- You just kinda have to move your hands and hope for the best.

Simply no other job like this I can think of.

♪ Flexin' like a winner ♪ - The most important thing, I think, is to have fun.

♪ Got it all ♪ ♪ Got, got, got it all ♪ - So I'm a little bit like a superhero, in a way.

[laughs] ♪ Winner ♪ ♪ Winner ♪ - You have everybody in the stadium looking at you, and you just run out.

It's a big responsibility, I would say.

♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪ ♪ Winner ♪ ♪ Winner ♪ [sewing machine clacks] [playful music] - Brian Adams: Olympus Mascots was created at some point back in the 1960s.

We have 250-ish total employees.

- Amber Micoliczyk: They reached out to me and they're like, "Hey, do you wanna be a mascot sewer?"

And I'm like, "I have never heard of anything like that before, so sure, why not?"

- Brian: We've probably done 25,000 to 30,000 mascots through the years.

- Steve Deau: We did a forklift, like a wearable forklift costume.

And it had the forks in the front that just kinda went up and down.

And a hidden button on the other side for, like, the backup noise.

Full-body robot.

[electronic noises] Top to bottom.

The Racing Sausages come through here.

We probably make new ones every, I don't know, five years.

- We're working on a very high-profile project right now that I can't tell you about.

[machine buzzes] [sanding] - Brittany Jacob-Thacker: Most of our costumes are in between 60 to 120 hours, with the average of them being probably in the 70 to 80-hour range.

We consider, like, the performer's activity level.

We go a lot by, like, height range too to make sure it fits, like, a certain height range of person.

There's a lot of different aspects that all kinda go into it.

- So when I see the picture, I have to navigate how I'm going to make this a 3D thing.

I go on to the mannequin, I start measuring out things so that I know what the proportions are so I know how to make something what it should look like on the form.

- Brittany: So a lot of it's fur.

We have fur, Tempo, double knit are probably the big ones that we use.

I particularly like when we do fur costumes just 'cause it's cool to put different colors together and different textures.

[lion roars] [monsters exclaim] - We work with hundreds of customers every single year.

Pro sports teams, collegiate sports teams, restaurants, brands, different characters, you know, representing everything down to even elementary schools.

[broom whisks] ♪ One, two, three, whoo!

♪ ♪ Give it to me, give it to me ♪ ♪ Give it to me, whoo!

♪ ♪ Give it, give it, give it to me ♪ ♪ Give it, give it to me ♪ - It's very strange, sometimes, to just be like, watching a Packer game or something, and a commercial comes on and it's like, "Oh, I made that," you know?

It's like, you know, it gives me a certain level of pride and just, like, this costume made it onto TV and looks pretty good.

[chuckles] - John Sidem: Feels like art come to life.

Like, our art that we're working on here, you know, becomes this full-scale, realized thing.

♪ Whoo!

♪ - And then, it's like, you forget about all of that hard work, and you're like, "Wow, like, this is what it comes down to at the end."

- Brittany: The people that work here are just amazing.

It's the reason why I come back every day.

It's the reason why I have a smile on my face.

It's the reason why I love coming to work because it's a great group of people and we get to make some really fun stuff.

♪ Whoo!

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