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: …
One of the longtime features and frustrations of our yard haunt has been the “Fountain of blood” which currently occupies a large amount of area in our cemetery. This feature is massive and requires a bit of space to store as well as some parts that are costly. To assemble …
They’ve become commonplace adornments to just about everyone’s house around Halloween and they’re readily available at most retail establishments around the beginning of September every year. The Gemmy Spirit Ball It talks, the eyes light up, it’s head and mouth moves, it is retail priced at about 20 dollars.Best of …
Now is a good time to pass on a small warning. Some fans require the blades to keep them cool, be careful this thing doesn’t turn into a fireball if that is the case with your fan. We only use ours for about 2 hours a year, outdoors, so we’re …
This 3 paneled cube was also the basis for our “Amazing Gorilla Machine” scene. It makes a great concept for any place a crate or rickety sort of booth is required, it allows for easy tear down and storage and assembles quickly. The carnival ticket booth is extremely light and …
