Forum Based Costume Contest #8 .... Holiday Season!

Archived Post · December 2009

So far we have had seven successful costume contests. Here are links to the winners in our previous threads:

Contest #1 - Steampunk
Contest #2 - Golden age Heroes
Contest #3 Humans dressed as animals
Contest #4 Halloween/Bloodmoon
Contest #5 Mythology
Contest #6 Humor
Contest #7 Mad Science

The theme for our eighth contest is ....

The Holiday Season
Show me your holiday cheer! Use the latest and greatest costume unlocks and show off your new winter event action figures. Do what ever you think shows holiday cheer on your toon. Ideas include making a Santa Claws guy or Robo-Deer. Maybe you want to give some attention to Hanukah, Kwanza or Ramadan. Go for it! Just let me know the background detail.

PROTIP: Take ingame screen shots since the Rate My Champion (RMC) pics never show how good the toons really look. Also, you can share the costume screenshot file too.

Rules:
1. Make a toon that follows the theme or post one that you already have.
2. Submit screenshots or saved costume files in this thread before the end of the contest. Please no RMC pics. They distort toons and are hard to judge.
3. No prize yet but if I get one, my decision is final.
4. Have fun!

Prize:
The winner will pick a future costume contest theme..

This contest will close on Friday, December 25th. I will post the winners that night.

Also, costume contest #9 theme will be a Powerset based theme and was selected by Euthanize for winning the Mythology contest.

Any donations received will be given as prizes. Please let me know if you have something to donate.

Good Luck!

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Saved for entries II

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For this contest I thought I would only award the top 3 toons since we had a lot of similar ideas. They are:

#3. Toy by Mariel_Martog
[url] http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/gothicshark/Co/screenshot_2009-12-13-14-06-18.jpg[/url]
This toon was a fan favorite in my household. It is a very good representation of a tin soldier. Youve got the perfect hat and using the military tights design works perfect. I think the face is what made it really shine to me. By using the metal (shiny), rosy cheeks, mustache/beard combo with the big deer caught in headlight eyes really drives home the look. Great job Mariel!

#2. Robo Santa by megaerik00
[url] http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/3474/robosanta2.jpg[/url]
I am kicking my self for not thinking of this first. I love robot versions of characters. In fact, for one of my Nemesiseseseses (sp?), I made a robot version of Takofanes. Santa is an icon. For this type of costume to work you really need to get the look right. I can not see how you could make this toon look any more like Santa. I like how the shoulder pads are used to simulate white felt on a coat and the bracers to make the robot hands look like gloves. Nice job!

And the winner is:

#1. The Grinch by Voron97
[url] http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/Herbar/screenshot_2009-12-13-13-34-06.jpg[/url]
I think this toon deserves to win because its a great representation of the Grinch and it was a very original idea. I would not have thought of him at first. Also, I like how his simplicity made him look that much better. He is not cluttered up with tons of accessories. Personally, I might have gone without the pants or used torn pants, but I like how this one turned out. Great job Voron!

I will create a separate thread in the new costume section for the next contest. Good luck!

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Only six successful contest?

Well anyway, I will try one out. This is my snowman, there are probably going to be many like him, but this is my own.

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n163/Bufalow/screenshot_2009-12-11-23-37-08.jpg

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I use this time to wish all you guys a Merry Christmas! Hanukkah! Kwanzaa! (but not Ramadan, thats a summer "holiday")

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Voron97 wrote:

I use this time to wish all you guys a Merry Christmas! Hanukkah! Kwanzaa! (but not Ramadan, thats a summer "holiday")

Ahh .... well I was trying to be inclusive so I hope everyone understands that ... If there is a winter holiday you want to show off, then go for it!

Leatherhead wrote:

Only six successful contest?

Well anyway, I will try one out. This is my snowman, there are probably going to be many like him, but this is my own.

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n163/Bufalow/screenshot_2009-12-11-23-37-08.jpg

Very creative!

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Well Kompressor is at it again, my little evil Gnome has gotten it the Santa's Helper Mood

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/gothicshark/Co/screenshot_2009-12-12-15-33-46.jpg

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Adogg - I haven't entered any of your contests (I've only known about them in time for the last 2-3 and haven't been a subscriber all that long, either), and the theme for this one isn't of particular interest to me, but I just wanted to say thanks.

