We are dying over this blog post by Detroit dad Jim, who runs the blog Sweet Juniper with his partner-in-parenting Wood. Jim’s son wanted to be a robot for Halloween, and was leaning heavily towards the Robocop character from the 1987 movie of the same name.
After the boy decided he wanted to be Robocop, I set about trying to figure out how to make a costume. I found a couple of adults online who had made themselves Robocop costumes, but there was a whiff of that Tron Guy about them and they described multiple trips to Home Depot. So I decided just to make it out of crap I had in my basement.
Jim goes on to describe how he made the costume (the entire thing cost $12.49).
Once the costume was complete, Jim and his “little Robocop” walked around Detroit posing for pictures with cops and other fun things. The resulting photos are all in the blog post.
