What do think if Moomins would be a waymarking category? More about moomins can be found in here if you haven´t heard of them.
I suppose this would be a bit more orientated to my home country of Finland but  these moomies can be found in other parts of the world also. It is quite big thing in Japan. And noticed by making quick web search that other parts of the world have some locations that has something to do with moomins.
So what I would like to to be waymarked. These would be Moomin characters on permanent surfaces. Paintings, murals, statues, plaques..esc. Just found out that there is  plaque of moomins in Newtown (one of the Sydney's suburbs in Australia=)
Moomin locations like shops, cafes, museums, theme parks and  even moomin exhibitions are acceptable as long you got images of moomins taken from that site.

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I like Moomins ("Mumínci" in Czech :) ), together with my doughters - they are popular here, but I am afraid that you will not find so much of their "traces" outside of Finland... I was travelling one time to China via Helsinky by Finannair Airbus with Moomin camouflage :) - that's all... The mentioned Australian "trace" is probably very really very rare :) Pity...

In Japan there are also moomin shops, cafe's and even bakery and statues.

I agree with Dorcadion Team on the prevalence being quite rare outside of Finland. I grew up in an area with a fairly large Finnish population so I remember as a child that the books were sometimes available in gift shops but no other evidence of them would be seen.   Though they have been around for a long time I think this category could end up like the limited Pikachu Sightings category.

I love Moomins!  This is my family geocaching account (we rarely use it).  And my geocaching forum signature has long been a Moomin quote ("It's funny about paths and rivers...You see them go by, and suddenly you feel upset and want to be somewhere else - wherever the path or the river is going, perhaps.").  I highly recommend the series to geocachers.

That said, I'd have to be convinced on prevalence before approving.  (though in some ways, the fact that they'd be rare is appealing to me).

Sounds like a fun one. Why should the US have a strangle hold on niche categories? If BruceS has seen books while growing up and dinoprophet's geocache moniker is Finn Family Moomintroll (how a guy in Lake Or-i-on got word of them...), and my son has possibly the largest collection of Moomin paraphernalia in North America (we have friends in Sweden who's children probably have Europe's largest pile of Pixar Cars toys), there's surely more. And there's only one way to find out... So if there's even less interest than Piatchu, so what. I say, let them start a category.

but, now that ive figured pickachu out i like him....

how about a simpsons sightings category?

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(how a guy in Lake Or-i-on got word of them...)

My first grade teacher read one or two of them to us.  Somehow they stuck with me over the years, even though I remembered no details.  I sought them out later and have all but "Moominvalley in November" and the one or two that are really rare in America. When my daughter was very small, we'd give her Little My hair.  I checked Swede Anne's Scandanavian Goods store in Orion once for Moomin stuff but they didn't have anything.

I'm fascinated that this many of this group know them.

I will carry on this. I think that prevelance will vary by country but atleast in Finland  there are good amount of permanet locations to be waymarked. I think these are not easy to spot but fair amount I shoud say. I have spotted  couple moomies on our streets of my home town, and I suppose there are moomies atleast the biggest towns we have. plus with the rising intrest in waymarking here this would be nice category to rise intrest even more. Still moomies are not totally Finnish thing and they can be found elsewhere too. And nice to notice that so many here have had somekind of contact with them. 

Now,  I need to know  what is permanet enough to be waymarked. There are already waymark categories made out of differnet kind of stickers. There are shops where moomies aren't their number one business, but they have moomies on their nice window displays or stands inside .  On the other hand I'm intrested to know about vehicles with permanet stations.like that jetplane or our cruise ships that have moomies on theri sides.

more than 1 sticker category? whats that?

Well there is two. One is what I'm thinking about here but the other one is totally different kind of sticker thing.

Well moomins category failed. about 23 nay of 57...so We need to turn many heads  before this gets  approved. Maybe with some more powers in our group and category surely needs some examples and fixes in grammar..

 

small oaks:

Well moomins category failed. about 23 nay of 57...so We need to turn many heads  before this gets  approved. Maybe with some more powers in our group and category surely needs some examples and fixes in grammar..

 

Joined group.  I have sharpened my grammar-correcting pencil.  (Vaan Englannin kieli!)

Moomins are back for second attemp. Our global team have done some changes  comparing to previous try. There are more languages and examples compared to first round. So let see what happens.

small oaks:

Moomins are back for second attemp. Our global team have done some changes  comparing to previous try. There are more languages and examples compared to first round. So let see what happens.

Yes, hopefully the examples will show that there is a global presence, especially for the voting members who seem to be US-centric. Remember people Lustron Homes is a category and they only cover about half the country. Let's keep this in mind when voting and remember that in keeping with a global mentality, that everybody wants to play, not just those of us in the US.

Moomins passed  :)  69 votes, 7 abstained and 16 deny votes so that would make about 74.2 % approved votes..Thank you for all the votes! - even some deny votes were constructive, and some were not...

Unfortunately in some reason the option to make category visible don't show up?

I'm thinking of making minor changes about the requirement.. It seems that multiple checkbox variable don't work. It chooses all if only one the list is selected? Is that a known problem or did I misundestood how it should work?