Imagine: you spend hours meticulously stitching each piece of fabric, gluing on every button or cutting out cardboard for the armor of your cosplay and the second you step into the Anaheim Convention Center, something snaps. Worry not, there are cosplay fixers who can help.
They go by many names — cosplay fixers, cosplay repairers, cosplay rescuers, cosplay medics all dedicate their Cons to quick-fixing any costume mishaps for cosplayers using tools like super glue, needle and thread, double-sided tape, and more.
“Someone asked yesterday [for eyelash glue] and I went ‘Oh dang it, I should have that,’ so I went to Walmart last night and got it,” Brendan Bertges said. This is Bertges’ first year fixing costumes, he has a flag saying “FREE Emergency Cosplay Repair and Assistance” glued to a wooden stick he strapped to his large blue backpack filled with tools.
Bertges, who lives “just down the road” from the Convention Center, has a background in costuming, both making cosplays for people, cosplaying himself and doing quick-fixes on costumes while working for Disney for six years.
“Working for Disney set me up for the nitty gritty of fixing something quickly,” Bertges said. All three days of the Con he will be there to help and educate people who may benefit from a tip or two.
He spent some of his time walking through the large exhibit hall, but as he walks outside toward the entrance where floods of cosplays are talking photos in front of the Convention Center’s fountain steps, he stumbles upon Bryan Mero, dressed as Fix-It Felix from Disney’s Wreck it Ralph.
Mero has a similar flag sewed to a wooden pole on his backpack full of tools. A young cosplayer dressed as Johnny Joestar from Jo Jo’s Bizarre Adventure is struggling to keep her silicone horseshoe on her cap. Initially, Mero tries to sew it on, but he struggles getting his thread through the tiny needle hole.
Bertges is quickly to volunteer his battery powered, portable hot…
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