Whatever Happened to Golden/Silver Age Costume Parts?

Wouldn't mind seeing more tights patterns and whatever comes with them. I'd love seeing some Kirby-esque costume pieces too.

I keep hoping we'll end up with a new torso model for women, with a chest that actually looks like it's wearing tights and not body paint.

Just to add my 2 cents in.

The classic tights options we currently have are about 10 years old at this point (considering CoH's original development time) and frequently look poor standing next to new, more technologically advanced costume items.

I'm certainly not suggesting that we scrap anything, but some new items, with seams, and zippers, and masks. Real masks. And textures that make the character not look like a Russian body builder. (Not that there's anything wrong with Russian body builders.)

Having created well over 2000 golden age hero/villain micros for my golden age micro website, I am somewhat familiar with what sort of costume pieces Golden Age heroes/villains used and how they differ from Silver Age and modern heroes. I had to create most of my own micro hero costume piece templates because more modern costume pieces simply didn't work.

http://goldenagemicros.com/index.html

There are huge Golden Age gaps in the current COH costume creator.

The biggest gap imo is the lack of sleek tight options. (Sleek tight should be the COH default, not plain tights.) There is no slight tight option, for example, for male boots/flat. Most of the boots of the tight-fitting costumes of the golden age would be boots/flat option (no boot heels). Another big gap is if you select the brief pattern for Lower Body/Legs/Tights, no other pattern or striping can be selected. There should be a tights briefs+pattern option.

Other GA gaps in the COH costume creator:

• Turbans (esp. large round turbans w/ and w/o jewel) used by GA magicians
• Fez hats w/ and w/o tassles also worn by GA magicians
• WWI-style "tin pan" helmets worn by several GA heroes
• Jodhpur pants worn by countless GA male and female characters
• Buccanneer boots (soft leather boots with tops rolled down)
• Pilot helmets with googles up on forehead
• Bird-like "Ruin" cowls with nose-beaks
• Montana Peak hats (Smokey Bear hat)
• Headsman's full cowl (sack-like hood with eyeholes cut out)
• Headsman's half cowl (sack-like hood with eyeholes that shows nose, mouth, chin)
• A plain Baggy top option w/o the collar details. A better options would be a plain baggy option in the Jackets section so that sleeves/sleeveless could be added to it.
• Patriot tights patterning. Star-spangled pattern for chest/legs/gloves/boots/capes. Two-toned vertical and horizontal striped briefs for flag stripe effect.
• High collars w/o capes option
• Crossed leather chest harnesses (wide glossy leather)
• "Suspenders" vertical leather chest harnesses
• Sam Browne belt
• Leather bets with closed-flap gun holster
• Pilot scarf
• Clark Gable/Errol Flynn mustache
• Brylcream (a little dab'll do ya) male hair
• Tailless Wedding tuxedo
• Coveralls and overalls
• Broomstick-handle Mauser and Luger pistol options. A receipe temp power for these weapons, also, so that non-Dual Pistol GA characters can wield them.

Female-specific parts

• Sleek/leather "Merry Widow" one-piece strapless top/brief (both skin and tights underneath options)
• Veronica Lake hairdo
• Lauren Bacall hairdo

Personally, I've always been a big fan of Silver Age heroes and I'd love to see a new Golden/Silver Age costume set. You can definitely create Golden and Silver Age style costumes using the existing tools in the costumer creator--I've been doing it for years. But we could use some more options for classic costume pieces, and even more importantly, I think many of the original pieces need a face-lift to bring them up to par with the newer sets (high on that list are masks that look like worn material instead of just painted-on).

But I'm not holding my breath waiting for a new Golden/Silver Age costume set. There are lots of themes and costume styles that are not represented at all (or only maginally) by the current costume options, and it seems like introducing something new and shiny will almost always take priority over upgrading something familiar and old. It's the same with game content--there are lots of zones and story arcs that could use a make-over, and while a few do get revamped, more often they are left alone in favor of introducing new zones and story arcs. Same with adding a whole new costume theme rather than improving upon an existing theme.

What I hope they might do is add a few new Golden/Silver Age costume parts as freebies and save the new and shiny costume themes for the paid sets. That I could see happening.

in premonitions posts and in images i continue to look up all i keep seeing is:

-sashes on males, loincloths, hercules' thigh high boots... basic quivers...

and i'm so ANGRY.

Yeah we could really use:

Close to eyes masks
Baggy pants/tights
Lassos
Gun holsters
Quivers
Folded boots
Many hairstyles for women...from the 30s (think thin hair with buns, or coiffed rolls on side and so on)
...and for men (more moustaches, beards, slick haircuts)

Please spend SOME time doing a Golden Age/Silver Age set or add-on at some point.

All separate eye maskes need a white eye option too

I didn't expand upon the comment in that thread because the thread was about the Post Apoc armor, not new variants of Tights and Golden/Silver Age costume parts.

We most certainly did get a lot out of exploring what could result from a Golden/Silver Age themed Costume Bundle. I think we grokked the idea that what was expressed had more to do with materials used and textures and how the costume bits laid on the characters body. I want to be explicitly clear when I tell you that we don't think it's a bad idea, in fact we definitely think it has some merit. It's just not something that's in our immediate line up.

And no, I can't tell you when/if we're working on anything like that.

Right now, we've got a line up of Costume Bundles coming down the pipe. Some we've announced (Post Apoc, New Tights, Cybertech) and some are still in the works. I do know that many players here on the forums are very enthusiastic about the possibility of Golden/Silver Age costume parts and these requests are expressed in our regular product management meetings .

New tights?

Ah, yes. Gold lamé tights are in order, I think.

What people want is still the classic tights but with a less painted on look.

You can make tights but still give them some details to look like they're wearing something. Body hugging spandex but you see the difference between the neck and head. The sleeves and the hands.

Also face masks would be nice that werent painted on.