Why people SHOULDN'T re-create TRON costumes...

[Spork]

The only thing that makes this worse is the fact that he lives in my home state. /shutters



Bloomington: Jay Maynard, 44 of Fairmont, is dressed as a character inspired by the movie "Tron." He was waiting backstage during a costume contest at Convergence-Con, an annual science-fiction and fantasy convention held at the Sheraton Hotel South. "I'm wearing 10 double AA's and a 9-volt," said Maynard, who made his costume from spandex and electro-luminous wires.

"I've had about 15 radio interviews, three or four magazine stories, I have been on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' four times now and there is at least one more segment in the can ready to run. I certainly didn't set out to do all that, but I thought, 'I'm on the tiger. I might as well grab his ears and enjoy the ride.'

"Not all of the attention has been flattering. A couple online stories have drawn about 1,000 comments and only about 30 of them have been positive. Most of the rest were along the lines of: 'Fat guys in spandex don't look good' and 'My eyes will never be the same, where's the bleach?' That really got to me. I was in Detroit after one story hit the Web and had to drive 12 hours alone with all those comments ringing in my head. It was like the eighth-grade class bullying the unpopular geek all over again.

"In high school, I tried to do whatever it took to make that stop. I wanted to be one of the 'in crowd,' but I couldn't think of anything that I could do to change the fact that I wasn't. I've worked through all that now. I learned that if I don't accept myself, nobody will. But that doesn't mean it didn't still hurt. It hurt quite a lot. I wouldn't recommend anybody to spend hours on Interstate 80 after that kind of treatment."

[Ya_know]

Everybody picked on him in HS, and now...seems to me he needs to get himself out of the spotlight...that way no one will notice him anymore...

Or at least get a personal trainer to help get that costume in-line with the way it looked in the movie...it’s all about realism, and he just ain’t providing the proper form to fill that thing out.

[Radical Dreamer]

I saw this retard floating around the net some time back, he looks as stupid now as he did then

[Radical Dreamer]

What state is he from? Hopefully not WV, because I notice he lives in Fairmont, which is the same town that is sa ys he is from

[meatwad]

I think we're all missing the big picture here, you know, the one that was posted. What the hell is the deal with all the people in the lemming costumes?

[Spork]

What state is he from? Hopefully not WV, because I notice he lives in Fairmont, which is the same town that is sa ys he is from

Minnesota

[Archer]

Seems there a few too many pixels in that sprite
BTW Apr 2004

[Diver01]

Minnesota

For the love of God and all that is holy and good please get me the hell out of here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Spork]

For the love of God and all that is holy and good please get me the hell out of here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Diver01, don't be ashamed just because you and him used to play together as kids.

[Seeker]

This picture actually makes me feel ill.

His tummy is HUGE like a turkey.

[Commander Klarg]

I will freely admit my figure is not much better than his, but there is no way in H311 that I would wear something like that in public (or private for that matter)!

[Cobra X]

"Not all of the attention has been flattering. A couple online stories have drawn about 1,000 comments and only about 30 of them have been positive. Most of the rest were along the lines of: 'Fat guys in spandex don't look good' and 'My eyes will never be the same, where's the bleach?' That really got to me. I was in Detroit after one story hit the Web and had to drive 12 hours alone with all those comments ringing in my head. It was like the eighth-grade class bullying the unpopular geek all over again.

"In high school, I tried to do whatever it took to make that stop. I wanted to be one of the 'in crowd,' but I couldn't think of anything that I could do to change the fact that I wasn't. I've worked through all that now. I learned that if I don't accept myself, nobody will. But that doesn't mean it didn't still hurt. It hurt quite a lot. I wouldn't recommend anybody to spend hours on Interstate 80 after that kind of treatment." [/I]

Oh boo frickin hoo. Am I supposed to feel sorry for this buttplug? What the hell did he expect?

Some tips for spandex:

*Spandex only actually looks good on like 5% of the human population.
*Of that 5%, 100% are female.
*Under no circumstances should middle aged men with beer bellies and coke bottle glasses wear spandex.

[WebHead]

That guy is *almost* as cool as Future Wrbby and his Optimus Prime costume.

[Cobra X]

That guy is *almost* as cool as Future Wrbby and his Optimus Prime costume.

Nah, no one is that cool.

[WebHead]

lol