Hallowe’en Planning: Discussion [All]

[Silky Gooseness]

How to best combine democracy with the spirit of surprise?

We thought we’d open up a thread so people can come up with ideas and bounce them around, for Hallowe’en themes, icons, games etc. The previous Hallowe’en icons are being collected in the Cottage here https://www.lotrfanaticsplaza.com/foru ... ?f=5&t=443if you want to see some of what’s been done before.

And then we’ll see what happens come October...

[KingODuckingham]

How do icons work when we have fewer kingdoms than icons?

[Winddancer]

We have a special solution for that :D But that is a surprise!! Just give us some ideas you would like to see! :D

[Dimcairien Luiniel]

The minions as minions.

[Winddancer]

The minions as minions.

<3 I so wanted ALL of Plaza to look like Mordor and every kingdom have some kind of slave rank.. *sighs dreamily*

[Taethowen]

I will just chime in now and say that if the minions are minions, I will definitely switch for Halloween.

[The Good Hunter]

I agree with Windy, this is what needs to happen. Not just for Samhain, just in general

[Silky Gooseness]

The minions as minions.

Do you mean the little yellow tic tac shaped guys who wear the blue overalls?

[Winddancer]

Wait.. what

[Dimcairien Luiniel]

The minions as minions.

Do you mean the little yellow tic tac shaped guys who wear the blue overalls?

Yes.



And this should be Narv

[Winddancer]

Die.

[The Good Hunter]

oh... yeah no, not those minions. I am not a banana

[Elenhir]

Wait.. what

Windy forgot to be sufficiently paranoid and got played. Rookie mistake.

[Winddancer]

There is only one kind of minion!

[Shivased]

Rohan should be My Little Pony

[Lail]

If minions are minions (the yellow ones!!) and Rohan is My Little Pony I just don't know what I would choose!

[Taethowen]

If Rohan is My Little Pony, I will switch *anywhere else* for Halloween.

[Gwai]

Bwahahaha I’m jumping on Taeth’s plan for moving if we’re My Little Pony

[The Good Hunter]

following this logic, is Imladris and all it's inhabitants going to be Kepler elves?

[KingODuckingham]

We have a special solution for that :D But that is a surprise!! Just give us some ideas you would like to see! :D

Hard to make a suggestion that isn't kingdom-themed, but I trust you guys with whatever your sneaky surprise is.

[Lail]

If Rohan is My Little Pony, I will switch *anywhere else* for Halloween.

Minion friends - now you know how to fully recruit Taeth!

An Ent needs time to contemplate this. Are you looking for non-kingdom themed, but whole Plaza-wide ideas?

[Shivased]

following this logic, is Imladris and all it's inhabitants going to be Kepler elves?

Frost, I assume you mean Keebler elves? These guys:

[The Good Hunter]

at the moment... I'm just happy I can see straight(ish) but you are correct

though

kepler elves sounds very cool right now

[Dimcairien Luiniel]

That would be a throwback, as I think there are some icons that look like those elves in the Halloween thread. Edit: Or maybe not, but there are a bunch of odd elf icons for 2004 Rivendell.

And yes, Rohan should be My Little Pony.

[Menolly]

Uh if Rohan is My Little Pony, I will temporarily abandon the Shire in a heartbeat.

[Silky Gooseness]

An Ent needs time to contemplate this. Are you looking for non-kingdom themed, but whole Plaza-wide ideas?

Any. Either. It’s so easy to switch kingdoms and ranks now anyway, we were assuming there would be a free for all.

[Dwim]

I think the colossal effort of making new Halloween icons for every kingdom is a greater task than anyone should have to bear. So my idea (if we are going to have different icons for Halloween) would be for everyone to choose their own icon from the compiled collection of past Halloween icons in the linked thread. Basically the admins would open a thread for people to request their choice from the collection, and then upon request, it would be done!

[Silky Gooseness]

They’d have to be individually uploaded for every person, Dwim, so I’m not certain if that’s easier.

[Winddancer]

It's not easier. We has plans! So give us some ideas for what you would like to see, which themes? ;)

[Silky Gooseness]

That’s not to say we can’t do reruns of old themes if they’re really popular.

[Winddancer]

Totally!

[Nessa Saelind]

Maybe we could do MCU or DCU for the whole Plaza? Both comic/movie/TV universes have plenty of various characters to go around. :-)

[Silky Gooseness]

ooo I’d like to propose Studio Ghibli theme

[Aodh Hammerhelm]

Stephen King's ~ The Gunslinger ? For a pretty, sai

or mayhap,

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Stranger Things

[Lail]

Seeing as some of us had some pretty passionate feelings about Disney characters (Character Elim Game... RIP Rapunzel ) - I'll propose Disney characters. There's be a lot of options beyond the old classics since Disney is now seeking world domination... And we might be able to re-use some old icons dredged out of the archives, which would save people some time and effort.

[The Good Hunter]

@Aodh Hammerhelm I am all for the Gunslinger!

[Lirimaer]

I think, in the interests of kindness, that this thread is a good idea. You now have some clear Do Not Wants!!

So, how long will the Halloween icons be used for? Interested party over here wants to know.

[Winddancer]

All of October

[Lirimaer]

*blinks*

That's a lot of pressure to make 'em good then, huh! Best of luck!!

[Rivvy Elf]

If Rohan switches to My Little Pony, I'm switching to Rohan.

[Winddancer]

*blinks*

That's a lot of pressure to make 'em good then, huh! Best of luck!!

Darling Ears, we are all minions (yes Sil too! Shh!) we would THRIVE on making them suck and having people gripe about them ALL month! (j/k)

[Lirimaer]

well, if you'd thrive on it ...

[Silky Gooseness]

I’ll have you know I am definitely an elf and I desperately crave your internet approval

[The Good Hunter]

Perhaps icons should be taken from the terrible, I mean brilliant, Rankin/Bass and Bakshi films

[Winddancer]

You guys know what Halloween is, right!?? It's scary stuff! Oi..

[KingODuckingham]

After long and careful thought I have realized what I most desire is to cosplay Seto Kaiba and/or his Blue Eyes White Dragon for Plazaween. I would be willing to take on all challengers in a d-d-d-d-duel in the form of a children's card game thread too.

[Eldy Dunami]

I'll second @Sil Denafil's suggestion of a Studio Ghibli theme, with the hope that it includes characters from Isao Takahata's filmography (and maybe even Whisper of the Heart) as well as Miyazaki's.

(Please let Princess Kaguya be one of the first eight ranks in one Kingdom. )

[Zôrzimril]

Princess Kaguya!!!!! <3

[Silky Gooseness]

on a slightly more halloweeny theme, have we had Buffy the Vampire Slayer before?

[The Good Hunter]

Lovecraftian monsters?