Has there been any rumours on what Lowes is doing for 2025

 

No news yet that I've been made aware of

Hoping they bring back the nautical theme, missed out on the diver and the servo witch

 

 

 

Picture of Emily was taken from ebay it's a cardboard standee

 

Personally i think the clown, wolf and the witch are the best. The vampires not bad but i’d like to see him in person first. Emily and Victor are such an odd choice considering the Spirit set from last year is basically perfect. Spider archway is cool too but build quality is probably going to be spotty. Hopefully the band members return along with the bone collector as I think those were the best from last seasons line up.

 

looks like alot just got leaked

 

edited, pics posted above

 

edited, pics posted above

 

The ones that have me intrigued:
The spider- is this 10ft tall or wide? if tall, does that mean we can walk under it? now that sounds cool.
the corpse bride characters- will this be better than spirit? they seems like good quality but have to see their animation.
skeleton ground breaker- saw this trend coming, seems good but have to see it in person. i feel like not having arms is going to make it look bad.
12ft vampire- idk, for me it seems like a cheap knockoff to last years model, just a quick reskin. Have to see this in person.

 

The ones that have me intrigued:
The spider- is this 10ft tall or wide? if tall, does that mean we can walk under it? now that sounds cool.
the corpse bride characters- will this be better than spirit? they seems like good quality but have to see their animation.
skeleton ground breaker- saw this trend coming, seems good but have to see it in person. i feel like not having arms is going to make it look bad.
12ft vampire- idk, for me it seems like a cheap knockoff to last years model, just a quick reskin. Have to see this in person.

The spider is the one that interests me. That has the look of this year's $600 Lowe's prop. It does look like it's 10ft tall based on the photo and the long legs. It almost looks like it might be meant to be used as an archway. Regardless, I would probably use it as an archway if tall enough. That has the potential to be very cool if people have to walk under it provided the quality is good and it can handle the wind.

 

I agree on Victor and Emily. Why? SoH had them last year. I don’t see how tall they might be? Could they be giants? Emily does look a bit better from these early pics compared to what we had last year. Maybe they will offer mouth movement.

The ground breaker is a big let down. The 10ft spider and the jump scare are interesting. I was hoping for a Vampire but I’m not trilled about the look of it. Maybe when better pictures are available my outlook might change.

 

I like the spider, DJ, and the scarecrow but since it's Lowe's, I know they will all be priced more than they should be initially.

 

The more I look at the spider archway the more it’s of interest. That could be the best of the bunch if it’s wide enough. I read the small description of it and having loops around each leg for staking to the ground so seems to indicate it might offer some width.

 

Is the plague doctor wearing a dress? That looks like they took another prop and just stuck a bird head on it.

I'm also already more sick and tired of the corpse bride stuff than the Nightmare Before Christmas stuff.

 

Yes. It’s obvious it’s a female plague doctor 👩🏼‍⚕️. It will be compared to last years HD plague doctor but they seem to have taken a different path in coming out with the female version.

 

Lowe's let me down on my order for Christmas dinosaur inflatables and none of these teasers look that great, so a big nope here.

 

The only thing that I think is of interest (to me) is the spider. I agree with everyone else commenting on Emily and Victor - maybe Spirit beat them to the punch? Lots of variety, which is never a bad idea.

 

Corpse Bride Characters Are Made By Gemmy (I Added Them To The Gemmy Wiki But The Admin Removed Them Due To Them Made By Different Company While They're Gemmy)

 

A few more animatronic names have surfaced: 12 ft infernal harbinger, 9 ft poisonous pumpkin, 7 ft cotton candy clown, 5.5 ft eye scream clown, 8 ft cornfield creeper, 4 ft burlap scarecrow clown, life size Stay-Puft, life size Slimer, servo cyclops, lunging giant spider, sharpshooter reaper, pop up goblin, impending doom countdown.

 

A few more animatronic names have surfaced: 12 ft infernal harbinger, 9 ft poisonous pumpkin, 7 ft cotton candy clown, 5.5 ft eye scream clown, 8 ft cornfield creeper, 4 ft burlap scarecrow clown, life size Stay-Puft, life size Slimer, servo cyclops, lunging giant spider, sharpshooter reaper, pop up goblin, impending doom countdown.

Unless I am thinking of someone else, I believe the person who created these screenshots (Decorating Fanatics) is known for either completely making things up or sometimes being completely wrong, the reason I mention it is because wouldn't a life sized Stay Puft marshmallow man be about 100 - 112 feet tall? So I assume, if it actually exists, it will probably be 5-6 feet tall, and with Lowes pricing will probably be around $400+ like Joseph whatever his name is from Wednesday.

 

In addition to these I’d imagine some of last years props will also return, so this could be Lowe’s’ biggest year yet, I was hoping for updated band reapers and more of the Haunted Harbor collection but we shall see. With photos out this early I imagine the managers meeting will be held earlier than last year and we’ll see better pictures soon.

 

They should at least give us a Mermaid this year since they pushed the Haunted Harbor collection hard on us last year. Lowe’s! that Sea Diver is lonely.

 

I like the Emily and Victor myself but I hope they aren’t giants, I’m a bit over the giant thing personally, but mainly because I don’t have endless storage.

I love the Plague Doctor’s dress but I think they could have done something else as far as the final creation and all black would have looked better IMO. The plague doctor mask looks like an after thought, especially since the dress looks Edwardian/Victorian. This outfit could have lended itself to being part of a cool looking historically dressed female vampire or something.

 

I have this mask, and I have used it as a male Gothic steam punk creature. I don’t know why I never thought to use it as a female, but I will this year since I have the outfit for both male and female.

 

I like the idea of the vampire but I swore no more giants 😩. I am pushing my storage already.

 

I am with you on the storage issues. I have turned my guest room into a display room for my animatronics. My guests can sleep on the floor!🥴

 

With the managers meeting around the corner next month they are up against a tight schedule so seems logical that they would leak things a bit earlier this year.

Halloween Costumes had Slimer this past year and wasn’t there a Puft marshmallow inflatable out there also. I agree they probably want to stay away from referring it to life size, but I think the Ghostbusters stuff is going to materialize. Heck, they came out with Bumbles so all the manufacturer would have to do is redo the face and hands and plumb him up more. I think that’s exactly what they are planning on doing…………unless they mean inflatables 😭 oh the horror 😭

BTW anyone noticed they are a couple of Elvira Mistress of the Dark items out there. I’d give my right pinky if someone would come out with an animatronic of her. I grew up in SoCal and she was the queen of late horror here in the 80’s.

 

I imagine that the Spider arch will be in the $400-$450 range, given the nevermore academy arch was $400 last season. I’m happy that it lights up because that was always something that annoyed me with the HD arches. No reason why HD couldn’t make them light up with how cheap LEDs are these days.

 

Few more names I saw: Emperor of Death, evil solider, lurking zombie, full moon mayhem werewolf, haunted pirate w/parrot, impaled vampire, green ghost, and bluetooth sax reaper. Also another clown but i couldn’t make out his full name from the screenshot.

 

Wow, looks like Lowes is going to have a ton of stuff this year.

 

If last year is any indication for what they will do this year, you need to buy the popular props from Lowe's in June when they are released online and not wait for store availability. In 2024, they had most of the props displayed in the store by the middle of August. However, the inventory, besides the display model, for the animatronics and larger props was basically non existent in the stores around me for anything half decent. They seem to want to carry less inventory in the store and push you online. Not a problem if it's actually in stock online. Hopefully, the spider won't have the Kraken paint peeling issue.

 

55 gallon drum

 

My ‘jar’ of choice!