The 2016 Spooky Town/Halloween Village Thread

Oh man, I can lose hours browsing that site. Not sure if it's the one you mean, but this looks awesome: America's Most Haunted

This is pretty cool too: Stalking Dead Country

Am also in love with Burton's Carousel - dang I wish I'd win the lottery.

Ween12amEternal said:

Oh man, I can lose hours browsing that site. Not sure if it's the one you mean, but this looks awesome: America's Most Haunted

This is pretty cool too: Stalking Dead Country

Am also in love with Burton's Carousel - dang I wish I'd win the lottery.

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Yep. That's it.


We should see the 2016 Lemax offering here in the next month.

Some cool stuff. The Nightmare Before Xmas Carousel is really neat. Pricey though.

I'm excited to see the new 2016 Lemax stuff next month.

Ween12amEternal said:

Oh man, I can lose hours browsing that site. Not sure if it's the one you mean, but this looks awesome: America's Most Haunted

This is pretty cool too: Stalking Dead Country

Am also in love with Burton's Carousel - dang I wish I'd win the lottery.

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I love that barn! I also like the idea of the real-life haunted houses like the Amityville house. If I just had the room, I'd go for those too.

Ehobby has a few lighted houses reduce for around the $30 range if anyone is interested. They are mostly sold out of everything but they usually are around this time. Getting ready for new inventory.

I loooooooove the "America's Most Haunted" house idea, would buy it in a heartbeat but i've read horror stories on the Bradford Exchange so
that really put me off on buying from them....anyone ever buy anything from them?

Kenneth said:

I loooooooove the "America's Most Haunted" house idea, would buy it in a heartbeat but i've read horror stories on the Bradford Exchange so
that really put me off on buying from them....anyone ever buy anything from them?

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I was excited for Stalking Dead County last year but was leery because they don't just show everything up front and what is shown came off as fancy renderings and not actual product. I saw pictures of the pieces from people who did purchase them and they were pretty underwhelming considering what the original artist depictions looked like on the website. They also look pretty small.

While that isn't technically personal experience, I would wait until you see pics from someone else here or on a Facebook group. Good ideas yes, but seeing the Barn and Cornfield from Stalking Dead County they were pretty lame.

Based on my experience with Bradford Exchange village collections...I have to agree with thisdougsforyou.Many years ago,I fell in love with their mailer showing illustrations of the Munsters collection.I immediately signed up for it,and couldn't wait to get that first building....only to be really disappointed once I received it.So much so,that I dropped out immediately.Sight unseen....I thought it would be neat to incorporate a "Munsters section" within my Lemax and Department 56 village.....but due to the overall quality AND size......it just didn't seem to fit for my taste.Now this was many years ago....so perhaps one can give them the benefit of the doubt that they've improved over the years....but yes.....I agree that before purchasing one of the village sets...I would try to find some actual pictures or videos on the internet first.

Thanks for the feedback! I agree...thing is they won't start making them until there's enough interest. But I can't show my interest until I buy! So I would have no idea what the quality would look like. It's a shame, though, because I think that is a fantastic idea...would love to have a village set up with those houses. It'd definitely be a conversation starter!

That's disappointing to hear mariab1299 & thisdougsforyu. Be great to get the word out about their size & all the other stuff everyone's brought up. Please consider starting a thread in Reviews (I would but I've had no experience with them.)

Agreed, if they don't fit with the scale/style of your village, it might be a waste.

Does Dept 56 announce their new stuff around this time as well? I know it goes on sale in June so I'd think so.

Last year I decided sort of late that I was going to finally build a Halloween Village and therefore was sort of all over the place. This year I plan on getting various Spooky Town pieces as well as one whole collection of D56 stuff. It's either going to be the train OR a new set they offer if one is particularly cool.

I just wish someone would make something spider themed already!

Department 56 already announced their new 2016 stuff.......you can see it all on their official website!!!

mariab1299 said:

Department 56 already announced their new 2016 stuff.......you can see it all on their official website!!!

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I must be missing something. I see Christmas 2016 but I don't see the Halloween stuff. What's on there is from 2015.


EDIT - I see it now, I just had to download the PDF of their catalog. Hmm. Looks like I'll be starting on the train I guess as not a lot interests me this year save for a couple pieces that they sold last year which I already own.

Anyone looking for Sookytown on sale check out lemaxvillages.com under specials, mostly Christmas but some Spookytown.

Can't believe there hasn't been anything on the Lemax front. Even asked on one of their social media pages and got no response.

One of the "insiders" on the tiny village group facebook alluded to the fact she knew what was coming but couldn't say anything (hate those kind of "neener, neener!" posts and implied that early April was when we'd see it.

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One of the "insiders" on the tiny village group facebook alluded to the fact she knew what was coming but couldn't say anything (hate those kind of "neener, neener!" posts and implied that early April was when we'd see it.

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That's why I stay away from most groups on anything. Too much crap like that.

I'm excited to see some of the Spooky Town collection in person at Michaels this year. Their coupons always help with the costs.

Thanks Shadowbat, wasn't able to see the collection, turns out Bradford Exchange USA no longer allows Canadians access we get sent to there Canadian site. I did an image search so have seen the Amityville and Franklin houses, you folks get all the best stuff

The Lemax 2016 Spookytown Collection is getting revealed this Friday, April 1. Sounds like they put the youtube videos up today and a few people saw them before they made them hidden. Sounds like one building has flying ghosts!

Only a couple days to wait, at least.