Halloween stuff already in stores...

[SpeedierThantheGrave]

I picked one of these up at the Dollar Store. Mine didn't have clothes. There are 3 different poses. I'm still growing mine and it really does grow,slowly. Still pretty cool. Watch the video.

Just to throw it out there, to maybe give your zombie a growth spurt, I did a science project with grow creatures in grade school. Same creatures in salt water vs tap vs distilled water. The distilled water ones grew HUGENORMOUS! My hypothesis was that the impurities in the salt water and tap water inhibited the absorption of the hydrophilic polymers. (Nerd kid)

[SpeedierThantheGrave]

I agree that Home Depot has some awesome and really fairly priced stuff this year, like an animated witch trio stirring a cauldron for $129 and a lunging 72" reaper as well.  Walmart has repops of the vintage blow molded lamps, still made in the USA, the dapper pumpkin and the cat/pumpkin.

As far as Walgreens, we're still putting stuff out, but I had to snap one of these up: an unofficial Creature from the Black Lagoon drink koozie by Hallmark for $3.99.  I want to share this specifically, because some jack-o'lantern on eBay is trying to sell them as "Rare" for $30.   Hope I saved some Creature guys some Halloween cash.

[SpeedierThantheGrave]

Beistle is reissuing a bunch of their super cool vintage decorations. If you look through the pages, there's free downloads for skeleton coffin candy boxes, gift tags, skull pencil toppers, jack o'lantern templates, and more! Good stuff!

http://www.vintagebeistle.com/store/c/18-Vintage-Halloween.aspx
(For the freebies, they need to be added to your cart, complete checkout [even though it's free], and then click "Get Delivery" on the invoice page to save them as a PDF.)

[Monsters For Sale]

Beistle is reissuing a bunch of their super cool vintage decorations. If you look through the pages, there's free downloads for skeleton coffin candy boxes, gift tags, skull pencil toppers, jack o'lantern templates, and more! Good stuff!

http://www.vintagebeistle.com/store/c/18-Vintage-Halloween.aspx
(For the freebies, they need to be added to your cart, complete checkout [even though it's free], and then click "Get Delivery" on the invoice page to save them as a PDF.)

Guess what is going to be popping up all over eBay as "RARE, Original, Vintage".

[Monsters For Sale]

Here is a discount code for Spirit Stores that is good for 20% off any single item in-store or online ( SpiritHalloween.com ).  Spirit will also ship any order over $100.00 for free.

                                 SPHA1512

Though it breaks my heart to see this Rubies costume displayed in their catalog with the Universal logo.




The geniuses at Universal think this is OK to represent their most popular monster.






Sigh.

[Gory Glenn]

That costume has been around forever. Truly terrible, especially the green one. Ugh! 

[Mord]

That costume has been around forever. Truly terrible, especially the green one. Ugh! 

It's downright embarrassing. It seems that they are killing off their own franchise. Sad.

[horrorhunter]

Though it breaks my heart to see this Rubies costume displayed in their catalog with the Universal logo.




The geniuses at Universal think this is OK to represent their most popular monster.

The Universal Think Tank is makin' the tough calls, those wacky scamps!

[Mord]

 I dunno, HH, those chimps look a helluva lot smarter than Universal execs.

[Anton Phibes]

The end result is the same....... Flinging fecal matter.

[Kidagain]

Where's Scatter when you need him!

[John Pertwee]

Where's Scatter when you need him!

He is hanging out with Bubbles. They argue constantly about who had the wackiest owner.

[Monsters For Sale]

Remember those little motion-sensor red birds that were sold by the 99 Cent stores last Christmas?

Well, Dollar Tree is selling a better Halloween version.  This 3" Motion-Sensor Crow that caws!




They come individually bagged.




I'm going to get a bunch and hand them out to the trick-or-treaters this year.

I love giving them toys that continue to remind the little monsters of the holiday long past.

I'm even going to put a few around in my as-yet unfinished monster room.  (They will make good alarms for little kids who get too close to those toys they know they are NOT supposed to touch, but just can't resist.)

[Mike Scott]

This 3" Motion-Sensor Crow that caws!

Too bad it's not a Raven that says "Nevermore".

[SpeedierThantheGrave]

Too bad it's not a Raven that says "Nevermore".

In the picture it looks like it has some feather texture for the "moustache" on top of the beak, so we can tell ourselves they're ravens. Haha