My Mario Bros. Costume "new pics 5/15/2011"

[gboy6]

Here's my take on the movie costumes
Mario's suit Luigi's suit
The hats
Mario's pouch Luigi's pouch
The devo guns: The top one is the one I made and the bottom one is Marioblaster's devo gun with some modifications

[Redstar]

Great costumes, gboy. You made the suits yourself? And I love how the tool belts are color-coded.

[gboy6]

Thanks for the complement. Mario's suit is a red Dickies I found at a Dickies store in one of Vegas' outlet mall. Luigi's one is the suit I had to wear for one of the jobs I was working on, hence the dark spots. And for both of them I just removed the sleeves and hemmed the ends. That way I still can use the shirt, but I still had to sacrifice half of one for the pockets.

Me as Mario My brother as Luigi
Together with the guns

[Redstar]

Great work and you and your brother both look good in them. Next step: fan film!

[Phlibbit]

Those outfits are great. I continue to be amazed by the talent by the SMB Movie fan community

[marioblaster]

Wow man! Those SMB outfits look great! Nice Devo guns you got there!! Now all you gotta do is get some spirit gum and fake mustaches and you're set to stomp some goombas!

[gboy6]

Redstar found out that I posted some pics on cosplay.com
Here are a few pics from KawaiiKon 2011 an anime convention in Hawaii:

And here we are working the toilets for the convention center:

The Luigi is my REAL younger brother.

I guess this will be where I will post my pics from now on.

[Redstar]

Awesome new photos, gboy! Glad you took my E-mail to heart and decided to stop by. Hopefully you stick around for a bit longer to check out all the cool stuff we've put up lately.

Did you and your brother get any interesting responses to your costumes? I imagine a lot of people would be surprised at seeing such an obscure cosplay choice.

[Phlibbit]

The costumes are great! And you guys definitely fit the roles of movie Mario and Luigi quite well. Keep posting the pics here--we want to see them!

I'm also curious to read the kinds of reactions you guys are getting.

[gboy6]

The only notable reaction was from a kid asking "Where's the 'M'?" and the mom saying "Mario doesn't have to have a M"
Other than that just people asking for pictures and from people remembering the movie.

[Redstar]

At least there wasn't a negative reaction. It's cool that your work was so well-received. Hopefully you two can find more opportunities to sport the costumes, perhaps for a site-related project.

[gboy6]

That sounds intriguing. What do you have in mind?

[Redstar]

I think a short film continuing the story of the movie or at least featuring the characters in some way would be a cool idea, especially since we have a good resource of props and creature stuff to work with. However, that's just a dream until the concept proves feasible.

Otherwise, the first ever "Super Mario Bros.: The Movie Screening/Fan Convention" (more likely idea) would be a good place to really geek-out with costumes.

[gboy6]

The short film sounds interesting but my filming buddies are not that interested in one right now. Maybe one day I can convince them.
As for the convention, I won't be going to the mainland anytime soon.

Here is another pic Redstar found:

http://nintendoprettypink.deviantart.com/art/Mario-Bros-Film-Cosplay-216217829

And I found some candid shots of us:

http://soundingthequiet777.deviantart.com/art/Kawaii-Kon-From-Above-2-207589791
http://noerusan.deviantart.com/art/KK-Feeling-lucky-punk-208285917
http://soundingthequiet777.deviantart.com/art/Kawaii-Kon-From-Above-1-207589257

[Prime Evil]

That is some damn good work there. The fact that you just happened to have the green overalls only makes it better. It is good to see the movie costumes get some love, even if I still think Mario's red suit should be just a hair darker.

(I maintain that it should have been blue with red sleeves/pockets and blue with kelly green sleeves/pockets. The color red is like black pepper--a little bit goes a long way, and when red is the dominant color, everything looks just a bit "off." I don't know why this is. As it stands, though, it looks ICONIC.)

All you really need is the Stomper boots and everything will be perfect. Actually, I just had an idea for replicating the action figures' 'weapons' as props...a cross between a jackhammer and a plunger/monkey wrench, if I'm not sorely mistaken.

[Serum]

Good job, if I didn't always go as myself to the conventions I'd go dressed in one of the Marios' jumpsuits.

I'm the kind of clown who goes to those conventions dressed in my street clothes and I always have a friend with me who dresses up like Goku from Dragon Ball or something and people say "Wow, it's Goku!" And I always intervene and say: "Yeah, but you'll never guess who I'm supposed to be." Then walk away, leaving them guessing.