You Built What?! A Real Iron Man Suit

The costume is pretty good, but the guy inside it a midget with a chip on his shoulder. He refuses to share techniques or advice with other builders, almost everyone on the RPF thinks he's a dork.

Also, Adam Savage from the MYTHBUSTERS called him a douche...
www.therpf.com/showthread.php?p=1194436#post1194436

"almost everyone on the RPF thinks he's a dork"

stumpy;

He's a grow man (I assume) who spend $4,000 on a replica Iron Man Suit so he could play dress up.....what did you expect.

LOL THAT IS SO TOTALLY AWSOME!!!

i would really like to take that suit paintballing.

Going to the bathroom must be a frantic endeavor.

This guy and his suit+ boeing&Lockheed Martin+ 40 billion dollars + 5 years= and i think we have a nice real iron man suit

If everyone on the RPF thinks he's a dork, so be it. I guess it takes one to know one.

lol

4000!?!? sorry. you guys have been had.

The truth is he made is out of Rubbermaid garbage bins from walmart, thats what he calls "high impact urethane" plastic
you can get the same result. He just doesn't want anyone to know cause hes worried that someone more skilled will make the suit more movie accurate and take away his fame on the internet, lol

I'd say the build is worth about $300-$400 in materials.

Also he didn't sculpt the helmet, his buddy did,

this guy has no sculpting talent whatsoever.

man you guys need to do some research, this guy is a douche to everyone he encounters online.

Tons of better iron man/war machine builders out there doing better things and you find this clown. Must have stumbled on this guy from one of the many places he whores his crap out and not seen anything quality.

This guy does charity work which is great but also brags about it. That's not what doing charity is about,

He announces to everyone whenever hes going to do charity like "look at me I'm better than you all. i'm doing charity work" all the time, it gets annoying

sounds like its more to get attention then the actual deed which is probably more fact.

pretty sad

You know what, the guy might be a jerk and a braggart, but if he made that out of trash cans he certainly has some talent, and last I checked Pop Sci was about shocasing new and innovative ideas/things and not about delving into the pschye or taking a close look at personality disorders.

So, jerk or not, the guy obviously invested a lot of time and energy into making something that 99.99% of the population could never have done, and he accomplished it with trash cans, pop rivets and a bit of paint. It looks pretty darn cool, give him some credit.

Well yeah, he built it in a cave! With a box of scraps!

I believe that most of you are talking bad about him because, one, that's a really really cool looking suit. Two, you don't have the talent nor money to do such a thing.

Please, don't bag on people because you're jealous of what they've made.

I'm interested in posting this on my blog (students.egfi-k12.org). How can I find more info about using the above images?

"You Built What?! A Real Iron Man Suit" Is it just or should a "real" Iron man suit shoot stuff and fly? The title should be...."You Built What?! A Replica Iron Man Costume". I mean come on, if I made a tank out of carboard boxes with no engine, that didn't drive, and had a cardboard tube with a red light in it for a gun....would you call it a "real" tank? This is popsci, not scifi, and definatly not some costume forum.

Let me know when he actually makes a REAL iron man suit and I will be happy to read all about it on popsci....for now, go back to playing dress up.

Just think, if he's acting like a jerk, he's also playing the role of Tony Stark (who also is quite the jerk and braggart)

Alright. the guy made a elaborate costume for holloween, thats about it. The cheering nerds combined with cheezy moves on stage was just to dorky to watch.

doing anything is worth doing right, that was obviously just a nerd trying to get other nerds to think hes cool. Now the guys who make the replica Halo stuff, thats the idea.

If I had the money and the resources, I could build with a group of people just as dedicated, some really cool Halo stuff. Im just to poor to do it:(

Need to rich friends with time on their hands.

Some ingredients for a good iron man suite would be some thin steel for the cosmetic outer shell, like whats on cars these days.

have the actual armor underneith made with teflon coated, thin ceramic plating or something cool like that. using tiny motors and some realy thin high output battery cells conceiled in strategically in the suite to help assist with walking and movement, then you would have a cool suite that can actually take a slight beating by Nerds in a fan club.

Yeha, thats how you do it. lol :D

wow they really did a lot of photoshop on that suit.

I've seen it up close it looks like crap compared to these pics.
It was falling apart from everywhere.

He also has a giant head, in both senses of the word.

He invested a lot of time cause he has no job and lives and home and just does this shit all day

way to cement your future. lol

@TRUTH_SERUM no words can express how negative you are.

lol it's very funny that you can use so much negativity to only show that what is in yourself.

People like you need to really look at life and live it, instead of leaving hateful comment like that.

@buschchris1

"Some ingredients for a good iron man suite would be some thin steel for the cosmetic outer shell, like whats on cars these days"

your comment if very rich.....Not. Yeah if you like to dish out alot of $$$$$$ for real armor then good for you "since you already stated that you aren't rich nor have talent for such things".

This i created "cosplay/costume" for fun purposes and charity occasions.

Oh btw the cosplay/costume can actually take a beating. please research before assuming another person life. is this and that.

@ariez93 i tend to see that a lot from people who don't have talent or just plain hating. I've seen people make a wonderful bumblebee costume. 60% of the time i see Troll's/haters bag on something just because it something out of there league.

Its like they have nothing better to do then just leave negative comments.

@TRUTH_SERUM wow just reading more of the comment you leave are just very negative.

it funny how you say i brag, when its not the case at all. It is me only sharing my life experience with people "its called conversation". Just because i share this and that about my life doesn't always mean its boastful/bragging.

Seriously if you dont like me, stop following me and being obsessed with everything i do in my-life. Its really sad that you follow me to even here... Just to spread your negativity... Really??? get a life seriously, and i mean not following me everywhere i go and bash on the way i live and do things.

Live life with a passion and no regret - Anthony Le

@MasterbaterLame

sorry just FACTS based on seeing you in action communicating with people online.

Everywhere you go you drag drama with you because you're a DOUCHE.

You cant hide from the facts, no matter what you say little boy

oh wait youre 25...time to get a REAL job... a beachbody coach isn't a real fitness consultant

It wont be long before MARVEL send you a nice C & D.

for selling unlicensed merchandice under the table.

@stumpy Your funny, whats wrong with being a dork??? don't act like your better than me or anyone else by name calling.. I NEVER refused to help and or share info. Only somethings i like to keep for myself. Its a way of being an individual, like an artist, and Magician. Like they say "why blend in when you can STAND OUT!!"

I've had share things in the past, and everyone on the costuming forums always want more and more. Like vultures, never being satisfied. When someone don't want to share a certain things he gets maimed and hated.. "like elementary school drama" Which is sad.

k I'll stop before you start crying, goodnight,

you're obviously mentally unarmed to defend yourself and this is just too easy to bring out the facts to everyone.

@TRUTH_SERUM your a very sad person indeed..... Dont think i don't know who you are... your like what now? 36 years old and you still have a grudge against someone younger then you.

Honesty its entertains me to know that your obsessed with me to continue to follow me.

Lol selling "unlicensed merchandice" under the table... hmm i dont think so.

Making fun of my beachbody coach, when i use my time wisely to help people.

what do you do? hmm as i see it obsessed with me and very full of negativity as i see it. seem like someone "you" needs a life, instead of hating on someone.

@TRUTH_SERUM yeah you should stop because all this negativity and false assumptions is really sad. I wish you luck in life and live in peace.

um would you like me to find all these "false assumptions" in text form from the various scenarios where you've been exposed and owned?

So like you, I obviously have no life so I have all the free time in the world like yourself. so this can easily be done,

Oh wait.. you might just go and edit all your posts like you usually do to cover your tracks...

thats whats pretty sad.

dude ur straight up stalker. You talk so much sh1t, to make yourself feel better. loser stalkin on someone else, ur considered a real damn low-life since you dedicate ur life into stalking someones life. What a sore a$$ loser. Really, you make a fool of yourself coming on here and letting the world know that you make this guy your priority. classic dumbass. Now come over here and be my bitch.

Truth Serum sounds like a complete and total asshole.