Thanks for all of the work that you do setting up and judging these contests, getting the prizes for them, and generally being a helpful and good guy on the forums.

Let's hear it for Adogg!

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My new entry puts the mean in green! The Grinch

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DarkKindness wrote:

Adogg - I haven't entered any of your contests (I've only known about them in time for the last 2-3 and haven't been a subscriber all that long, either), and the theme for this one isn't of particular interest to me, but I just wanted to say thanks.

Thanks for all of the work that you do setting up and judging these contests, getting the prizes for them, and generally being a helpful and good guy on the forums.

Let's hear it for Adogg!

Thanks for the nice words but all the real effort comes from the people who submit something. Also, I try and treat everyone the way I'd want my sons to see me treat them. Afterall when he's awake the oldest son is usually watching me play or playing my toon himself.

Golden rule and all that...

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Mariel_Martog wrote:

Well Kompressor is at it again, my little evil Gnome has gotten it the Santa's Helper Mood

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/gothicshark/Co/screenshot_2009-12-12-15-33-46.jpg

He looks great Mariel! I think this is my favorite version of him yet.

Voron97 wrote:

My new entry puts the mean in green! The Grinch

Very nice! Dosen't he usually go without pants though?

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Yeah he does, but then you would always keep seeing briefs and not really good looking fur. So a Christmas-style pants looked much better imo.

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Well for entry Number 2, I wanted a little set up.

As everyone has figured I have altism, and for the holiday season several years ago in a Hero MMO I came up with a character I rolled him on one of the servers I didn't play on, smiled and moved on, well I remade him...

I now give you Nicholas Claws
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/gothicshark/Co/screenshot_2009-12-13-12-59-14.jpg

"You've Been Naughty"
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/gothicshark/Co/screenshot_2009-12-13-12-41-47.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/gothicshark/Co/screenshot_2009-12-13-12-41-46.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/gothicshark/Co/screenshot_2009-12-13-12-41-25.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/gothicshark/Co/screenshot_2009-12-13-12-40-33.jpg

old version
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/gothicshark/Co/NicholasClaws.jpg

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p.s. one more to come....be afraid of my next one

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Ahhh ... that "other game" ....

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well make that 2 more

1st I give you "Toy"
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/gothicshark/Co/screenshot_2009-12-13-14-06-12.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/gothicshark/Co/screenshot_2009-12-13-14-06-18.jpg

and for Chanukkah I give you Judah Maccabee
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/gothicshark/Co/screenshot_2009-12-13-13-29-00.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/gothicshark/Co/screenshot_2009-12-13-13-29-31.jpg

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edit: for the Non-Jewish folks Judah Maccabee is why there is a Chanukkah
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/maccabee_judah.html

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added the comic covers of all my entries

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After pouting for a while that I couldn't put the Santa hat onto the Bear head for SuperFerret (my main, obviously), I decided to get his sidekick, Flammabelle, into the Holiday Spirit.

Here's her usual outfit.

And here's her "Jingle 'Belle" costume.

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Thanks for showing these contests to me Adogg.

I Present Robo Santa
Rooftop
Seasons Greetings

and one of his many Tinker bots

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megaerik00 wrote:

I Present Robo Santa
Rooftop
Seasons Greetings

I love it; probably the best Santa I've yet to see in the game. Does he have a torso compartment to store assorted jellies?

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Santa's trusty ol' Rudolf, the Red Nosed Reindeer....Santa asked one of his elfscientist to make Rudolf better, faster and stronger to cope with the more nastier 'Naughties', so elfs those little rascals mixed abit of Dolph Lundgren's dna to Rudolfs and... ta-daa... R-Dolph was born!

http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/8151/screenshot2009121503190.jpg

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Robo Santa looks awesome. The propotions, the face, the beard, colors, everything is spot on.

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Glad you guys like it. The name of the chest wear piece i used escapes me but it adds just the right amount of winter weight.

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I have tried myself to make a decent looking Santa Claus and Mrs Santa Claus/Miss Mary Christmas/Xmas without any luck, Santa looked all right and only a Miss Naughty Christmas/Xmas looked good but the sideline extras characters are very do able like the Toy Soldier from the Nut Cracker

So I present Santa Claus and Mrs Claus/Mary Christmas/Xmas with gifts.

A Toy Soldier and a Barbie Doll.

