johnathonm
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Hey thanks Bovine for giving this info. This should help me out when I got to comic con someday.
A Pred-Costumer's Convention and Contest Companion
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Kyra Da Psycho
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Even after reading all this Im very excited to get my own pred costume, Im sure I'll get to know it well long before I get to a con. Id probably wear it pretty often, at least the mask and gloves. I'll probably load my gallery with pics as well. Thanks for all the honest info, very good advice Id like to keep in mind. Haha, would be cool to have a few people with me dressed as marines to help me out XD get them costumed up too, and in theme with mine hehe. Would be cool to also make a lunch box type backpack/cannon mount for the pred, maybe make it like a cooler for some water bottles and small snacks? Or just keep that for water, have some pouches around your belt with snacks.
Mardikrewe
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YES!
Crowd control is a MUST!!!
I live in New Orleans where many get completely drunk/wasted. They WILL pull, tug, knock and want to touch you .... sometime ALL over. If you go pubbing with no trustworthy assistant, you WILL be in trouble at one point or another.
Winning:
You may "NOT" win. I am on version 4.0 Wolf and have lost 2 of 3 to what some might think, the cheesyest of the cheesy costume's (was told I was a professional costumer???) and once a thong. Work the crowd before hand, take picture's, talk to everyone you can and find and befriend management. STILL this may not work.
HYDRATE!!!!
Another year, I lost out because I "FELL" out. I decided I could drink along with my friends I was with ..... BAD idea. VERY hard not to do but highly recommened. Towards the end I was trembling and sweating more than usual ...... the sign I had to leave early
. 4 blocks of walking took better than 20 minutes, every step was a struggle.
Stupid crowds:
Regular run of the mill halloween pub goers could careless you just dumped 4,000 and worked for 2 years on your suit. After the first run through with this breed I became enraged and went full out permenantly attached "metal" blades for the next encounter. GUESS what???!!! (remember I am 7'1" in this suit), on the very next contest here come's a very small guy dressed as our LSU football coach ........ stops, looks at me and say's "WAZZZZ UPPP Predator!!!". Then smack's me across the bio helmet twice!!
I RAN HIM THROUGH! Well not "through" as my blades are quite dull but did leave quite a nasty mark running up his chest, dropped him to the ground for a bit and utterly ruined his very nice LSU jacket. Actually I could have went to jail over it but luckily one of the bouncers saw it all ...... not recommened and I am going to try and refrain from this in the future.
MORAL ........ HANDLER / SUPPORT people are a MUST.
Crowd control is a MUST!!!
I live in New Orleans where many get completely drunk/wasted. They WILL pull, tug, knock and want to touch you .... sometime ALL over. If you go pubbing with no trustworthy assistant, you WILL be in trouble at one point or another.
Winning:
You may "NOT" win. I am on version 4.0 Wolf and have lost 2 of 3 to what some might think, the cheesyest of the cheesy costume's (was told I was a professional costumer???) and once a thong. Work the crowd before hand, take picture's, talk to everyone you can and find and befriend management. STILL this may not work.
HYDRATE!!!!
Another year, I lost out because I "FELL" out. I decided I could drink along with my friends I was with ..... BAD idea. VERY hard not to do but highly recommened. Towards the end I was trembling and sweating more than usual ...... the sign I had to leave early
. 4 blocks of walking took better than 20 minutes, every step was a struggle.Stupid crowds:
Regular run of the mill halloween pub goers could careless you just dumped 4,000 and worked for 2 years on your suit. After the first run through with this breed I became enraged and went full out permenantly attached "metal" blades for the next encounter. GUESS what???!!! (remember I am 7'1" in this suit), on the very next contest here come's a very small guy dressed as our LSU football coach ........ stops, looks at me and say's "WAZZZZ UPPP Predator!!!". Then smack's me across the bio helmet twice!!
I RAN HIM THROUGH! Well not "through" as my blades are quite dull but did leave quite a nasty mark running up his chest, dropped him to the ground for a bit and utterly ruined his very nice LSU jacket. Actually I could have went to jail over it but luckily one of the bouncers saw it all ...... not recommened and I am going to try and refrain from this in the future.
MORAL ........ HANDLER / SUPPORT people are a MUST.
TheiDeDekna
New Member
I'm planning to put together an 'Emergency Repair Kit' for Conventions and house it inside a Medi-Kit case so that it can be strapped onto my back (as is proper) and that way is both easily accessable when needs be, but also works with the rest of the suit.
Rodewaryer
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I feel as though I have already been out and learned a bunch of stuff, and I've never even been suited up before. Excellent advice here. Love the idea of the kit being part of the suit.