Ha ha you guys sound like your are really pissed at each other. Do you guys work with eachother?
And nice come back Master Fag by calling him a stalker. To me it sounds like your an aragant d!ck who brags about his money to poorer people. You probably made the other accounts to sh!t on truth serium. If you really do brag about how you give to charity, guess what anyone would gives 2 sh!ts because it makes you look like a d0uche. Also, if you really have enough time and care to build a stupid fvcking fake Iron-Man suit then you really are a totally loser with nothing better to do than to come up and comment on your own artical. To be honest the way you brag on here sounds like a woman. Haha have a nice evening to the both of you. This has a been a Random Comment special hope you enjoyed it.

It really is an interesting situation. On one had you have a guy that is really dedicated to churning out suits. Some are better than others, but they are all still pretty okay.

On the other hand, he's the kind of guy that has enough free time to work out two hours every day, staring at himself in a mirror the entire time. Despite all of his claimed "success" he is still single and can't even get a girl to hang out with him unless he builds them their armor. He attempted to get a bunch of girls to dress up as the "Stark Expo" dancers at the beginning of the sequel so they would follow him around and make him look awesome, he received no takers.

And while he claims to have done a "ton" of charity work, out of the forty threads I've seen him post across the internet, there aren't any pictures of him at a hospital. Plenty of him on the Las Vegas strip, or laying in bed with his costume contest trophy, or standing in front of a 7-11 with a radio station hawking Iron Man 2 tickets.

I call "bullshit" on his alleged charity work. If he wants to post pictures of him at a hospital or documentation regarding donations he has raised, then I'll shut up.

The point I think we're all trying make is that, though it may sound cliche, it really is what's on the INSIDE that makes a person awesome. Your trash can-armor is pretty, but you're a smug, desperate, selfish individual. Instead of expressing how grateful you are for Marvel not SUING YOUR ASS for selling unlicensed Iron Man helmets for $400 a pop, instead you are name-dropping that Jon Favreau mentioned you on his Twitter.

What it comes down to is, yeah, you totally are the personification of Tony Stark as an arrogant, unlikeable, flawed human being, but you completely lack the selfless dedication and heroism that make him 'Iron Man."

You're a prick who can't fly.

I really want that guy to check the comments out haha. But Stumpy and Truth Serum, you kinda sound like you have a personal problem with this dude. My advice, don't worry about him, as much of d!ick he might be there's very few reasons to be as angry at him as your are. By the tone of your commments it sounds like he ruins your day every day. Don't let him, he's fag and you know that. Haha I don't even know him so i guess i can't really say much, but you get the idea. Believe in what you believe and leave eachother be.

The only thing I think that would be useful for is paintball.

OBVIOUSLY Stumpy and Truth Serum are the same people. Look at stumpys last comment it obviously continues from truthserums shit talking pov.

haha keep feeding into this guy dude, just shows how gay you are.

its pathetic how deep you haters are fed into this guy. Takes a douche to know a douche.

@ Andrew12 you just made your account for 26 min 18 sec

hahah same person

Yikes, no. Afraid not.

Although it must seem very unlikely that more than one person dislikes Anthony, even though almost every single thread he makes about his Iron Man costumes eventually devolves into hating on the guy because he is such a tool.... right?

You could claim we are the same person, but one might say that you are Anthony himself, with a new username, trying to protect his enormous ego. Honestly I think you're just one of his sycophantic goons, probably the tubby hispanic fellow with the awful mustache who makes his helmets.

Either way, there is no way to prove that you are who you say you are any more than there is to prove that I am Truth Serum. So why bother?

Honestly, between here, Kotaku, 4chan, Cosplay.com, and the RPF it has been hilariously awesome to see so many people agreeing that Anthony is a sad individual.

I'm posting this with my known name, because unlike the sad ass mother fuckers of the RPF I'm not a bitch like you guys.

@stumpy. First Thing, Fuck Adam Savage. Your saying his name like he's God. Like if he's going to come down of his throne and bless you with a bigger dick. Put it this way at less Mr.Savage Knows this man exist.

@TRUTH_SERUM. I would take it as a complement if you think he made it out of trash cans. It's also ironic that he might of made his suit of of the same thing you need to throw yours in. Why do we need to do research? How long have you been stalking this guy? There might be tons of Iron Man suits better than his but I'm guessing non of them are yours. You know the thing that is bring attentions to him is you guys. Sounds to me like you got HATER-BITCH-ITIS SYNDROME. Cured only by a big helping of shut the fuck up, followed by do something phenomenal with your life and stop making a jack ass of your self. I swear Your like the fat crazy guy on the couch. Cursing at the celebs on TV because they have made something better of there self's than what you have.

I wont come back on here to follow up on this bull shit. If you got something to say to me. You guys know where to find me, and who I am

stumpy you faggot, no need to be racist calling out someone in particular as referring to hispanic, what does the sculptor being hispanic (race) has to do with anything here? You can hate all you want, but don't be racist. You bitch.

Obviously the guy that interviewed this guy has no idea about the costuming community. Couple of servos and plastic with 100% commitment is yes very outstanding. However, It is a sad day when people with 30+ years in the special effects/props industry in different parts of the world look down upon this guy for being such a braggart.

FACT
1.He did not mold the helmet, he had someone do it, and on top of that, he used someones design and never gave them credit.
2. Top special effects/prop individuals with 30+ years experience have called him out for being a selfish individual.
3. There are more amazing builds than his and they never ask for fame or recognition AND they always share styles and ideas with the community freely.
4. Every message board this this guy goes, he gets bashed on.

There is always another side to the story as we all know. Well this is the side that most of us want to express in various message boards but cant because of forum rules.

No curse word, or bashing is enough to express the how sad the community is about this guys attitude.

@Cardboardking Heavy artillery armor? When I think of heavy artillery I can see guns galore. where the hell are yours in your costume? Oh and that War Machine armor you are building? I think you should build what works for you, like, Hulk Buster armor or shrek for that fat ass.

And in closing.. here is your childrens hospital volunteer... wow, what a perfect example to children..

http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/145/l_b54e1c3bd0554d529f66284b94ee5de6.jpg

http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/145/l_2fb93de431da481e8e98bf09191e845d.jpg

wow so much hate and jealousy here,

masterlame how bout you show proof instead of just saying that they're "FACT" dumbass.

I love that you looked up pictures of him hanging out with his friends goofing off and ridiculing him. If anyone needs to be cursed and bashed at its you retards hounding him with no links of "proof".

CLEARLY, if someone gets fame, there's bound to be fans as well as haters. Every celebrity out there got haters, is what I'm trying to say, if you didn't pick up. The only reason why he gets bashed on those forums is because all his haters follow him in and out, bashing him on every forum then proclaiming that he gets bashed on every forum. HMMM. that makes sense. PROOF is above!

@ife_s - Thanks for all your kind words, but this a$$ hole is plainly obsessive over the fact that someone knows how to live his life better then they can.

@cardboard king - nice way to hand his a$$ to him

@MASTERLAME - wow your a sad person, posting pictures of me at Starfest 2010 having fun with friends "you probably dont have any to know what fun is". hahah i pity you trying to use pictures of me having fun to make me look bad hahahah

you act like this world is perfect, were all human, and we all have flaws. I'm not denying myself in who i am. i know i have flaws who doesn't??? But i know for a fact for what i live for and what my stand point in life is about.

For in the costuming forums, yes i get bash on because you know, i rather stand out and keep key word "some" secrets, then to blend in. There are two sides of the story's, but you it doesn't help when the moderators delete your post.

i have all the original reply/post. and for you to follow me everywhere, and i mean everywhere, from website writing about me etc just to be negative is sad. Just get use to the fact that I'm not going to stop doing what I'm doing in life, just because a "hater" like yourself shows up.

for example, when Iron man movie was made in 2008. The Winston Studios created the first Iron man movie armor.

Do you think that the studio put time out and make a tutorial on how to make there suit. hell no, its not there job to do so, and neither mines.

you know why my attitude is like this? reason is because people like you always saying shit, nit pick, and always want everything explained. Honestly I dont have to explain all the time what i do in life. WHo are you to me? your just a hater that stalk me everywhere. get a fvcking life OMG.

Another thing, are you stupid? using someone else design and never giving someone credit. i don't think so, knowing you will probably nit-pick, and bring up me deleting post. I fully explained it many times in the past, because people like you bring elementary school drama and i don't want none of it. It sad how costuming forums are, if i could i would probably never post in costuming forum if i knew haters/trolls like you existed.

but like Kat Williams says "Haters make you famous" so keep on hating, i love it!!!

