If TV Tropes decided to have a convention, what ideas would you propose? They don't have to be serious...wait, I'm posting the Just for Fun forum. Just speak out whatever screwy ideas you have for TropeCon.

edited 8th Feb '15 3:41:46 PM by SatoshiBakura

As long as I get an extra hour in the ball pit, I support this!

First, the building where the convention will be hosted should be wearing a giant lampshade.

Brian Blessed for the Large Ham panel!

This place is too lonely. We need more people.

Anyway, a demonstration of the Idiot Ball! To make someone dumber, simply throw the ball at their head! ^* TV Tropes is not responsible for people being Killed Off for Real.

edited 8th Feb '15 5:00:40 PM by SatoshiBakura

FWIW, the subject of a con has been discussed before, here. Never really went anywhere, due to logistical issues and RL, however.

We should get guests and refuse to pay them and not pay our hotel enough to host the con. Oh, and definitely the ball pit. Who's gonna supply the hypodermic needles?

Insert witty 'n clever quip here.

This concept sounds familiar... But where from? Hmmm.

I also second the ball pit.

We should also have a room dedicated to popular culture references; so we can make fun of them.

I kind of feel like this would instantaneously morph from TropeCon into EverythingCon. People would show up cosplaying as everything from the SuperWhoLock fandom, of course, and I'd show up as BMO, and there'd be anime cosplayers, and there'd be Star Trek cosplayers, and there'd be Jedi and hobbits and Death Eaters and Kokiri children and Disney Princesses and superheroes and Planeswalkers...

...Not that that's a bad thing.

Instead of badges, we should have lampshades that everyone has to wear to get into the con spaces.

Rocks fall, everyone miraculously survives.

Why this obsession with lampshades, I mea—

-looks at site logo-

Oh.

*gives Hopey a dunce-cap-shaped lampshade*

what if i cosplayed as an enormous mishmash of all my avatars

i think i mostly want to see what happens when this whole place breaks apart

-eats the lampshade-

Delicious.

I would cosplay as the Hopey Tree.

That is; I wouldn't go.

edited 9th Feb '15 9:49:52 AM by Inhopelessguy

The hopey tree doesn't go?

Eh? Eh? Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, know what I mean, say no more?

Well, mostly because it would take a hideous amount of time to create an outfit that truly displays the Tree. I mean, I would have to design it in 5D.

But you'd win the cosplay contest for sure with something like that! It'd probably be hard to walk around in, though.

Rocks fall, everyone miraculously survives.

Yes.

YES

YOU ARE CORRECT

And absorb all the Incest Energy too. Or whatever, blah blah blah blah.

Are you sure you want that?

I mean, let's take a look at the other convention that had a ball pit...

"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."

If it had an international dimension, I would like tropers to bring flags of their countries and, if possible, exchange them.

Or, alternatively, play strategy-based games, considering how quite a few of us love battles, weapons, strategies or tactics.

I'd also suggest someone making a TV Tropes anthem for the beginning and ending of these Cons.

I'd probably go as I always do, and act as security for the con.

With my whip and all.

"Did you expect somebody else?"

I mean, let's take a look at the other convention that had a ball pit...'

Yeah, but our ball pit will be 100% times better! It'll have black jack! And hookers! And this!◊

... I don't think you know the definition of "better"

"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."

Mukodad, our con will be a billion times better. We have the Hopey Tree.

The Hopey Tree will force everyone to hand over all their money.

Mwahahahahaha.

We will be the most profitable con ever.

But I thought the Hopey tree wasn't going.