Quote Originally Posted by Shardnax View Post
According to my friend, cosplay costumes can cost like $120, why would someone buy that crap?
You don't buy cosplay costumes. You make them!

But it really depends on what you're going as and how thorough you want to be. I found a picture on the intarwebs of someone I went to high school with that took a bunch of cardboard boxes and spraypainted them to look like a box of pocky, and that was their costume.

Then you have people like that Brazilian chick who's semi-famous for dressing up as Samus. You know she paid the big bucks for that.