Live life with a passion, and no regrets

@masterlame, truth serum, stumpy - Also it funny and also sad that you know i am and my life and all that i do. The sad part is that i dont know you and never heard of you.......

wow people are still posting?

I suggest the doubters to join a forum and post this thread

"what do you think of Masterle?"

you'll think otherwise.

and I dunno who stumpy is, but I agree with whatever he said.

Only LE uses like 2-3 accounts and thats been proven aswell.

http://www.thedentedhelmet.com/forums/showthread.php/34425-IronMan-2-MKV-quot-Extremis-quot-Costume-build-2009-W.I.P.

wow you even stole my name "masterle247" and made another account, you sir are lowest of the low....

Live life with a passion, and no regrets

I find it funny a guy named stumpy is calling you a midget lol

whats also funny is you're sitting here all day posting in your defense.

guess you have no life either.

welcome to the internet

oh

goodnnight

"Live life with a passion, and no regrets"

I'm 5'6, its considers short, tell me something i don't know.

oh well, nice to know that your such a fan of me to follow me everywhere. :D im going to stop wasting my time with someone that is a none, who is just plainly negative and obsessive all the time.

Live life with a passion, and no regrets

lol masterle247...

All that link shows is someone posting a pic wanting credit where none is due.

oh ya, Master Le, don't bother coming back here cause these guys will never quit, there no point wasting any time on them.

think you need to actually read the whole thread though not look at the pretty pictures lol

anyways,

goodnight.

lol masterbatorlame, that is too awesome

get a room

Honestly, I'd shut up if Anthony would just learn the difference between "your" and "you're." I would see that as enough of an improvement to warrant backing off his case.

@AnthonyLe
I've introduced myself several times to you, and I was all into your costume and I was really looking forward to talk shop. You didn't seem interested in discussion, and just wanted to blab and blab about yourself. Funny how you not remembering someone you've met several times totally fits in with the whole "self-absorbed personality" bit.

And before you suggest it (because with your ego, you'd have to), no I am not bitter about being "spurned" by someone as "celebrated" as yourself. I talked to you when you weren't busy and you seemed incapable of holding a real conversation. It's just one more card stacked against you.

wow stumpy. Grow up. You hate, you love em, now you hate em, yet you 'try' to introduce yourself to him? What are u, on ur pms? psycho bi-polar maniac. You're delusional.

Got linked through to this via kotaku, read the entire thread and as a neutral party who doesn't hold any bias, you're on the most out of control power trip I've ever seen Anthony Le.

@everyone. You should probably stop posting on a magazine's comment wall and go get laid.

Hi everyone,

I've been apart of the RPF community, cosplay community, and 4chan underground for quite some time. As someone who has been active in these online communities in the past, and more recently just a casual poster I have these thoughts.

It's a shame to see someone get such a privilege from OUR hobby to be featured in a nationally syndicated and respected magazine such as PopSci, and then get this kind of response.

Anthony, congratulations on getting noticed. You made an excellent costume in a very short time period with a very cost effective material. As someone on the RPF forum said recently, it's not the material or the technique that makes the costume piece look good. It's the God given talent of the artist. Like Adam Savage said, no-one can corner the market on YOU.

However:
Despite how much I enjoy a fellow costumer's success and luck, I find it disgusting how not only many people, but YOU have responded to your relative "fame". In respect to the way you have distorted peoples' (professionals) perceptions of the value of your costume, and the credit due to those who helped you. As well as not reprimanding your friends for their flagrantly unprofessional misconduct in their defense of you (I'm referring to Cardboard King on every internet venue).

Your conduct in defense of yourself is hasty, haughty, unprofessional, immature, and displays an obvious arrogance that cannot be denied. Every thread or discussion I have ever seen you walk into turns into a name calling, well you said this- I said that, let me defend myself by putting you down, middle school playground argument. And that goes for 'the other guy' too. It's childish.

Your conduct, the conduct of your friends, your conduct online, the way you respond to criticism, the way you respond to praise. Is childlike and disgusting, and you're giving the costumer's hobby a bad name by allowing yourself to continually slip into this cycle.

I don't anticipate you changing for anything though.

To my fellow board-members on here. Act with dignity, act with grace, for God's sake act with a little professionalism and maybe the world won't think that we all have the dispositions of preteen schoolchildren.

I almost forgot.

My advice for Mr. Le,

Just walk away from people trying to create drama with you. Allowing them to bait you like this, and then responding to it in kind does NOT help your situation, it just brings you down along with them.

Act with professionalism and grace and people will respect you,

Trust me, I've dealt with it before.

(Also a note about my reference to Mr. Le crediting his helmet maker: although it is not featured in this article it is the interviewer who's prerogative it is to include such details. Also for the record, it cannot be proved or unproved that Mr. Le's suit is in material cost; worth $4000. It has simply been discussed by industry professionals that it is highly unlikely)

I stand behind EVERYTHING Bryan Rogers has said, both positive and negative. Nail on the head there, ol' bean.

But I would also like to see Anthony learn the difference between "your" and "you're." That would be pretty cool.

Interesting! I hope that everyone has a safe Memorial Day.

Excellent work. The suit looks amazing - so amazing, in fact, that the jealousy over it is reaching epic proportions. LOL. Just look at all of these petty fools trying to bring him down a notch.

The simple fact of the matter is that if you're on popsci.com posting comments, you're a dork (myself included), and at the very least, this guy has accomplished something. What have you angry geeks done lately?

Hm?

I think the funny thing in all this drama is all the entitlement that others seem to have about anything anyone else creates.

The guy made the suit, what he does/doesn't do with it and/or what he does/doesn't share about its creation is up to him.

You don't like it? STFU and create your own. Can't do it? Too bad, go back to playing xbox live for your 'achievements'.

Stumpy (as well as Truth_Serum and others)...you just need to stop. You are instigators and are incredibly disrespectful to someone who is an artist, a peer, and a fellow human.

The fact that you would come here of all places to yet again pursue a 'reaction' from Mr. Le shows that you ARE a stalker personality and the chip on your should goes far beyond professional or personal interest.

You may have some valid cases about the costume itself... But you are a harasser, instigator, and are completely without any sense of sportsmanship, maturity, or pride. You would not have posted here like you did otherwise.

To drop to the level to begin an argument, use a persons' personal life, call them names, and make hurtful conjectures in a column about their accomplishment is shameful. You are just as much to blame, if not more, for causing the drama that unfolds in our hobbies' community and in Mr. Le's professional life.

It is people like you, the dramatic instigators, that suck the life out of our hobby when things go wrong.

Just leave him be, you've said your piece and you've been obtrusive enough to bring this here. Leave Mr. Le alone, and allow him to celebrate his accomplishments.
You would wish the same for yourself.

Give the guy a break, he made a War Machine suit out of crap with moving parts and all. Where's your suit? Oh yeah, who needs a costume when you can hide behind a keyboard! Who cares if you think he's a douchebag, he's on PopSci, and you're clicking on his story....nuff said! Good Job Anthony, that's a sweet costume.

Well, this has all been entertaining.

yawn.

Wow... Seriously...
This is the first time I'm hearing about this guy, so I'm unbiased.
Stumpy, Truth Serum, that the heck? You just sound like trolls to me. If you want to complain about this guy, do so in a mature fashion.

Bryan Rogers, thank you for being the only person seriously involved in the debate who has posted maturely and with adult grammatical skills.

what the heck*
Yeah, yeah, I'm a hypocrite...

Dude, Le, you need to relax, man. This is some elementary school crap they're pulling and you're just letting them make an idiot out of you. Every time you post you're getting in the mud pit with them.

Sure, it's weird you don't share your techniques, but you just need to tell them that in a somewhat neutral way. Just tell them you won't and it's your personal decision and it's the way you work; don't go to every news site that posts your suit and get into a big fight-- maybe it's because you "have no regrets" that you continuously can't learn that posting with them is not worth your time.

They're just following you because you build their drama up. You've responded every time they have, to every post they have, twice. I wouldn't even have posted in this if I was you, but everything that is said about them being haters can easily be applied to your attempts at showing them up. The sooner you start posting without reacting to them, the faster they become the idiots.

