Decorations, lights and costume parts
Many of these border on being toys, but were created with a more specific purpose in mind.
"Halloween Home and Yard Ornament" (2002)
  What we have here is a 3'' pile of skulls with a propeller on top...yeah, that's it. The misspelled packaging really hypes it up. There's a hole to put it up on a stick, but it's just too small to actually do anythng. Still pretty cool though, and the packaging is too damn cute.
Big Vintage Skeletons (2003)
  I don't know how old these are, but they look like they've been through quite a lot. They're two full feet from toes to scalp, they glow in the dark and they hang by an elastic strand. I really like the one on the left, which has a skinless zombie head instead of a skull. As you can see, their arms are attached to their sides by extra plastic you're supposed to twist off, but I just haven't the heart when they've been this way for so long. I found them at the same goodwill as the "Oooky" spooky whatevers in the plush toy section.
Happy/Sad ghost light (2003)
  These are two sides of the same ghost. It was the top to a blinking battery powered "candle" but I took it all apart. It didn't work very well anyway, and the ghost is a neat little trinket by itself. It's roughly the size of a baseball.
Hideous Zombie light (2003)
  Found at the same dollar store as the ghost one above, this flashlight is topped by a cheesy mutant zombie head that looks straight out of the 50's. Considering the store I got it from, it probably is. There were others, but just standard wolves and mummies.
Giggling Skull with Stolen Arms (2003)
  The store only had one of these. It can be hung up, it takes three AA batteries and when switched on it giggles non-stop with its eyes flashing. What's extremely interesting about this thing, though, are its arms, which are actually the arms of a Boglin. For the grossly undereducated, Boglins were these awesome rubber hand puppets made by Mattel back in the 80's. I don't know how or why, but the arms of this skull are literally the arms of one of the larger style boglins, same material and same mold. This is the only one I've seen.
"Candy Creatures" (2003)
Mini drawstring treat bags made of cloth, sold at Miichael's. I love their faces.
Gruesome Skull Candle (2003)
  Both brain and skull are pure wax...I haven't the heart to melt it. I'm not a candlelight person anyway. Just looks really detailed and cool.
Pocket Skeletons (2002)
  These come in packs of around a dozen, either all green or all orange. They have glitter directly in the plastic and are meant to clip onto your pocket but they actually manage to fail at this. The package says "Warning: this is not a toy. For decorative purposes only" even though they're only flat chunks of plastic and they're meant for children anyway.
Skeleton "Fun Shape" (2003)
  Available at Wal-Mart in skeleton or ghost form and made of soft, transparent rubber, this is part of a halloween safety light for trick-or-treaters. A glowstick (included) is to be inserted down the opening in its back and worn on a string (also included). Seemingly included as an afterthought, the package suggests you discard it with the light and refers to it only as "the fun shape", but they're perfectly reusable and neat-looking.

 

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