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Mythbusters' Adam Savage Spent $15k Building A Comic-Con Costume
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1:19Now PlayingComic-Con cosplay can represent a big investment of time and money. Mythbusters host Adam Savage discusses his favorite costume build that took him over a decade to create and premiere at San Diego's Comic-Con.
Adam Savage, the host of Discovery Channel’s “Savage Builds” and former co-host of “Mythbusters,” spent over $15,000 to design and create a copy of his favorite space suit. For years, Savage has attended Comic-Cons across the country in elaborate costumes, but this was by far the most expensive.
Among the bigger Comic-Con events are Comic-Con San Diego, Comic-Con New York, Comic-Con Boston, Comic-Con Denver, Comic-Con Chicago, Comic-Con Atlanta, and Comic-Con Dallas.
Savage built Kane's suit from the 1979 Ridley Scott movie "Alien." In the movie, executive officer Kane (actor John Hurt) encounters the first alien, which attaches itself to his face and later bursts from his chest in a pivotal scene.
After years of working on the project since about 2005 he set a goal of completing the suit and wearing it to San Diego Comic-Con in 2014. Much of the time Savage devoted to the costume came from researching all of the details of the suit. He spent hours watching footage from the movie to figure out what each part of the suit was made from. “I made my own versions of things several different times when I realized that some of my details weren’t correct,” he says.
Savage went so far as to source textiles from Italy and China for the different types of woven fabric involved in the costume. Several of the individual pieces are built from scratch. “I hired people to make molds for me. I hired people to make castings for me.”
Ultimately, Savage wore the suit while walking around the floor of Comic-Con for only 20 minutes. “That was a new level of hot,” Savage said after the walk. “I don’t think I’m going to go for a suit this hot again.”
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Mythbusters' Adam Savage Spent $15k Building A Comic-Con Costume
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