Thread: Stilt Costumes

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I'm already thinking about a cool costume for next year and I want to include stilts so I can be tall and scary. I'm doing some preliminary research right now and found this thread. I'd love to see some working links or pics of what people have done.

Drywall stilts are good all around. Though meant for level ground, It's still somewhat easy to get used to walking on Sidewalks, Roads, Or even grass. (Can't say anything about sand. Wouldn't try that though!) But walking outside on drywall stilts, for the first few seconds. Easy, and got through the night fine. (and that was walking BLIND!) lost balance a bit, but caught myself before something happened.



If you are going to wear stilts though, Be very prepared to be bombarded with pictures! and make sure to watch the little kids, they run up to you thinking it's ok. but falling from that height, you can break arms and possibly hurt anyone in your long trip down.

-EDIT- Forgot to mention. I got my stilts brand new off of Amazon. add's 2 feet or more if I wanted. for $90! Can't beat that when the same stilts are at Home Depot for almost $150+.

I've been looking at drywall stilts on Amazon and eBay. They look pretty good, but I don't know how the costume would look if I'm just extending the legs without proportionally positioning the joints.

What I want to do is design something like this tree monster on the left, using a leg structure like this picture on the right.



You know, the more I look at it, theymight be using drywall stilts, they just have a lot of bulk on the legs to make it look like it's articulated differently.

I think it's smoke and mirrors on that. Extra joint's would probably make the stilts harder, if not impossible to walk on. If you knew where to contact the owner of that costume i'm sure he wouldn't mind sharing how he did that!

Originally Posted by HowlingMadMurdock

I think it's smoke and mirrors on that. Extra joint's would probably make the stilts harder, if not impossible to walk on. If you knew where to contact the owner of that costume i'm sure he wouldn't mind sharing how he did that!

I was able to find one video that showed some of the construction and the stilts used are ski boots secured to a welded stilt (about 2ft) and a broad foot.

Do you know anything about that mech costume? That looks like It could be great for next year. along with some lights. And is there any tiny fog machines that could run on batteries? Could make a big gun and attach it on the robot and have smoke coming out of the barrel..

Now that I see that foam around the whole body. It looks like it's actually armor on a giant alien creature.. But mech's are still cool.

I've been trying to search the internet for more information on the Halo Elite costume, but there isn't much out there. I've found two youtube videos that show parts of the construction, and I keep seeing the same set of picture -- like they sent out a press kit to everyone.





And here's a demon costume he built.

There are a lot of stilt clips on youtube. Here's one of some killer mech legs.

Here's another "how to" video that seems to provide a lot of ideas.