Why I made an Iron Man Suit - 16-year old Tony Stark builds homemade Mark III Armor

>>Jackson: It started and I was kind of like I've always been obsessed with armor. You know. Just a suit you could wear and so I was kind of like I saw some people making Iron Man costumes and I was like, 'Hey I really want to do that.' So. It just kind of turned into that. [Music Playing] It's a great accomplishment and this probably one of the greatest projects I've ever attempted in my life. When I started it, I didn't really want to advertise it, because I have a habit of not following through on things a lot, so I kind of wanted to get something worth showing. Once I actually got the helmet in paper, put it up on Facebook and people were like, 'Wow. That's really cool.' Most of my friends actually think I'm insane doing this. I kind of get like, 'Dude. You're crazy. Why are you wasting your life on this?' It's just a passion for me. That's why I've done this whole thing, but yeah they pretty much thought I was insane. >>Jackson's Mom: Let Jackson be on the ... >>Jackson: It's been going on for my parents would say probably about 20 weeks, 400 hours spent on this whole thing. About two weeks from May 7th, which was when Iron Man 2 was gonna premiere. Uh, two weeks I was kinda like despairing that I would never finish this thing and I was kinda like, 'Y'know what? This sucks. I'm not going to finish this.' Yeah, I just kinda had to buckle down the movie was my deadline. So that was my whole I was going to present this whole thing at the movie premier. [Hip Hop MUSIC] I like it when people walk in the door, turn around and they're like, 'Holy crap. That's Iron Man standing right there.' And just their jaws drop and especially the little kids who are like, freaked out and they're like, I don't want to go anywhere near you. Then the other ones are like, 'Hey, mommy, mommy. Look it's Iron Man can I go get a picture.' I also went to Arrowhead Elementary School for my little brother and that was really great. The kids loved it. I got open mouths and wide eyes looking at me the whole time, so it was great. People want me to come and be Iron Man for like a fundraiser. If we have a friend of mine does he does some costuming for a group that they go to disabled children, they go to fundraisers for disabled kids. They do all kinds of different charity things. So I'd really like to be able to do that. This is really a great project that I feel very accomplished and I don't really know where I'm going to go from here; I'll probably build another suit. I can see so many different problems with this one it's ridiculous. So. I'll build something better.