Last year I went to CONvergence to tell some jokes at some shows, help out with a room party and drink myself into an ulcer (true story!). A week before the convention I came up with the idea of a cosplay bingo board. The rules were simple. See the costume, check the box.
People got “bingo” in fifteen minutes walking around. The name of the game last year was coverall.
A friend printed up a bunch of them and delivered them to the Stand Up! Records party room and we distributed them freely. They were gone within a couple of hours. People seemed to like it.
This year we’re bringing the bingo board back but bigger, bolder and badder (I don’t know what happened there. I just started alliterating)! I’ll actually take some time to make it a little easier on the eyes (i.e. more than just a screengrab of a spreadsheet) and I’m hoping to do multiple versions of the board to make it more like actual bingo. This is where I need your help.
Leave a comment below with an idea for a convergence cosplay bingo board square. We’ll be using some of the squares from last year and I’ll come up with some more on my own but I’m looking to make enough for multiple boards. The only rule here is to not be a dick. I ain’t throwing any “guy who obviously lives with his mom” squares on the board. We want to make something everybody can play and I’d rather not piss anybody off or make them feel bad (except furries. They’re fair game).
With that one rule in mind, be creative! The biggest complaint last year is that the board was too easy to fill so please feel free to do something obscure or a combination (Star Trek character hanging out with Star Wars character).
Let’s get started. I look forward to seeing your comments!
Off the top of my head:
-Not sure how best to word the square, but mashup costumes? (Star Trek character in steampunk style, or vampire in Firefly, etc.)
-Inappropriately sexy costumes (different from Unnecessarily sexy) like a sexy Freddy Krueger or such.
-Gender bending costumes (reverse gender super heroes, chicks as Doctor Who, etc.)
-Something with kids in costumes… but they’re all over the place, this needs to be refined to more specific options. Kids in costumes that are specifically coordinated with the accompanying adult costume?
Kid accessory! Where a kid is used as part of an adult’s costume!
Anyone leading someone else around on a leash.
BDSM non-sequitor! See ’em every year.
Hey one year my friend and I were characters from a book and the scene we did involved one leading the other on a leash. The outfits were iconic enough that we had made it a game to see how many people recognized it.
As far as suggestions:
Hunger Games
Racebending (black Katara, Asian Belle etc)
Nolanverse character not from a movie (Harley, Penguin, Ivy)
costume broken before the day is half over
meme costume
TOO SOON (My boyfriend was Billy Mays that one year)
Kilted stormtrooper.
Fem Doctor Who.
Costume that can’t fit through doors.
Is “Kilted Stormtrooper” something that actually happens? I don’t think I’ve seen it but if you’ve seen it more than once it’s going on the board.
It happens.
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Something involving the overwhelming number of Buddy Christs. There used to be just one (my friend Scott) and then each year since they multiply like Tribbles.
And now I want to make tribbles, dress them up as buddy christ and leave them all over the con.
Multiple Jesuses (Jesii?) can totally go on
Rich Kronfeld in his Captain Pike chair
Half-assed furry with just a tail and ears
Adult man wearing a My Little Pony t-shirt
Father/son and/or mother/daughter costumes
Stanley H. Tweedle from Lexx
Redhead wearing the Princess Leia slave bikini
Man wearing the Princess Leia slave bikini
Any Ghostbuster
Jareth from Labyrinth
Awesome! I was already thinking (and Eric commented) about a gender bender category so we may just go with “Gender Bender Male (man in female costume)” and vice versa. So the man in slave leia bikini might be too specific but the rest are great!
Thanks! Yeah, I think Eric and I were composing at the same time. I like his gender bender idea too!
Attack of the faux fur: random animal bits like fuzzy leggings, a tail or ears
Cunning, Don’t you think? A Jayne hat with no Jayne costume.
Oh for cute! : child versions of characters that aren’t children
Is there a Doctor in the Con?: Any version of Doctor Who (bonus if there are multiple versions together)
Playing on a theme: a costume based on a character with directly representing that character. Example: Dalek Skirt, Gir hoodie
These looked hot on the shelf: any ‘sexy’ outfit/costume in a state of half off. (carrying sexy shoes, undone corset…) bonus points if you removed part of someelse’s
The Wayback Machine: classic versions of thing. Like 70’s battlestar
I’m on my tablet so it was difficult for me to see the original grid so there may be some repeats.
Nice!
Women dressed as male characters and vice versa!
Costume with electronic/lightup parts
Costume that has nothing to do with scifi/fantasy/comicbooks
Multiples of the same costume not planned together (2 supermans run into each other)
A herd of hobbits
Girl wearing anime costume who looks 15, but should be 18 to wear it.
Superman with plastic hair
A gaggle of Avengers
Wonder women. By which I mean specifically multiple people (m/f/?) dressed as Wonder Woman. It’s gonna be a popular costume this year.
Man or Woman in coconut bra without matching costume
Political T-shirt for fictional candidate for President. (ie: Voldemort for President)
Awesome! Keep ’em coming!
Guest of Honor in costume
More than 5 of same costume seen in one day (5 David Tennant Doctors, etc.)
Costume will not fit in elevator
Out of context makeup (Borg queen in jeans and T-shirt, etc)
I have a good feeling that Game of Thrones costumes are going to be everywhere this year.
Weapons taller than the person carrying them
This is genius.
1)Painted NERF gun as a costume prop.
2)Someone wearing bondage accessories that obviously has no idea they’re wearing BDSM gear (soccer mom in a dog collar, 13 year-old in bondage pants)
3) Creepy older dude hitting on a younger girl
4) Ridiculously unnecessary peacebonding of something that is clearly not a weapon. “Overzealous peacebonding”
5) A comedian/nanny
6) Ironic T-Shirt/wearer combinations (fat guy in a flash shirt, etc)
7) Young, awkward teens hooking up/inappropriate public make-outs
8) “Tiny Top-Hat”
9) Waldo
10) A furry with “access panels” built into their costume
11) Inappropriate dental floss-style bikini
Nick, items like 3 and 7 are items for a general con bingo but not actually cosplay bingo. Yes, I’m being pedantic. Take a drink.
(i forget if pets are allowed but if so pet costumes matching owner costumes, like krypto and superman)
Anything made out of cardboard, weather it be part of costume, prop or any random item.
Un-famous game charactor
DC superhero aside a Marvel superhero
By Un-famous i mean like normal enimies.
It could also be used as charctors from not very known-of games.
Another one: ANYTHING 8-bit
Hero and villan, like darth vader and annikin, batman and joker, ect.
Maybe someone will be inspired in their own submissions; or improve upon what I submit:
The Goblin King
Side-boob (male or female)
Inappropriate drinking vessel (Yahtzee cup, baby bottle, enemy’s skull…)
Out-of-character personal backpack/purse
“Sustainable” grocery bag used for shopping/personal items
Loner sketching in the corner
Blacklight bodypaint
More-than-necessary sequins!
Dieselpunk
Person who sneaks purse-dog into hotel as “service animal”
Photog-nerd using the “Dutch Angle”
I will probably submit even more later. Because this is an hilarious idea.
~manna the destroyer
There should be a card just for Wonder Woman!
Gender bender Wonder woman,
Wonder Woman with EVEN LESS clothing,
fully covered Wonder Woman,
Time travel Wonder Woman,
little kid Wonder Woman,
Wonder Woman with group,
Wonder Woman alone,
various actions seen done by Wonder Woman (tying someone up with lasso, fighting a DC villian, fighting a Marvel villian, fighting a non-comic book villian, romancing Batman, romancing Superman, romancing someone else).
‘Concept’ costume with a prepared explanation longer than one sentence.