Mascot costumes limit your senses.
The very few times I’ve worn such things (I’ve only ever built one costume) I couldn’t see, and I couldn’t use my hands to do much more than wave or make rude gestures… much less take the mask off myself. A nice periscope system in there would have been a nice thing. And a fan.
I’ve known two professional mascots and a few amateurs who’re good at it. They don’t seem to have many problems with the costumes… firing T-Shirt cannons and jumping off mini-trampolines to do backflips while slam-dunking basketballs…
… come to think of it like that, it was probably just me and my lousy costume design that caused the issues I’m making fun of in today’s cartoon.
Greg – It’s not you. There’s a whole culture of mascots in Japan, and every single one of them needs outside guides to care for them. The exceptional sports mascots in the U.S. are just being jerks.
Nuts. If I’d have known about the Mascot Smackdown, I would have signed up for this. My time as McGruff The Crime Dog fully prepared me for such an event!
A full body freemount costume, they now have small video pickups so you can put one in the front and use your phone to see out there… and it’s easy enough to rig a vent and fan now. Just have to design them in, Greg.
Eveb in fursuits we do better than that