The Return of the Haunted Carnival: Closing Ceremony
Happy November! Halloween 2024 has ended and our carnival has closed, so now it's time to highlight some of its most memorable entries. Like many other TBT events, picking our favorite submissions out of so many amazing ones was quite tough. With such a talented community, not all entries that stood out to us could fit into this closing ceremony. Thank you, everyone, whether you were featured here or not, for sharing your creativity with TBT. I hope you all had as much fun creating as we did viewing and reading!
Creature Feature Staff Favorites
The Creature Feature activity in the Wix Well Tent tasked carnival guests with designing a carnival creature based on randomly assigned prompts.
Pierrot's Parlor Favorites
The Pierrot's Parlor activity in the Macabre Tent tasked carnival guests with creating an Animal Crossing design in the style of tattoo art.
S.J. |
Pumpkin Pageantry Staff Favorites
The Pumpkin Pageantry activity in the Macabre Tent tasked carnival guests with carving and decorating a pumpkin.
S.J. | |
Tales of Terror Staff Favorites
The Tales of Terror activity in the Macabre Tent tasked carnival guests with writing a fictional story about the effects of a cursed object.
Unreal Estate Staff Favorites
The Unreal Estate activity in the Macabre Tent tasked carnival guests with taking three screenshots of their Halloween-decorated island or house in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Delicious Designs Nominated Entries
The Delicious Designs activity in the Wix Well Tent tasked carnival guests with designing a TBT collectible. The nominated entries were added to a community poll and the winning design was created into an official collectible.
Chere. (winner) | Yanrima~ | Aquilla | FrostyAlmonds |
skarmoury | Hyoon | Muna | Holla |
Pick Your Lantern and Its Date
Staff favorites in Creature Feature, Pierrot's Parlor, Pumpkin Pageantry, Tales of Terror, and Unreal Estate receive their choice of the Cursed, Sinister, or Ancient Lantern. Users with multiple staff favorite entries will receive one lantern with all events listed in its message.
If you're one of the winners, please make a thread in the Contact the Staff board specifying which of the three collectibles you'd like. You may also specify the date and time of the collectible if you'd like it to be placed at a specific location in your collectable lineup. Please use the EST timezone for any day between October 19th and November 5th. Otherwise, the default date we'll use is Halloween.
Collectible lineups are ordered by date from newest (on the top left) to oldest (on the bottom right). We won't look at your other collectibles or help you order them. You must post your request by November 12th and we won't change them more than once if you give us the wrong date/time. Please submit this request via the Contact the Staff board only.
If you don't care about the type or date of the collectible you'll receive, we'll send you a Cursed Lantern with a Halloween date after the 12th. Carnival Coins for staff favorites and Bells for Delicous Designs nominees will be distributed tonight.
Missed Macabre Tent Collectibles
Leading up to Halloween, the community voted between the Wix Well and Macabre tents to decide which batch of collectibles would be added to the shop. In the end, Wix Well won the poll. Many of you were still curious about the mysterious contents of the Macabre Tent's trunk of collectibles even though they won't be released. If just one of you peeks at its contents it will likely unleash a dangerous curse, but I'll leave it here for each of you to decide what to do:
Teal Dragonscale Egg
Skull Glow Wand
Ghostly Preserves
Shadow Kitty Plush
Bloodshot Potion
Spirit Candy: Vask
Ancient Candle
Black Feather Raffle
Inky Raffle
Skull Glow Wand
Ghostly Preserves
Shadow Kitty Plush
Bloodshot Potion
Spirit Candy: Vask
Ancient Candle
Black Feather Raffle
Inky Raffle
Conclusion and Coming Soon
Thanks for joining us for another TBT event! And thank you to the TBT staff team for hosting yet another big event in such a busy year. Our full list of staff credits for The Return of the Haunted Carnival can be found in its opening thread.
The event's items will be officially removed from the shop on November 12th, which is also when the two raffle winners will be selected. Don't forget to spend your coins!
Before then, we have a small mini-event / presentation planned for The Bell Tree's official 20th birthday, starting on November 7th and running through the weekend. 2024 has been a big year celebrating the forum's two decades of existence and now November 7th, 2024 is finally arriving. As previously mentioned, this will be more of a presentation with a few things to participate in, but otherwise, it will be mostly laid-back and low-stress. See you then!