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10/09/2006: Halloween Playland’s Gift Shop!

I can’t believe how much crap I bought at the Halloween Playland Gift Shop. Too much to cover in one Countdown entry, so I’ll spread the remainders around the blog throughout the month. Click the words that are bold to read about my adventures in a gift shop that sells fertilizer and Devil’s Hearts right alongside one another.

One of the many items that didn’t make the cut for article-inclusion is seen above — a tub full of goo with a little Dracula figure inside. They call it “Halloween Putty.” Other canisters had other monsters and goo in other colors, but it’s tough to pick a witch over a widow’s peak, even if the witch came in a tub of much cooler red slime.

I didn’t have off work today. Our company trades Columbus Day for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. He had a dream, and his dream was robbing me of my rightful October day off. Now I’m going to have to get people to cough on me until it’s okay to stay home.

I too didn’t have off today at CVS, but it was a good night shift. I went to a greek mixer last night that shut down pretty early, like 11pm early (granted, it started at 8, and the neighbors called the cops. 3 Sororities + Flip Cup = noise)

As with yesterdays, will save this for the morning. So i can enjoy it more, plus i can’t stop watching MNF. But i can’t wait to read it, the anticipation of wanting to read it is even with the feeling of wanting to savor it.

Heads up X-E’ers: A quick search of a certain Burger Monarch’s Website reveals that said Burger Monarch’s masks can be purchased once more. Boo yah. Got two coming to my house. So, now the question is: Indiana Jones, or BK for Halloween?

I had off today. This is odd because I work at a grocery store and the only holiday I usually get off unless I beg is Christmas, the only day of the year when the store closes.

I’m really glad I did, though. As I mentioned in the last entry, today was just stunning, a perfect blue-and-gold autumn day in southern New Jersey. Any day when I discover a new Halloween store just five minutes away (even if it’s one of those generic overpriced places Matt mentioned in his article and I probably won’t get back there again) has to be counted as one of the best in a long time.

i would love to be in such a giftshop we have a huge warehouse style one just a half hour away fron my house. i finally got my guy fawkes mask that i so desperatley wanted. and those BK masks are the creepiest thing ever.

I was thinking about picking up one of those Halloween air plants the other day. I need a plant for my desk. I had to get rid of my plant-in-a-can because despite the fact that the company policy explicitly says I can have one plant, apparently that doesn’t include plants that grow 5′ in the air and need to be supported with sticks.

I wish I had off today… my entire week is now going to be the equvilent of all day math class due to a backlog of fucking account adjustments. At least it was fun to come home and finish stuffing my trick-or-treat bags since McDonald’s finally got their treat coupons in. It’s so sad that Grimace is the best dressed character on them.

Sweet collection! The live animal nativity thing sounds like itd be worth going back for, too. If Santa is on the scene, make sure to ask him if he “knows where the porta potty filled with poop” is. He’ll probably get really pumped.

It’s been awhile (man, working takes away from computer time). Anyway, love the articles; makes me wish I was in a less religious area that wasn’t concerned about bringing down brimstone and hellfire if they enjoy Halloween too much. On the other hand, apparently kids still actually trick or treat here.

As for your air plant, I almost bought one once, but they kept falling out of the planters (lizards, crocodiles and scorpions). They are supposed to be easy to care for–just leave them out, maybe drop some water in once in a while.

I love the Dracula in slime.
I bought some monster themed slime the other day, but it just had pictures of Godzilla and a mummies and stuff on the canisters.
Only Godzilla is labeled “King of the Lizards”. :\

The hell is up with those Pokemon Pumpkins?!?
I’m actually thinking about going to Knott’s Halloween Haunt for the very first time this year. Initially I wanted to go to Six Flags while I still had the chance before it closes FOREVA, but Knott’s is cheaper and sounds better. If anybody can chime with an opinion I’d appreciate it :).
I can see where it’d take some of the starch out of your collar, but it’s great to actually be able to find and manhandle stuff that’s shown up in the Countdown/blog. Still haven’t found the buggy skulls though.

I canâ€™t help it â€“ that miniature Dracula figurine immersed in purple goo is simultaneously the cutest and coolest Halloween item Iâ€™ve seen thus far this year. Iâ€™m guessing Wolf Man would have worked well in brown slime; although, thatâ€™s a bit of a stretch as thatâ€™s really gross. Thatâ€™d likely turn out like Mad Balls, where big brother substitutes some brown slime for gravy on little sisterâ€™s meatloaf.

