Cosplay

Who Are You Protecting? by *behindinfinity on deviantART

It never fails to amaze me how much money people spend on doing Cosplay.
Cosplay, for those who don't know, is "Costume Play", where people dress up as characters (originally just from Anime) from cartoons, television shows, and movies.
A little better explaination from wikipedia:

"The term cosplay represents a contraction of the English words costume play. The term was coined by Nov Takahashi of the Japanese studio Studio Hard while attending the 1984 Los Angeles Science Fiction Worldcon. He was impressed by the hall and the costumed fans and reported on both in Japanese science fiction magazines. The coinage reflects a common Japanese method of abbreviation in which the first two moras of a pair of words are used to form an independent compound. Costume becomes kosu (コス), and play becomes pure (プレ)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosplay

As a Trekkie (or if you prefer, Trekker), it has never been anything that I'm against. But people will spend incredible amounts of time and money for a perfect cosplay outfit.

behindinfinity from DeviantArt is one of the best to see really good examples of cosplay. I've only seen a few episodes of Bleached, one of the shows that is shown in their gallery. There's quite a few amazing photos done. Check it out.