“Long live the fighters!” Yes, for sure. You simply have gotta give it up to the fighters. But we’d also like to take a moment to recognize another group that also does important work. Their forte is also a lot less violent and a lot more fun. “Long live the cosplayers!” Especially the very talented and creative one who helped make an opening weekend screening of Dune: Part TwoOpens in a new tab even more memorable event for moviegoers. It’s not just that he showed up at a theater in a full Fremen stillsuit. It’s that this Fremen cosplayer showed up to Dune: Part Two riding a custom-made sandworm.
TikTok user Josh GammonOpens in a new tab shared a short video he shot in Tulsa, Oklahoma at an AMC theater during Dune: Part Two‘s premiere weekend. While matinee customers waited in line for refreshments, a masked rider equipped with maker hooks and an amazing Fremen stillsuit arrived atop his very own mobile Shai-HuludOpens in a new tab.
If you want to bless the maker of this incredible kinetic cosplay, it’s the work of fellow TikTok user redprintrisingOpens in a new tab. He shared his own videos showing how he turned an otherwise normal opening weekend screening into his own mini Dune-Con.
This must have been incredible to unexpectedly see inside a movie theater. But imagine walking down the street only to watch a Fremen sandrider go gliding by you. Also, imagine if these videos didn’t exist and you had to convince even a single person this really happened. They’d thing you’d been hitting the spice melange a little too hard.
No disrespect to the fighters or anything, but we’d much rather follow a cosplayer who takes an Arrakis sandworm as their date to a screening of Dune: Part Two than the Lisan al Gaib and his vision of a bloody future. Great cosplay is a lot more fun than a holy war.
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