Think Chewbacca’s luxurious ... and the occasional blow-dry. Wookiee costumes are about seven and a half feet tall. They’re made mostly from yak hair, which is long and silky and similar ...

Paul Smith has become an expert at making the Chewbacca costumes he wears at conventions across the country. It takes him 300 hours and dozens of bags of hair extensions to make each suit at his ...

It took Joshua Beckett eight months to create his own Chewbacca costume out of synthetic hair and a mesh suit. Why was he building his own Chewbacca costume, you might ask? Beckett, an ...

5. Chewbacca's suit is made from a mix of animal hairs, and eventually included a cooling system. Lucas originally wanted Freeborn’s costume for Chewie to be a combination of a monkey ...

I've always wanted to have a Chewbacca costume but I wanted to do it right ... The suit is a mesh suit that has hair latch hooked to it. I used about 4 different hair colors blended together ...

“You can't deny Chewbacca,” Episode VII director J.J. Abrams ... department would spend “weeks at a time” punching in “one hair at a time” on the over-seven-foot costume. Perhaps the one to blame is ...

And someone posing in a magnificent, Chewbacca-looking getup made out of ... hundreds upon hundreds of unrolled condoms. These fantastical costumes – fashioned out of trash, found objects and ...