My sister made a Chewbacca piata costume
A few weeks ago my good friend John Park created a video demonstration of how to hack the famous Happy Chewbacca mask to trigger your very own audio files. Andwhen my sister Christina told meshe was buildinga Chewbacca-Pinata costume for her son, I naturally shared Johns video with her.
https://youtu.be/2gveeXyNoqg
What my sister ended up creating was the most awesome thing Ive ever seen.
But before sharing some pics and a video of the costume in action, I wanted to set the bar very, very low by showing images of other homemade Chewbacca costumes I found online.
It's like looking in a Chewbacca mirror!
Boxybacca.
Yes, you can purchase this one!
And this is my favorite one of all. The caption under this photo read, Look at Chewbaccas feet!.
The truth is, thats all Im looking at.
So now that youre primed for awesomeness, here are some pics of the creative process and a video of the finished product.
Christina started with an ordinary fleece jacket and started attaching strips of paper to it in layers.
She kept working upwards and onto the store-bought Chewbacca mask. And Ryan just kept standing there.
Christina made Chewbacca-pantaloons by applying the same paper layering techniques onto a pair of sweatpants.
https://youtu.be/j0U2UUc3xw0
Holy crap is that a fantastic Chewbacca-Piata costume, but from what I can tell there is a fatal flaw.
The costume is called a Chewbacca Piata and piatas are meant to be hit with a stick or a baseball bat. If I had my way, to avoid a run-ins with stick carrying bullies, the name would be changed to something simple, like for instance, Chewbacca.
Potato, piata.
If youd like to make your own Chewbacca Piata, follow this link but be warned, its going to suck about 40 hours of your life away.
May the force be with you.
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