You know I didn’t think there were anymore way to funk up booya, but you’ve proved me wrong.

Congratulations, Terror Claws.
Oh and I beat ya to the V wear by about 3 months, Danny boy

I was at the airport today and I saw this kid caring a happy meal. It was in a paper bag. No Halloween theme. WTF? What happened to the boo-pails? Has Mc D’s turned its back on the greatest holiday in the universe? I’m seriously at a loss. Really? A paper bag happy meal in October?

Tried Jones holiday soda for the first time. Berried Alive, not bad. Kind of like Kool-Aid. Hey, Matt you know those bat organs, I think I found some intestines that are part of the collection. I’ll have to go back to the store and check it out.

I had to work today as well, though they don’t give it up for MLK either. They make us work the day after Thanksgiving too :/.
Bill, McD’s has been doing a Little Mermaid/Legos Happy Meal promo. Could it be winding up soon to make way for the spooky? Have they been doing buckets in recent years?

Speaking of Kool-Aid, when are you gonna do another Kool-Aid review, mang? I loved those.

I must say having now read it, that the shrunken head and the rat looked like a worthwhile buy.

But those horror teeth look intriuging. Yeah they’re the same you see everywhere but something about getting a sneak-peak before you review em makes me wanna go buy some. Even though i won’t use them, actually no, i’ll probally wear them on Halloween just for the sake of doing so.

I had to work, also. Don’t get MLK, either. Frankly, in my city, they only indication that it was a holiday was no mail and the banks were closed. Yay.

Hey, I had one of those “Hairy Scaries Air Planters what-the-fuck”’s when I was a kid (early 90’s I guess). The jack-o-lantern kind, which is odd, since back then nobody celebrated Halloween over here (Finland). Bought it (well, my mom did) at a plant shop (or what ever the hell you call them). Anyway, it’s sort of a plant but it isn’t: it’s just glued on, but if I remember correctly, you still have to spray it with water every once in a while (can’t understand why, how the hell does it live/need water when it’s just glued on to a piece of clay?) Whatever, I loved it to death.

Alright, this place redeemed its self now. That gift shop was pretty awesome! I for one also enjoyed the gourd jokes!

So the Devil has heartworm problems, eh? Must be his jackal lineage. Eventually I would *have* to perform surgery with an Exacto and remove the worm because I’m just that way.

Pokemon pumpkins. Well, like I said in a previous post, Halloween just isn’t Halloween without a Pikachu. Granted, my particular Pikachu dangles from a spider-web, a tempting tidbit for spiders twice it’s size…

The skulls with long, pink hair are excellent. They remind me of that nasty piece of work in Return of the Living Dead (1985). Just need to fashion a gory, twisting section of spine for her and you’re set. Bet she’d even help you make lots of new friends!

The rat was a good purchase. Even if it’s a fuzzy-wuzzy one with a wee pink nose and shiny whiskers you can’t escape from the fact that not more than an hour ago it was rolling in rotting garbage and used cat litter, eating it’s own tail. Rat’s are always welcome in my shopping bag.

Hairy Scaries are coffee-table, shelf, desk, counter-top…things. I sense the lady’s hand in this selection. Cute enough, but 5.99? Dayum. How many Monopoly pieces *is* that, anyway?

I seriously want a squish squoosh ball now. Just because they’re called that. Think about how fun that is to say! Squish squoosh!
I too enjoyed the gourd jokes. You made my entirely sleepless night-turned-morning better. =)

IHAQ- I saw the ‘Trailer Park Boys’ movie on Thanksgiving weekend also! It’s best to go see it while slightly under the influence. Hilarious!

So Amazon is doing groceries now, and they say that they will try to offer every variety of certain products available, like KOOL-AID!

I figured you might be interested Matt in the flavors like jamaica flavor (that’s what it said, no picture though), mango, and the manderan one at the top.

This countdown is so awesome. I’m getting sad that October is going by so fast, but then again, that just means that Christmas is right around the corner.

Where exactly is the Halloween Playland located… i’ll be back home in SI this sunday to pick up decorations for my halloween party at party city, and I want to stop by the playland.

