Cripes. You ever get morons trying to ride or sit on your back in those quad-suits?

No one asked, but I asked people! It's tons of fun, though I can only support up to 130 lbs. There's actually a video of my friend Sami riding on my back in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0ZiWElqTxI

Jump to 1:28 =)



I gave a few people rides, including this one little girl who thought I was real. She was too cute.

ahahah omg, that's so cool

Wow that's so wicked!

wicked costume man, I you and tried to get a photo of it, but you seemed busy at the time.

Aw, I'm sorry. Yeah, I didn't get much time to just walk around and the only time I got to go to the Artist Alley and Dealer's Room was right before they closed (like 1 pm for the AA and 2 pm for the DR). That happens sometimes. >.<
I'll be wearing Manectric around for the next couple conventions though, so if you see me again I'll be less busy since he'll already be done. =)

heh, it's quite alright, besides I won't have time to go to any other cons this year, and next year I won't be making it to Anime Boston since I'll be working at Pax East (it's horrible how they schedule both those cons in the same week! >.<).

I do have some questions though, I'm curious how you made such a costume? since I kinda want to try to make a similar one, and how difficult is it to walk around in one? =)

It's kind of the same process as any other fursuit. You build up the padding, make a pattern and then cover it in fur, or whatever you are using.

The only difference is the head and arm stilts. I have a youtube tutorial on how I made my arm stilts, and the head you just build off of a helmet. There's lots of youtube references for that too. =)

As for walking, it's not terribly difficult to walk around. You aren't entirely forced to walk on all 4s, you only put on as much weight on your arms as you want. The only thing I found difficult is when I wanted to support someone on my back, in which I found out that my limit is around 130 lbs.

ok, thanks a lot for the tips. I only ask since this would most likely be my first build and I kinda want to know a bit on what I'm getting into. =)

Very impressive! Honestly a bit shocked with how great this looks, no pun intended. *nod*
The time put in this really shows with how good it looks, and I hope the reactions from others while you have it on are priceless, hehe.

iwantoneofthose

I'll actually be selling him pretty soon. I have too many Pokesuits so I've decided that him and Eevee are gonna have to find new homes. I'm going to wear him one last time at ConnectiCon (July 8-10) and then I'll clean him up a bit and put him on FurBid or something.
Just and fyi to think about. =P

Oh wow! That was just a flippant comment, I wasn't actually expecting a serious response!

But yeah it'd be a pretty cool thing to own and manectric is p much my pokésona. Britfag here, how much would it actually cost?

I don't know how much I'm going to put as a starting price, but I know it would be nice to get between $1000 and $1500, so I'll probably have that as a reserve or insta-buy price. Kinda crazy but I need money and I think $800 to $1000 is fair for a whole regular suit. And this is quad, so I figure the bump is deserving.

Hah, that's more in my dreaming range than purchasing range!

but hey, where there's a will, there's a way

brb, rigging the lottery