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*stares* Wow.....costume.....shiny.... .walking....amazing.. ...bender...and.....stuff... wow....*gaping...drooooling...* *blink* THAT'S REALLY COOL!!!!!  How'd you DO that!? And ohmygosh it's all big and realish and bender-y and it mooooves! Dude dude dude that's soooo spiffy! Neat!!!!
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Nurdbot

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..or get a gun and be a minor super hero.
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Killerfox

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woo! that rox00rz the s0xorz!!!!!! hell that is awsome!!!  good luck i vegas!!
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persephohi

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Sweet!! That's so cool! I admire both your dedication and your skill. Post pictures from the con, if you would, please.  --Bevin
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« Reply #51 on: 11-03-2003 17:33 »
« Last Edit on: 03-03-2006 00:00 »
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Thanks alot you guys. The comic-con was fun. Here is a link to our photo gallery. Eventually I want to turn it into a Bender does Vegas 50s style retro postcard gallery or something, but I have to go out of town so I'll have to wait until we get back. Bender's Vegas Scrapbook Until then, please enjoy these pics! They were so fun to take, and meeting Billy West was a very nice topper. He was blown away and stood around doing the Fry voice with me and drinking the "beers". I got 3rd in the category I was picked for- "professional" even though I am niether a professional nor did I purchase the costume... Oh well- it was a blast anyway! I'll post a little tutorial in a second. -cris 
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kimncris

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Here are some details on the construction of the costume:
I was originally going with the silver duct material (like on a dryer) for the arms and legs I even had it bought, but when I found this rubber stuff (quite on accident) I took all of the aluminum foil looking stuff back.
For the head I made 2 circles from sintra and made several vertical supports between them to make the basic cylinder shape and covered it with a skin of thin styrene. I then made another circle, cut it in half and notched the 2 haves together to form an X for the basic structure under the dome. Then after some styrene strips over the top, some fiberglass underneath, and lots and lots of Bondo for the gaps and seams I had the head and dome.
The eye socket is heat shaped sintra covered with a skin of thin styrene. The eyeballs are 4" clear hemispheres from Micheals (fill it yourself Xmas ornaments) I painted them white, but finding the balance of enough paint to cover but not be too opaque was not easy. This was my third attempt.
The antenna is a threaded rod covered with bondo and sanded to the final shape.
For the mouth shape I cut out the basic hole from the styrene skin and then made a sintra framework covered with white fabric and black paint lines for the teeth that velcros in from the inside. This is where I will see out of the costume. I also cutout a portion of the lower jaw in the center and re-glued together to form a slight overbite.
The cigar is a novelty cigar from the Halloween store with some hot glue for ash and an LED and switch inside. There is a magnet on one end and a mating one behind the teeth.
The beer labels I made myself one from a screenshot and the other I just made-up
The body is constructed the same way as the head, styrene wrapped around a sintra framework and the arms and legs were originally painted but it kept flaking off, so I stripped all of the paint off and covered them with smooth gray vinyl tape.
the foot bowls are split up the back and snap back together, and also have a little semicircle in the toe area to hook under my boot to keep them from wobbling.
The shoulders I poured from grey flexible expanding foam into the same bowls I used for the feet, and spray painted the inside of the bowl first to get the grey "skin".
I also ran nylon webbing up the insides of the legs and arms with a snap on the ends to snap into a belt for the legs support and inside the shoulder area for the arms.
other than that it's alot of hot-glue, superglue, grey primer, and bondo. I also practiced with poster board before I started cutting shapes out of the styrene since it took almost 2 full sheets of styrene. I got a little bit thicker gauge like the thickness of the ABS armour out there for the body and also a little bit thinner gauge like a for sale sign for some of the outer skins since it is much more flexible.
I shaped most of the parts over the stove burner, but used a heat gun here and there too whenever I was trying to keep something from flexing back from the shape I had glued it into.
did I miss anything?
-cris
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kimncris

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thanks again, yeah Billy West was very nice. He left room for John Dimaggio to sign too- so when I get that one it will be super awesome! I forgot to answer- yes there's a CD player in there! I put about 50 bender sayings on a loop and they just spit out every 30 seconds or so  I need a bigger amp though, I found that at the party it was very hard to hear Bender over the noise, but at the Con it was perfect! -cris
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Farnsworth38

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Absolute pure gold! So what’s next; Beelzebot perhaps? *Gets hit by a flying beer bottle*
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Asylum-Fry

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Originally posted by Farnsworth38: Absolute pure gold! So what’s next; Beelzebot perhaps? *Gets hit by a flying beer bottle* I think I've been inspired to make a Roberto costume. Seriously... I'll start now, maybe I'll finish it in time for next Halloween, I'm such a damn procrastinator.
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« Reply #61 on: 11-05-2003 09:12 »
« Last Edit on: 11-15-2003 00:00 »
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Originally posted by kimncris: They were so fun to take, and meeting Billy West was a very nice topper. He was blown away and stood around doing the Fry voice with me and drinking the "beers".
That's it... you are now one of, if not the coolest person I ever "met". To actually be Bender to Billy's Fry... you lucky f*ck! Your other Vegas pictures are cool as well (I would love to see a "Leeloo & Stitch" movie!  ). [zoidberg]Your costume's great, and you should feel great![/zoidberg]
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kimncris

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Thanks, you guys. I'd love to see some other fan costumes  I submitted mine to the Got Futurama website, but there do not appear to be many other submissions... I'd like to make a Leela costume for Kim, though. I am working on my postcards now, so hopefully in a few days I'll have my own "fan art" to share. -cris
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Nurdbot

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Mass produce those thingies for all of PEEL.
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kimncris

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« Reply #66 on: 11-10-2003 13:28 »
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Thanks, you guys! I finally finished my postcard art. I posted them here in the fan art section, but they were moved to another forum since it is a website too. However, you can still find them at: http://kimncris.com/bender/new_page_1.htm enjoy! -cris (edited for grammer -ck)
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« Reply #70 on: 11-21-2003 23:48 »
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darn. My friend who hosts all my pictures is changing DSL services, so all of the pictures are inaccessable right now  They should be back in a week or so. but... [farnsworth]Good news everyone![/farnsworth] fortunately somebody I never met or heard of is mirroring the photogallery page (at least the original version of it- I had made a couple of small changes to the disclaimer)but without the "welcome" page. So Bender's antics can still be found here: http://hektik.org/various/bendersuit_in_vegas/new_page_1.htm for as long as they continue thier goodwill mission.  That link has been passed around alot! I keep seeing new entries on google every day. If you would like to see a specific picture in the mean time, I can email it to you... -cris
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kimncris

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ha ha ha ha ha... :lol Thanks  BTW Boingo2000- great avatar! He keeps saying he's going to quite scoring movies (I hope not!) but if he does, let's hope it is to return to rock and roll  -cris
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kimncris

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nah... but thanks you guys. I'm just some guy who wanted to be Bender for Halloween. You guys can do it too! <--------- and can you beat that, been here since Oct and just now a delivery boy. Well one of these days I'll be a real bending unit! -cris
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