Matt, your days off schedule for work stinks like the company I work for. I had to work Columbus Day as well and we have to work on MLK Jr. day also but our tradeoff for that is we get the Friday after Thanksgiving off..My job also doesn’t have separate sick leave days so if we’re out sick, it goes against our vacation time. Nice, huh?

Squish, squoosh!
Squish, squoosh!
Squish, squoosh!
Squish…….. Squoosh!
Squishsquoosh-squishsquoosh!
Squish, squish, squish, squish…..
Squoosh.

Wonder when we in the lower 48 get the Trailer Park Boys movie…Borat’s higher on my go-see list anyway. Meant to go see Employee of the Month today (maybe if it was R I’d be more interested :/) but hopefully I can talk my way into seeing The Departed instead.
Can’t say I’m too horrified by old Chrissy getting shafted in the celebration department. I mean, I’d love the day off, but it’s not like he inspires any cool decorations or traditions so he can suck it up. Doesn’t he have already have a big ass statue to brag about anyway?

Leaves were falling off the trees at my campus today, yet tons of trees aren’t changed yet.. It definitely feels more Halloweenular as each day passes. It was gorgeous today with the leaves flying about and such. It put me in the mood for some Halloween shopping!

Near me, there is going to be a teeny tiny Halloween festival, the only catch is it’s two hours long and for ages 9-12. I immediately thought of Matt at his Halloween playland… I’d feel so out of place, yet I want to see how horrible it will be.

Our stores have those Pokemon Pumpkins. But they call them mini spaghetti pumpkins. They also had some really evil spiney looking gourds that I couldn’t see the names of.

I’ve looked around, and nobody seems to have them. Are they a store exclusive somewhere?

Wal-mart has several of those air planters. There’s one that looks like one of those trees from Disney’s Adventures of Ichabod. I didn’t know that those things were so easy to take care of. I’m stopping by today to get that one and maybe a jack o’lantern, too. Plus, if I get out of the office on time, I’m going by Target to get a really cool light-up Halloween scene that looks like an evil version of those miniature ceramic Christmas villages.

Well, it’s totally October. I’ll be damned if the girl I saw this morning wasn’t wearing zombie makeup.

So let me get this straight - when you first started this year’s countdown, you felt you almost had too many things to write about… and now you found this Halloween Playland… AND a ton of stuff? Wow. Might as well invest pre-emptively in wrist braces for you carpal tunnel.

I seriously hope all this stuff equates to a nice (business related) tax write-off. Otherwise, 60 bucks on Halloween junk is just insane. Especiallye when combined with all the other Target trips and such. If you need a finance guy, I am your man.

Got 10 stamps at McD’s for 4 hashbrowns and a medium coke this morning. There is a rarity list out there now, if you google mcdonalds monopoly gamepiece rarity, one of the first hits. Anyway, 10 pieces for under 4 bucks, got a mcflurry, a value meal, and a breakfast sandwich. Not too shabby.

60 is probally easily spent by the average family these days, being the more expensive types of Halloween decoration available and all the different types of regular decoration.

I spent over $160 in Party City and over $45 in Stop n Shop on Halloween candy, n that was the first trip, i’m still buying new things as i see em. YEah not EVERYONE is like that, just the people crazy about it.

But 60 i would say is easilly spent by just the average family decorating their yard/house/porch.

Unless you simply mean that 60 bucks was too much for ‘that’ stuff. Which yeah, that store was a huge rip-off, i just hope you don’t mean Halloween stuff in general.

So what in Halloween Playland is “For Monsters Only - and Boston Fans”? Surely not the poo-filled potty?
Presumably this has something to do with the Sox/Yankees insanity. As a New Englander, let me say that the rivalry makes no damn sense.
And I also have to say this: Matt managed to notice more local idiosyncrasies in his one trip to Bar Harbor than I have in my entire life. (Raises Dunkies coffee as a toast.)

“…the old lady down the block who bucks knitting conventions by painting Frankenstein’s Monster over and over again…”

I bought a bunch of decorations at Target today, but I went with all “harvest” themed stuff so I don’t have to redecorate until December. It’s not so much being mature as it is being lazy.

OK, Dan. I meant 60 bucks on one trip through a Pumpkin orchard gift shop was insane. Although spending more than 150 bucks on ANY decorations is insane to me. Of course, I have a wife, a kid, and an insane car payment on a 30K salary. I may value a buck a little differently than some.

