PlushieCon Online at UK PonyCONLINE: Britannia's Spooky Sleepover!

[Railway Dash]

Welcome to the 2nd PlushieCon Online!

This is the info site for PlushieCon Online at UK PonyCONLINE: Britannia's Spooky Sleepover!

Date: October 10th, 2020, 20:00 CEST = 7 p.m. BST at UK PonyCONLINE or at our Twitch live stream

Yep, that's right - after our very first PlushieCon Online at UK PonyCONLINE (you can find the whole "event in the event" right here), we are back for another PlushieCon Online! And this time, it will be a two hour feature length event!

As we don't maintain a website, we simply use a thread in this here board, which usually is our internal working board (that's why you can't find a "Register" button on it) for public information. You may also follow us on Twitter: @PlushieCon .

In order to keep this page clear, I put the topics into dedicated "spoiler boxes". Just click on such a box to open it and read its content.

Show ContentWhat is PlushieCon Online about?:

Usually, PlushieCon is an "event in an event" where you can lend your plushies to us, we arrange them all for a presentation on the main stage in the evening and show the biggest / smallest / most unusual... and talk about them. Maybe you have read on Equestria Daily about us before (you can find a list of their GalaCon reports mentioning us right here); maybe you've seen PlushieCon live before - that, of course, depends if you've been to a convention or meetup where we have been; up until now, we've been "only" to events in Europe.

Now this is our "online edition"  The idea came up, of course, because of the actual pandemic situation; but it doesn't need to be limited to the time present. You see, we understand that bringing plushies to a "real life" PlushieCon means effort for the owners: they need to do the registration, they need to label the plushies, they need to transport them to the event and back... all this means effort. We can well imagine hosting a PlushieCon, maybe even as a little stand-alone event, even after the pandemic is over, giving all of YOU the opportunity to show your plushies to the world without having to transport them or giving them out of your loving hands (even just for a day) at all. Whether we'll do this or not depends on which reactions we get and if we, the team behind it, can find time to organise a standalone online event or not; , if people want us to do this or if there is not much interest about it. - But for now, we will be hosting just the second "PlushieCon Online" ever - at UK PonyCONLINE!

Show ContentHere is how it works:

• First, please take a group photo and maybe some single pictures of your plushies and upload them anywhere you want, we just need to be able to access them. Please note the rules and tips for the photos below.
  
  
• Next, fill in the online registration form which you find by clicking >>> here <<<.
  
  
• If you already took part at the first PlushieCon Online in June and want to re-use the pictures you took back then: that's okay, but we must ask you to fill in the registration, including the picture links, again. The reason is: I, personally, still have all the pictures, but I did not assign them any personal data, so it's impossible for me to correctly assign the "old" pictures on my computer to a new registration. And we don't have the registrations from the first PlushieCon Online anymore; all data has been deleted to ensure data privacy protection.
  
  
• We will download the photos, try to put them all together to a huge collage which resembles all the gathered and set up plushies on the stage at "real" PlushieCons, and will use the photos during the presentation.
  
  
• UK PonyCONLINE assigned us a slot in their schedule at 7 p.m. BST = 20:00 CEST on October 10th. During this slot, we will be live on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/sirvonsinnen. Your PlushieCon host, Railway Dash, will do a PlushieCon presentation on a divided screen. In the lower left corner, all your plushie group photos will be shown in an endless loop, maybe also some of the single plushie pictures if someone provided us with separate single plushie pics of his plushies. This depends on the number of photos we get in total: we only have so much time to show them all, and we want to show at least all of the group pictures at least once. - On the major part of the screen, selected photos of plushies will be presented with Railway Dash giving information and comments on them.
  
  The event will be embedded in UK PonyCONLINE's Discord online convention. On their Discord channel, there will be a channel for asking panelists questions. If you want, feel free to ask us questions there during the PlushieCon Online: in the second half of the event, we'll do a good ol' fashioned Q&A where Railway Dash will read through your questions and answer them.
  
  You will also be provided with a link to the huge "collage group picture"; and below this text right here, this group picture and statistics will appear: total number of plushies, total number of participating owners, numbers of Fluttershys, Twilights, Pinkies, Rainbows, ... that were successfully registered.
  
  The event will go on for about two hours, which is the same time we usually do for live presentations at the big conventions. The show will be completely live, thanks to the technics magic provided by our technics wizard Lux.
  
  
• The links both to the huge group picture and the statistics will remain active after the show ended. PlushieCon Online will also be recorded and uploaded to YouTube to be available for a later watching. If you on your end of the line somehow want to record it, feel free and welcome to do so.
  
  
• To be able to handle the incoming photos and data, the online registration closes one week before UK PonyCONLINE, hence on October 3rd, 2020, as we need the week that'll be left until UK PonyCONLINE by then to sort all the data, count out the plushies, set up the presentation and so on - in short: to prepare PlushieCon Online, so please be sure to submit your plushie pictures and registrations until October 3rd.
  

