It's hard to believe this is a real costume. It looks more like a statue or a gigantic prop — but statues don't move, light up, or shoot lasers from their eyes.
Yes, Dr. Evil, real frickin' laser beams.
The Hulkbuster costume is the work of one Thomas DePetrillo. He was filmed and photographed by his friend Ian Barnard. It reportedly took DePetrillo more than a year to design and build the massive thing, and Barnard's video shows it in progress and in action once finished.
As explained in the video, the Hulkbuster costume is nine feet, six inches tall; six feet, six inches wide and 44 inches deep. There's just enough room for DePetrillo to squeeze inside (he wears a Morphsuit underneath), and the costume is fully articulated. He can walk in it and has full control over its arms.
Perhaps most impressively, when he walks in it, it moves with the exact same lumbering gait that the Hulkbuster did in Avengers: Age of Ultron. How on earth does a costumer pull something like that off? It's incredible.
However, the feature that's sure to delight folks when he wears the suit to conventions, as he says he will in the video, are the laser eyes. With the flick of a switch buried somewhere deep inside the costume, the eyes — which already glow, LED-style — shoot narrow but powerful green laser beams straight out.
You can see more of his work at Extreme Costumes on Facebook.
Heading to New York Comic-Con this month? Keep your eyes out for Tom DePetrillo's Hulkbuster costume.
You probably won't have to look very hard.
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