HALLOWEEN TOYS!!!

Is it just me or did I get lazy? The cold air and the rain have kinda caused Halloween to lose some of its excitement of late and I just didn't have it in me. For a day I almost longed for Christmas! But then it went away...

It's still October, so that means more Halloween Countdown! In today's edition, boys and girls, we'll be talking about toys. More importantly, the companies that decided that Halloween was a good enough reason to take their normally mundane wares and make then spookified!

Exhibit A: The Slinky


We all remember the Slinky. Why, "[It] walks down stairs, alone or in pairs and makes a slinkity sound[.] A spring, a spring, a marvelous thing, everyone knows it’s Slinky…” Of course, mine was metal and we all assuredly poked our eyes out with it or stuck it in our little sister's Easy Bake Oven or some such dangerous activity that caused it to now be plastic. Alas, plasticity gave the venerable Slinky the ability to now be multi-colored. And what better colors for October than orange and black. You can buy this treat with either black or orange on the outside and the reverse on the inverse.

And if Toy Story taught us anything, we know that every toy box includes at least one of Exhibit B:


(Mr Potato Head!)

Yes, old man Head has decided to dress up this season as his favourite haunt - the Vampyre, complete with glow-in-the-dark eyes and fangs. Not gonna lie, it's caused me to rubberneck at least once this month as I forget he's on the counter and I see something staring at me from the dark.

Hot Wheels usually jumps into the Halloween spirit with some racing hearse or a skulled-out hot rod (what I wouldn't give for a Dragula Hot Wheel), so of course we have Exhibit C:

(Trickin' Treats?)

We can see from a cursory glance at least two things that are wrong with this set-up, though. For one, if you give away the "secret" right on the front, it's not really a secret. I mean, at least make us open the package to tell us it was really ice water. That's a secret. Kind of. But that's not really a formula either. Unless the Mad Scientist was trying to get his race cars to change color in his lab and then thought, "AHA! If I mix two molecules of hydrogen and just one of oxygen and then lower their combined temperatures to below 0 degrees centigrade they will, by god, change colors!" and then he laughed maniacally, "Muhuhuhahahahahahaaaa!" I guess that's a formula of sorts, but I'm still not buying it.

Last among the things I decided to write about/bought is Pez. Pez has a head for everything. If we tried hard enough we could probably find a Communion Pez that gave out wafers instead of candy.

Exhibit D:

(PfeffErminZ)

There are actually a ton of these things and I even picked up some generic knock-offs called Kreepy Kliks, which I was too lazy to take a picture of, but not too lazy to steal from another site.

(Behold!)

It's not much, but it's a start. Now, assuming my young niece and nephew don't read this and ruin the surprise they'll be getting all of these toys come Halloween, but, look at that stuff... I'm thirty years old and I'm tempted to keep it all. And that, Dear Readers, is most certainly an invite to buy me things.