Mandalorian Cosplays

Out of all of the Star Wars Cosplays LarpLikeRae has made, Mandalorian armor has to be the number one most cosplayed and made Star Wars characters. Larplikerae has over hundreds of hours spent making these cosplays from scratch, including sewing the flight suits to the armor itself!

LarpLikeRae has created their very own trend of princess themed characters back in 2020. Within the years, LarpLikeRae continued to include several other characters into this series from different animes, shows, movies, and several other series!

Princess Mandalorian

“I will start off by saying that I was never really into Star Wars whatsoever until I had met my partner Cloud. When we had first met, I had gotten to know him a little bit more and found out that he had a love for Star Wars. So whenever I first decided to hang out with him alone, I had asked him what he enjoyed most and he claimed that he loved Star Wars so I had made it a point to watch Star Wars alongside him to better understand it since it was something that he enjoyed. Later on a couple years later, when we started to date, I came to the conclusion that I wanted to make a princess version of my own Mandalorian original character, as cloud wanted to make his own personal version as well. This Cosplay has SO much glitter and I’m pretty sure every time I wear it I find glitter in new and different places. Especially under the helmet for some odd reason. Since this Cosplay is so different and vastly challenging compared to my other Mandalorian armor‘s, It is by far one of my favorites and has stayed my favorite for a while. 10 out of 10 will definitely cosplay again in the near future because it is so amazing!”

Award Winning Mandalorian Bakugou and the creation of Rae’s most intense Bakugou cosplay:

Mandalorian Bakugou

”This cosplay has to be one of my most insane builds I’ve done yet, due to the sheer boredom and wanting to challenge my own limits... Let me explain!!!”

“2022 was a hard year since July of that year I was scheduled to have knee surgery on my left leg. After the surgery, I was told that I technically wasn’t able to stay in my own 2 story apartment because of the healing process. So I stayed at my mothers during this time and the recovery process felt like years. Within 1 week, I was so bored out of my mind that I decided, that I needed a new cosplay project even though I wasn’t able to sew (since my sewing machine was at my own house) so I wanted a challenge with foam. Using the Saran Wrap and tape method, I covered my body in stencils, cut them out and traced them on foam. I cut out over 300 individual foam pieces on my moms floor, dremeled, glued, painted and primed each and every one of them. After my 2 months of healing and an immediate second knee surgery later…. I was done.“

“Since then, I’ve added so many more details and add ons. Such as: A Camel-pack, Fans, Ice Packs, 3D printed helmet, Jetpack and Storage packs! This cosplay is MEANT to be worn down and used in hot weather now. And in all honesty, is very very COLD to wear due to all the hot weather add ons and accessories I’ve added! This cosplay has won Best Journeyman in Monkey Paw Entertainment's 'Connichiwa' cosplay contest of 2022.”

"Cloud and I both have put so much effort into these cosplays, not just the outfits themselves of mandalorian Bakugou, Deku and jedi Todoroki, but the backstory of each and every character in the crossover."

Sometimes there are funny moments and memories that come out of activities done at conventions!

Rudolf and GingerBread Mandalorians

“I think one of the funniest moments of all times in my cosplay career was realizing that Cloud and I accidentally won a competition at Holmat in 2023. Now let me explain, in July 2023, Cloud and I wanted to brainstorm on some new Cosplays we wanted to make for a Holmat of that year, it was definitely some thing that we had to overthink and really ponder about bringing. We had settled on Mandalorians that are Christmas themed. I had drawn up several different versions on my iPad that we could end up going with, and we ended up choosing Rudolph and Gingerbread. These Cosplays did extremely well, and I am so happy I was able to make them in a couple days before Holmat. I made these cosplays in about 2-3 days with a 104.0 fever and being sick. However, a couple months before Holmat, Cloud had asked me if I wanted to participate in a fashion show at the convention. I had agreed, and he signed us up for the fashion show! Little did we know that the fashion show was actually a competition, once we got there and we were backstage, that’s when we had heard that the judges were being announced and we got confused. Turned out that is a competition after all. We ended up placing as 'Most Presentable' and won free tickets for the next year of 2024! These Cosplay‘s were a lot of fun mainly because I was able to use my own imagination and my own drawings to make it come to life."

"For my Rudolph Cosplay, I ended up adding squeakers in the tail and nose so that they squeaked whenever pressed. I added a lot more details to my Rudolph, such as bells, and fur alongside the edges of armor."

"For the 'Gingerbread' or 'Gingi', I had put Kwik seal on nearly all the armor to make it look like frosting. I had made a pattern of Dremel marks that made the armor look like graham crackers as well as buttons that looked like candy. Cloud was able to make the the helmets of the Cosplays since I was more focused on sewing the flight suits (with fans inside) as well as the armor from scratch. For Cosplays that we had no idea we were competing as and ended up winning we are still incredibly proud of these Cosplays and are definitely bringing them back to Holmat very soon!"