Here’s the translight from McDonald’s, featuring the 1989 Halloween Happy Meal Buckets. This is the first year a character other than a pumpkin was featured. Neat! It’s McGoblin, McGhost, and McWitch! McGoblin is an orange pumpkin, McWitch a green witch with a jack o lantern grin and black hair, and …
As usual, here’s your first look at the 2014 McDonald’s Halloween Happy Meal prize! They are released at Halloween and they are buckets, but… The Book of Life… 2 buckets total. Both white with Book of Life illustrated scenes. One white sugar skull handle, the other orange.80’s kids and Halloween …
1998’s McDonald’s Happy Meal theme was Ronald and Pals Haunted Halloween. 1998 McDonald’s Haunted Halloween Ronald and Pals Haunted Halloween came with candy to fill the toy up with. I don’t know how good an idea that is. There were six toys in all:
In 1991 McDonald’s nodded to our favorite orange pumpkin McBoo by naming their Halloween Happy Meal premiums that year after him – three vinyl, glow-in-the-dark plastic bags. What’s kind of funny is there aren’t any pumpkins! There’s a witch (green bag), Franken-kid (orange bag) and a ghost (purple bag).
I love the Halloween pails from McDonald’s. Growing up, I had a collection of them, and year after year they were molded 1986 into the bottom. I just had them stacked together, lids going everywhere. I’d take them outside, place them around the front of my house and put a …
Here are the kids’ meal toy premiums for the 1995 McDonald’s Halloween Happy Meal, 4 different cassette tapes and 4 familiar McDonaldland friends with clip-on Halloween costumes. The 1995 McDonald’s Halloween premiums were not buckets, but rather 4 cassette tapes and 4 McDonaldand figures. The cassette tapes come in a …
Ah the years between Halloween buckets! Here was 1996’s offering of Halloween McNugget buddies. Set of 6 196 McDonald’s Halloween McNugget Buddies
1993 McDonald’s Halloween Happy Meal premiums: Not buckets, but Halloween McNugget Buddies! There are six to collect in all, each a unique looking McNugget coming with it’s own costume, that can be mixed and matched. The 1993 McDonald’s Halloween Mcnugget buddies are the first of the Halloween-themed happy meal toys. …
Here’s a book I read cover to cover MANY times: The Scholastic FunFact Book of Ghosts – Demons and spirits from the world beyond. For a kid, it was less fiction and more like a guidebook of ghouls and apparitions. My brother recently acquired a copy after he asked me …
McDonald’s offered two Halloween Pails in 1999 as Happy Meal premiums. Both feature McDonald’s familiar McDonaldland characters, the first is white with a bat “hat” cookie cutter and Ronald McDonald, while the second is orange with a green pumpkin stem, pumpkin-shaped, cookie cutter, and Birdie and Grimace.
These 2 high resolution scans from the Halloween 1965 Golden Magazine feature a cute illustrated page of witches and a make your own Halloween/October calender. Neat! Three Witches illustrated by Helen Rebecca Wright
Here’s a personal favorite of mine, if not my all time favorite Halloween special. When I had it on VHS it was titled, “The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t”, but was later re-titled, “The Night That Dracula Saved The World”. The original title makes oodles more sense, which you’re aware of …
The story of the Terror Carolers. Singing pumpkins to entertain and bewitch the Trick or Treaters this year. That’s on the agenda but.. We were stuck. We wanted 6 fake pumpkins, something we could carve, that would last a while, that wouldn’t cost a small fortune. Surprisingly, searching the …
Blucky’s Barbecue is actually a variation on an idea we got from The Brewster Yard Haunt. We added a few special differences to our version and rigged together a few last minute things too, but here’s how our Barbecued Blucky Skeleton Turned out! The pieces needed to build our tasty …
Who doesn’t like a meaty corpse that makes everyone grimace a little bit when they see it? NOBODY Blucky is a nice skeleton but scary he ain’t. Let’s change that by transforming a plain Blucky skeleton into a Burn Victim Blucky! Everyone has a technique and here’s ours: Supply list: …