A stuffed Damation Dog and a stuffed Tiger if its for babys.
or
A Damation Puppy and a Tabby Kitten if its for kids.
click on the thumbnail picture to see them
Attachment not found.
I could of added a plastic green army man but I thought that one toy soldier was enough.

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Every Christmas tree needs a topper right? I give you:

Christmas Tree Angel!

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z56/nightghaunt/X-MasTreeAngelFront.jpg
http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z56/nightghaunt/X-MasTreeAngelBack.jpg
http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z56/nightghaunt/X-MasTreeAngelLeft.jpg
http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z56/nightghaunt/X-MasTreeAngelRight.jpg

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Very nice job there guys. They are coming along nicely in-deed.

If anyone is good at making signatures and wants to earn a level 40 ARMS crafting costume unlock ... I'm looking for someone to update my sig with the previous winners (4-8).

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Calsetes wrote:

For elves with an affinity for gadgets, you can use the Steampunk style backpack colored red and green and it looks pretty nifty as a snowblower / confetti thrower / toy dispersal system.

I saw someone with a Robo Sants, and I give my props to him, as he had an awesome looking guy that I soooooo wanted to get into a fight with with my drunken elf.

Guess it could ould be mine then, but i don't remember your elf, but I did dual a Santa Destroyer who whipped me as he was lvl 40 to my lvl 15. However, I got the last laugh as he is off my Xmas list now

He has the steampunk backpack for exactly the reason you stated, to launch attack toys and it also houses the boiler which powers him. Now you know why Santa has so much coal to give out

Anyhow here he is:

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo236/Cervando/screenshot_2009-12-16-01-44-17.jpg
http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo236/Cervando/screenshot_2009-12-16-17-26-12.jpg

Hope he wins, but in any case had great fun playing him and got a lot of positive feedback. Look out for him fighting the evil toys and Black harlequin, as he was made by the elves at the real Santa's behest to save Xmas, as he is to busy at this time of year

Btw, I hadn't seen the other excellent Robo Santa until it was posted here, but I made mine in the PTS to try out first and copied him over to the main server a few days ago. So far he is only lvl 15, but i intend to keep him

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Another Santa I did for winter screenshot competition. Here is what happens with old age and oversleeping:

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo236/Cervando/screenshot_2009-12-14-15-47-25.jpg

And after Rudolph's nose turned red with shame, the deers dumped Santa so now he needs a new form of transportation:

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo236/Cervando/screenshot_2009-12-14-16-45-31.jpg

Yes, he is wearing fishnets and a corset, he has to borrow Mrs Santa's clothes to keep his gut in and the as for the tights, well he is short-sighted and getting on a bit

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Poor little Jacky Winters had only one wish for Santa each year. To grow up and become as strong as the superheroes in his favorite comic book. Then one Christmas Morning, little Jacky found himself changed, finally his wish was granted! Now he fights crime as the world famous Jack Frost!!!
screenshot_2009-12-16-19-35-57.jpg?t=1260988946

screenshot_2009-12-16-19-35-57.jpg?t=1260988946

EDIT:
James Brighton, son of the infamous serial killer "The Knife". He grew up to become a infamous villain himself. After being defeated by Jack Frost he wanted revenged, and renamed himself Snowman!!!

Christmas-eve 1945, Doctor Emilia Rudiger, a dark scientist in the German army. She tested her last new potion on herself. It transformed her like she could never had thought before. Using her incredible power to fight out of her own lab, she was captured by the British officer Johnathan Winters. He captured her and threw the abomination in a frozen lake. Now after 50 years, she is back to take revenge as Dr. Rudolf!

Jack Winters might be the most famous person from the Winters family now that he became Jack Frost, but he is not the strongest... the founder of the family, the very first Winters was a famous wizard. A sleep in a magical sleep to preserve his power, he's back to gather more power from his great-great-great-great-grandson. Jack Frost arch-nemesis... Old Man Winter!!!

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Merry X-mas!

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I like all the Xs in Merry X-Mas!

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Robot Santa is awesome. I just wanted to say that before posting my entry. XD

Here is Santa's Helper.

For fun, random Backstory!:
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Santa's Helper was a respected inventor and all around helper elf by the name of Mistle in the employ of Santa. One year, while working on one of the more high-tech toys for the older children, she was overcome with inspiration and set to work on what she believed would be the most popular toy of the century -and a much-needed upgrade to the design she was given-.

