The Truth About Adam Savage's $15,000 Comic-Con Costume

Publish date: 2024-05-09

Recreating Kane's space suit from Alien is a professional level cosplay ambition. It's a huge, clunky, highly detailed piece of costuming. Luckily, Savage had the skill, the money, and the time. Goodness, how much time he had.

Savage states that the project took "roughly 14 years." The process of boning up on expertise was extensive: He visited a display of the original costume, studied footage, and eventually started assembling the outfit piecemeal. "He sent away for textile samples from Italy and China for different types of woven fabric," CNBC reports. He even went so far as to hire mold makers to sculpt individual chunks of the getup.

In the end, Savage estimated that the cosplay set him back about $15,000. The suit was impressive. It was nearly indistinguishable from the original. And it was, as Savage put it, "a new level of hot." 20 minutes in the costume was enough to make the acclaimed stuff-maker aim for better ventilated accouterments going forward.

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