[Edited]Halloween time gathering in Los Angeles (finalised!)

After last weekend's AWESOME gathering, I reaaally wanted to go to another one! So, I was thinking that it would be really cool to have a halloween themed gathering! Countries with little witch hats and capes and the like >w< I would DIE from the cuteness! 8D The date I was thinking of is Saturday October 17th or the 24th. The weekend before the 17th I am busy and I'm sure many of you will have other plans on Halloween, so let me know when is best for you~

Ok, So I finally figured out what we are doing! Here is the plan:

Date: October 24th
Time: 10am to 5pm
Location: Griffith park merry go round

THE LOCATION HAS BEEN FINALISED!!!!

And Canada has posted a new page that is less confusing than this! http://invisimatt.livejournal.com/712.html

If you need help coming by public transportation, let me know and I can get something figured out for ya and you may even get to be with other travellers on the way!

No more changes will be made to this
****PLEASE VOTE FOR THE NEW LOCATION!!!!****

Due to safety reasons, the location for the gathering will no longer be at MacArthur park (Stupid Iggy making parks in dangerous areas!! >.<) but out wonderful Canada (invisimatt/westcoastcyrus) has come up with these lovely ideas! Please read them and let me know your vote!

Direct quoting from Canada:

First up is the Travel Town Museum.
~~http://www.laparks.org/grifmet/tt/information.htm~~

(Option 1:)

This is a FREE ADMISSION train museum in Griffith Park. Not too many people know about it, which really surprises me since I grew up going to a lot of birthday parties there. I even had mine there twice, and my brother had his there maybe three or four times when we were little. Oddly enough, these parties were usually costume-themed.

There are a lot of cool things here, like a train ride and the museum itself, and the website says there are picnic tables and barbecue facilities (first-come, first-served) and if we REALLY wanna get creative, we can reserve space in a dining car. Those things fit like 50+ in there, but they get booked really fast. Last time I researched it, the lady in charge said that people usually grab 'em a month in advance.

(Option 2:)

The other suggestion I had was the Santa Monica Pier. I usually don't go there in cosplay, since the normie stares are rather intense at the pier and all... but closer to Halloween it won't matter cause it'll seem practically normal to have a party there.

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I personally think that Santa Monica is a great choice because it is easier to get to without getting lost and a gathering on the beach sounds WAY cool! My only concern is perhaps cosplays getting sandy, but I will be bringing picnic blakents, so that shouldn't be too much of a problem.

If you pick Travel town, please also include if you think we should try to reserve a dining car!!

We will be doing a pumpkin carving contest in groups (I'm thinking about 3-5 people to a group depending on how many people we have participating) but we need volunteers who can bring a pumpkin and/or carving tools! I will bring some carving tools, considering my mom trusts me to carry sharp objects with my clumsy self XD;;. Also, if you are cosplaying, please try and go with the theme of countries in halloween costumes! If you can't pull something together by then, it's fine to come in regular cosplay, but please try! :D Some other activities I was thinking of is in-character scary story telling! XD (Please let me know if this is a lame idea!) One person will start the story with a couple of sentences and then the country next to them must continue it and so on!

Well, those are the only things I can think of for now, but I will update once I have more ideas! also, I am always open to ideas from all of you! (HALP!)

**LOCATION EDIT!!**

Okay, so Canada called up the travel town people and sadly, all of the Dining cars are booked ): but we still have a chance of a picnic area! The only thing is that we need someone to be there at 8am to ensure us a spot. I would go myself, but it takes a couple of hours for me to get there by metro and bus so the earliest I would get there is 8:30 or 9.

As for the santa monica, it looks like more people are for travel town, but since there is all this difficulty with it, I am still keeping it up as an option.

since the deadline is nearing very fast, I am also putting up an option three which is to go to griffith park by the merry-go-round like last time. There won't be any picnic tables, but there is plenty of room to sit on the grass and to lay picnic blankets on. Please let me know! Final decision will be posted THIS FRIDAY.

neurotic_banana has posted a thread about this on cosplay.com! http://www.cosplay.com/showthread.php?p=3116965#post3116965

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People who plan to go:

Poland- Me! (Sucrose2071)

Lithuania- taco_grell

Austria- itakun

Spain- yoyosama, haro_chan

France- lolitarevenge

Russia- lullimi, anilechii, neurotic_banana

Iceland- minimucchi

Canada- westcoastsyrus

Prussia- westcoastsyrus' friend

Leichtenstein- shojo-onigiri (deviantart)

Seychelles- 27XxJuDaImExX27 (cosplay.com)

Belarus- 27XxJuDaImExX27 (cosplay.com) , AbbeyDream13 (cosplay.com)

China- fragrant_harbor, Ryuutsuki (cosplay.com)

Thailand- fragrant_harbor, fragrant_harbor's family

Japan- fragrant_harbor's family

Korea- fragrant_harbor's family

Taiwan- fragrant_harbor's family

Hong Kong- fragrant_harbor's family, Zechiral

Vietnam- fragrant_harbor's family

Sweden- mapleleaf

Sealand- Zechiral

Italy-Zechiral

America- yoyosama's friend

Romano- Santeelegs

Not cosplaying/cameramen- rocketsciences, blade_cross, burpinet

undecided/unknown cosplay or not:

xblkdragonx
yaoi_queen
veveveneto
burpinet's friends

People Bringing Pumpkins:
blade_cross- bringing 1 or 2

People Bringing Carving Tools:

Sucrose2071- most likely bringing two or three pumpkin carving knives

People bringing food:

lullimi- bringing candy

[Edited]Halloween time gathering in Los Angeles (finalised!)

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