What was meant to be a simple snowball gun became a back-mounted, laser guided snow cannon. Santa was not pleased, he said It was far too dangerous for the children and must be destroyed. Mistle did not agree, it hadn't been tested yet! How could he know how dangerous it was? So she sneaked it outside to test it.

The result is what you see now. The "toy", when fired, fused itself to the elf's skin and filled her veins with it's icy waters. She lived through the ordeal but was far too embarrassed to return to the Workshop. Instead she ran away with a plan to regain the respect she felt she had lost. Maybe her new abilities could be used to help some other way?

After learning of the supergroup The Champions, she found her way. Taking the name of Santa's Helper she found Millennium City and signed on as one of the many superheroes tasked with protecting it's people. Santa would surely be proud of her now.
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I've never actually written back-story for the heroes I make but this just came out of nowhere and since it happened while writing this entry I'm leaving it in this post.

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dyredark wrote:

Here is Santa's Helper.

So cute!

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A Christmas character for the Bah Humburgers and the naughty children...

The Mighty CoalMan!

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So you're to blame all the [Coal] i've 'accidentally' collected from the presents??
Where can i unload 10 ton of fine [Coal]?

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Such is his awe-inspiring speed that in a single day he can travel the globe, visiting every house in every city in every country. No fence, no lock, no security alarms, cameras, thermal sensors, vicious attack dogs or hired guards can stop him as he slips silently into each home and steals any milk or cookies foolishly left about. He leaves a suspicious package behind, filled with choking hazards, before making his escape; never seen, never heard, never caught.

Such is his mastery of stealth, so swift and silent his passing, that he has led much of the world to doubt his very existence! To those few who still believe, he has for years cultivated an image of a benevolent, harmless figure; fooled them to thinking he were but a jolly, magical, fat old man. But these feats cannot be done by such a man. It should be obvious that this can only be the work of a master ninja.

Santa Kurosu
http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q306/OniGanon/SantaKurosu.png

He has made his Lists. He has checked them twice.

Have you been Nice this year?

Hohoho.

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Some great examples here!. My fav has to be between the first Robo Santa and the cute Santa's Little Helper!

For my hero, Light, I have gone for a 'less is more' approach. He wears no clothing or accessories and his cape is a limb purely made of of the skin like texture the rest of his body is made from.

I decided to not stray to far away from my original concept of 'less is more' and just added a few xmas accessories to spice things up!

Heres my Hero called Light is his original form:
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h187/jayuk666/screenshot_2009-10-19-11-30-01.jpg

& here is Light with a bit of Christmas Spirit:
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h187/jayuk666/screenshot_2009-12-19-17-27-18.jpg

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h187/jayuk666/screenshot_2009-12-19-17-26-05.jpg

Chiling out on the presents next to St. Nick:
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h187/jayuk666/screenshot_2009-12-19-17-24-27.jpg

Showing the Elvish lads how its done:
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h187/jayuk666/screenshot_2009-12-19-17-35-16.jpg

Santa's Protector with temporary Christmas themes Red Glow and Green Electric Shield:
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h187/jayuk666/screenshot_2009-12-19-17-27-49.jpg

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h187/jayuk666/screenshot_2009-12-19-17-28-09.jpg

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Hey guys, first time doing one of these, thought I'd do something a little different!

Offender's new costume, just in time for the holiday season... hot off the presses!

http://imagehosting.smackwell.com/champions/offenderpaper.jpg

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What should I donate? How do I donate?

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(((I know this isn't exactly in the spirit of the winter holidays. But it was inspired by them as the poem is his creation story.)))

After making a deal for immortality Hearth was forced to watch his family die and then bound into the fireplace on his own home as it burned to the ground. But not even eternal bindings can stop the wrath of nature itself. After years vines started to crack and break the fireplace apart. Soon Hearth was able to break free and move once more. But demon bindings are not so easily broken, the mortar and brick now formed his body, as did the fireplace, and even the vines that gave him his freedom now wind through his arm.

Being bound for so many years has left Hearth with little memory of his past life, he remembers only the heart his daughter had drawn upon the chimney many years ago that is now cracked and broken upon his chest. And this poem runs through his head as he attempts sleep each night.

