Don’t Meep. Meep and you’re dead. They’re fast. Faster than you can believe. Don’t turn your back. Don’t look away. And don’t meep. Good Luck.
One of our favorite pop culture mashups (previously featured here) has been brought to life in glorious cosplay form. Behold, the Meeping Angel, created by costumer and cosplayer Shanola22 and her friend Will.
Shanola22 reached out to us to talk about how they brought this geektastic mashup to life and shared some very exciting news with us about future plans for this awesome costume. Are you ready? The Meeping Angel is getting a companion in the form of… wait for it… Dr. Honey-Who!
“As for construction, I pretty much followed the Weeping Angel tutorial on the RPF for the wings, with a few changes. I’m not sure any costumer/cosplayer ever does anything the same way another costumer/costumer does, and that is the fun! But I had to make changes the angel dress because I didn’t want to just put a Beaker head on a Weeping Angel body. I wanted it to look like Beaker had been accidentally turned into an angel by Dr. Honey-Who. That is just their dynamic and I wanted it to reflect in the costume. So the Meeping Angel has sleeves, because I’ve never seen Beaker’s arms actually exposed. The collar of the dress goes around his head instead of the head sitting on top of dress, and the shoulders sort of slant down, because that is a key shape that Beaker always has and I felt it was really important to keep that shape.”
“For practical matters, the dress is in two parts instead of one piece, to make getting dressed easier. So I can put the toe socks and shoes on, then the skirt, then the gloves, then the wings, then the top and fix that around the wings. Finally, the head is the last thing to go on, and it Velcros to the head. The pictures I posted on Facebook are of the first time we assembled the entire costume. It was a trial, to see how it worked together, how hard it was to put on and take off, what changes need to be made, how hot it was going to be. I shared the pictures because I feel confident it can work as a walking costume and I can finish it before the con.”
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