I know there is a lot of peeps that don't like the guy cause they think he is a jerk... well from what i hear, he is. My best friend and i have a company that creates full body suits of armor like that from every type of stormtrooper from Star Wars to the armor for the unreleased HALO Reach. We have heard of him from other armor makers and my friend, who is in charge of the company, has even contacted him in hopes to share techniques and lets just say it seems his pride is bigger than Tony Starks with his War Machine and won't tell anyone anything. I personally haven't met the guy but from what i've heard about him, he rubs his War Machine in everyone's faces.
It is a great piece of armor, and i do applaud the suit, no doubt about it. I, with no hesitation, will say that that is the best War Machine i have ever seen. Just needs to realize that he ain't the best out there. to quote an old western, "there will always be someone better."

Master Le:

I've had the opportunity to see your work in person, and I can say that it is unquestionably and without a doubt, some of the finest costuming work I have ever seen. You are incredibly creative, extremely talented and obviously a dedicated and hard worker.

Congratulations on your successes thus far; with this kind of innovation, I am quite sure that I will be seeing your name and the fruit of your ingenuity in this magazine and many other places in the future.

You are light years ahead of those who would mock you, of those who scorn and insult; a reaction based in jealousy, disappointment and self-loathing. Those who cannot reach their own dreams sometimes find some deceptive redemption or absolution in attacking others, but the negativity that comes from them will only be returned to them; it cannot produce anything positive.

Rise above the mire that others try to bind you in; ignore it entirely, as the best retaliation is even more success on your part. Build. Dream. Create. Grow more than you have already, and those who claw at you like hungry crows will fall away into the shadows.

You've done so well. Keep going, and leave those who yap at your heels in the dust... for they aren't worth more than that.

Scarlett

I stumbled across this on a fluke, 1st I must say the suite is nice.
2nd it's a damn shame all the flaming going back and forth about it. some of you cats must not get laid at all.
and you let the whole world know this. the rants also says alot about supposed educated people huh!?
as far as talent is concerned google this dude:

mechdesigns HALO GUNDAM.

@ LE, your suite is kool and if you do the lords work
thats great as well. a blessed man is a humble man.

so hopefully you are not a negative person as mentioned
horded knowledge is wasted knowledge. my father died one
of the most gifted artist on this planet and his unshared
knowledge died with him, wasted life wouldn't you say?

keep up the good work.

I APOLIGIZE TO THE UPSTANDING INDAVIDUALS HERE.
please exclude yourself from the following:

I am really getting some LAUGHS out of reading all this STUFF.

ARE YOU PEOPLE FOR REAL ABOUT THIS CRAP.

ART is ART and showing it off is human. Grown Men and Women dressing up for fun or attention is SAD! look up undatable

If i ever open a (how not to be a Geek School)
this thread will be chapter one.

MOST ARTIST'S ARE JERKS: Art History 101 read it people.
and everyone love's their work, so what.

peace, love, god bless.

and some of you grow up PLEAASE.
ITS NOT THAT DEEP. ITS PLASTIC :)

Damn haha i checked this a day after i posted that crap, and I'm very satisfied. To be honest i didn't really care about the guy. it's actually a good looking suit, i thought it was CGI the first time i saw it. but i'm kinda disapointed that no one mentioned me damn. oh well maybe next time. I also noticed that a big thing people poasted was about not getting laid haha creative.

Damn haha i checked this a day after i posted that crap, and I'm very satisfied. To be honest i didn't really care about the guy. it's actually a good looking suit, i thought it was CGI the first time i saw it. but i'm kinda disapointed that no one mentioned me damn. oh well maybe next time. I also noticed that a big thing people poasted was about not getting laid haha creative.

wow look at this..

All I have to say is, this guy claims people wanted more info after he shared a little.

I still see other prop builders giving tons of info and answer everyone's question in detail and still do

This guy is just some selifish punk kid on the playground with a new toy and doesn't want to tell you where he got it cause hes worried you'll have it too and look cooler that him and take away his fanboys.When all the info he's ever learned was from forums then said he made it up... (lol)

plastic garbage bins and rivets technique which was hoarded.

origionator "afettfullofdollers" from thedentedhelmet.com

helmet made by his buddy

toy machine gun electronics in the forearms modified to activate via push button

a cordless drill motor articulating the mini gun, extended the contact point via wire all the way to your hand.

manual servo controller in the middle of the forehead area moving the face plate up and down...

wow he made a costume...I've seen better that are in progress right now from better more respectable prop makers right now who are nothing like this arrogent douche clown

maybe some of you should actually look around and see for youself how "honest" and "helpful" to the costuming community this guy is, before you point your finger

this guy wouldn't make a user name just to come defend himself unless he was guilty of something and didn't want people knowing the truth

exactly...

if he didn't do anything wrong, he wouldn't have anything to worry about right? instead he dropped down to our level like he always does.

He's no better than us, he brought this war not us.

no one followed him here, we posted then he joined.

This is not his site. this is free speech.

so deal with it, we are sick, have no lives yadda yadda,

Doesn't change the truth that a lot of people here seem to know. Guess it can't be a coincidence then, can it?

So say whatever you want, we know his character well enough to be able to judge him from many encounters where he has baited us with his posts, basically asking for a verbal flaming.

It's his own doing and he always gets owned.

This is the last time I look at this crap.

Ok masterlame & Truth Serum are a pair of gigantic assholes just leave it the fuck alone you dip shits it's a fucking suit so what. Well done on the suit man. Fuck you 2 guys are seriously lame.

truth serum, you are getting yourself worked up for no reason! Well, for one reason only, that he made it bigger than you! It obviously sounds like you're one of those people who tried to get his advice and because he didn't share his ingredients with you, you go about bitching it all over the internet.
Who cares what you have to say, you're not going to change anyone's mind. Just because you didn't get to dip into his goodies.
Your account is new, so how could you be on this website longer than he has? Your account was made after this article was published. So, whatever you want to say, he didn't get owned. Looks to me like, you're the one writing under the article that he got into. Wishing that your name were to be in this article and everywhere else, yet you're just sitting behind the computer driving hell into your life about this guy.
Seriously, stop your obsessive delusional ways. Go get some sort of therapy and take a breath! Just count to ten and take a deep breath!

hahahaha I love all the shit talking on here hating on the guy that made the suit, you guys are fucking morons lol calling people geeks? lol without them you won't have a fucking computer to post on here hating. Get a life and go do something hahaha

Anthony Le, that is a dope ass suit! lol

I thought I saw Dorothy and Toto in the background of one photo.

I found this article on the Google news page. Reading down through the comments I was alarmed about how personal the attacks were on your fellow man. But to be truthful the most disturbing thing I noticed was the fact that noone responded to or even referenced the question posed by homsar315. I have to say that you guys need to get out of your basements a little more often.

BTW when I scrolled up and down on the Suit up picture above, it looked like the bullets were revolving in the magazine. Try it.

Should be sunny all weekend!

THE ONLY REASON WE ARE PERPETUALLY PISSED OFF IS BECAUSE THIS DUDE NEVER GAVE CREDIT TO THE PEOPLE HE GOT IDEA'S FROM.
EVEN JAMES CAMERON GAVE CREDIT TO THE EFFECTS PEOPLE THAT DID SMEAGOL BECAUSE THAT INSPIRED JAMES CAMERON TO DO AVATAR.

ALL YOU OUTSIDERS THAT DONT KNOW SQUAT ABOUT THE COSTUMING/SFX/PROPS COMMUNITY NEED TO STFU AND SUCK A LARGE ONE BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO IDEA WTF IS GOING ON.

YOU ALL ARE LIKE MY MOST BLONDE GIRLS WHO JUST DRIVE A CAR EVERYDAY, PUT GAS IN IT, AND THATS IT. YOU DONT CHECK TIRE PRESSURE, OIL, NOTHING ELSE.

MASTERLAME, OUT.

Cool suit. I only have one recommendation for Mr. Le. Please don't feed the trolls. It's quite obvious who the trolls are and now they'll probably attack me. lol.

I found this article on Google news. I only saw one sane critical comment. I would however add that Le's responses are pretty much what I'd expect from someone in his age group. Us older people tend to forget what we were like at 25.

I feel sorry for Mr. Le having all these loser stalking trolls following him. Can't speak to Le's good or bad qualities. Seems to me he's a creative 25 yr old with an average personality for his age.

Way to go Mr. Le. Enjoy your fame and be civil and please don't feed the trolls. ;')

Hi, I'm Masterlame.
I like to tell ppl to STFU and type with my caps lock on thinking that I may be the loudest one on here and thinking i know everything.
masterlame, out.

