Halloween/dress-like-a-playgrounder week -- 26th October till 1st November

[Haruki-kun]

This is my first one though and I want more

There'll be more, but let's make them a bit more special. Instead of "OK, so this week this, next week that, the week after that that other thing..."

Besides, Christmas is coming up and you can be pretty sure people are gonna dress up for it.

[Gullara]

There'll be more, but let's make them a bit more special. Instead of "OK, so this week this, next week that, the week after that that other thing..."

Besides, Christmas is coming up and you can be pretty sure people are gonna dress up for it.

I see your point

I see you got a tail

[Fostire]

I see your point

I see you got a tail

You might enjoy gender bender week in February

[Pyrian]

We could do Indian and Pilgrim week (23rd to 29th), although that's kind of U.S.-centric.

[Trobby]

It does my heart good to see some Playgrounders still in costume (and suggesting some interesting new ideas for a thread theme)

Did anybody make a collection of the costumes used? I feel a little left out on missing the major part of this thread theme, and I'd like to see some of the creative ideas that were floating about while I was gone.

That, and memories are fun.

[Elder Tsofu]

Maybe change to "oppressed native peoples and their oppressors in the playground"?
(lots of them around the world, would remove the U.S.-centric part.)

[Haruki-kun]

I see your point

I see you got a tail

.....it helps me balance. Plus I started two days late.

[BisectedBrioche]

Because there have been far too many of these as of late and the novelty has somewhat faded already?

What are you talking about? This has been the first for about 2 months....

[Fostire]

It does my heart good to see some Playgrounders still in costume (and suggesting some interesting new ideas for a thread theme)

Did anybody make a collection of the costumes used? I feel a little left out on missing the major part of this thread theme, and I'd like to see some of the creative ideas that were floating about while I was gone.

That, and memories are fun.

Hey, you're back!
How was your trip?

Also here's what I wore:

[Mr. Mud]

Maybe Nationality Week? Dress your avatars up in the flags/colors/cultural attire native to your country?

[Lex-Kat]

How often do you guys do these dress-up weeks? Once every month?

If we do it once every two months, not including holidays and Pirate week, then would it make it better?

Oh, and I like On Fire Week.

[Silverraptor]

It seems being on fire is the new trend.

[Fostire]

How often do you guys do these dress-up weeks? Once every month?

If we do it once every two months, not including holidays and Pirate week, then would it make it better?

Oh, and I like On Fire Week.

Once every two months seems fine to me.

I like on Fire week too, but when would we do it? next month a lot of people will dress up for christmas, and after that we have gender bender in February (right?)

[Quincunx]

Once every two months seems good--better than the monthly schedule of a few weeks ago. Doesn't leave any room for annual themes, but we're not going to run out of ideas any time soon.

Thanks, Happyturtle, for the sorting of the list! (Now put Music/Music Videos on it ). Media Themes are all too narrow except for Pixar and All Other Webcomics; I loved xkcd style week, but the style was the theme. Any creature theme is great; most human themes are interesting but not quite enough to transform the board. Action and Genre could be fun no matter which is chosen. Random silly is. . .well, they should be random and spontaneous, like catmuffin week "hey, let's all dress up as a weird fluffy base creature that's the usual trademark of one person".

[Gullara]

Also here's what I wore:
*snipped*

Well if we are posting what we wore (or are still wearing)

[Trog]

I wonder if a mod could open up a poll for this?

I know we can no longer start them on our own but making a poll thread for the next theme week would help us all come to a consensus. Otherwise someone is just going to decide for everyone and start a new thread and that'll probably be that. Not that that's bad, but the polling option is more democratic if it can be arranged.

[Mr. Mud]

I wonder if a mod could open up a poll for this?

I know we can no longer start them on our own but making a poll thread for the next theme week would help us all come to a consensus. Otherwise someone is just going to decide for everyone and start a new thread and that'll probably be that. Not that that's bad, but the polling option is more democratic if it can be arranged.

I can see it happening. I think the norm for polls is that you have to request them via PM? I'm not 100% sure on that one, though.

