Where to buy good weapons? :O

[lit by twilight]

I'm hoping this hasn't been asked like, sixty thousand times but I'm curious: I'm doing a cosplay that needs a weapon (like 99.8% of cosplays is my guess), and I'm not sure where I should go to find a good, sturdy, plastic weapon that can't do any real damage to someone. I've been thinking about a gun (cosplaying a Silent Hill character), OR a crowbar.

Now, where on earth am I going to find myself a convenient li'l plastic crowbar? Or other nonsense of that nature. Does anyone have any suggestions/websites/stores in the area/etc?

Responses will be quite greatly appreciated!

[EveofAbyss]

Well, it seems like it would be easy to find, but all I have come across is this site. It is a rubber crowbar, but the price seems pretty steep for such a simple prop.

I'd say you could probably make a crowbar out of sculpting foam with not too much trouble. IT'd probably be the cheaper route, but ultimately it's your choice.

As for guns....that's a trickier situation. According to the current policy:

No guns. No Airsoft. Period. No matter how disabled or how much of the tip you paint orange they are always going to be too close to the real thing.

So, you'd probably just have to come up with some other weapon to carry since it looks like guns are just not allowed anymore.

Anyway, best of luck, hope you get everything sorted! ^_^

[Higuma]

Now that is one cool site Eve. I am going to bookmark that one.

[pinkrandomattack]

Well, it seems like it would be easy to find, but all I have come across is this site. It is a rubber crowbar, but the price seems pretty steep for such a simple prop.

I'd say you could probably make a crowbar out of sculpting foam with not too much trouble. IT'd probably be the cheaper route, but ultimately it's your choice.

As for guns....that's a trickier situation. According to the current policy:

No guns. No Airsoft. Period. No matter how disabled or how much of the tip you paint orange they are always going to be too close to the real thing.

So, you'd probably just have to come up with some other weapon to carry since it looks like guns are just not allowed anymore.

Anyway, best of luck, hope you get everything sorted! ^_^

just out of curiosity, are you allowed to have totally ridiculous "guns"? like barrets hand, or that giant thing that the little police girl vampire carries around in hellsing? cause it would seem obvious that those werent real,  but i think they fall under the ruling of "no guns. period."

and to address the actual subject of this thread,  i think it would be fairly easy to cut a simple crowbar out of some insulation foam and jsut paint it.  it woulnt be the studiest thing in the world but it would look allright, and be cheap as all get out.  that hard insulation is like 8 bucks for a piece 6-7 feet tall.

[EveofAbyss]

Well, I can only assume cartoonish, non-realistic guns are allowed, because I have had Barret's last year and nobody said anything. And I've mentioned multiple times that I am making a large cannon for this year and the only thing anyone has said was concerning the size, not the fact that it is a gun. So, I assume ridiculous guns, non-realistic guns are okay.

[lit by twilight]

Yeah, I was worried about the guns looking too real business -- so I'll stick with the crowbar. Thank you for the website! And everyone else for their ideas too. I shall get to work on finding my crowbar... >D

[superjaz]

i have only seen a plastic crow bar at halloween

[EveofAbyss]

Yeah, I kept thinking of seeing plastic, hollow crowbars in Halloween stores, so I was surprised when nothing of the sort came up when I was looking. Checking local Halloween stores wouldn't be a bad idea, though. There is always the Halloween Warehouse in Beaverton, they may have one.

[pinkrandomattack]

yeah theres one out in clakamas too, a party city.

im not sure how much stuff they have in the off season though.

[superjaz]

the one i saw was steel colord but it was for superman costume it had audio that played breaky nosies when you bent it

[lit by twilight]

I was thinking about hitting up the Halloween warehouse, I just have to get up and drive over there. XD I've been meaning to check them out for a while now. Who knows, I might get lucky. :3