And the winners are…

For our 2007 Cos­tume Con­test, we’re offi­cially announc­ing the four win­ners for the fol­low­ing prize-in-tow awards: Most Cre­ative, Most Cost-Effective, Most Accu­rate, and Best in Show.

Most Cre­ative
For all the fans who cus­tomize, with flames, col­ors or add-ons.
Prize: Star Wars Boba Fett Blaster Scaled Replica ($45 value)
Win­ner: Ray Ramirez — Mando Sniper

Most Cost-Effective
For all the fans who can make good use of card­board, or some clever and resource­ful alter­na­tive.
Prize: Star Wars Betrayal on Bespin Action Fig­ure Bat­tle Pack ($25 value)
Win­ner: Jacob — Boba Fett
State­ment (via Jacob’s dad): “Made from a combo of a toy kit, a Wal­mart trash can, a sweat­suit, mock turtle­neck, and some bondo/foam/fiberglass for the jet­pack. Oh, and some slip on shoes that I spray-painted. Total price was around $150 or so.“

Most Accu­rate
For all the fans who study the ref­er­ence pho­tos and mas­ter the details.
Prize: Star Wars Boba Fett Scaled Hel­met Replica ($50 value)
Win­ner: J. Sal­cedo — Boba Fett (Spe­cial Edi­tion ver­sion Fett *)

Best in Show
For the one fan, who has the best all around cos­tume in 2007.
Prize: EE Exclu­sive Star Wars Elite Forces of the Repub­lic ($67 value)
Win­ner: Thomas Spanos — Durge

We’ll be con­tact­ing each win­ner above to redeem their prizes. (Dis­claimers: 1) If for some rea­son we can­not get in touch within 30 days, we may con­sider runners-up. 2) Prizes may be sub­sti­tuted for sim­i­lar items depend­ing on their avail­abil­ity. 3) Upon receipt of a mail­ing address, prizes will be ordered for deliv­ery within 30 days; deliv­ery depen­dent on retail­ers.)
For more pic­tures of the above cos­tumes, as well as all of the entries as well as more cos­tumed fans (who con­tributed pho­tos before or after this con­test), see the com­plete album in our image galleries.

Also, see the orig­i­nal post for this con­test from Octo­ber 2007.

* [Cor­rec­tion: We ear­lier said this was an ROTJ cos­tume, which sev­eral read­ers told us was inac­cu­rate. This was our error in a nota­tion for the entry. J. Sal­cedo entered a Spe­cial Edi­tion ver­sion Fett. — Editor]