Boba Fett Supreme Edition Adult Costume

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Reviewed by: tsmith233

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Location: Canada

Gender: Male

Age: 26-35

Visit Frequency: yearly

Title: Lack of quality control

Date: Oct 16, 2009

The costume has a distinct lack of quality control given the high price. It can be fixed though, as I'll detail below. Problems: - The missile and tubing on the guantlets was attached with just hot glue and they had come off. - The l plastic loop in the butt armour was detached (hot glue problem again). - The paint job on the armour, jetpack and helmet would be OK if they hadn't gone crazy with the silver paint. The dent in the helmet looks like a starburst and the simulated scrathes on the jetpack are comical. - The velcro on the tubing is not well secured, the same can be said of alot of the velcro on the armour parts. - The chest armour is flat rather than curved, makes it difficult to secure it to the vest. - The Jetpack is made from two molded parts and they are very poorly mated together, results in very uneven joints, etc. - Helmet visor is not dark enough and your face can be seen. Fixes: - Use auto window tint on the inside of the visor so your face cannot be seen. - Reinforce the lower face parts of the helmet with fiberglass tape and resin (it's really thin plastic) and repaint the helmet. - Use bondo on the jetpack to fix the seams. Sand and repaint. - Fix the gaunlets by reattaching the rocket and tubing using glue and a couple of screws. - Heat the body armour with a hairdryer, it can then be shaped to fit properly. Also, it's thin plastic, reinforce with fiberglass tape and resin. - Reaffix all the velcro with glue, it's not well secured otherwise. As you can see, it's a fair amount of work to fix it up considering the high price tag. More attention to detail and this might actually have been a pretty good costume out of the box.

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