And that’s ok, i agree with you, about the fact that those items were way overpriced.

And hey! i have serious money commitments too lol. It’s a sickness though, i can’t help but buy everything i like when it comes to Halloween, the girlfriend doesn’t like it so much, like the fact how whenever we go shopping for food she turns around to find me stopped staring at whatever Halloween stand what stuck at the end of Isle 3 :-/

But hey, what can i do? I find it hard to resist buying urges when it comes to general things, but that stopped, just Halloween now

Man, I went to McD’s over the weekend and got the double Baltic Ave. on my fries! What the hell? Is this something they’re doing knowingly?

And I gots to get one of those BK King masks. But $10 for shipping? It’s more for shipping than the damn mask!

Also, HBO On Demand this month (at least in Seattle) is featuring “Tricks and Treats” in their movie list. I watched Friday The 13th Parts VI (my favorite) and VII (eh) over the weekend. They seem to be adding more daily, but they’ve also got Scream and a couple of others that I forget. I hadn’t seen Part VII uncut since I saw it in the theater back in the day. You can totally tell where the studio cut out all the good gore scenes. It’s frustrating. And while Kane Hodder does a great job as Jason, I think my favorite Jason is C.J. Graham from Part VI.

I just went to Trax Farms myself this weekend. It has awesome fresh pressed apple cider, and hay rides and such for the kids. My daughter rode a horse, fed sheep, rode a train, went on a hayride, made her own cider, AND picked out a 20 lb. pumpkin all for like 30 bucks. I had fun with the haunted attractions this weekend as well. Myself and the old lady went to “Station Scare” , which is a huge 10 block haunted attraction. This thing is designed every year by Tom Savini, but this year he teamed with George Romero to make one of the greatest haunted scary things on the planets. My daughter had her farm fun, and I screamed like a little bitch 7 or 8 times. I love Halloween.

But it serves my personal point well. For half of what Matt spent on doo dads at a gift shop, my Daughter was able to have the time of her life and we still had enogh left over for a tank of gas. I love decorating, but don’t you people ever SAVE your decorations from last year? I understand that there is alot of cool stuff coming out every year, but I had enough decorations to fill my house 3 years ago. I guess you could keep going and going with the decoration until it resembles a tornado site more than a house, but then the decorations lose their individuality. In Matt’s case, I am sure there are items strewn about his house. Just based on articles alone, I am imagining what would resemble a K.B. Toys store exploding and settling here and there. I just dont see having 100 vaguley important Halloween/any holiday decorations, when closer to 10 or 20 offer so much more individuality and attention. It still shows the spirit and you save alot more money. However, if my original question about tax-writeoffs is correct, Matt stands to claim up to 10% of his toy purchases as business related. He can also claim the gas it took to drive to Target all those times. In this case I would buy every little thing known to man… just to screw Uncle Sam.

I got a little bit of Thanksgiving news for you. This year for the 80th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, they have brand new balloons of Flying Ace Snoopy and Pikachu as well as a giant Energizer Bunny float. Oh yeah!

If you put a Pokemon Pumkin inside a dryer with your clothes and turn it on, it’ll make your clothes stained and smelly. Don’t believe me? Try it out and see.

Speaking of Pokemon, I got a Mudkip ‘bobblehead toy’ out of one of those toy vending machines today. The head definitely doesn’t bobble, but I was appeased since I got the pokemon I wanted. $1 was way too much though, but I couldn’t resist. =)
It only included the latest generation of them, so no Venusaur. =(

Yeah i understand what you’re saying Old E. Sometimes a little money can go a long way, especially at local farm hayrides n October Halloween specials, one of which i hope to go to the week before Halloween, not been to this before, looks good though. I just don’t have any young people to take so i’m afraid i’ll look a little out of place, being an adult n all lol, albeit a young one.

And yeah i do save my Halloween decorations, although alot of the last years got kinda trashed. See i throw the biggest and best Halloween parties anyone who comes to has ever seen. This years is in the UK where i’m originally from, felt like i’d change it up from being in the States every year.

But yeah last years got kinda outta control, and half the stuff was ruined plus transporting most of it to the UK was a lil difficult.

