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1382ArticleVaporman87Where'd you get the meals at? What food place? Those sound cool. NLogan's Retro Halloween OverloadOct 05, 2014View
1381ArticleNLogan@Fulton thanks! Which costumes do you still have? You can always start saving stuff now. We went and got square pumpkin kids meals the other night that had Halloween flashlights for prizes, a skeleton, ghost, pumpkin, and witch that are pretty cool. Then we went to see the Addams family play at the theater. NLogan's Retro Halloween OverloadOct 05, 2014View
1380ArticleNLoganAt my house there are usually a few trick-or-treaters that show up before we go out ourselves. We put up a graveyard in the front yard with a color wheel light bathing the house in yellow, green, blue,and red in a slow sequence. Unless someone stays at the house to pass out candy like a grandparent, we usually turn out all the lights because we are out trick-or-treating ourselves. Flannel CornucopiaOct 05, 2014View
1379ArticleVaporman87I live in a house but it is so out of the way that few people would enjoy much of anything I did to it for Halloween. With Christmas, lights can always get a person's attention. But Halloween is typically all about darkness, so it's hard to get attention from way off for it.Flannel CornucopiaOct 05, 2014View
1378Articlepikachulover@NLogan Me too I wish I could go all out. If I lived in a house. Nobody seems to come to my apartment, and there are a lot of children that live around my neighborhood. Flannel CornucopiaOct 05, 2014View
1377ArticleFulton4VI had a few costumes like those when I was a child. I still have two of them but one is missing the mask. Really nice collection of things from your childhood. I wish I kept more of my own. Your really good at makeup for Halloween. I like the skeleton face the most of all. NLogan's Retro Halloween OverloadOct 05, 2014View
1376ArticleNLoganYeah if one has not experienced the explosion of fall colors in the forests or mountains it is definitely worth a trip. I used to go on little trips to see the leaves up the canyons all the time as a kid. Those Halloween weapons are straight up dangerous! My little brother was running with a scythe in his hand one year and tripped on it breaking it with the jagged edge of the staff end going right into his mouth and impaling the roof of his mouth. Stitches were required at the E.R. thankfully it was not on Halloween itself. I wish I could be the guy that decorates all out every year. Right now my kids are still trick-or-treat age but in a few years maybe. I have done haunted walkway themes in the past, I am sure there are more in my future. I also donned the dented helmet of a certain merciless bounty hunter one year, no one laughed when I won the limbo contest with my rubber boots, helmet and a blaster earning a 5 lb pail of bubble gum! Flannel CornucopiaOct 04, 2014View
1375ArticleNLogan@Hoju I didn't know they did Hondo in 3D on TV in 1991. I had to use my googlefu to see what the glasses looked like. Did you have the ones with the Duke on it or the Apache? I hope you still have the Haunted Mansion record. I would be digging through attics and basements for that little beauty. @Vaporman I wanna see photos of this year's Scooby Doo gang in the forums or something. The important part is that you are doing it together. That alone makes it worth it. The kids feel they are a part of something memorable. Group costumes can be awesome and are usually funny but it is so hard to get everyone in a costume they like while staying in the theme. I saw Tetris piece costumes once that interlocked it was pretty cool. Without any girls in the family except my wife that makes it difficult to find the right group costume as well. @vkimo I wish I had a photographic memory. My googlefu is exceptionally strong and I can always look for brand names etc on the stuff i have. Even your reference to a telephone sized book is fast becoming retro as phone books are going extinct. You have retro in your blood.NLogan's Retro Halloween OverloadOct 04, 2014View
1373ArticlevkimoIf Halloween was an indigenous tribe, you discovered them, enslaved them, and established a top grade rubber facility all in a very short time. Excellent work. So much good stuff here. I'm really impressed at your near encyclopedic recollections. I was floored when you would post some rare merchandise then state that it was from your childhood collection! Most of that stuff is hard to come by as a collector so having it from youth makes it all the more special. I love the personal pics. Seeing your brother and cousins all stuffed on the plaid couch with the fake flowers on the table and the telephone book sized Bible really capture the moment. That must be pretty cool being a twin as well. You guys could really pull off some shenanigans. One of you dresses in normal clothing and the other in a costume and trick or treat at the same houses and have people scratching their heads in deja vous induced trauma. Great article, fun read! NLogan's Retro Halloween OverloadOct 04, 2014View
1372ArticleVaporman87So much good stuff here... great stuff! The story of Halloween and your family's reverence for it is awesome. And you have so many great items that you can look to to inspire you to recapture the love of Halloween every year. I can only wish that my dad felt the same way about these occasions. For mine, it was more or less a night to relax in the quiet of our absence. My mom made an effort get us in the mood with decorations in the house and something festive to eat but... no. You guys really make it a family affair and that's what I strive to do with my own family. We do the *gasp* family costume thing. LOL. Every year. It's a real treat and I know that my kids will look back on it fondly... the idea that we enjoyed the night TOGETHER. Thanks for letting us experience Halloween through your eyes from yesterday and today. It was awesome.NLogan's Retro Halloween OverloadOct 04, 2014View