this got so out of hand at my local fest that they decided to do time traveller’s weekend as a theme. this year we went, and my costume was a cave man who hit his head on a tree branch while chasing a rabbit, woke up here and is amazed by everything
haha that is a good one! I wonder if the faire participants mind or feel like it hurts their immersion.
At least at the Faires I’ve worked at no one cares.
In fact, I have a second-hand anecdote that one faire staff has a screen accurate combadge inside their doublet. When they see people doing stuff like this, they run over and pull them aside. They would whip out the badge and get in their face. “Does the Prime Directive mean NOTHING to you?! This is an uncontacted pre-warp civilization. You are ruining YEARS of undercover research! Who is your captain? I’m going to have your court martialled if you don’t get under cover FAST.”
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Are you reading a different thread? It seems like most people don’t mind.
God forbid I see some Star Trek cosplayer while I’m watching a comedian crack whips and sing twisted tunes.
People at ren fairs are usually in pretty good spirits and good humor. Considering there are people dressed as wizards and elves, I think they’d be okay with Star Trek time travelers.
The Venn Diagram of Renn Fair goers, and Trekkies isn’t a circle, but it’s close I’d imagine.
Some Faires have a time traveler day for things like this.
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In my experience, you might annoy the “hardcore” ones, but most people won’t be bothered. Hell, people may honestly join in, so long as you aren’t causing any problems.
A lot of the Faire folk I have met are just happy people are participating and having a good time, and if you put effort into a costume, even better.
Considering what goes into the more hard-core outfits, they deserve respect for their dedication. And there are lots of outlets for that too, which is great (e.g. SCA).
However, if someone gets their tabbard in a bunch because some sci-fi cosplayers ruined their sense of immersion, at what is arguably a pay-to-enter medieval-themed shopping mall, they may deserve what they get.
A lot of the Faire folk I have met are just happy people are participating and having a good time, and if you put effort into a costume, even better.
These people are the backbone of every Faire. Huzzah!
I wear a TNG uniform to my local ren fair every year - it almost exclusively generates excitement and high fives.
It would make way more sense for Stargate cosplayers to be at a renfaire since every single planet they went to on that series seemed to have villagers at about the renaissance level of technology (gotta wonder, did they have access to a bunch of medieval/renaissance sets for cheap lol?).
Of course, if you went as Stargate cosplayers you would have to basically dress up as para military wannabe chuds who’s personalities revolve around owning useless guns (like sword person who is obsessed with swords but way less fun) and being a bigot. People might not even recognize you are in costume and just assume you are a bunch of losers who express their freedom by going to renfaires carrying around murder weapons and dressing in tactical gear.
sigh
…better to go as the Star Trek cosplayers lol.
You’d never mistake a SG team for the bigots. There are women, and non-white people on the team!
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You could just have that weird golden cumshot on your forehead.
What a terrible day to be literate
Never forget the episode where it was upside down
Stargate- thousands of inhabited planets, and almost all of them look like Canada.
The Star Trek cosplayers don’t bother me… it’s the fucking furries. Like no judgement, you do you, but how is a full pink fur suit even slightly on theme?
Those are Stimpies though. Stimpies of the Ren faire.
Nice
I was at a ren fair earlier this year wearing my MST3K shirt and several people in real cosplay stopped to tell me how much they loved my shirt.
Also, there was a guy wearing a shirt that just said “This is my ren fair costume.” Respect to that guy.
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JNCOs
Junior non-com outfits?
Rock those JNCOs man!
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I’m jealous! My highly religious parents wouldn’t allow me to get those when I was in highschool in the 90s. They were definitely high quality jeans.
Still available too! https://jnco.com/
Kikwear is still around too. Though their store isn’t showing many products right now. There’s a brick and mortar near me that carries them.
My highly religious parents wouldn’t allow me to get those when I was in highschool in the 90s.
Which southern state are you from? lol
I like how the male models on that site are just the same picture of two different dudes with the clothes pasted over them.
I want to see the “bring out your dead” cart guy from The Holy Grail.
Normalize invading the ren faire dressed as Mongols
Yeah, give Trump a good reason to build a big ass wall! XD
It was hilarious the first 500 times. I know some fairs have soured on it and want people to stop
Understandable. Plus, the landing team would usually dress incognito so as not to violate the prime directive anyway, right?
So what are they doing dressed in their usual uniforms?
Maybe they got thrown back in time against their will, versus being a normal away mission?
I’ve never been to a ren fair in my life but I can feel it in my bones that this is one of those eyeroll inducing things where a million of people have done it but they all think they’re the first.
Same probably goes for Doctor Who.
Apparently it’s pretty common for ren fair people to wear a starfleet badge hidden somewhere and if this happens pull them aside in character, subtly show the badge and rip into them for violating the prime directive.
have done it but they all think they’re the first.
It’s not about the first, it’s about the best.
I mean it kinda seems like there’s exactly one way to do it. They’re not elaborate costumes by any means, and they’re uniforms so you can’t exactly get creative with it.
I mean it kinda seems like there’s exactly one way to do it. They’re not elaborate costumes by any means, and they’re uniforms so you can’t exactly get creative with it.
Not with the costumes maybe, but with the acting, you definitely can.
All I’ve got left is my bones
Someone needs to coordinate an S.C.P. containment team cosplay to crash the Ren faire
This would also work with Stargate
Wouldn’t the time travelers try to fit in so they do not disturb the culture?
You… haven’t… seen… star… trek… my friend?
“Historical documents”
Sometimes they do. Sometimes they don’t. Rules vary as frequently as episode to episode.
Well glad you are apologizing at least
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The immersion? I’ve been to some and people dress up as like fairy’s and elves and all sorts of fantasy shit.
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It depends on the event and the event holders.
“Ren Fairs” in the US are more likely to be put on for fun. Go hear a guy in tights play a lute, eat a roast turkey leg, etc. I think convention cosplay culture is starting to leak in.
If you want to see Americans take period costume seriously, go to a “reenactment.” You’ll find folks who are very serious about history, many of them are professional historians, archaeologists or museum employees performing for the education of the public. Probably the biggest community is the one around the American Civil War. Go watch the movie Gettysburg. Sure there’s the main cast of Hollywood actors, but then there’s hundreds and hundreds of extras. They’re war reenactors, who showed up with their own personal uniforms and equipment.
Thank you for being so kind to clear up my misunderstanding. I was not aware of these categories of events you have in the US, very interesting!
going by your username Im gonna assume youre german. you see all kinds of costumes and clothings at the MPS for example and imho noone is bothered by it
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sounds more like „if you wear a medieval looking costume, do it properly“ tbh
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Is everyone dressed up at these fairs?
I don’t see how a few people in trek costumes would crush immersion if plain clothes people don’t either. It’s both or neither, not one or the other.
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You’ve clearly never been to one…
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I see a Klingon in the back