What a great way of makin' a fool out of yourself and 'trying' to tell everyone off, but quite frankly, people are smarter than that to sumbit into your cyber bullying.

From what I've skimmed through here, it almost seems as if the guys who are hating on AnthonyLe are his own allies. All this guy talk about is credibility and so, whoever sculpted the helmet or whatever is pissed that he didn't get credit and is disguising himself as someone else to attack Le. Now, it makes sense! Case-closed. Le, I suggest you confront your allies to see if they are the culprit. You may never know, they could be your friends, but not really.

#1 proof; all the attacks are based on crediting.
#2 proof; The attacks are very personal (personal issues with Le)
I know its lame to assume and stuff, but What could go wrong with what I just came up with? Its just a theory.

And if you do want credit, grow some balls and talk it out with him. What kind of man comes on here and complains, helplessly.
ANd if you're just a complete ass, well, how bout you.. just keep on hating from behind your desk.

PLEASE READ IF YOU DON'T KNOW EITHER OF THE PEOPLE ARGUING.
I'm not a troll, I don't even comment on MasterLe's threads on other sites. But I do have an opinion, because I have seen the other threads. No, stumpy is not his help, neither is truth serum. Anyway, this isn't about jealousy or random trolling, all they did was comment calling out Le's arrogance. It's true, he is an arrogant braggart. Go to therpf, thedentedhelmet, and anywhere else mentioned. It's not that he doesn't want to share his secrets, it's the way he goes about telling people, and the lack of credit to the people that have created those "secret tech" pieces. Some of those people are on the same site he's bragging on. Any evidence he has is crap. And we're not name-dropping Adam Savage, we're making a point that he's been in special effects for YEARS, and even he says that Le needs to stop being an ass. Our prop forums were made to share the process of building and show how we did things, share our methods. He posts finished pictures and pretty much says "Hey look what I did, I got in a science magazine with this suit". A suit that cost NO WHERE NEAR $4000. That estimate or $400 was more accurate. And for the record, he posted a picture of him at a kids hospital ONCE YEARS AGO. Besides, you don't brag about charity work, that's asinine. No one's jealous, we costume makers are just tired of his attention seeking, and rejecting criticism, the only comments he wants are pats on the back. I do believe Stumpy and Truth could chill a little though.

Cost can be decided based upon two view points, materals costs and labor cost. Labor cost is as much which country the item is built in any thing else. At $4,000, he must value his time more than I value his time. I would like to see a break down on how he came up with this $4,000 cost building the suit. I would like to know how many hours he spent making the suit, how much he thinks his time per hour is worth.

Instead of attacking him, why not ask Popular Science to ask him to provide a itemized list of materals and labor to justify his $4,000 claim?

Because, no offense to PopSci, I think they're great but they don't care. The article has been published, they move on. They have bigger things to worry about than a little costume.
And you're right, he must value his time a HELL of a lot more than everyone else does.

ALSO.
If it were jealousy fueling the hate comments, why does TMP (Timeless Movie Props) get absolutely NO hate comments in their prop threads. TMP suits kick the crap outta Le's, a member was even hired by Paramount to show for dvd releases and events. Yet no hate comments to be found. He's even on SIWDAT.com (Iron Man prop forum) sharing his technique and helping people to make their own suits.

Another question I have is can he see with the mask closed?

I think the loser of the competition is posting in this thread.

very cool suit.
and to all the trolls, GET OFF THE NET. we don't need your stinking kind on here...

After reading this for a while. I've decided I would just like to add something.

I'm pretty sure a lot of these people who have an issue with him were already on the boards he joined at the time.

I highly doubt anyone has followed him on other boards like he states other than this venue. I think its an attempt to make himself look famous, when hes not.

The Only reason I can see why they came here is that they do not want to get banned on their respected forums. This way, they can express themselves and speak the truth fully about this particular individual.

They think its unfair how this article is full of incorrect information.

as people have stated:

1)The Helmet was not made by him whatsoever.

2) The suit did not cost anywhere near $4000 as another member has made somewhat of a similar suit with cut up platic garbage bins and it didn't cost nothing close to that amount. He is over estimating his worth in labour.

He claimed he did not have the suffciant funds to sculpt mold and cast an iron man suit or he would have.

A) He cant sculpt and has tried to hoax a sculpting attempt in the past over his friends work.

B) Sculpting, molding as casting a suit would cost less than $4000. I should know. I've done it many times.

so there is a contrast of what has been said and done.

Anthony is a member on many costuming forums. He joins them by either hijacking an existing thread with his work or just make showoff threads basically saying "look at how awesome I am" It's a poor way to make a presence in a community.

Everyone but him treats the forums in comparison to a room full of strangers.

Do you go to a room full of strangers and start saying "look at how awesome I am?" I don't think so.

You're supposed to contribute to a community, otherwise how is a community supposed to look at him when he makes self promoting threads?

This guy is only doing this to himself and bringing all this negativity with his own arrogant attitude towards other prop makers and their projects.

I've seen many a time where he has stated he helps people all the time. I've yet to see people claim assistance from him. I've only seen the reaction to people getting snubbed.

The issue most of these people have is, "Why say you can offer assistance, then when you are contacted. you ignore them"

It's now safe to say the inital offer was public just to show he was the "nice guy"
This has been seen many many times and that is why people have had enough.

These people and myself are from a community of sharing ideas all around. He has taken many ideas and claimed them for his own. He hoarded a lot of info. Most, which like I said wasn't his.

It's sad that someone who claims they do charity, could not direct people to the tutorials he has used so that others could make affordable iron man suits to do charity work themselves. It's almost like he wants to be the only person seen doing this. I know many people wanted to make a suit for this reason and its sad to me. They were snubbed of the information which was buried from other sites.

It's a very affordable method using cheap garbage bins from walmart which produces excellent results like his.

A simple couple of links would have avoided all of this.
This pretty much solidifies this man's truly selfish nature.

When he was called out about this. He went insane. The mods themselves have to always delete his posts and tell him to maintain himself. Then everyone gets written off as a jealous hater. No one is jealous of his methods or techniques. THEY DISLIKE HIS ATTITUDE and thats all.

No one is saying he doesn't do a nice job in the end.

So for the record. Unless he changes his attitude towards people. He will always be disliked by his peers in the prop making costuming community. Its unfortunate when most of them have a lot of experience in the industry and know the ropes and how to treat others.

I know people shouldn't care what people think of them. I'm not sure it applies to this scenario when you are posting in a place where you've angered a lot of people.

It's like a white guy telling racist jokes at the Apollo
- (Paul Mooney reference -comedian - love that guy)

He's lost ALOT of support from very nice people who actually help others and are producing better quality costumes. They just keep themselves low key to a point and limit exposure on a few forums.

I"ve seen a few great up and coming costumes on some forums and they deserve the exposure. I say this because I've seen them actually helping and answering questions all the time on how to replicate what they're doing and I think its great and refreshing.

If these prop/costume makers see this somehow. I just want to say I'm glad you're not like this guy here

Thank you
Finhead, Zabana, Stealth, Jaymay, Gemini Khan, Dark Asylum, TMP, Izabel (who represents Don Roberts.) Vegas Vader 2, Tribal, Masked Rider, LoganClaw, Dung0beetle, JUICE, Dancin_fool, Ithica, BenStreeper, DarthChiro, Fettster, and many others (sorry if I forgot anyone) who treat the community as a family and are always there to kindly help in their own way.

God Bless

Thank you for inspiring a lot of people and assistance those in need.

oh also thanks to Fett.Sobriquett for finding the old tutorial that was hoarded on how to make the armor from garbage bins, it has helped a lot of people.

Wow... reading on and on with these trolls. Reading his thread, and it seems likes he act's that way because you trolls always wanting his techniques or whatever. Just because he doesn't share means he arrogant. Even so, making a thread to "share life experience" he even stated in his other threads. I do not see you're so called self promoting...

To me, its like.. i am sitting here with another person and sharing experience i had in my life and also listen to theirs if they share as well.

Seeing how prop/costume community so far present it self with him.

Reading more and more about this thread, it reminds me of Iron man 2. Where The Government, wanted Tony Stark to turn over the Iron man weapon... I think its kind of funny.

Also another thing what PopFuture said

"to all the trolls, GET OFF THE NET. we don't need your stinking kind on here..."

i totally agree!

