[gondivin]

I went to our local Goodwill to look for "pirate clothes" for my "pirate skeleton" scene this year and found a bunch of Halloween stuff out in early August - costumes, etc. Also found 2 pirate hats and a couple wigs!

 

[Famous Pumpkin]

Because it's twice as much work to have to produce left and right hand molds.

And cost. I used to work in product development for the Warner Bros Studio Stores and I project managed all the 3-d items. The sculpt and molding are expensive, esp with a hand because it would have many pieces to the mold because it has so many angles, etc. Thye will cut corners wherever possible!

 

[trachcanman]

most likely right hands are made on one line and loaded into boxes of right hands and the left hands have another line so the stores don't bother to order a box of left hands and a box of right hands. whoever makes them could just run the lines together and pair them up then box as pairs but it would take longer and cost more.

 

[Yodlei]

Went this past Saturday for a few things & the school stuff was gone & there were boxes stacked in the 2 front aisles with 5 workers standing around. Was a few party type things out.

Went back today & was more out but still not done yet. Bought these...
Pix blurred but didn't want to take the plastic off since I might have one very similar to this canvas but maybe not:

Love me some Solar Dancers:

Cute coozies:

And Best of all, another lantern (they had purple with bats, orange with haunted house & green with ghosts & all 3 of these had hologram ghosts inside). This spider had skull hologram inside:

 

[Yodlei]

Forgot these...was looking for the nightgowns they normally have but didn't see them yet:

Had about 4 different patterns & also have matching tops but whatever top was with these was gone but I have many to use with these.

 

[Matt12378]

No Halloween at my Walmart none

 

[RiverRat3]

One of my local stores finally put things out this past Thursday! There are inflatables, costumes, foam tombstones, and some pretty nice decor pieces. I saw some of the vintage inspired pieces like signs, votive holders, & medium sized figurines like they have carried in the past. There were also wax warmers again & some really nice potion bottles. I ended up getting a metallic skull wax warmer, the vintage inspired owl sorcerer, & a mercury glass potion bottle with an aged label. I saw no party supplies though. That section was empty. Hoping they get that out soon since my son wants a "dark Halloween" themed birthday party. My boy ?

 

[Meadow]

I have paints to return that didn’t work out for a Halloween project so let’s hope school supplies finally took a hike!

 

[RiverRat3]

I have paints to return that didn’t work out for a Halloween project so let’s hope school supplies finally took a hike!

Fingers crossed for you!

 

[ghostbust99]

New animated items:

 

[RiverRat3]

New animated items:
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Whoa! I didn't see any of that at our store!! I hope we get those pieces with the little girls!

 

[Cephus404]

My store has all of their Halloween out, plus whoever set the aisle went crazy and covered it in black plastic so it's a dark and scary tunnel. Not sure if that's a company directive or someone was being creative. And they are carrying the Gemmy Fire & Ice lights this year, they had them for $14.97.

 

[Whitewatervol]

Went back 8-9 pages & also searched so hopefully no one made a thread yet that I over-looked. Was in Walmart tonight & had started to put out a very small section. Mostly dollar store type stuff....treat bags, party favors, 1 medium plastic plug-in pumpkin (must have been from last year?) & the rest of the aisle & the other side & also the next aisle over were all empty of the school supplies that were there.

Did buy these for just under $6. 100 Red lights with black wire...unusual. 8 functions with timer. Bought 2 & also 2 in orange. Also had purple but I have plenty other purple.
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I bought a set of these and they work great with the 5v output of the Arduino controllers I'm using for props. They remember the last mode they were in when you power them back up, which is nice.

 

[Meadow]

Went to mine with very little selection. This is what I saw.

 

[Meadow]

Few more...

 

[Meadow]

Wal-Mart didn’t have anything to offer me. Thought the potion bottles were a good price if you needed some but I have more than enough.

 

[HauntedWyo]

@Meadow, your walmart has more to offer than mine does. I would love to see those doll heads in person that are on the shelves with the skulls and foam pumpkins in your pictures.

We have absolutely no animatronics or inflatables in at all at our store. We have about half the stuff in the first 2 pics. you posted, none of the what is in your 3rd, less than half of what's in your 4th, about half of your 5th pic. and none of your 6th pic. But we have tons of costumes and about a 4'x3' section of masks and no wigs or other costume accessories.

 

[Meadow]

@Meadow, your walmart has more to offer than mine does. I would love to see those doll heads in person that are on the shelves with the skulls and foam pumpkins in your pictures.

We have absolutely no animatronics or inflatables in at all at our store. We have about half the stuff in the first 2 pics. you posted, none of the what is in your 3rd, less than half of what's in your 4th, about half of your 5th pic. and none of your 6th pic. But we have tons of costumes and about a 4'x3' section of masks and no wigs or other costume accessories.

That stinks! We have three Walmart stores and I went to the smaller one. I think it’s garbage that every store is so different. I’d rather they just have stuff at one store and overstock it like mad.

 

[Cephus404]

That stinks! We have three Walmart stores and I went to the smaller one. I think it’s garbage that every store is so different. I’d rather they just have stuff at one store and overstock it like mad.

We have 4 Walmarts locally and the closest one is the only one that isn't a Super-Walmart. Those always have a ton more stuff. We get one aisle. The others have a whole section for Halloween. Still haven't made it out to the others yet.

 

[HauntedWyo]

We only have 1 walmart and it's about the only place to shop as walmart managed to shut down pretty much all the stores we used to have.

Woolworth's, Yellow Front, K-mart, Gibson's, Pamida, and Coast To Coast, they are all gone thanks to walmart moving in and now we have no selection and have to take or leave what they carry. Thank goodness for Home Depot as they are the only other place in town that carries Halloween stuff unless you want to count the even punier selection at Walgreens.