At my company, we worked on Columbus Day, and I think we work on MLK’s birthday, depending on what day it falls on. The trade-off is that the company is closed on Fridays. The only time we work on Firdays is when the 4th of July forces us to close for one day in the middle of the week, and we have to make up for lost time. Other than that, three-day weekends every week!

Halloween in the UK sounds awesome. I would love to blow the froth off a couple with Dracula and his best mates.

Anyone watching Spike TV’s Scream Awards? I think they start in like 5 minutes.

Feet Cooker - How exactly do you know this? Making Pikachu Pumpkin pie by cooking it in the dryer?

I hear ya, Dan and Old E- it isn’t hard to spend a lot of money! Just today I spent about $50- on what? I’m not sure- I needed deoderant, then I found a cheap lipstick, then I was hungry, then I found a book that I have been searching everywhere for, etc. etc. I should seriously not leave the house- it’s the only way to NOT spend sometimes!

Why is Halloween so popular in America? I dunno, but ever since the whole Salem witch stuff, Halloween seems right up your country’s alley! (and Canada’s as well)

BRICKER- Nice buy! I am jealous of all your stamps. I got a coffee at MCDs this morning and they gave it to me in a regular cup with no stamps, even though it was a medium and I should have gotten stamps….so, yes, I took it to the counter and asked for an empty cup to get my chance at the big bucks. They gave me an empty hasbrown bag, and I got Park Place!

Yeah McDonald’s is pulling some crazy BS with Baltic Ave. I got 2 cups with 2 Baltic Aves in a row. Pretty shady.

Ate some really hot hot sauce today, check the blog, my stomach’s a-churnin’! lol

From what I saw the Scream awards were aiight. As legendary as the VMA Pre-Show performance will always be, they did a better job here. Gerard still needs to work on owning that I Don’t Care more.

Right now it’s “i don’t care…” when it should be “I DON’T CARE!!!” Take a hint from Jesus of Suburbia. But who am I to say, anyway?

Holy crap, Norbert, I thought *I* was the only one who appropriated the phrase “money melon” for my own non-melon uses. YOU sir are the money melon.

Going to Savannah for a couple of days to stay at the 1790 House. It is supposebly haunted but we’ll see. If anyone has been there let me know.I think supposebly is spelled wrong so ignore it. Long live Wild Wood, NJ! And Sea Isle. Actually “supposebly” looks really wrong all the way around.

Oh yeah, where is the love for The Howling? I just watched that again and it still made me pee a little

never cared for the howling, checked out pulse recently - better than i thought it’d be. any movie with christina milian can’t be too bad

it’s official. they killed the nightmare before christmas soundtrack. im really upset right now. somebody hold me:

on a lighter note…they didnt have dracula in red slime? that would just seem to make more sense.

Wow, TWO hours worth of Scream Awards? Props to Spike for having the cojones, I guess. The show’s not half bad (gratuitous crowd shots of Robert Rodriguez and Naveen Andrews don’t hurt) but it is a bit easy to call who the winners are in each category (did any of the runners up even show?).
Dude, I cannot WAIT until Grindhouse comes out.

What’s with all the Nightmare Before Christmas stuff these past few years? I remember wanting to see it when it was first released, eventually renting it, being bored out of my mind with it and then it just went away from everyones memory. I don’t remember talking to anyone who liked it back then but suddenly it’s all over the place and it’s even popular enough to warrant a 3D re-release. I know it’s not because Corpse Bride because I was seeing this hype before that, in fact, am I wrong to say that movie never would’ve been made if not for this recent boost of interest in this one?

Better watch it, dohopoki- you might have some angry XErs on your case now- them’s fighting words! Although, I can’t jump in on anyone’s side, since I STILL haven’t seen ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’ despite always wanting to.

Yeah, I agree with Invader Norbert- the Railroads are where the money’s at. I’ve got 2 of them, and I assume I will never get any more.

it’s official. they killed the nightmare before christmas soundtrack. im really upset right now. somebody hold me:

Pssshhhh… don’t even say that. Manson singing This is Halloween makes me wanna touch myself in places I shouldn’t touch in public.

