18: Making cosplay worthwhile
Lateral with Tom Scott
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What's the Missing Piece in the Puzzle?
People being handed giant pieces of cardboard while wearing mascot costumes are Chinese lottery winners. Why might you want to keep your identity a secret by putting a big old mascot costume on? Because they've won the lottery and don't want their family coming after them. So someone's turned up in a Transformers outfit, all of which is still good publicity for the lottery. That includes Baymax from Big Hero 6, Mickey Mouse, which is presumably all copyright infringement. They would be delighted to receive these pieces of cardboard. It's life-changing. Are they checks? Yes. But if you rock up in a giant costume, whatever that happens to be, your face is not going to be on screen
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