Mr Fett
Well-Known Hunter
Today marks 25 years since the first time I trooped out in public as Boba Fett. Motor City Comic Con 10-23-1999. America was using dial-up modems to access the fledgling internet on grainy-screened heavy 15-17" tube monitors, and not all homes then even had a computer in them. A new search engine company called Google had just opened the year prior. This is the era in which my first Boba version was built. I was already out trooping events as Boba before TDH even came into existence, and so I got into this forum on the ground floor.
The jumpsuit and 2 saddle bags are the only parts left from the original version still in use today. Everything else got upgraded over time as artists developed more accurate parts. Back when I built it, there was only one vacform armor vendor and one soft parts vendor out there. You had to send them checks in the mail to purchase, because online payments weren't a thing yet. Helmet was a modified and repainted Don Post 1995 vinyl helmet. The common helmet back then. Very few Boba pics were around online in 1999, so the few Fett costumers that existed out there mostly used Star Wars magazine and book pictures to try and paint our armor. Jango Fett wasn't even in existence as a character yet, so "custom Mandos" weren't even a thing at conventions back then.
Like the majority of serious Boba costumers brains think, here in 2024 I still don't believe the suit is "done to perfection", but it's "OK for now". It was Boba here which led me into the 501st Legion. Now it's one of five costumes in my regular trooping rotation, and I still love it to this day.
The jumpsuit and 2 saddle bags are the only parts left from the original version still in use today. Everything else got upgraded over time as artists developed more accurate parts. Back when I built it, there was only one vacform armor vendor and one soft parts vendor out there. You had to send them checks in the mail to purchase, because online payments weren't a thing yet. Helmet was a modified and repainted Don Post 1995 vinyl helmet. The common helmet back then. Very few Boba pics were around online in 1999, so the few Fett costumers that existed out there mostly used Star Wars magazine and book pictures to try and paint our armor. Jango Fett wasn't even in existence as a character yet, so "custom Mandos" weren't even a thing at conventions back then.
Like the majority of serious Boba costumers brains think, here in 2024 I still don't believe the suit is "done to perfection", but it's "OK for now". It was Boba here which led me into the 501st Legion. Now it's one of five costumes in my regular trooping rotation, and I still love it to this day.
