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Jessica Legorreta poses wearing her self-made RC Transformer motorcycle costume at her home in a working class neighborhood in Mexico City, Wednesday, June 8, 2011. Legorreta whose daytime job is an industrial designer, is, along with her husband, an avid cosplayer and cosmaker, a type of performance art in which participants don and make costumes and accessories to represent a specific character. Their characters of choice are the Transformers and the Star Wars characters.

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Jose Luis Mendez Luna gets help from his wife Jessica Legorreta, as he prepares to dress as Darth Vader at his home on Wednesday.

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Jose Luis Mendez Luna poses wearing his Optimus Prime Transformer costume at home in a working class neighborhood in Mexico City, Wednesday.

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Jose Luis Mendez Luna and his wife Jessica Legorreta pose with their Optimus Prime and RC Transformer costumes in their dining room on Wednesday.
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