Doho, I’d venture a guess that you might be underestimating the initial popularity of Nightmare. When the toys started showing up a few years ago I got the distinct impression that they had been long awaited.
Big thumbs up for the Scream Awards. The corny jokes, the gore, the audience full of fans who are actually into it rather than row after row of bored celebs, the predatory birds, it all added up to a fun time. Still standing by my “only winners bothered to show” position but that’s no big deal…I do wonder if there were any awkward exchanges backstage between Manson and McGowan. If anybody missed it they’re replaying it Sunday and Tuesday (at 2 am!).

My son and I have been having a mini-Tim Burton fest this week with watching Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride and tonight, Beetlejuice. I have to be in a certain mood to watch Nightmare and Corpse Bride. I have always went back and forth as to whether Edward Scissorhands is a “Halloween”-y movie. We watched Sleepy Hollow a couple weeks ago to get this season jump-started.

The Scream Awards were pretty good. A little cheesy and predictable (Brandon Routh as best superhero?), but not bad. The best parts were the sneak peeks at Saw III and Grindhouse, which looks so freakin’ good I don’t know if I can wait until next spring. The Machine Gun Leg bit was awesome and that dude on the bike getting liquified by the car was splatacular. Not to mention the fake trailer for the Machete movie.

You can’t forget about Ed Wood. That’s one of my favoites. It’s kind of a Halloween movie….. sort of….

Also, I remember going to see Nightmare Before Christmas in theaters when it first came out, and I loved it. I was 9 or 10 that year. I remember, even though I never asked for them I got a couple action figures for Christmas. I also got the soundtrack, and I still have it to this day. The funny thing is, I haven’t watched it once since then, and I don’t really want to.

I just went out to get in my car about 2 hours ago, and found THE ENTIRE BACK EN WAS SMASHED! Somebody hit me this morning in our parking lot! So, I have been with the cops and talking to insurance companies on the phone for the last two hours- this totally ruins my day AND my weekend- I was planning on driving home to Quebec, but my car is what the cops call “undrive-able” right now. Christ. I HATE not having a car. I don’t have collision insurance, but that shouldn’t matter, since I was PARKED and SLEEPING when it happened, right? I mean, it is no way my fault, right….?

Ow. Ow. Ow. Wow. Marilyn Manson? Fiona Apple? She Wants Revenge? Fall Out Boy?

I have always loved Nightmare Before Christmas. I will never buy any merchandise. (although when my tape breaks I’ll probably get it on DVD.) Tim Burton just isn’t cool anymore. I’m going to pretend he died in 2003.

Went last night and bought a shrunken head. It is weird how those things are popular this year.

They had some awesome stuff though. In particular, the severed head in the bucket of blood fountain is the winner of over the top halloween decorations this year.

Dohopkoi, I thinkyou’re underestimating the fan base. I saw The Nightmare Before Christmas when it came out. I was fifteen, and it’s been one of my favorite movies ever since. I would have KILLEd for a t-shirt when I was in high school, but I didn’t get any of those until just a few years ago. The soundtrack was only the second c.d I ever owned, and of course I still have it.

The Corpse Bride I enjoyed equally, and was in the works for a long time. In part, I’m sure, because it takes so long to build these movies. I remember reading that Tim Burton was going to make a stop motion movie called the Corpse Bride, and assumed it was based on the Washington Irving short story. I think that was at least five years ago.

I still buy NMBC stuff. When I go to Disneyland, neat promo stuff on ebay from Japan, etc. I simply love this movie.

So I wrote this little Holoween rant for my page. What do yall think, I know It still needs to be corrected, but hows the message look

So one of the best holidays is just around the corner, and yes I do
consider Halloween a holiday, in fact I will be so bold enough to throw
in Halloween as part of the holidays that go along with thanks giving and
Christmas.

So there have been some people who have been trying to piss on my
holiday spirits by saying Halloween is for kids or Halloween is evil. Well
lets step back an analyze what Halloween really is, and I don’t mean in
the historical sense of the meaning, I mean in the regular what the fuck
Halloween is for you.

