A couple of those are...bleh. But some of them are cute. I'm in the process of fixing an official Princess Leia costume myself. It was really badly put together, but I finally found a use for my sewing kit. Though for $60, I shouldn't have to "fix" the product....
@Ladyem: It makes an excellent base. It doesn't look too bad, it's just not well put together. The top is loose; it's a felt bra, with rubber cutouts sewn on, but they're only sewn on the corners. Basically the bare minimum to keep them from falling off. So the cutouts hang off and don't lay down. I've been sewing them down.... You don't want to sew it ALL down though, because you want to leave enough for it to move to your shape; also because it can't all be totally sewn flat, because you'd have to fold some of it over, which wouldn't look good at all.
It was also too big around, so I had to shorten the strap near the velcro. I've also thought about buying some gold cording to wrap around the neck straps. The bottom is fine though; it covers very well, too. #supermariobros
See, the bottom has always been a concern for me. I don't have a particularly small bum, so I was a bit worried about cheekage hanging out, you know? :-p
Thank you for the info, though! Its great to know. :) #supermariobros
@Ladyem: The bottom is sort of like wearing a pair of bloomers (they fully cover, and you might even want to roll them up a bit), and the fabric that hangs down is actually quite wide (as opposed to the high-cut, thin strip that you see in the image of the costume on the package).
If it wasn't so shoddily made (though as I said, I am fixing it up), it wouldn't be at all embarrassing to wear somewhere.
Woohoo! You can see the big blue ornament in the centre is what seperates rate it from standard princess costume fare.
That and its a bit slutty. I like. #supermariobros
So is it *technically* OK to abduct a woman dressed in a Princess Peach costume and take her back to your castle? Not sure on the law there. #supermariobros
@Harpo: I don't remember the mushroom people being blessed with an abundance of jollity. They all seemed quite sad that the princess had been kidnapped. #supermariobros
@ThursdayNext: After considering visual and musical proof, I must acknowledge this claim. My apologies. The mushroom people had indeed a lot to straighten out. #supermariobros
@kitsuneconundrum: If she gets kidnapped by a giant lizard and is exceptionally good at Tennis and Golf and Soccer then its the proper costume #supermariobros
A for Effort and Theme, but it... ah... doesn't look so high quality. Who am I to judge though, I've never been able to casemod anything beyond 'meltmod' (using a lighter on a console) and 'smashmod' (self explanitory).
Looks like it just sold on ebay for 100 bucks too. Technabob blog is right, if they had just submitted it to a gaming site or let Kotaku do its 'We don't normally promote ebay stuff' thing, it probably would have gotten a bit more.
@Komrade Kayce - Hero of Soviet Kotaku: At first I thought the title of this article was "N64 Cake Mod." Because yes, the quality of the build - clever - while looks questionable.
@Benguin: Its just historical accuracy, back in the n64 days everything was made to look like cake; in nintendos evil plan to make us eat more cake. I would often be playing zelda and think "boy does that link look tasty, i sure could have a piece of cake right now". Some people may say that the n64s games look blocky and quite ugly but that's what happens when your games are made to look like cake. I have never quite understood why they did this until rather recently, they were fattening us up! Then years later with our podgy cake filled bodies we would all buy wii fit.
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Then again, it does make a good base... #supermariobros
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It was also too big around, so I had to shorten the strap near the velcro. I've also thought about buying some gold cording to wrap around the neck straps. The bottom is fine though; it covers very well, too. #supermariobros
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See, the bottom has always been a concern for me. I don't have a particularly small bum, so I was a bit worried about cheekage hanging out, you know? :-p
Thank you for the info, though! Its great to know. :) #supermariobros
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If it wasn't so shoddily made (though as I said, I am fixing it up), it wouldn't be at all embarrassing to wear somewhere.
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It's too late.
Who's gonna tell you things,
Aren't so great.
You can't go on,
Thinking nothing's wrong.
Who's gonna be your Toad,
Tonight? #supermariobros
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That and its a bit slutty. I like. #supermariobros
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Peach has mad skills brah!
I remember as a youngling, playing n64 with my 2 older sisters and older brother, we all used to call her princess bitch.
no one would ever play as her, and the ultimate insult was to have her overtake you. #supermariobros
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Looks like it just sold on ebay for 100 bucks too. Technabob blog is right, if they had just submitted it to a gaming site or let Kotaku do its 'We don't normally promote ebay stuff' thing, it probably would have gotten a bit more.
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And somewhat lumpy.
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Top of the castle comes off by the look of it, I guess it goes in under it.
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That's exactly what I was thinking. Great mod and all but, how exactly do I use it?
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http://z.pe/fDh
Top comes off, insert cartridge, put top back on.
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Click the link. Top of castle comes off.
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