If you needed any ideas for a Guardians of the Galaxy cosplay, you can always dress as Baby Groot.
AsCinema Today, Eigaland and Yahoo! News Japan report, the film’s Japanese voice actors cosplayed as their onscreen counterparts at a recent press event in Tokyo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMwNGta24Zk
Dressing up as Rocket or Mantis doesn’t seem that tricky. But teeny tiny Baby Groot? Also doable if you can make the character’s body.
500RT：【！？】遠藤憲一、「ガーディアンズ・オブ・ギャラクシー」イベントで衝撃コスプレ披露https://t.co/qSz7NEu3Jr
会場からも驚きの声があがると、遠藤は「自分の職業がわからなくなっちゃった」と笑い飛ばした。 pic.twitter.com/KVKm1EQl3b
— ライブドアニュース (@livedoornews) May 8, 2017
Actor Kenichi Endo is doing the character’s Japanese voice track, and he spent about an hour and a half in makeup to help pull this off.
It’s the little Baby Groot puppet with movable hands that really sells it. Darker backgrounds, too.
He is Groot. Baby Groot. With a giant human head.
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