Ok first will come up with a rebuttal worthy to challenge even the most
pious of Christians. These people say that celebrating Halloween is
evil. Oh yeah, what makes it so evil? Is it because kids dress up like
monsters and super heroes, one night out of the year and get to walk
around getting candies? Oh yeah… I see allot of evilness going on
there… Damn them damn them to hell! But some will still argue that it
is because it is the devils night, and that evil lurks in the shadows.
Listen says who Halloween is what you make it up to be, Christians have a
celebration called Halleluiah night, celebrated on guess what night?
That’s right kiddies on October 31. Now doesnâ€™t that sound like a cop out
move? Actually it sounds kind of hypocritical. I mean come on they are celebrating some thin on OUR night of fun, but there just changing the name of it to suit there needs, but there still celebrating some thing on the 31! Now before some holy roller tries to smash me on that, let me just say I know they arenâ€™t celebrating Halloween for the sake of the devil, but neither are kids and post facto kids who are still celebrating it. They are celebrating it because its fun!

Next are the people who say, your to old to be celebrating it, and
that’s bull shit to. As a parent it is my job to instill the spirit of
Halloween to my children, which is a bonus because I get to live
vicariously through them and get a deeper satisfaction of it when all is
said and done. Halloween is about candy for kids, hell its about candy
for adults to, let me explain….( and you knew I would) Halloween is
the only time of the year that a women can dress like a total whore, and
its ok! Even the most unadulterated of women can dress like one of the
pussy cat dolls and its a ok! She won’t be judge because the Halloween
law protects them. And vice versa for women, who enjoy seeing guys
dressed like a roman gladiators.
So back to candy for adults…. itâ€™s called eye candy, so u see candy is
involved for all age groups.

The important thing to remember that we as Halloween believers don’t see
it as a religious event, we don’t go out and sacrifice small children and
then have blood orgies, and speak in tongue, wishing in the lord of
darkness, we see it as a one day out of the year event to dress up in
costumes we think are cool, to be able to have our own month of spooky
happenings, all this fun and its still social expectable to the open
minded. So the next time some hater tries to hate on my Halloween, ill give them a
smile and wish them a happy holiday and let them ponder on what the hell
just happened.

Perhaps I am under estimating the initial fan base but I know no one around me at the time was into it. It came in 93 according to IMDb and I didn’t see this fanbase come about out until around 2004. So, I literally forgot about the existance of this movie for about 10 years and never had a single conversation that brought it up in that time.

when Nightmare Before Christmas came out my parents wouldnt let me see it. now it is one of my favorites!

also…what happened to mr.T’s gold chains? its just not mr.T with out them, you know?

i know this movie has had a cult following shortly after it’s release, i remember my mom had for some reason gotten me a bunch of toys from the movie, i was like wtf? and returned them for store credit to get video games or whatever.. and found out about a year or 2 later some of those toys had gone up in value to like $70-100 each?! cuz of all the people rabidly into the film trying to collect the merchandise - and the dolls were a short run, this was at least 10 years ago

Yeah, all my high school friends were hugely into Nightmare back in the far off days of the late 90’s (ran with the goth kids) so you must’ve just missed the hype, doho. I guess that’s why it’s “cult” and not just plain old “classic”.
Muppet Baby, that totally sucks. I witnessed a hit-and-run recently and got so much satisfaction out of calling the 5-0 and busting the jerk. Hope things work out, good luck!
I didn’t need to be sold on Grindhouse (perhaps that’s obvious) but MACHINE GUN LEG! would’ve done it…I’ve actually been avoiding digging for info on it because it makes the wait for spring even more interminable, so it was an awesome and total surprise to see Danny Trejo kicking ass, taking names, and making time with fine ass tricks. Robert Rodriguez is so my hero. As for the Scream Awards, my money’s already on Dexter to win Best TV Series next year.
(Mr. T stopped wearing his gold chains after Hurricane Katrina, as a show of sensitivity if I’m not mistaken)

I should go ahead and mention too that I never had any idea there were any toys for the movie until just this thread. Were they of quality?

Maybe “Pokemon Pumpkin” is the actual name of that breed. I know it sounds weird, but it’s possible someone bred a psychedelic pumpkin and named it in 1999.

A new ‘Chu? I thought for sure this would be the year in which he’d retire, but apparently not. Pikachu must be going for Garfield’s record.

I must be a complete and utter Halloweiner but dear god after reading that I want one of those adorably creepy little rats so so so bad. And it can’t be just ANY stuffed rat. It has to be one from a gift shop that reeks of fertilizer and stocks rubber body parts.
Also mjsgrass is completely right. There’s a Christian school over here that celebrates ‘fall dressup day’. This makes me sad enough to break out my sad emoticon.

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