Blue Meanie
by furtech
This year's big costume project for the SDCC (aka, ComiCon International 2011) masquerade and Reno Worldcon (Renovation) was the Blue Meanie Boss!
I'd wanted to make him for a while: he looked like fun to perform and I love the Beatles and Yellow Submarine. So it felt like a natural. Huge kudos and thanks to my fellow Anything Goes School of Masquerade Arts Wayne, Henry, Lydia and Kim! for their wonderful animated Beatles costumes in the SDCC version of the skit!
I also made a couple of faux-Rock Band guitar props. I'm really happy with how they turned out!
Blue Meanie details:
Constructed by Lynette Eklund and myself. We had a hard time finding any fur that looked like Blue Meanie fur...we considered ruffling up kong-fur; blue-dyed sheepskins (which would have weighed about a hundred pounds); and finally settled on...Clown Wigs! 39 of them! I got such an education on purchasing clown wigs: apparently there is a whole range of quality...we needed to buy the Sooper Deluxxe Clown Wigs, not the Deluxxe Clown Wigs if we wanted wigs that looked like every picture in every costume catalog in existance (they all use the same pic, though the wigs themselves range from thin-and-skanky to plush-and-poofy). I feel so enlightened. If I ever decide to change careers, I'm set!
