@Riquelme8: I was thinking today of an underground theme too. Trying to come up with something alternative to the feast.
@Alexclark: I know, I don't like how a wrench has been tossed into the machinery on this.

Today I took some time to brainstorm. i flipped through the latest 3D World magazine, and considered some previous themes and previous topics. I would like to keep the Feast theme alive in some way, because it is really unfair to change a week or two after it's been chosen. So I'm thinking a tweak to the food idea. We could try "Holiday Feast".

An alternative theme I had thought of before settling with the feast was something to do with a cafe setting. "The Cafe" would've been that theme. Coffee shop, outdoor cafe, midnight diner, etc. Looking at 3D World, it seems the 1st place winner of the Maxwell challenge they had was an outdoor cafe setting. We could try that and still keep it food oriented.

An underground theme I also had considered but backed down from it because it was a theme challenge a few months ago in the Vue forum. But I am open to that, though.

Now comes my next question. How do you all feel about changing the theme? Is it really an issue to worry about? We could tweak it to be more holiday-ish and yet still be food. The original date being close to Thanksgiving (US) was to help keep the food theme in ppl's minds. Maybe it's a good thing the date was so far into November, instead of Oct 31.

Feedback please. I hope to check the forum this Monday or Tuesday (US CST). Hopefully we can settle this problem by this Wednesday. Ignore the issue? change the theme? Tweak the Feast theme?