now there are total cosplay community of interests devote to raiment up as Star Wars characters , but sept in the later seventies and other 1980s did n’t have the internet for immediate pointers .
No , they had to swear on magazine photos , half - remembered prospect from the Original Trilogy , and thoroughgoing craft - entrepot gritstone . And the Flickr group “ Growing Up Star Wars ” catalogues many of these rad homemade outfits made between 1977 and 1985 .
Here ’s but a modest sampling ofthe many hilarious and wonderful photos from “ Growing Up Stars Wars . ”Perhaps my favored stab is above . ExplainsWalter Keeganof this photo :
Back in the previous 70 ’s everyone wanted to get in on the Star Wars money train . Places like Great Adventure in NJ found away around licensing with these “ Star Battles ” pictures with Derth Nadar and C3Copeia . Here ’s how it ’s done :
1 . Grab 2 mannequins
2 . bribe a Darth Vader helmet and stitch some sheeny edging onto inglorious material to hang on one
3 . Spray paint one atomic number 79 and gum on a lot of electronic parts and bungee cords
4 . Find a kid who lives and breathes Star Wars , give him a non - laser gun ( who create sure to charge at the golem , not Darth . Darth was cool . )
5 . Charge the tyke ’s parents $ 5 for the photo
And on a similar bank bill , see a newspaper visibility of Darth Vader before anyone recognise who he was .
https://gizmodo.com/a-newspaper-profile-of-darth-vader-from-1977-when-he-w-5950062
A scene from a “ 1977 Halloween company and dance at the University of Washington , Seattle ” by Andrew Siguenza . More of these charmingly no - budget shot can be foundhere .
Las Vegas Lass’conventions exposure from the recent seventies and early 1980s . ( “ I was soundly curse from fandom when I discovered hoodlum rock and roll around 1980 . ” )
( Behold the tycoon of Disco Greedo . )
Photograph byPhil Dillon — these are helmets made of “ grain boxes and loo roll tubes ” from before New Hope was even released .
UPDATE : Reader submissions ! io9 commenterRichnaleawore this boss Vader outfit back in the day :
I made a homemade Darth Vader costume out of composition board , a fictile U. S. Army helmet , raisin corner , clay , leg from a light bright , lots of tape ( layered ) and the lightsaber was composition board and a sawed off orange broom ( with a smashed mom ) .
AndBadBob001also remembers that Great Adventure bootleg conniption !
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