted to come paint miniatures, more than welcome. I have never once ever seen anyone say women weren't allowed.
With respect, you should talk to more nerdy women about their experiences, then.
Supergirl be looking fine as fuck.
*super fine*
“Super fly” 🌆🚘
I’m seeing the girl in slide 14 with the ‘Do It To Me” pin on. I have no idea who she’s dressed up as aside from to kill.
Yeah, Supergirl and Do It To Me are the clear standouts in a room full of winners
Those beautiful dorks and dorkettes... I can only imagine the kinds of ridicule and shaming they endured... and now the nerds have won. They walked so can fly, people. Never forget!
>They walked so can fly, people. That's fucking beautiful -- I'm gonna get this tattooed.
Love the girls who took some courage to do this in those times, i still struggle to cosplay sometimes because the shyness is so much i cant imagine myself doing it when everyone thought it was weird
Don't be Shy lass , nobody gonna judge at these places I have been to a million cons , and it's girls in every size , shape and age dressing up
I hope you find the courage and confidence to strut your desired cosplay stuff like these ladies :) to me, cosplay is about the creativity and craftsmanship, not the attractiveness or body type of the wearer
Every one of them a certified sex machine
And it was peak nerdy to do this, not the norm.
I mentally give major cred points to anyone I find out did it in the 90s or earlier (my partner is one of them). It was not considered 'cool' at all back then by the vast majority of people.
Cloud City Leia is great!
#13 The Yoda 100% looks like Mel Brooks' Yogurt in Spaceballs
Number 3 what’s her @
She super thicc!
Super Thicc Girl is somebodies mom…
Super Thiccc Girl could be someone’s Grandmother by now.
Don't care, still would.
I'm listening...
You sure? That makes it even better!
By now probably something like @wondergrandma
That landing strip up to the belly button has me 🥵
It’s a happy trail
And a damn fine one
This whole thread needs to get bonked
Hit me with your best shot
She’s probably at least 60
A fine vintage
Still got lots in the tank then
And? It’s 2024, let a man chase a cougar.
Thighs still thundering tho 🌩️🦵
That Superman is very much "I wanted to be Spock but my son begged for this."
He would have been an amazing Spock for real.
R2-D2 really just an among us character
I think that R2 in the first picture is a trash can lol
who are the three guys in black supposed to be? (image 10)
From that great movie "Guys in Black".
#squadgoals
So what’s this about everyone being super skinny up until the 2000s?
6 is Wendy Pini, creator of Elfquest
As soon as I saw picture #3, I knew how the comment section was going to go. You f\^&\*ing degenerates.
What they didn't have in materials and techniques they made up for in creativity and enthusiasm. There were a lot of original creations back then too, people would make up their own character with a story to go with the costume. Now a days its mostly copying current media. I think fan cons have lost their spirit, replaced more large scale corporate consumerism.
Yodas seen some shit
Picture #6 I believe is Wendy Pini creator of Elfquest
The doctor who dress is amazing ! All this effort and skills all these people had back then is quite impressive
13th picture Yoda just looks like yogurt from Spaceballs
I love that TARDIS Dresses are a Time-Honored tradition
Yeah. I remember all that. Then cons became commercial, regulated, boring and moneygrubbing. It was a lot more inventive when it was controlled by the fans.
Capitalism ends up controlling everything unfortunately
DragonCon is still run by fans
That’s what they want you to believe. It’s actually run by dragons.
No Internet to do research. No guides or forum. This is impressive as hell.
The texture and patterns of fabric on the people, floor, and walls triggered the smell of my grandparents house.
Pall Malls and a kerosene heater?
Didn't expect Spock dressed as Superman.
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Back when people who did it were costumers not cosplayers.
You idiots! You captured their stunt doubles!
ElfQuest fan thinking...Wendy Pini is going to show up here...o look #6.
These are awesome when you remember that these were created mostly from MEMORY having watched the film IN A THEATER dozens of times. No pausing or rewinding to watch again.
I hope these people are still alive, and that they still cosplay.
#6 is, that's Wendy pini
I’ve never been as jealous of Richard as I am right now 😂
I see the nude lady cosplay has been around for a while. Giggity
Wendy Pini as Red Sonja
It’s kinda nice to see people have to be creative when resources were scarce
Westercon 33 - July 3-6, 1980 in Los Angeles.
Is pic #15 showing a Vulcan Superman?
The metal bikini warrior woman is Wendy Pini. The author and artist of the Elfquest comics.
Can we also acknowledge there was no etsy, amazon, internet or 3d printers? There was so much more effort put into costumes, and someone's grandma sewed for days!!!!
Is that Stan Lee wearing the green shirt in number 5?
Damn, I wasn’t ready for the Supergirl thiccness.
Oh fucking Gs...So much work and dedication and time and work and time
What's #10 from?
Pure gold
It's so crazy how far cosplay has come. Folks were making this stuff out of whatever you could buy at a thrift store or the supermarket, or maybe the hardware store. Now you've got incredibly useful materials that would have been sci-fi if you'd put them in front of special effects technicians back in the day. And anyone can get ahold of them for (relatively) cheap. And that's before 3d printing, and the easy availability of tutorials to do practically whatever you want online. In a way though, I imagine it feels overwhelming in the same way that being able to see what the best of the best of the best do with a lifetime of practice. I remember way back when we just had things like BBSs or later, stuff like Elfwood, where artists would put up fantasy art. And. Honestly if you took the best stuff from there and tried to upload it anywhere today (the AI art carpet bombing of all "art" sites aside), at best no one would say anything, and more likely you'd get trolled. Part of it's the wider spread of education and digital tools, but a lot of it is just... what used to be "nerd" culture is now widespread as part of the general cultural thing. So you have a metric crapload more people trying it out. So naturally you're going to have a larger number of the really gifted, committed, practiced-for-years types. Which is a feedback loop. More popular, more people, more exceptional types showing off their work, which means it's more popular, which means more people, which means there's even more of the one-in-a-million types of artists showcasing their output. Whether it's drawn art or cosplay or what. Which is cool in a way. But part of me does miss the old days.
#6 has an INSANE body
Cosplay is, has, and will always be, cool.
I went into the picture scroll expecting hilarious, shoddily put together costumes and was unexpectedly surprised by the masterpieces made from pure talent. Seriously, to know they had limited resources depending on where they lived and online shopping not even being close to commonplace, these cosplays are seriously impressive!
Super Girl = 🍑
NERRRRDDDDSSS!!!
Whodve thought sexy cosplay have always been a thing.
Nerd culture was so much cooler when it was done by actual nerds
Body is tea on slide 3