Thread: First Halloween sighting in stores...

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I was describing the scaretaker as the "old dude" holding a head that might have come in recently, ect, lol. It seemed like if I mentioned it as a life sized prop they got all clueless on me, so I got creative. Basically the convo goes something like," hi, if you could check on the floor and in the store room for a halloween prop at least 5 feet tall,...... no its not a statue......., its something you would plug into an outlet because he shakes, and is holding a head,.......... its basically a tall old dude with a head in his hands. " I get a we havent seen that in yet and some offer to call back and none of them would take my number when I asked. I suspect perhaps an employee bought the one before. The one that seemed most helpful said he was expecting "a few" of the old dudes, he knew what I was asking about, and said they maybe , and I stress this as a very maybe, of mummys holding candy bowls and a vampire. I dont know the sizes or what he is referring to since I havent seen those.

Also I wanted to update with pics of what I saw at iparty and the crazy price an ebay seller is trying to get for the corpse guy. Corpse guy at iparty is $44. The clown head and a vampire head of the same series was also at iparty, though I dont think they work or work well. Is there anything I can do with these, they are $20 right now.

ps- your right guys, I was totally P'O'd but what can ya do? choke the floor clerk out? It kinda crossed my mind, since she was so blase' over my dilemma, I just put everything I was gonna buy back on the shelves. The silver skull cheese spreaders and ceramis coffer mugs be damned.

LIFE SIZE BURNED MAN ZOMBIE HALLOWEEN PROP DISPLAY - eBay (item 260443769653 end time Aug-08-09 10:07:41 PDT)

New LifeSize Halloween Prop Talking Evil Clown Animated - eBay (item 250476653544 end time Aug-09-09 19:20:31 PDT)

Originally Posted by pandora

Well still no Scaretaker at my Home Goods and I think they're beginning to wonder about me....3 days in a row! But, I did pick up 2 hitchhikers on the way home! Do you think they're dangerous?? I certainly hope so!!! LOL - I waffled a bit, but I knew if I thought about it one more day - they'd be gone. The other lady looking at the nice sparkly Halloween stuff eyed me like I was the Exorcist...but of course that just made me laugh all the more!!

Look at my adorable "boys"! How can you say no to those faces??

I think it's wonderful that you even took the time to buckle them in! They know you're going to take very good care of them! How handsome they are!

I love that picture. It reminds me of when my kids were little.

I have been bringing in the picture of the scaretaker and the code. I go everyday and so far they say he has not come in yet.

Originally Posted by kittyvibe

I just got off the phone with a homegoods employee telling me that this year they should be getting mummies holding candy tray

My homegoods has this and i love him. He's really neat. But, he's glued to a flimsy piece of thin wood with a dowl rod put in him and loosely stuck in a hole in the wood. It wobbles and sways all over the place. The mummy itself is neat, but the base is not well put together at all. My husband looked at it to see if he could take it off and attach it to a thicker, more stable piece of wood and he said it wouldn't help. He told me i could make something like it anyway. I guess that's a compliment coming from him. He doesn't like halloween.

Kittyvibe, my gut says that an employee got it.

Originally Posted by Tumblindice

Kittyvibe, my gut says that an employee got it.

I actually had the same thought for some reason. In any event, when I have been looking to complete a set of something, like dinnerware, placemats, etc., I have found that if you don't see it in other stores within a few weeks timeframe of when one store got it in, I rarely ever found it at another store. The only exception seemed to be when I saw it the following year. This kind of goes along with other people's comments like "I saw the ivory gargoyle at the store last year..., etc." I also don't think all stores get the same shipments or the same quantities so some stores probably won't get any of something.

Originally Posted by Tumblindice

Kittyvibe, my gut says that an employee got it.

That was my immediate thought as well, it kept alot of strength to bite my tongue, it was so there for me to casually blurt it out, "oh, one of the employees thought it was cool and decided to get it right then an there, huh?" OOoooo, I held back, but that was the vibe I was getting from her. She had some attitude, maybe it was her, so I didnt press it, Im really a chicken.

I saw the 2 white gargoyles for maybe 2 days before they were gone. These stores are kinda of weird they only get one's and two's of stuff. It goes out on the shelf and that is it. No real stock.

I went to Home Goods today (again!) and took some pictures this time. There were a couple life size (or close to) witches I hadn't seen and a bunch of cute stuff. Luckily I got away with just a few things this time. Here are the pics of my trip. I also included the prices of the big pieces in the photo descriptions because I knew you guys would ask.

Home Goods Halloween pictures by bellelostdrake - Photobucket

Also I talked to an employee a few days ago about the infamous Scaretaker. She told me that about 25 Homegoods received him total, which isn't a lot at all. She also said there was another lifesize piece coming in to several stores, but whether or not it's the witch I snapped a picture of I'm not sure. She wasn't there today so I couldn't grill her again lol. I absolutely love mine and I really hope those of you trying to track him can find him!