Thread: First Halloween sighting in stores...

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Originally Posted by Ghost of Spookie

I have no idea really how I found it but when I saw it I thought it was perfect. So far only found it in Europe. Some of the sites do call it the Thing Crawling Hand and make reference to the Addam family.

Regarding the posting of pic question, I'm still figuring my way around this myself but I think you use the Image icon at the top of the formatting bar when you are in the message composing area (yellow, with the mountains).

They sold that in Walmart a few years back. I haven't seen it since. I had one, but It only lasted 2 years before the latex "skin" started to crack and peel. It never really crawled fast enough to look good.

Originally Posted by Spookilicious mama

Hey I got one of those Gargoyles...they are so freaking cute packed with personality I would love to find another one. Im going to be on the lookout now Ive seen those potion bottles too, those are cool, great finds

I just love the gargoyle too! I need to go check our home goods store. It's a bit of a drive for me but I'll have to go soon! How much were they again?

For all of the recent Scaretaker owners, since the prop comes with a CD for sound, has anyone thought about customizing your own prop? If so what would you do to make it your own?

For all of those who can't find one or are cash poor at the moment, aside for the shaking mechanism of the prop (which probably could be replicated by some smart person on the forum), anyone planning on making their own? A motion sensor with mp3 and speakers will go a long way to coming close. As for me I still haven't seen one in our stores yet but keep looking.

Originally Posted by ZombieRaider

Just so you know Home Goods and TJ Maxx are the same company...I didn't know that until I went to pick up my scaretaker today....Whoever posted that price....THANKS!....I've wanted one of those since they came out but could never justify the price....There are very few select things I want that I don't want to build and that was one of them....I hope everyone that wants one gets one this year...The price probably won't get much better....ZR

Congrats on getting the Scaretaker ZombieRaider !!!!!!

Way to go !!!

Originally Posted by Eyegor

They sold that in Walmart a few years back. I haven't seen it since. I had one, but It only lasted 2 years before the latex "skin" started to crack and peel. It never really crawled fast enough to look good.

Thanks for the info Eyegor. My timing isn't always the best when I go looking for stuff. I have a crawling hand I bought years ago from SpiritHalloween that I'll have to dig up if I can't find one in time for Halloween this year. Might be time for some skin coloring and stitches. I do like the one pictured in the links the best because it just looks nicer--obviously made to be a monster's. Since I have the Frankenhead, I was thinking of putting that and maybe the hand in separate "glass" cases awaiting transplant. Even if the hand doesn't move much I think the visual of it moving would be cool. Maybe I'd experiment with turning it on it's side or on the back of the hand with the palm up. I bought a crawling werewolf hand last year from Michaels but it doesn't have the right look and I'm planning on using that wrapped up as a severed mummy hand.

If anyone sees the monster hand, please let me know. Thanks everyone.

Great pictures! Thanks for sharing!! I've got to get to Homegoods soon!!

Stormed into Michael's yesterday- the truck came in on Monday and they put everything out yesterday- and went on a mild frenzy picking up the Halloween tree (5' purplish thing with LEDs) and a flickering candelabra. Those were my two "big ticket" items as they came in at 60 and 25 bucks apiece. Picked up a few busts and signs as well. This year they seem to have a lot of "arts and crafts" stuff where you paint the skulls, bats ghosts etc- a lot of this was really cheap, so I couldn't pass it up. However, they were all out of the Chromed Skull, which I wanted badly. Checkout girl gave me a 40% coupon to use on the candelabra (along with the 50% one for the tree), so I can't complain!

Also checked out Ross, which had very little (and what was there looked like a Goodwill display) and TJMaxx had nothing. Since they are connected to Marshall's/Home Goods, I'm hoping they will have some stuff when I try there this weekend.

The Michael's people told me another truck of stuff will be coming, but I don't know if I believe them or not.

yes, one of the michaels near me said they were to get another truck too but I dunno about it for sure. I bought the witch with the trick or treat bag with my coupon but I just assembled her a little bit ago and the one I got had an extremely squeaky neck (it turns her head to look left and right) and her sound was horrible. It was too low to hear above the neck squeaking and was distorted. I was using an ac adapter from my spirit ball to test her out. It was within the recommended voltage specs. So shes going to be switched out tomorrow after work for hopefully a better one. The store display was up above me on a stand and to get her talking I tugged on her bag she held. I could hear her very well in the din of the Michaels and above their store music. Plus I dont remember hearing her neck squeaking that badly. Ill see if they will let me test one before taking it home. Oh and michaels has a crawling skelly hand this year, though the plastic looks crappy, you would need to corpse it up or give it another paint job. I guess in the right lighting it could work as is. :/

Ghost of Spookie....I listened to the cd a little bit ago and it's a 2 minute sound track that loops....To be honest I'm not real impressed with it but there's not too many "built in sounds" that I do like.....I plan on several things that will make this "my own"....For starters I'm going to spray the flourescent mist technique so it glows in the blacklight and either replace the head on it's hand with a talking skull or figure out a way to get a motor in it's mouth or maybe the scaretakers mouth....I'm sure I'll use a custom track in a picaboo 105 whatever I do....The shaker motor may not be used but would be triggered if so....I really like the detail in him and he's perfect for right outside the cemetery entrance....That's what sold me on it the most.....Thank You prestonjjrtr.....I hope you find one because they really are cool!....Now I need to go out and get to work on this!.....ZR

My michaels has the spooky town stuff, some bling stuff, and a couple crafty things. I called them earlier today and they said they're getting they're first big truck tomorrow. So, i'm hoping it'll have the busts, tombstones, and animatronic stuff on it. They also said they'll be expecting more over the next month. So, if that's 3 of us who have heard it, i'll believe it.