Enormous Star Wars cosplay suit enters Guinness World Records 2018: Gamer’s Edition

By Rachel Swatman

Published 08 December 2017

The British man behind the Batman cosplay suit that went viral last year has completed his second record-breaking costume – the world’s Tallest Star Wars cosplay costume.

Julian Checkley and his Order 66 Creatures and Effects studio created a fully mobile costume depicting the Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens character Grummgar that stands at approximately 2.69 metres tall.

The outfit is incredibly detailed and took 100 days to construct; its chest features a real-time voice changer and built-in amp so wearers can sound like the big-game hunter and mercenary, as well as look like him.

Julian says the biggest challenge building this costume was making it light enough to wear, because it is such a huge costume. Just one foot weighs about 20 kg.

"We deliberately aimed for around this height [2.7 m] as this was the official height of the character in the Star Wars cannon. It's REALLY heavy so I have been training hard in the gym since I started building him. I can walk around unassisted in the costume but for probably a maximum of around 30 minutes before I die!" - Julian Checkley.

The costume won the award for best overall costume at the Star Wars Celebration Europe event in July 2016 and has earned the longtime Star Wars fan a place in Guinness World Records 2018 Gamer’s Edition alongside hundreds of other gaming achievements.

Previously Julian earned worldwide fame with his Batman outfit that has the Most functional gadgets on a cosplay suit.

Featuring 23 devices including smoke bombs, a grapnel gun and ‘bat tracker’, UV lamp, NBC (nuclear, bacterial, chemical) bat respirator and even a bat sign projector for the night sky.