You’re considering (gasp) non-purist builds? I am shocked, SHOCKED I tell you that creativity is at the helm and not absolute loyalty to the brick. 😉
Secondly, we may want to consider that many of our builders are building for double duty: for the Greenburg event and the winter display. This isn’t true of everybody though, so we can’t consider the Greenburg display to be a reliable template for the winter display.
Personally, I still want to do a baseplate’s worth of snowball fight. Seems easy enough, and fun. Maybe some ice cream cone tops for snowball piles, an ice fort made of a bent wall of 1 x 2 white bricks, lots of figs in white winter clothes, maybe one of them crying (because that ALWAYS happens…)
Now how do I make a minifig look like it’s throwing a snowball, and how do I make one look like getting hit? Something more spectacular than a white flower… Hmmmmm…