Oh btw freaking sweet suit bro! Don't let these haters/trolls get to you. There just jealous that they don't have a badass suit like yours. Unlike the many clones walking around from the so-called prop/costume community.

Well as you can see my name will be displayed for the world to hate on or agree with. MEANING I am not scared to input. I have never followed anyone here nor have I even heard of any of the aforementioned sites above RPF community, cosplay community, and 4chan underground, nor have I ever heard of this guy Mr. Lee till today. Reading these posts have made me laugh the hardest in months. To be mature I give credit to the few things Lee did with his suit because credit is due there. I give credit to the main person for leaving out important info regarding who made what when writing this article, and give credit to those that are not only stating their opinion, but in a different way saying that this Lee guy is a hoax. I went to all these sites and did my own reading on what was posted and said buy the community before posting my thoughts cause knowledge is more powerful than anything. That Bryan guy had really good points since he has been apart of this "underground" for some time. However he went from smart dude to hypocrite when he began to bash the very people he lectured upon. This Lee guy looks gay in his photos of "friendship" and seems to think that he works for Lucas Arts and ILM. If your truly proud of what you made why hide it from the people that want to give you credit? Why boast about your charity work when that de-sensitizes the entire point of "charity"? Why come on this site and all the others talking down to the very people that just wanted a little incite on how you did things? Maybe things would have turned out better for you Mr Lee (Isn't that the name of the Cheetos guy in the commercial?) if you got off your high (or short) horse and showed some respect to the people that wanted to give you credit in the first place. It seems that the hatin only began when you thought yourself to be "Iron Man" but instead you turned out to be the "Tin Man". I have built lightsabers for a long time for friends and never withheld my work from them nor do I brag about how cool they are to me. I don't post my work on the internet because quite frankly I am not that good at what I do so I take all the advice from forums, friends, Hasbro, Force FX, and strive to do better cause there is always room for improvement. I could not improve unless I had people giving harsh constructive criticism and taking that advice and turning it into better work. You took a crowing achievement and turned it into an EPIC FAILURE. An artist is someone who believes in what they do can be shared for the greater good, not for personal gain in which you have officially 0 of with all your false statements. To all that bashed on him, GREAT JOB, to Lee I am sorry your 15 minutes of fame turned against you, next time check your attitude at the door.

Haha, I loved that one about bragging to a room full of strangers. That's pretty much it. NO ONE is stalking Mr. Le, he POSTED on every popular forum that he was featured in this magazine. Don't believe me? Go check his threads. He posts big ass pictures of the popular science logo and says he's been featured.

The troll's seriously need to stop trying so hard.... Researching more into this. You guys "prop/costuming/rpf/blah blah" from the forum's are just plain haters and you are trolls.

Talking so much hate about him posting in many popular forums and whatever. In reality, there a lot of people in the forum that does the same thing, and he get hated and trolled on.

digging more into this situation the people that were mentioned by

IAmIronMan

"Finhead, Zabana, Stealth, Jaymay, Gemini Khan, Dark Asylum, TMP, Izabel (who represents Don Roberts.) Vegas Vader 2, Tribal, Masked Rider, LoganClaw, Dung0beetle, JUICE, Dancin_fool, Ithica, BenStreeper, DarthChiro, Fettster,

It funny that the majority of these names post the same thing in other popular forums, yet Le, gets bashed for it..... Sounds kind of fishy to me.

The people from the people from the rpf and prop forum just bull shitter's appears to me. you guys whine and bitch like little kids that want's a toy that you're mommy wont buy at a store.

the more i found out He made all of his work "obviously" by scratch, and by hand. Le also actually credit his friend for help making the war machine helmet and there partners/friends. Reading his Myspace, and seeing his photos. Seemingly is a very down to earth person that love to live his life to the fullest.

To me, the trolls/haters are just jealous that he can go about and live life the way he wants, and they "trolls" can't fathom how to live theirs .

funny fact: how can you compare TMP "6+ people", and comparing Le's "1 person"? digging on some info on TMP. TMP took how long to finally finished his armor, while Le crunches out how many armors now...

Don't get me wrong, I've seen TMP armor in person, and its ok. But reading people's comment that seeing Le's armor in person, that pictures don't do justice. i would love to see it in person.

Basically i see the prop/replica prop forum is just plain ignorant.

@IAmIronMan "Haha, I loved that one about bragging to a room full of strangers. That's pretty much it. NO ONE is stalking Mr. Le, he POSTED on every popular forum that he was featured in this magazine. Don't believe me? Go check his threads. He posts big ass pictures of the popular science logo and says he's been featured."

Wow....you sound very obsessive. If no one is following Le, then why more and more trolls appear in his article trashing and bashing him.

Just because Le posted a picture of him being in the article of Popular Science or whatever. Doe's it matter? honestly if i was featured in a magazine i would tell people as well. but i think its cool. Not to be cocky, or boast/arrogant like you guys from the prop/costume community would call it.

Now i see why Le left most of the prop/costume forum. So much open hostilities, and Nothing but trolls and haters.

Um, someone else mentioned those names. And more "trolls" pop up because he's posting this link in forums. My point was it's not jealousy. Because everyone admits to being jealous of TMP but no one is an asshole to them. TMP shares tech and actually tries to be a part of our communities. And Le left most of the forums because he's been run out for being an ass. Actually read his prop threads. SO many people have better costumes than him, and none of them are run out. And for the records, Mr. Le has NOTHING on the veteran prop makers who disapprove of him. Some of them actually work in the movie industries and could churn out a piece like this in a few days.
Bottom line, as stated above we just feel like here we can vent out what the whole damned prop making community of the internet is feeling. Put simply, he's an attention seeking, self promoting, selfish and hypocritical man.
I'm done here too, I'll get back to my community where the people actually respect me and respect my props. It's my job, it's my passion, and I like to share it with people.

At B-R-I-A-N

I'm not perfect, and I know that. I don't take myself seriously, and other people know that. I don't "like" the way Mr. Le has dealt with his fame, but I also don't "like" the way people attack him personally. My points towards both parties in my (hypocritical) defense is out of frustration of a lack over professionalism and respect for other people on a general level.

Like I said, I may not like the way Le 'does business', but I'm not going to attack his personal life out of anger and spite. If I have criticism I will lay it out directly and impartially. I respect Le for his work and unless I have spent TIME WITH HIM, I will never stoop to low blows.

But, I will speak out against the kind of people who immediately resort to low blows and name calling as their first line of defense in an argument. I HATE that kind of thing because it shows (on all accounts) a complete lack of maturity and professionalism, and there are times where BOTH sides of the party need to hear that they're acting like stupid kids, and if it need be I will be that person.
When Stumpy said he "agreed with me on all accounts", that angered me, yes... because I do NOT want my criticism to be associated with the kind that he and those like him have been making.
As much as Le needs to be taken down a notch, so do the guys who are more than willing to go toe to toe with him in arguing about the piddly and childish name calling crap they've been doing.
Without addressing BOTH sides, a talented, arrogant, attention seeking artist will never find his humility, and the jealous critics that were hurt in the beginning will never be able to forgive, move on, and find their own humility in themselves. In the meantime you only hope that somehow SOMEONE learns some kind of respect, even for those they may not like or agree with

@ mr.guy - "Its funny that the majority of these names post the same thing in other popular forums, yet Le, gets bashed for it..... Sounds kind of fishy to me."

Its funny to me how ignorant someone can be.

These prop makers you're accusing of doing the "same thing" post their full work in progress threads and answer questions, not just a thread saying:

"look at me and my suit" and snub anyone who suggests something or become insane when people direct others to alternative to make their own costumes since he wont help anyone.

No one is jealous of this guy's life. Why would anyone want to be this guy. It's sad that this is the only defense these people who dont know the situation have.

I'm jealous of TMP and Finhead's works as they are more screen accurate than Anthony could ever fathom.

Le's work is not even close to industry standard and in his head he thinks so because of this attention.

I wonder anyone else doesn't get bashed? oh... that's right...maybe because they are honest prop makers that show respect to the community..

You still dont know or understand truly what the issue is and try to find faults with honest prop makers who actually are part of the community.

