Costume of large animal

Abstract

A costume replicating a large animal having a head portion with a mouth, a neck portion, a body portion, leg portions, and a tail portion and constituted, as a whole, of a skeletal part and a skin part covering it, wherein the interiors of the body portion and the leg portions communicate to form a cavity large enough to receive a standing adult, and a wearable frame is secured to the skeletal part of the costume at a position substantially corresponding to the balance point of the costume in the cavity. A means for operating the movement of the head portion and the neck portion, and a means for opening / closing the mouth portion of the head portion, are provided in the cavity. The skeletal part of the tail portion is constituted of flexible plate-shaped members disposed in the cavity of the tail portion so as to immitate the skeleton of the tail portion, and a plurality of blocks of foam material are positioned and affixed between the plate-shaped members at fixed intervals. A full-scale costume of large animal performing real movement or capable of performing real movement is provided.

Description

technical field [0001] The present invention relates to costumes for dolls imitating large animals that can perform real actions (or costumes for dolls of large animals), particularly to their internal structures. Background technique [0002] Doll costume is an abbreviation for human body wearing doll costume, which means a large doll costume that a person can wear. Doll costumes are made of special clothes and materials. People enter the interior and cover the whole body, and are used to change the postures of fictional creatures such as anthropomorphic animals and monsters. Moreover, in order to carry out related performances, doll costumes are mostly used in various events, theatrical performances in amusement parks, TV programs, etc. [0003] Life-size replicas of dinosaur-like large animals are often displayed at various expositions and museums. Furthermore, in the case where images of large animal movements are required, computer graphics (CG) can be used to realize...

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[0004] However, in the case of existing doll clothing, such as those imitating large animals such as dinosaurs, it is difficult to achieve balance due to its long and large shape along the front, rear, left, and right sides, and there is a danger of falling when forced to move. barely practical to wear

In the past, although for example, a walking animal toy (Patent Document 1) that is provided with a drive mechanism on both sides of the body portion and can walk on two legs; The manually operated doll (patent document 2); the doll toy (patent document 3) that wears multiple segments on the body, etc., but for the doll costume of a life-sized large animal that can perform real actions, according to the inventor As far as is known, no technical solutions have been proposed

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