that's where i disagree... if someone doesn't have the time/money/talent to do the costume to the standards of the club, why should that person be made a member? boba is a HARD costume to pull off. if someone can't do it... there's nothing wrong with that. but "because it's hard" or "because it's expensive" shouldn't be enough of a reason to slide by.
now, to be fair... i would look at the whole suit on average and see if it matched up more than it didn't, if that made sense. if there's 1 or 2 scratches off, i wouldn't ding it. but if, say, you were missing one of the dents on the chest armor, that i would give pause over.
then again, i'm not a gml for the 501st. so thankfully my opinion means little
But at one point costumes that sucked were allowed.
I'm not going to sugarcoat this.
I've been to the 501st site, looked at the bounty hunters section and seen plenty of people with junk don post repaints that aren't accurate(at all) and star fortress parts (gun for example) that look nothing like what you guys are calling 'accurate'.
If at one point these costumes were allowed in...i don't think you can deny the entry for someone else who happened to come along after most of us 'knew better'
My opinion won't change. Even if you tell me "oh, that was when those people first got accepted, and now they upgraded to fett pride parts, or MOW, or bobamaker, or they got a marrow sun bucket...... it doesn't matter. Even if they are wearing the real suit busted straight out of the exhibit...they still were originally accepted into the 501st with a cr4ppy costume.
I will agree that the costume should be all from one movie, for the original acceptance. But in a non formal environment, pre pro gloves. sling guns. even a ROTJ blaster with ESB costume will not be noticed by fans....even some other 501st members if they've never studied boba.
do you know how many friends i have that i had to explain to for hours why i have different style boba props on display? rotj gauntlets and esb gauntlets.... different helmets...
and the fact that tie pilots will always be called darth vader. biker scouts stormtroopers.... and even boba fett, jango...
i'm just saying that the 501st should not be elitist full on. elitist section.. for the top notch costumes, but if i was a GML and somebody was missing the chest display or didnt have deep weathering on the bucket, or had the shin tools in the wrong pockets, or no blue and red rings on the knee darts,
i'd still let them in....i'd just help them fix up their costume after the fact.
people clearly put time in...maybe some could do more.. but it's a charity organization. not a real army.
this is all fake guys. some of us are 15 20 30 40 50 60. and we're all playing dress up.. sometimes i think that we do need to lighten up a bit