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Gender Discrimination in Star Trek Halloween Costumes?
No, this isn’t about the miniskirts and go-go boots. Rather, this is something that might make the female geek population a little angry. You see, my wife and I decided (as many the geek couple will...
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GeekDad Puzzle Of The Week: Costume Contest!
Image by Flicker user Nevada Tumbleweed, used under Creative Commons licensing. We’re doing something a little different this week. With October 31 just around the corner, we’re going to have a...
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Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventures Contest Winners
We received a lot of great costume ideas but few with photos and fewer yet with instructions on how to build it. After snagging five random numbers from random.org and matching them up against the list...
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Geeks Wanted for Fantasy Transformation TV Show!
Surely you can dress up better than this. (Pictured: a certain Geek Dad blogger) Have you always dreamed of being a knight? Imagined you were in a Tolkien story? Wished you were armed with more than...
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Create Your Own Steampunk Gear, Gadgets, and Gizmos
October is a perfect time for releasing a new book on building your own Steampunk costume. Even though Steampunk Gear, Gadgets, and Gizmos has cosplayers as its primary target, the information...
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Meet R2-22! (GeekDad POTD)
We’d heard of battle droids before, but this is the first ballet droid we’ve encountered. Photo copyright by Flickr user “Leeloo (J!NX).” Found via Reddit. If you value content from GeekDad, please...
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: Halloween Kids Party Puzzle
Nora, resplendent in her unicorn costume. Kids’ Halloween parties are great this time of year, unless of course you don’t read the invite carefully and are the only adult in costume. In any case, my...
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution: Halloween Kids Party Puzzle
Hope that everyone is still feasting on remainder Halloween candy. Here is this past week’s puzzle as previously posted: Nora, resplendent in her unicorn costume. Kids’ Halloween parties are great this...
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Running With Lightsabers: Participating in the Course of the Force
When the Force calls, you answer. When I got the word that, thanks to my wife, I had a spot as a participant on this year’s Course of the Force relay, how could I refuse? I got to wear this! The Course...
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Paper and Paste: Making Stuff With Children
Self-made Star Wars gear out of papier-mâché. Our first self-made mask out of papier-mâché had initially been met with a certain dose of skepticism by child #1. Wasn’t this Halloween mask funny rather...
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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead(pool)
Image courtesy: Pat Loika (CC:BY) You know that amazing cosplay idea you had last year at Denver Comic Con? The one with all the leather bits, welded accouterments, and authentic period buttons and...
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2015 Denver Comic Con – Cosplay Roundup
With over 9,000 square feet of labs for children and teens, 300 hours of educational programming, and all proceeds going to Pop Culture Classroom (a program dedicated to promoting literacy through...
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Happy Gorilla Suit Day!
As longtime readers of GeekDad are aware, National Gorilla Suit Day is one of the many annual events we celebrate here. Okay, the truth is, I celebrate it and GeekDad indulges me. So here we go…. The...
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Felt Masks: A Quick Costume Change
All Images: Sarah Pinault There are many ways in which people attempt to leave the narrow confines of their world. Some people read, these days most people blog, some like to sit in the woods looking...
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Halloween Make Up Tips
All images: Makeup by CG You don’t need a full-blown costume to make a splash on Halloween, just a good make up artist. Connecticut-based make up artist Christen Gundersen, has been posting regularly...
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Win a Free Costume Up To $75 From Costume Super Center!
Image: CostumeSuperCenter.com Con season is upon us, so it’s time to decide what you’re going to wear, cosplayers! Although some of you may spend countless hours crafting just the right costume, for...
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Kick-Butt Disney Princess Cosplay, No Princes Needed, Thank You Very Much
Image: The Will Box The thing with the Disney princesses is that parents, and especially moms, seem to take one of two sides. They’re either fine with the pretty princesses and their flowing locks and...
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Cosplayer’s Survival Kit
Image: Dakster Sullivan It’s not uncommon for something to go wrong while wearing a costume. The trick is learning how to handle it with what you have on you. I’ve worn a range of costumes from armor...
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Do You Have The Cosplay Bug?
Whoops! Wrong bug. Image: Flickr user pikawil100, some rights reserved Five years ago, the costume bug bit me hard. The only known cure was to build a costume of my own and wear it out to as many...
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Being The Worst Cosplayer
Image By Rebecca Angel What defines the worst cosplayer? Perhaps not remembering much about the character. Not even their real name. That was me! Image By Luke Maxwell This is She-Ra, Princess of...
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