The brilliance of a good transformer was that they were like a Rubik's cube; you spent ages learning and relearning the instructions (or figuring it out for yourself), you knew every point of articulation on it, you could transform your favourite ones at will (I can still vaguely remember how to transform a Jazz toy I…

According to the Wikipedia page for Sherlock Hound, he's either meant to be a Red Fox or a Corgi. I could see the corgi angle, but I'd much rather it look like this:

"Whaaat are you?"

Luke, I am your otou-san

Batman as a kick-ass Luchador would be pretty cool. El Murcielago.

It's like the like the spawn of Lawnmower Man downloaded into a Mark 6.

I'm hoping to put Chunk from the Goonies on Thor.

Yep. Pretty much.

isn't the Ironman suit unisex?

Why did that kid want a Dan Gilbert action figure?

"This demeans us both! Never before has anyone wished to be a terrifying homunculus RDJ instead!"

I consider it cosplay, but I'm no expert. I have a wallstreet wario getup that I do, where I take the classic 1980s wallstreet look, and match it to the wario colorscheme. So yellow dress shirt, purple suspenders/purple dress slacks, green gator shoes. It works well enough.

Maybe they borrowed a friend's button down and didn't want to mess it up?

Esp surprising given the care put into the stickers on Brienne's football gear

It's still cosplay. It's the same mentality as the alt and combo costumes. Something new, something different, another fun thing to do. Some people really like being on the cutting edge of new cosplays and it can get a little dull playing the same version of a character over and over. Fun to spice it up at times.

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I think so long as you're putting on a "costume" you're probably still cosplaying.

CHOCCY BICCIES OR NO DICE

I loved this show as a kid! It's one of those that I wondered why it never had the nostalgia of other 80's era cartoons. It's almost never mentioned. I was surprised to read that it ran for 11 years! Based on the lack of nostalgia for it, I thought maybe it was 2 years and done.