Wow it has been awhile since I posted here lol. Been lurking mostly cause of my hectic schedule the last year but you guys rule!
Is it just me or are spirit halloween stores getting pretty bland? I feel has if they aren't even trying to push new product onto the market or new things for people to buy, instead they just keep bringing back most of the same stuff they had last year or years before with a few new things here and there. This year I only went to one spirit in reading mass since it was the only one around me this year and it basically looked like a spirit from the last 3 years or beyond. And the props just look cheap like you would have to treat them like they were made of the most fragile material on earth. I dont mean to rant but has a halloween fanatic we can all tell when something is cheap or made to last. One positive out of spirit is it is making me get more and more into my own prop making and in the long run that will last more then any store bought prop.
In comparison, there were 2 halloween stores in my area, Halloween Annex and Halloween Express that I felt offered better product then spirit in many ways. The mask offering was far superior with monster classics like frankenstien to very nicely detailed zombie masks, has well has imo better if not superior props. I didnt see alot of plastic animatronic cheap crap more latex and nicely detailed hanging things leaving me to work on my own animatronics with their superior mask offerings. They may not have had the selection that spirit has through their website, but I found myself seriously looking at buying things especially at halloween annex with spirit being nothing but "meh seen it before". And selection doesn't say anything about quality.
It was surpising to me to see how these two stores that compete or compare to spirit, a muchhhhh bigger entity, did a much better job this year. Because halloween annex and express have been around before , at least around new england, they usually focused more on costumes and makeup, leaving me to go to spirit for the props or lights or decor. But this year it was very different. Which makes me feel better about next year. Hopefully they continue to offer better things to compete with spirit and give the halloweeners like us more options. I mean, halloween annex even had lab coats and blue mechanic jump suits which all the michael myers fans, myself included, quickly scoffed up, and I combined it with the new rob zombie's halloween mask with the tears on it and a really nice look to it I bought at halloween express (which I didnt see at spirit just the unrealistic plain white one they offer, I mean halloween express had 5 different myers masks) for a michael myers outfit that actually fit me or to make a much better lifesize prop that will look wayyyy more realistic then the animatronic that spirit offers, imo.
So after halloween I basically spent 500.00 at these two stores and felt really good walking away after with some really nice stuff has well has styrofoam heads and even classic horror movie posters. So, again sorry for the rant, I just felt the need to say this cause I wanted your opinions on it, and if you live in the new england area near the mass/n.h border in the nashua area you will be able to offer more insight. And whats the deal with spirit only offering some items at 50 percent off online? they never did that before, or at least not since I have had internet lol. Thanks!
Is it just me or are spirit halloween stores getting pretty bland? I feel has if they aren't even trying to push new product onto the market or new things for people to buy, instead they just keep bringing back most of the same stuff they had last year or years before with a few new things here and there. This year I only went to one spirit in reading mass since it was the only one around me this year and it basically looked like a spirit from the last 3 years or beyond. And the props just look cheap like you would have to treat them like they were made of the most fragile material on earth. I dont mean to rant but has a halloween fanatic we can all tell when something is cheap or made to last. One positive out of spirit is it is making me get more and more into my own prop making and in the long run that will last more then any store bought prop.
In comparison, there were 2 halloween stores in my area, Halloween Annex and Halloween Express that I felt offered better product then spirit in many ways. The mask offering was far superior with monster classics like frankenstien to very nicely detailed zombie masks, has well has imo better if not superior props. I didnt see alot of plastic animatronic cheap crap more latex and nicely detailed hanging things leaving me to work on my own animatronics with their superior mask offerings. They may not have had the selection that spirit has through their website, but I found myself seriously looking at buying things especially at halloween annex with spirit being nothing but "meh seen it before". And selection doesn't say anything about quality.
It was surpising to me to see how these two stores that compete or compare to spirit, a muchhhhh bigger entity, did a much better job this year. Because halloween annex and express have been around before , at least around new england, they usually focused more on costumes and makeup, leaving me to go to spirit for the props or lights or decor. But this year it was very different. Which makes me feel better about next year. Hopefully they continue to offer better things to compete with spirit and give the halloweeners like us more options. I mean, halloween annex even had lab coats and blue mechanic jump suits which all the michael myers fans, myself included, quickly scoffed up, and I combined it with the new rob zombie's halloween mask with the tears on it and a really nice look to it I bought at halloween express (which I didnt see at spirit just the unrealistic plain white one they offer, I mean halloween express had 5 different myers masks) for a michael myers outfit that actually fit me or to make a much better lifesize prop that will look wayyyy more realistic then the animatronic that spirit offers, imo.
So after halloween I basically spent 500.00 at these two stores and felt really good walking away after with some really nice stuff has well has styrofoam heads and even classic horror movie posters. So, again sorry for the rant, I just felt the need to say this cause I wanted your opinions on it, and if you live in the new england area near the mass/n.h border in the nashua area you will be able to offer more insight. And whats the deal with spirit only offering some items at 50 percent off online? they never did that before, or at least not since I have had internet lol. Thanks!
