Thread: My PacMan costume

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It looks fantastic. I can't wait to see Pacman and the Ghost completed.

By the way... The suit weights 37lbs now that's it's totally done. Thing is freaking heavy to lug around, and I don't think it'd be doable without the hip belt.


A few delays, but PacMan himself is done. I need to snap a picture of the inside since it has changed a fair bit. As of now I have the little battery module and the two small speakers it runs installed at the top shooting out the mouth as well as a battery operated fan aimed at my face. Hopefully the foam holds up to all of the abuse and nothing falls off!

It hasn’t turned out nearly as round as I would have liked. I think that I really would need to have a ring roller in order to get the thing super round. Plus the mouth pieces sticking out too far caused me to have to give extra room by misshaping the front of the suit.



Both costumes:



The ghost is coming along nicely. I’ve got the fabric stretched on the sides now; and all I’ve got to do is cut off the extra on one side, glue down the ends of that fabric, paint, and somehow cut the squigglies out for underneath.





I’ll have a video up soon, hopefully later tonight of the thing in action!

Wow, what a lot of work you put into that, and trouble shooting and re-doing.....awesome job! I clicked on this link at first because my daughter is going as Inky the blue ghost. But, now I am ashamed that all her costume is, is a sheet and some cut out eyes LOL

Super job!

I'm so jealous of all that workspace you have.

Video at the end of this post!

Here are a couple more pictures of the finished costume, first is one looking through the mouth. You can see the speakers, the little round speaker battery pack/amp, and the fan all mounted to the inner wall.


Here is a shot from the opening in the bottom looking up toward the top of the suit. You can see the fan and battery pack/amp. They’re all within reach while the suit is on. The large block of foam on the left has cutouts in it for my cell phone holster clip and for the iPod.


In this one you can see one of the speakers




The loose ends of the side fabric were glued down tonight on the ghost, and I think it’s going to get painted tomorrow.







And lastly I have a video of the costume in action. It doesn’t look as good as it did in my mind’s eye, but nonetheless, still pretty nifty. The paint was supposed to be color matched to the fabric that is used on the mouth pieces, but the computer at Lowes seems to have not done so well. Oh well, what can you do. I’m really looking forward to next weekend!


YouTube - PacMan costume completed with working mouth

wow, that is really cool - and complex at the same time!!

And I thought my Proton Pack was a pain in the rear to build from srcap pieces of corrugated cardboard including all the little boxes and doodads - LOL!!

I can't wait to see Pacman chasing the ghost. This is too cool.

That is awesome!

I just hope you're able to manuever around your get together. A few years back I was a life-sized Spongebob and basically had to stand in the corner all night so I didn't drll anyone or trash the house.

A little more work has been getting done. It’s all about finishing touches at this point. At the advice of someone on YouTube, I’ve painted the inside flat black and it’s made a world of difference. I’m working on putting black cloth inside the mouth frames. This is turning out to be a royal PITA, but it’s coming along nicely. The change in visibility when someone is looking into the suit has been phenomenal.

My friend, who will be wearing the ghost, has been helping with it. She’s gotten it painted and the eyes stenciled in. The inside is about 2/3 completed as far as painting it black, and I still need to install the hip belt.

PacMan has gotten dirty, so I’m thinking about putting another coat of Paint on to make it look nice and pretty again. It’s crunch time now, and things are also busy with the rest of life. But we will make in time!


Working on the stencil for the squiggles on the bottom of the ghost







PacMan partially painted inside


Working on gluing the fabric into the mouth sections


Spray Painting the inside of the Ghost black


The ghost painted


We’re trying for one side being blue with the face when the ghosts can be eaten.




And the piece of cardboard we used as a backing for painting the squiggles. We're going to frame and sell it as modern art :huh:

I'm officially done!!!



I realize that the order is reversed. I was in a rush.