You know why hes being bashed so stop pretending you don't

@BryanRogers

You bring up some very validating points and I must say that I agree with you. Your take on this whole thing has been objective if not a little harsh, but the facts remain- people should be more mature, and Le should not let his so called fame go to his head. I have never posted here until now due to the fact that this type of thing happens, but you can't deny Le's attitude has been a little big headed. I agree with you on your points of view, and it was nice to hear back from you in a constructive way.

I can't believe this argument is even happening on a site like this. Folks, maybe you've grown accustomed to 4chan or whatever the case may be, but Popular Science is of a much higher class than these other sites. This is not a forum to destroy someones credibility; I can say I dislike Le, but that is IRRELEVANT here. This is a place to leave comments regarding the article, and if you have nothing to say about the article, then move on. Also, everyone got owned by BryanRogers, I even feel guilty and I've not said a word.

@ Petudy
- irrelevant, but you posted.
- only leave comments regarding article, but you posted other than the article.
- you feel guilty but you've not said a word, you posted.
If this wasn't popsci, I wonder if u would of fell in along with the haterz

Sure that the "servo" or Motor for the gatling gun did not come from a Nerf "Punisher" gun? The linked ammo looks similar but I am probably wrong. I think that this can be simulated with a motor from a remote control car also.

Petudy,

I made my own armor out of trashcans and agree with some personnel comments that it would not take anywhere near $4k to build a suit like this. This is coming from the voice of experience. In regards to your comments, I would think that a magazine of the reputation of "Popular Science" could have weeded this information out before going to press. This leaves me a little disapointed in the article. I really like Master Le's suit though and always will, just wish that the article was a little more factual.

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=26796

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powered_exoskeleton

An article over the research being done by DARPA to make a functional "iron man suit" would have been far more interesting.

As much craftsmanship as this may have taken, it's still just a costume. Nice job, popsci.

Forgive me, I was not aware that popsci had already made such an article. But in all fairness, this is still a costume and not relevant to a magazine about science and technology.

I'm sorry but Master_Le (more like Mater_lame amirite??)
You are the biggest self pretentious ass hole i've ever heard of your so smug and keep all your "secret" armour making tips to yourself, are you really that afraid that some one will make a better suit? seriously your just some twerpy dork who never learnt how to share.
and lets face it all this charity work isn't for the benefit of the charity in question it's just to show off your suit to boost your massive ego, you couldn't care less if there are homeless kids as long as they think your armour is cool.
So if any one is going to comment saying "oh your not that good either you can't make any thing that good" actually yes I can, I've all ready made some prototypes and i have my template made ready for my MRK V armour, so any one who thinks I am also an arsehole and cannot achieve anything near as good as master lame how about you leave your email addresses here and in a couple weeks I'll show you my suit, I think that people should join the trend because I've seen alot of suits out there far better than master_Twat's so post some pictures of your suits because there is such great talent out there why is this douche taking all the credit?

LOL You're all a bunch of ph4ggots LOL, especially that Bryan Rogers kid. You look like a ghey downsyndrome Justin Timberlake LOL. TROLLED.

Plus all of you costume ph4ggots are just ghey nerds, get a real hobby like talking to GIRLS LOL.

The Green Ranger is a ghey too LOL. Why don't you morph into a person with a job and a social life LOL. It's morphing time LOL. OWNED.

Wow, this is real cool. But if he really spent 4 thousand on it, that's a bit much. He got another Mark IV suit.

Green Ranger,
I think you commented on the wrong article. You specialize in power rangers.

I think the main reason this guy's suit got so much attention is because of its remarkable "resemblance" to Ironman's armor. I mean it'd be like constructing a robot that looks like R2-D2, versus building an ugly robot with the same capabilities. People would likely be more interested in the R2 replica because it's "famous." I'll admit the armor is kinda cool, as are all the other suits people put time and money into constructing. But there's really no point getting all worked up about it.

Dear PopSci,

Isn't the internet grand?

The above thought is smart and doesn’t require any further addition.
It’s perfect thought from my side.
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Speaking as one dork to other dorks...you guys are being ridiculous. Even if he does have no life, all this article is about is that he made a cool suit to wear to cons, kids' hospital rooms, etc. I'm curious why another nerd making a costume is so controversial. We've all been pretty dorky for a long time, but if all you do is whine about him being a better nerd than you, I begin to wonder who is the bigger douche...a cocky guy who made a fun costume, or the guys who complain that his costume and attitude are such a problem. Seriously, other than not winning "best nerd costume", and maybe him being cocky when you talk to him, how exactly has he affected your life? Did he steal your lunch money or use his War Machine costume to stuff you into a locker? If he's as bad as you say, then just don't talk to him at Cons. The "nerd pissing contest" got old years ago and you're just propogating it-never got to be the big man before and get all pissy because some other nerd out-nerds you. So please, shut the fuck up.

hmm you can post the long version of 'STFU' and i can't even post that if i built an iron man armor suit, i would be sure to test it by having a .50 cal and a 30.06 fired simultaneously at my cranium?

i think it looks great from the front, plenty of vulnerabilities where you could be crippled with even paintballs..but yea the top photo looks good, the others not so much. but for $4k i would expect some iron in my iron man suit. you can buy a decent used car for $4k and theres mucho iron included.

im not hatin. it looks movie prop quality and like it was a PITA to build. wear green clothes underneath so you can green-screen perfect your armor in the finished product(film)

Nice suit. Would be even better if the military could create a protective suit like this for the Men & Women out there who are defending our Freedoms from murderous scum. Hopefully someday that would be a reality.

Ha Now it's my turn To Truth_Serum and stumpy Man you are the Biggest Fukkin Low life dinks i have ever seen type a comment, i am a pop-sci vet and i have seen hateful posts, but you are downright stupid, your pissed of like a bunch of toddlers because"aww a cant pway wif his new new toy,"You should go back to daycare where you fukkin belong,the suit show major artistic talent and to have these good for nothing Fukkhead stalkers bashing this guy is hilarious and sad, they have nothing else better to do but complain about something they cant mentally comprahend, Masterle i salute your utter creativity and i will support your creation and if anyone else wants to bash him again they'll go through me first!!

Those who do will quickly see that i will destroy them
Truth_serum, Stumpy , I HAVE MY SIGHTS ON YOU!!!!

Come on guys, Le did a great job on the suit he built. As for being photoshoped?... no. I know about that kind of stuff and it's impossible to photoshop something that good and make it look COMLETELY real. I also understand if Le wants to keep his ideas to himself, wouldn't you keep your best idea to yourself?

Suit looks good the the amount of trash talking on the comment section is funny and sad.

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By the one and only.........

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Ready to Laugh your asses off? the suits in the movie were actually made of styrofoam i mean come on and the legs were cgi animation, so this guy made the whole damn thing.

Ugh Masterle i would like to chat with you Hope you have an email

Fall before The BlindingLight LOL

Cool costume but its not a real iron man suit. And what's up with the giant phallic symbol on his shoulder.Not a good place to place a Gatling gun.TV

Live long and prosper friends.

hmmmm

i dont really care about his personal life or anything, all i have to say is that he DID build a nice suit, even if hes a douche he still has a talent

infact this suit has given me inspiration, and ideas to do my own iron man breifcase armor

F--KIN WANT!

They must be kidding! No way.

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I want to know if Mr. Le won any awards at the Starfest Convention mentioned in the article for his costume. Please respond Mr. Le.
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Going back up to Truth Serum's comments, what he's saying is not far from the truth. Anyone on here who defends has not a clue in the world what he is really like so you all need to STFU. If you were a member on the RPF or in fact any other prop site he's on, stick around long enough or better yet just check out his threads. On the RPF Adam Savage called him a douche. What should that tell you about this guy when a professional in the SFX Industry calls him a douche and tells him off for what he's doing? Seriously guys, don't go off defending a guy who you don't really know and do some research because Truth Serum is right, you guys have REALLY been had on the supposed "facts" in this article.

As for you Anthony, grow up, get a REAL job, and stop acting like a douche.

That's my .02

Oh and to add onto my previous comment, there are hundreds of better suits than his out there, just do some research guys.

No really I need to know if this guy won any awards....there's a very important reason for this! Mr. Le Please respond to my question!!!!
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hey im new on this and after seeing what this guy has done he should be rewarded generously. i mean come on u guys this guy put time, money, and sweat into this work of art. although i do wish he could do a video on youtube that shows or tells how he made the war machine. iv seen his other ones on youtube as well and those inspired me to want to make one to. well... uknow after i get some money and probably lose some wieght first:-) but anyway. by the looks of it this truth serum guy sounds like a serious... um.. "bunch of old bannas"aka a real dick. oh master le if you have the time May-B u can email me to talk and give me some tips on what to do with my suit.
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Hey guys i'm new here and i just made this account just to comment lol.