[happyturtle]

Media themes:

• Joss Whedon Week
• Non-oots Webcomic
• 8-bit week
• Nintendo week
  
  • Final Fantasy Week
  • Mario Week
• Lord of the Rings week
• VG Cats
• Lego week
• Pixar week
• Anime
• Discworld
• Harry Potter
  
  
  Possibly too narrow:
  

  • Team Fortress week
  • Sonic Week
  • Legend of Zelda week

Creature themes:

• Zombie
• Kobold
• Goblinoid week
• Alien week
• Teddy bear week
• Penguin
• Snake
• Monster week

Human based themes:

• Lolita
• Hobo
• Standard OotS
• Old smelly person week
• Crazy Person week

Action based themes:

• Party
• Musical
• Toga Party
• ON FIRE! week
• Music/Music video
• Lost a fight week
• Drunken avatar week

Genre themes:

• Wild West Week
• Cyberpunk Week
• Decades Week
• Superhero/villain Week
• In SPACE!!!

Random silly themes:

• LOLoots
• Pie
• Invisible
• Inanimate object week
• Household Furniture
• Elements
• No avatar
• Jigsaw Week (All the avatars of participants are arranged into a collage, then it's diced up as a puzzle, and avatars are sent back to the participants?)
• Sunglasses week
• Nationality week

Lolwut? themes: (I have no idea what these are...)

• Sub-culture
• Unusual
• Mii week (Whut?)
• Adventure

Already been done themes (including annual themes):

• Alignment switch week (annually in April (?))
• Gender swap week (annually on Valentine's week)
• Children week
• Mythology Week
• Draconic
• Mistaken Identity week
• Nudity

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If we're going to make a poll, we should narrow down the options a bit.

First poll:
When should the next theme week be?

• Before Christmas
• January
• After GB week in February

How often should we have theme weeks (allowing for maneuvering around holidays and pre-scheduled stuff)?


Second poll:
What should the next theme be?
Everyone post their three favourite themes, and we'll use the rankings to make a proper poll.

[Mr. Mud]

I'll tally votes for Creature Themes.

{table]Zombie| 6
Kobold| 1
Alien |1
Teddy Bear| 1
Penguin |1
Monster |1[/table]

Correct me if I'm wrong, someone.

[Fostire]

Kobold (Draconic) has already been done too.

Either January or after GB works for me.

Theme:
-Elements
-ON FIRE!
-Nintendo week (I know it's not on the list but it merges Mario and Legend of zelda weeks while adding hundreds of possibilities for everyone)

[Trog]

A couple of thoughts:

Perhaps we can choose one of the broader theme categories first? Then after the category has been decided vote on the various possibilities within that theme category? That'd be two polls. Unless it's possible to put all options in one poll, that is. In which case go with that because it would be one less poll.

As to the frequency can we vote on this just once and get it over with for each period of time? So not "when should the next one be" but "how often should these occur from this point on." That would save doing this every time. If we do it all, that is.

[EleventhHour]

Taking into account Trog's idea ;

Time Frame
Once every six weeks, excluding evasion of traditional theme weeks like Pirate, or holidays.

Theme

Random/silly ;

- Elements
- Nintendo - (Stealing Fostire's idea of merging.)
- Nationality

[happyturtle]

How often?
Every six weeks does seem like a good compromise.

Favourite three?
ON FIRE!!!!!
Inanimate object
Nationality

[Mr. Mud]

Time Frame
{table]4 Weeks | x
6 weeks | 8
8 weeks| x
Indifferent to Frequency of Theme Weeks | 2 [/table]

Next Theme
{table]Nationality | 1
ON FIRE!!! | 6
Inanimate Object | 1
Nationality | 2
Nintendo/Videogame| 8
Elements | 2
Nudity | 4
Zombie | 2
8-Bit|2
Decades | 1
Superhero/Villain Week | 1
Lost a fight | 2
Penguins | 1
In Space | 1
Anime | 2
[/table]

x = No after the creation of this table

[Morty]

Once every six weeks seems like a good idea, yes. As far as themes go, I'm partial for Nationality and, of course, Goblinoid.

[alchemyprime]

I vote for the idea of Nintendo or 8-Bit. 8-Bit Blue Beetle!

[Gullara]

How often?
Every six weeks sounds good.

Favourite three?
ON FIRE!!!!!
Nintendo
Zombie (although I think it should be changed to undead)

[Haruki-kun]

I think Videogame week (rename "Nintendo Week") would be best. Also, in January. Given that Gender Bend Week is one of those we hold every year, lots of people already have avatars for it, so it won't put that much of a strain on avatarists. It'll work OK even if they're a little close.

My vote:
VideoGame Week on January

[Mr. Mud]

Wahoo, thanks for bolding your votes guys. If I'm missing something, let me know .

[CrimsonAngel]

Elements, Nintendo, and Zombies!