Show ContentRules and tips for the plushie photos:

To have nice pictures and to be able to handle any number of pictures we might get, we need to set up some requirements for the photos. Additiionally, there are some tips based on our experiences from the first PlushieCon Online in June 2020.

• PlushieCon is a My Little Pony fandom project. Therefore, we only accept MLP related plushies (all generations are welcome at UK PonyCONLINE!), that means characters of species and races that actually do or could have been appearing in the show: ponies, griffons, hippogryphs, parasprites, yaks, seaponies... no random teddy bears, cat plushies, pokémon plushies or other plushies that are in no way MLP related. And please don't try to sell them to us as "hey, it's a shape-shifted changeling just posing as a <whatever>" - no, we certainly won't buy that.
  
  
• Please have the background of the photos clean and tidy. No one likes to see plushies that seem to be standing on a trash yard of half-eaten old pizza, overfull ash trays and next to a pile of dirty old clothes - you get the idea.
  
  
• Please make sure to only use pictures you have all rights at - for legal reasons we have to tell you that and see it as agreed that by submitting us your photos, you understand and adhere to this rule. We have to reject any legal responsibility for the pictures, this responsibility remains with the submitter exclusively.
  
  
• Since this will be a public show accessible for literally everyone of every age, please use only "family-friendly" pics, rated "E". We need to reserve the right to reject photos or blacken out single plushies on group photos if we don't see them fit for an "E" rated PlushieCon.
  
  
• It would be best to use landscape.
  
  
• For each registration, please send us one group photo of your plushies gathered together - this, of course, only applies if you have more than one plushie that you want to participate. If you have a huge group of plushies that don't really fit on one picture, it's, of course, okay to split them in two or three smaller groups. The group photos will be used for the automatic slideshow in the lower left corner of the Twitch stream screen. During the registration, you can enter a maximum of ten links to pictures. Whether you choose to give us one group pic and up to nine single plushie pictures or two or even three group pictures and therefore less single plushie pictures is up to you, we just kindly ask you to keep the number of group pictures as low as you can so that we have a chance to show all registered group pictures in an automated slide show during our "broadcast" at least once.
  
  
• We must be able to open and download the photos. Last time, some people uploaded their photos to exotic places and gave us links that contained something like "wixmp.com". When we tried to open the photo, all we got was an error site telling us that the token would be invalid... "great" , we had to contact people and ask to upload the pics elsewhere again. We highly suggest that before you give us the links, you test them with an incognito-mode browser so the hoster can't read your login data from your usualbrowser. If you can open the pictures in an incognito browser, we should be able to do so, too.
  
  
• Please keep the file size of each picture handy. Remember that they will be presented as a whole on a computer screen only, so there's really no need for a resolution of 32.000 * 18.000 pixels at a 43 MB RAW file size (we had them, no joke!!) as was produced by a SLR camera. Downloading and handling such "file size monsters" or "pixel monsters" really was no fun, so please, please, please keep the resolution and the file size reasonable.
  
  
• To be approved for taking part at PlushieCon Online, every plushie of your registration must be clearly visible on your group picture. Plushies that hide behind other plushies cannot be counted, sorry. - This also serves as a troll protection. You see, someone could enregister 100 Pinkies "jez fer da lulz", to blow up our numbers to unreasonable high numbers. Of course, anyone can do so - but we ONLY approve and count plushies that are visible on your picture. So, if for whatever reason, you enregister 100 Pinkies but show us only 9 on a photo, these 9 will be counted, of course; the remaining 91 will be ignored.
  
  
• Please use one plushie registration line per existing plushie of your overall registration, not one line for each photo of the same plushie. If you have, say, a certain OC which appears both at the group picture and on two or three single picture, please fill in this OC in the registration form only once. Plushies cannot be multiplied by taking various pics of them, you see...
  
  
• Please feel free to add single plushie photos, they could come in very handy for the main presentation. Maybe you have an exceptionally large plushie (I've heard of plushies that are about the size of an actual real life Arabian race horse!), or an exceptionally tiny one (you could put it next to a Penny or Euro cent or another common known tiny object for scale), or you want to show the mascots of events as a sign those events are with the herd in troublesome times... As we ask you in the form to provide (social media) contact data, we may contact you and asking for a more detailed single photo of a special plushie. Of course, that doesn't mean you're obliged to comply with such a request, you can choose to ignore it at your will.
  
  
• In general, as the ones being responsible for and running this event, we must reserve the right to choose or reject photos or registrations at our own decision, as we see fit. Uploading photo(s) and filling in the registration form does not grant you any rights of participation or of having your picture(s) shown, it will be merely an offer by you to us which is up to us to accept.
  

Well, that was a lot of text, but it's necessary to organize a nice PlushieCon Online Edition. Now, let's head up to upload your plushie picture(s) and register them >>> here <<< !

See you at the Twitch live stream!