So basically why do people hate or mock people in wearing costumes or cosplaying, i mean seriously whats wrong in wanting to be somebody else. Its like your 1 step closed in becoming your not.

For those who hate Le. Ok he a annoying but you still have to give credit to him for being able to make that/ stealing it from another person lol. Anyway there's no point if were just hating him and posting it the net. Just like what people say that's just being a troll. If you know him in real life then confront him right, fight or something >8o?

BTW~ i seriously had fun in people hating each other.... totally worth the time :D

Hey guys i'm new here and i just made this account just to comment lol.

So basically why do people hate or mock people in wearing costumes or cosplaying, i mean seriously whats wrong in wanting to be somebody else. Its like your 1 step closed in becoming your not.

For those who hate Le. Ok he a annoying but you still have to give credit to him for being able to make that/ stealing it from another person lol. Anyway there's no point if were just hating him and posting it the net. Just like what people say that's just being a troll. If you know him in real life then confront him right, fight or something >8o?

BTW~ i seriously had fun in people hating each other.... totally worth the time :D

Hey guys i'm new here and i just made this account just to comment lol.

So basically why do people hate or mock people in wearing costumes or cosplaying, i mean seriously whats wrong in wanting to be somebody else. Its like your 1 step closed in becoming your not.

For those who hate Le. Ok he a "badguy", but there's no point if were just hating him and posting it the net. Just like what people say that's just being a troll. If you know him in real life then confront him right?

By the way~ i seriously had fun in people posting comments and hating each other.... totally worth the time reading lol :D

"Don't be afraid to be who you want to be, people just judge you because they got no balls to do it themselves"

Ohh crap sorry for posting it 3 times, somethings wrong when i was posting it lol... any way if he used garbage cans or whatever then can i make an armor from Kingdom hearts birth by sleep with it 0_0..... xD

hey guys im back. um... as i was saying before this guy is super cool, he made a bunch of iron men and a friken awsum war machine. I really want to know how this guy did it, that way maybe i can make my own version of iron man or war machine please help

Wow. more power to em'. I wouldn't be like F*** him if he was willing to share some of his designs with others. He's not the only person on the face of the planet who likes iron man. Its cool and all but come on. He's Asian right? Shouldn't you be focusing on something important. This is something that is for kids costumes, something that "daddy" makes for his little "tike". But if he was really a smart a** and so arrogant he could sell this to the military and they could modify it to really make a WAR machine. How much better would that be than country wide drafts? Machines on the front lines.
Or maybe bullet proof armor in this design. I'm 17 and it's like wow. You spent $4,000 to build a costume. I'm eight years younger and I'm thinking C-O-L-L-E-G-E.Still, not to dog him, it is pretty cool. I wouldn't be that committed. Like I said, live it up but don't be a douche.

"Oh and to add onto my previous comment, there are hundreds of better suits than his out there, just do some research guys"

Funny I've been researching since the first Movie came out and TMP did the suit. So far I have only seen 3 or 4 that have done it. One being cast off the statue mold and one that actually looked like the movie version. The other 2 more like comic versions. Are you people in elementry school?? " He's a dork" "He made it out of trash cans" "He's a douche" LMFAO........... Funny I dont know him personally but I have talked to him several times online and he seems like a real stand up guy.Someone from the RPF slamming someone? REALLY?????? I belong to several boards and RPF I posted twice and never went back. For Gods sake. You are only allowed to join once in a while during open registration. LOL Anyway good work Mr. Le

Oh and to add onto my previous comment, there are hundreds of better suits than his out there, just do some research guys"

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Funny I've been researching since the first Movie came out and TMP did the suit. So far I have only seen 3 or 4 that have done it. One being cast off the statue mold and one that actually looked like the movie version. The other 2 more like comic versions. Are you people in elementry school?? " He's a dork" "He made it out of trash cans" "He's a douche" LMFAO........... Funny I dont know him personally but I have talked to him several times online and he seems like a real stand up guy.Someone from the RPF slamming someone? REALLY?????? I belong to several boards and RPF I posted twice and never went back. For Gods sake. You are only allowed to join once in a while during open registration. LOL Anyway good work Mr. Le

Wow. more power to em'. I wouldn't be like F*** him if he was willing to share some of his designs with others. He's not the only person on the face of the planet who likes iron man. Its cool and all but come on. He's Asian right? Shouldn't you be focusing on something important. This is something that is for kids costumes, something that "daddy" makes for his little "tike". But if he was really a smart a** and so arrogant he could sell this to the military and they could modify it to really make a WAR machine. How much better would that be than country wide drafts? Machines on the front lines.
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Or maybe bullet proof armor in this design. I'm 17 and it's like wow. You spent $4,000 to build a costume. I'm eight years younger and I'm thinking C-O-L-L-E-G-E.Still, not to dog him, it is pretty cool. I wouldn't be that committed. Like I said, live it up but don't be a douche.

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awesome costume! i want to build a whiplash vest. i just found a great place for pvc and other plastic at www.iplasticsupply.com and http://hightechplastics.com/

Well i like how you put work into this and it look good but ill build an iron man suit soon also but only to show that its possible to build one that takes on the movies features and stuff

Never heard of Anthony Le before but, I give that credit to the critics so I decided to checkout what all the hating was about and I have to give the guy props. He obviously has some talent in costume building. I don't understand why some people here are ragging on this guys passion for costume making. What is it anybodys business to criticize one person's interest or hobby. I think it's great that he is able to go out and get positive reactions from people. The fact that this world is filled with alot of bad sh!t and this guy is able to go out make someone smile, it's a beautiful thing. By what negative comments I have read I am quite sure these guys have not made any accomplishments besides add to the hate....Keep up the good work Anthony!

@truth serum and all the nerds wasting time to hate on something bad*** before they switch to midget porn and wack off so their mom can catch them. You are retarded and you need help if you honestly want to get mad at someone who took something he was inspired about and make it his reality. Maybe someone would notice you if you could get rid of your bachne and weighed less then 400 pounds. I'm not assuming this because I know you, I just want you to know what you sound like. You sound like the comic guy from The Simpsons and I'm going to say I'm not far from the truth. I am in the US Army and I think if they could patent a functional use for this type of design it would be sweet. I give you mad props for this suit and if I had the resources I would build a concept of my own so I could pick your brain. Thanks for inspiring those of us who don't have sticks up our ass.

I read this, and researched the guy. The claims made against this person as being a douchebag, were confirmed and verified.

Well done wise people! Well done!

I promise WHEN I build my armor, which will be an original concept, I won't be like this retard who uses cheap materials and touts its awesomeness!

Anthony Le, this is my declaration of WAR against you! I will show you the true meaning of FEAR when I am done with this concept, and you will fear the soul of my armor as you stare into its cold cyan colored eyes for the first time.

And yes, my works have soul, yours however do not.

Ladys lady's, if your gonna fight, GET OF THE INTERNET AND STOP WAISTIN YOUR LIFE LOOKIN AT A FREAKIN COMPUTER SCREEN. You realise your only on here because you don't have a life.

And Nitescoveritas, (lame) YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE A SOUL IF YOUR WRITING THAT CRAP. And, I dought you are even going to build something like that, plus, I don't see you coming up with any ideas like that...... :P

tortilla nitescoveritas, I have researched your name everywhere but there is no sign of your so-called work. This shit-talker has no fuel to exceed what he has promised. Little threats.

Looks to me Le is currently making a living with this stuff, living the good life with big pockets. It is great to see his haters wishing him to fail miserably, though your wishes weren't granted. just an fyi, he is soaring high like an eagle!!!!

I think this suit would be fairly simple to make. If you are willing to drop 4,000 on a suit you will be using very rarely be my guest. All you would have to do is get someone that can draw to draw you some blueprints of it or use a manufacturing company that has mechanical engineers to design this for you. After that the electronics are easy. You get actuators, sensors, LED lighting you name it to control your functions. Hell have fun with it and make it into a real exoskeleton if you are willing to do R & D so that you can make it 10x better.

Wow