Now he seeks retribution or redemption through the acts of good deeds he failed to do in his previous life, and the hope that they'll lead him to the one that did this to him.

http://i987.photobucket.com/albums/ae356/copper2677/Hearth01.jpg

http://i987.photobucket.com/albums/ae356/copper2677/Hearth02.jpg

http://i987.photobucket.com/albums/ae356/copper2677/Hearth03.jpg

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I missed the last two contests I'm afraid, and I was really looking forward to the mad scientist one. Excellent winner btw. I've been seduced by the wiles of Dragon Age: Origins, and have been letting Champions slide a bit. I'm still playing DA:O but I figured I should get in on this winter event and enter this contest. So, seeing as nobody has done this one yet, I give you The Nutcracker.

http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac83/JKorber/Nutcracker.jpg?t=1261266127

Loki Liesmith

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Saldan wrote:

(((I know this isn't exactly in the spirit of the winter holidays. But it was inspired by them as the poem is his creation story.)))

Now that is an interesting concept.

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"Go to bed, or Santa won't come tonight."

What child ever really believed this? Santa's better than that. He wouldn't leave someone out in the cold, so to speak, simply because they happened to be awake. Which is why children will always creep out of bed when their parents are asleep, quietly putting on their slippers and grabbing their coats, intent on catching the Man in Red on his annual world-wide journey.

Waiting Up for Santa

Watching the Skies
The Inevitable Result

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Frosty the snowman is here... but he might melt away around april....

http://vincentlegault.com/championsonline/_contestFrosty.jpg

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I enjoy the quests sure enough; but all these costume things like from pvp and holiday events are not to my liking and would prefer something else; i like my costume as designed; you hardly see superman flying around with a santa hat on or any other super for that matter. Like the gingerbread cookies; but all this costume stuff is just not my cup of tea.:p

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AmericanMight wrote:

I enjoy the quests sure enough; but all these costume things like from pvp and holiday events are not to my liking and would prefer something else; i like my costume as designed; you hardly see superman flying around with a santa hat on or any other super for that matter. Like the gingerbread cookies; but all this costume stuff is just not my cup of tea.:p

A portion of us that take part in this contest create a new character just for it. Then if we decide we like them we continue to play them, if not we delete them for the next contest. It costs quite a bit of in game currency to create and change costumes regularly, it costs nothing to create an alt in whatever costume you want to enter into the contest. At least that's how I do for these things.

We're not creating superman in a santa hat, they're not xmas versions of heroes. Well ok some of us are, but the rest are creating heroic versions of each themes characters.

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Smackwell wrote:

Hey guys, first time doing one of these, thought I'd do something a little different!

Offender's new costume, just in time for the holiday season... hot off the presses!

http://imagehosting.smackwell.com/champions/offenderpaper.jpg

dude i love the costume

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Saldan wrote:

A portion of us that take part in this contest create a new character just for it. Then if we decide we like them we continue to play them, if not we delete them for the next contest. It costs quite a bit of in game currency to create and change costumes regularly, it costs nothing to create an alt in whatever costume you want to enter into the contest. At least that's how I do for these things.

We're not creating superman in a santa hat, they're not xmas versions of heroes. Well ok some of us are, but the rest are creating heroic versions of each themes characters.

I have only recently started entering contests, but in all cases so far I have entered existing toons. My avatar shows the one I created for this event, which I intend to keep as ongoing one. The idea is to pull him out for every seasonal event. In essence, he has been designed by the Toymaker to save Xmas, Easter etc.

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Smackwell wrote:

Hey guys, first time doing one of these, thought I'd do something a little different!

Offender's new costume, just in time for the holiday season... hot off the presses!

http://imagehosting.smackwell.com/champions/offenderpaper.jpg

Good gookety mookety, that is some great work with the head and body sliders!

Fantastic!

Archived Post · December 2009

Jabberwockxeno wrote:

What should I donate? How do I donate?

If you are asking what you can donate to be a prize for this contest (or future ones), then anything would work. Action Figures, anything with a costume unlocks, blue and purple items ....

Send them to me in game at @Adogg and I'll make sure the next winner recieves them.

Archived Post · December 2009

Shopping Mall Santa

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p272/ButstonFreem/CO%20chars/sms.jpg

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Butston wrote:

Shopping Mall Santa

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p272/ButstonFreem/CO%20chars/sms.jpg

My kids are definetly NOT going to see him.

Forum Based Costume Contest #8 .... Holiday Season!

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