Thread: First Halloween sighting in stores...

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you are to funny. i love that.
both of mine have sound and movement. i just love when the skeleton one lifts his hands and shakes
i don't go in for cute that often, but once in awhile something just grabs you. my young grandchildren love these guys. they push the buttons over and over

I think part of the appeal of the giggle buddies is the jeans and sneakers look. From more like a time when I was young and ToTing and kids wore very simple costumes.

Originally Posted by Ghost of Spookie

I think part of the appeal of the giggle buddies is the jeans and sneakers look. From more like a time when I was young and ToTing and kids wore very simple costumes.

year, especially the sneakers, they are real cute
when you turn the guys on, make sure they are on solid ground. i find mine will fall over if on carpeting because of the heavy vibrating

Originally Posted by Ghost of Spookie

I think part of the appeal of the giggle buddies is the jeans and sneakers look. From more like a time when I was young and ToTing and kids wore very simple costumes.

I agree, costumes were more creative back when I was young, we basically would use either face paint, accessories like kitty ears/tail and we wore a black sweatsuit with yep, white sneakers, lol :3

Went to the nearest Michael's yesterday, and they had a decent amount of stuff out. I only wound up walking out with a few of those miniature balsa wood coffins someone talking about earlier in the thread. I'm not even sure what I'm going to do with them, but I couldn't resist.

A little research has turned up 4 different Giggle Buddies so far: A skeleton, a pumpkin, a black ghost, a white ghost.

BTW I think the voice sounds like Ernie's from Sesame Street.

Originally Posted by dippedstix

Can you fill me in on the spirit balls? Could I use one of those for my fortune telling booth? I think I read someplace that they are really loud. Can you turn the volume down? I saw some at Ross as well and was realy thinking of grabbing one!

Dippedstix, I know you've gotten a few responses to this already, even one from me, but came across this link today and thought you would find it interesting based on your fortune telling booth question. Don't know if you've picked up one of the ROSS guys yet.

I remember seeing the Swami Spirit Ball last year in the stores. There's still a link on Buy Costume's site and you can play the video there. I'm pretty sure the comment the Swami says on the video is exactly the same for the Ross white-haired (Dr. Shiver's head) guy spirit ball. I'm not sure how long the link will be up since the prop has sold out on their site. Hope that helps.

BTW the swami's eyes are blue, the Ross guy has green eyes. It's a different mask on it because I can see differences also in the nose, lips and facial lines.

I think you could easily "dress" him up to look like the swami or some other mystic however.


Just plugged my white haired guy in and here's the 4 programmed things he says:

1) I sense someone wishes my advice. You are...too close. Step back a bit. Ah, now I can see you. Always remember a conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good! (laughter)

2) You have come for my wisdom? I have but one recommendation for you...Eat well and sleep...(??).. You'll die anyway but at least you will look better! (laughter)

3) Umm, come closer so that I may see your future. Ah, my advice to you is if you're too open minded your brains may fall out! (laughter)

4) Come..., you wish to know what lies ahead? Then listen carefully. If you must choose between 2 evils, pick the one you've never tried before! (laughter)


Tip on these remote mic'd guys: try to keep your talking at a constant pace so that he doesn't go to sleep. I'm not sure what the delay time is but when it doesn't sense voice it will go to sleep until he's reactivated by the audio feed.

Yeah, I just saw halloween stuff up at the dollar store today and it's only 8/23

Found these lovelies at Walgreens. They are STARTING.



The centipede is green apple and the earthworm is watermelon. They also had a giant tenticle as well that was blue raspberry flavor. All of them are about a foot long gummies. $2.50 each. I plan to put the worm on a nice bed of lettuce and have it served at the party.

The spider is labeled "fruit flavored" and was a $1 and they had a small coral snake as well. Both are VERY realistic and I'm going to use the spider as one of the bad fates in my "Tempt Your Fate" game.

I can't WAIT to see what else they get in...

whoo hoo, kmart had about a 1/2 an aisle of halloween merchandice out today. some large pumpkins and ghosts blow molds. some weopons and small skeleton heads. and 1 life size jason. $199.00. i asked the the manager if they would be getting any more jasons in, he said for that price, he would have to wait and see. sean, one of my co workers said that baby is his. we get paid tomorrow so i will see if he gets him. found out he is a big halloween freak. knew i liked that kid for some reason. lol. actually, i like him because he is a darn good worker. can't wait till tomorrow to see what else goes up.