{"id":394,"date":"2008-03-10T23:25:08","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T06:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobafett.com\/news\/spotlight\/costume-contest_2007_winners\/"},"modified":"2014-12-13T11:35:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T19:35:09","slug":"costume-contest_2007_winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/bffc\/costume-contest_2007_winners\/","title":{"rendered":"And the winners are..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/community\/contests\/2007-costume.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For our 2007 Costume Contest, we&#8217;re officially announcing the four winners for the following prize-in-tow awards: Most Creative, Most Cost-Effective, Most Accurate, and Best in Show.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Most Creative<\/strong><br \/>\nFor all the fans who customize, with flames, colors or add-ons.<br \/>\nPrize: Star Wars Boba Fett Blaster Scaled Replica ($45 value)<br \/>\nWinner: Ray Ramirez &#8211; Mando Sniper<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/community\/contests\/2007-costume-creative.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Most Cost-Effective<\/strong><br \/>\nFor all the fans who can make good use of cardboard, or some clever and resourceful alternative.<br \/>\nPrize: Star Wars Betrayal on Bespin Action Figure Battle Pack ($25 value)<br \/>\nWinner: Jacob &#8211; Boba Fett<br \/>\nStatement (via Jacob&#8217;s dad): &#8220;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.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/community\/contests\/2007-costume-costeffective.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Most Accurate<\/strong><br \/>\nFor all the fans who study the reference photos and master the details.<br \/>\nPrize: Star Wars Boba Fett Scaled Helmet Replica ($50 value)<br \/>\nWinner: J. Salcedo &#8211; Boba Fett (Special Edition version Fett *)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/community\/contests\/2007-costume-accurate.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best in Show<\/strong><br \/>\nFor the one fan, who has the best all around costume in 2007.<br \/>\nPrize: EE Exclusive Star Wars Elite Forces of the Republic ($67 value)<br \/>\nWinner: Thomas Spanos &#8211; Durge<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/community\/contests\/2007-costume-bestinshow.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;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.)<br \/>\nFor 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobafett.com\/multimedia\/galleries\/thumbnails.php?album=51\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">complete album<\/a> in our image galleries.<\/p>\n<p>Also, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/bobafett.com\/news\/fans\/costume-contest_2007\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">original post<\/a> for this contest from October 2007.<\/p>\n<p>* [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. &#8212; Editor]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For our 2007 Costume Contest, we&#8217;re officially announcing the four winners for the following prize-in-tow awards: Most Creative, Most Cost-Effective,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bffc","category-fans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}