Hasta La Gadget!

Feel the urge to stomp all over a huge city? Then you better suit up in this hoodie. It will transform you into Godzilla. The hood even zips over your head to complete the transformation.

Interestingly, they mention that this hoodie requires batteries. That’s probably so you can let out a mighty roar that sounds just like Godzilla’s. Of course, you might want to pick up a Mega Stomp Battle to add the appropriate stomping sound effects too.

You can preorder the Godzilla hoodie now for delivery late this summer. That will be as good a time as any to lay waste to your city. You can get this awesome hoodie from Big Bad Toy Store for just $42.99(USD).

Interestingly, this isn’t the only Godzilla outfit on the way from Rubies Costume Company. They’re also working on a few others you can find on their Facebook page. The inflatable Godzilla costume looks like the best one:

[via Fashionably Geek]

We’ve featured awesome papercraft Iron Man and War Machine figurines before, but Kai-Xiang Xhong’s creation easily eclipses those two. The 20-year-old papercraft enthusiast made a life-size, wearable and wonderfully made Iron Man suit using nothing but cardboard.

After seeing his work through its Facebook community, the famed visual effects and props academy Stan Winston School interviewed Kai-Xiang Xhong and let him share some of his creations on the school’s blog.

Here are clips from Stan Winston School’s video chat with Kai-Xiang. It’s well worth a watch, as he shows off many of his incredible creations in it.

Craft a cardboard browser and head to Stan Winston School’s blog see Kai-Xiang’s other pieces. Keep it up kid, and someday you may attain godhood.

[via Archie McPhee]

An imaginary thinking cap? Pfff. The next time you’re in a quandary, put on this replica of Captain Jean-Luc Picard’s jacket and let the cerebral hero of Star Trek: The Next Generation be your spirit animal. As soon as you put it on you’ll have at least one profound thought: “Really Captain? Suede?”

The officially-licensed replica is being made by Anovos, who got their hands on one of the jackets worn by Patrick Stewart in the last two seasons of the show. The company claims that the replica’s color, pattern and fabric closely match the TV show costume.

Damn. That’s a 90s show all right.

As of this writing you can pre-order the jacket from Anovos for $250 (USD). Only 100 jackets will be made, with the final 40 jackets going for $300. At those prices you’d think the turtleneck and comm badge would be included.

[via Star Trek]

We’ve actually seen a baby in a Power Loader costume before, but it doesn’t get old. There’s something very creepy and unsettling about seeing a baby in control of a multi-ton machine capable of crushing an Alien Queen like a bug.

This one was built by Carsten Riewe for a Karneval Parade in Germany and it’s a dead ringer for the Caterpillar P5000 exoskeleton power loader from Aliens. But instead of Ripley, his 13-month-old daughter is the one driving this thing. Hopefully she isn’t a temperamental child and won’t destroy the whole town or anything because she didn’t get the toy she wanted. Nah. Don’t worry, her dad is behind her as the real driver.

The costume is a nice piece of work, and took about 100 hours to build. The arms and legs are full moveable and the top-light and LED are powered by a 12 Volt battery pack stored in the backpack. The on/off switch is in the left arm. There is also a Bluetooth boombox in the backpack to play mechanical robot sound effects or music.

[via Uproxx via Neatorama]

We featured a horned Loki hoodie before, but if all you want is his huge helmet, Etsy shop Raptor with a Shotgun has what you need. Sadly, they don’t have a raptor with a shotgun.

The helmet is about 2 feet-tall and is made of fiberglass-reinforced liquid plastic casting resin. For practical reasons the shop made the horns out of hollow plastic, but you should still feel their heft when you put the helmet on.

If you’re planning on cosplaying as the god of lies and mischief, you can also get the rest of his armor from Raptor with a Shotgun. That includes his armguards, a shoulder piece and a chest piece.

The shop even has a replica of the muzzle that they put on Loki in The Avengers.

Trick your browser into taking you to Etsy to order these replicas. The helmet costs $450 (USD), while the whole armor set – excluding the muzzle – costs $680. You can also get the pieces separately.