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This topic I want people to talk about Walgreens Halloween stuff you might like, but it's also to tell people about some stuff that I seen that wasn't right.

For me, Walgreens always seem to have the best stuff because it's Walgreens. However, this year I'm noticing some of their stuff either is broken, or it looks bad (as in marks on it). I bought the 3-4 ft Count Dracula that stands still, and if you push a button, it says come closer. Well, anyway his face on his left and right cheek doesn't look terribly great. He has some marks on him (black) though I bought him because he looked the best out of all the Walgreens I seen. This is NOT the first Walgreens though that has had problems I seen on him. Another Walgreens, the guy had only one eyeball. Maybe, it's a sticker on his eyes, but one of them was off. The Walgreens I bought him from, the other one he wasn't standing straight up. He was sort of hunched forward - like a hunchback. The last Walgreens, one of those Draculas had blue marks on his nose, and the other one had his head dented. I think the one where he wasn't standing right, he had his head also partially dented.

So, that's one item I seen a bunch of stuff wrong with it. If you find a Count Dracula you like, you should buy it because they are deformed. I don't know why they bought them so bad.

For the Frankenstein with the pumpkin that sings the Monster Mash song, I think two of them out of the three I tried, the Frankenstein mouth didn't move. The pumpkin, and Frankenstein are supposed to sing together. This is a video of what it's supposed to do:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUzFBDGbGt0

And for that Candelabra Candle thing, they all looked kind of crooked. Are they all supposed to look crooked? Does that look right to people? It looked closest to this one in the link, but for the Walgreen's one the candles were even crooked -offcenter, not like this one. Maybe, they aren't buying stuff from Gemmy anymore, and that's what type of stuff you get. Though, the Scream, and the Freddy guy are probably Gemmy.
http://www.frightcatalog.com/Hallowe...labra-1029022/

--And another thing I seen is that they have these hanging costume decorations for $10 where they have a head, and than you get the rest of the cloth with them. The evil pumpkin one didn't look bad.

Ive seen alot of the 30 dollar buckys with bad knee joints. They are molded wrong and ready to fall off the stem.

That's too bad, because I love Walgreen's.

I am a die-hard Walgreens fan. Overall, they have a great selection and cheap prices on Halloween for such a little store... and there's so many of them in most towns that you can bounce around looking for the items or quantity you need without too much trouble.

I do understand that most of their Halloween selection is not "quality" props... but that being said, they are CHEAP. So technically, you get what you pay for. AND you won't find the same type of props just about anywhere else, so they stock stuff that is normally hard to find without spending lots of time and/or money tracking them down. I haven't seen the skeletons yet, but even if there are problems with the joints, most likely it's a quick fix with a power drill and a few screws and I have no problems with that if it means getting a skeleton that's half-way between a blucky and a bucky for $30.

One thing you might try - if all of their props are either damaged or missing a piece, ask nicely if they'll give you a little off the top. I've got a motto "It never hurts to ask" and I've got about a 70% success rate with getting discounts on things that are easily repaired at home...

I bought three of the skeletons at Walgreens and they are all just fine, no problems. At $30.00 each they were a good price too.

Cutesy stuff is not normally my cup of tea, but that Frankenstein/Pumpkin animated prop is pretty cool.

Halloweenfan-Thanks for the heads up! (But I need to see the hanging costume thing. I might take a trip to Walgreens to see it.)

When anyone else listens to the Monster mash song, do any of you say "Chilli soup, waaa ooooooo." Instead of actually what the lyric is? I totally do lol.

Originally Posted by Halloweenfan

This topic I want people to talk about Walgreens Halloween stuff you might like, but it's also to tell people about some stuff that I seen that wasn't right.

For me, Walgreens always seem to have the best stuff because it's Walgreens. However, this year I'm noticing some of their stuff either is broken, or it looks bad (as in marks on it). I bought the 3-4 ft Count Dracula that stands still, and if you push a button, it says come closer. Well, anyway his face on his left and right cheek doesn't look terribly great. He has some marks on him (black) though I bought him because he looked the best out of all the Walgreens I seen. This is NOT the first Walgreens though that has had problems I seen on him. Another Walgreens, the guy had only one eyeball. Maybe, it's a sticker on his eyes, but one of them was off. The Walgreens I bought him from, the other one he wasn't standing straight up. He was sort of hunched forward - like a hunchback. The last Walgreens, one of those Draculas had blue marks on his nose, and the other one had his head dented. I think the one where he wasn't standing right, he had his head also partially dented.

So, that's one item I seen a bunch of stuff wrong with it. If you find a Count Dracula you like, you should buy it because they are deformed. I don't know why they bought them so bad.

For the Frankenstein with the pumpkin that sings the Monster Mash song, I think two of them out of the three I tried, the Frankenstein mouth didn't move. The pumpkin, and Frankenstein are supposed to sing together. This is a video of what it's supposed to do:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUzFBDGbGt0

And for that Candelabra Candle thing, they all looked kind of crooked. Are they all supposed to look crooked? Does that look right to people? It looked closest to this one in the link, but for the Walgreen's one the candles were even crooked -offcenter, not like this one. Maybe, they aren't buying stuff from Gemmy anymore, and that's what type of stuff you get. Though, the Scream, and the Freddy guy are probably Gemmy.
http://www.frightcatalog.com/Hallowe...labra-1029022/

--And another thing I seen is that they have these hanging costume decorations for $10 where they have a head, and than you get the rest of the cloth with them. The evil pumpkin one didn't look bad.

The candelabra is not supposed to be crooked. I bought 2 when they first came out of the box. One was crooked - I asked for and received a discount on it. I don't mind the crookedness on this item (but not for full price!).

I have to agree with Frankie's Girl, walgreens has some of the best stuff and at a reasonable price. IMO they beat Walmart by a mile. You have to take into consideration the country of origin on all this stuff too.

Of course you have to inspect everything closely before making a purchase but that applies to any of the stores. That is one of the advantages of buying at your local brick & mortar store vs online

Another plus with Walgreens is that they do mark down some of their Halloween stuff about a week before the big day.
I have picked up many cheap tombstones creepy groundbreaker figures just in time to put out on display.

And I am in love with that $30 giant spider even though I'm an arachnophobic.