LEGO Buzz Lightyear Costume
| My wife is a big fan of the Toy Story movies. With a new Lightyear movie coming out soon, she wanted me to make her a LEGO Buzz Lightyear costume. This was the first costume I’ve made for her since her 2017 LEGO Stormtrooper costume. | ||
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| Buzz Lightyear has a pretty simple head compared to other LEGO costumes I’ve made. I started with the basic LEGO head but made it a little taller than normal. Instead of pretending there’s a peg at the top covered by a hair piece, I just made the dome a little higher. There are two bumps on the sides for the ears. It’s painted mostly purple and then masked off to expose part of the face. There’s a gap between the teeth for my wife to see as she’s walking. | ||
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| The torso on this costume is where I put most of the details. It started with a cardboard box like the other costumes that’s fitted to my wife dimensions. I sketched out a vector graphic of the torso in Inkscape and printed it the actual size of the torso. This helps to guide where to layout all the details. I used 10 mm foam to give middle part of the chest some depth. | ||
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| I added beveled strips of foam to get the black ribbing under the chest. For the green section on the top, I extended the upper chest out a little. A large push button was added to the chest that was intended to allow con goers to trigger a sound effect if they pushed it. Unfortunately I didn’t get this wired up in time. Only 1 or 2 people at the convention thought to touch the button. | ||
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| The Space Rangers logo in the center and the Lightyear nameplate were 3D printed and then hand painted. When making the LEGO hands, I added a button on the inside that my wife can push to trigger the LED “laser” on the gauntlet. | ||
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| The original face looked a little goofy. I think it was a combination of the eyes with the weird open mouth. The mouth was something I couldn’t change and still give my wife visibility in the costume. My daughter suggested I get rid of the eye lids so the final face looks different from earlier pictures. | ||
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| Original plans were to add sound effects like I had with Green Goblin. I also wanted to add wings that could pop out. I 3D printed most of the structure for the wings but unfortunately I ran out of time to finish it. The wings may have been a waste since it was so crowded at the convention, we would have only been able to extend the wings for a a brief period of time in the lobby. | ||
