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Cosplay Feature: SpookyMoogs Bikini Sonic!

Photo by Togith Photography It's the day after Christmas, winter has started and I'm ending the year with a bikini cosplay? No wait that sounds about right for me! I came across SpookyMoogs awhile ago when it came to searching for new people to share and her bikini take on the world's fastest hedgehog caught my eye, For starters, I love the wig choice being your standard fare with the long portions on the sides plus the cute little ears on the top. There's one shot you'll see later that really shows off the length of the wig extending out from the back. The ears are super small in their size & length. Best bet is she may have utilized the headband trick for having them stay in place. Then you get to the bikini portion itself which looks to be a mixture of 2 pieces. There's a one piece portion that has some space opening up on both Moogs' front and back sides. Then it looks like the normal chest piece is separate based on how it's layered next to the ...
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Cosplay Feature: Victoria Schmidt's Tron Legacy Dress

One of the big things going around the cosplay community is SyFy's new show "Heroes of Cosplay". The show focuses on several cosplayers as they travel to conventions and mainly compete in the competitions held there. I'm not too entirely in favor of the show as it being a reality show, it portrays these immensely talented people as somewhat bitchy/catty which in all honesty is the exact OPPOSITE of how they are in real life which is down to earth and super sweet. Having met 2 of them in person and interacting with some online I know this for a FACT.

All that aside it does show some of the amazing skill sets that each cosplayer has and one outfit I loved seeing was Victoria's Tron Legacy inspired dress. Not only does she look fabulous in it but the amount of work is just so inspiring. It was especially interesting how the light-up parts were handled by her boyfriend Jinyo (who is a complete badass I might add) from wiring underneath the dress and going through the back of her heels. Plus (and I may get the number wrong so oops on my part) it took about I want to say over 15 AA batteries to light the whole thing. Light up glow tape was used for the main sections of the dress as were little lights alongside the trim at the bottom of the dress. I also remember from seeing it on the show that the dress was detachable along the bottom so it could look a little bit shorter which was so cool to see.

Turns out that this version of the dress on the show was version 3.0 as Jinyo puts it in his little blog where I read up about the outfit. Having came up with the design initially, it seems that he wasn't satisfied with the first 2. Not that this is a bad thing considering my Nightwing has undergone 2 remakes/upgrades as of now and I couldn't be happier. This dress has its original form underneath the detachable part as mentioned above which at first makes it look like an incredible ball gown. The heart shaped disk prop was also a very nice addition!

I won't go into the crazy details so instead i'll provide pictures of it!! Note that these are all of version 2.0 of the dress (I think). Props to Victoria and Jinyo for making a totally awesome dress! Oh and it should be stated that Victoria LOVES TRON so hence why this dress was made :).

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