Top-10 Most-Wanted Halloween Items About 30 percent of 52 specialty retailers who spoke with TDmonthly Magazine in fall 2008 said they don’t carry specific stock for Halloween in their stores...
1/1/2009
Regional Reports: What’s Selling … And Where From Blokus (distributor currently changing as of 12/08) to Wedgits from Imagability, small, easy-to learn games and toys are the winners when it comes to popular sellers...
1/1/2009
Halloween: Tattoos for "Boos" It's one thing to wear a Frankenstein mask, but how much better to flaunt fake scars over real kid skin...
1/1/2008
Halloween Goes Perennial Costumes aren't just for Halloween, more than half of 22 specialty toy retailers told TDmonthly...
1/1/2007
Make Halloween Hip While children are searching for witches and ghosts in the uniquely interactive Spooky Night book from InnovativeKids, Positive Spin Press has given a new face to the eerie holiday:...
Capitalizing on Worldwide Halloween BOOm Goblins, ghosts, jack-o-lanterns and scarecrows, longtime staples of U.S. Halloween celebrations, are now making inroads worldwide, as more foreign countries adopt the autumn celebration...
1/1/2006
Lights, Camera, Costumes! Halloween costume top sellers have been film-linked since the “Wizard of Oz” debuted in 1939...
1/1/2006
Licenses, Sexy Costumes Rule Halloween Show Halloween 2006 falls on a Tuesday, which suggests that it’ll be more of a children’s celebration than an all-night grown-up kids’ fest...
High Fashion Haunting with InCharacter Costumes In 2004, Chuck Martinez and Bob Pickens, two men with already long careers in the thriving Halloween industry, teamed up to launch InCharacter Costumes...
3/1/2005
The Man Behind the Masks: Bump in the Night’s Chuck Jarman Though some of his merchandise is tame, most of Jarman’s masks and puppetry are macabre and frightening. Vicious looking clowns, deformed heads, and rotten creatures add to an extensive selection of masks, displays, and puppets not intended for the faint-of-heart. To learn about the man behind the masks,...
3/1/2005
The Art of the Mask: An Interview with Lookinglass Owner Louis Klaitman With a background in retailing Louis Klaitman began recycling clothing for wholesale in 1972. Today, he sells under the Cabaret brand name to international clients. He supplies Halloween retailers and party planners of special events and Mardi Gras...
3/1/2005
Halloween Show Attracts New Markets TransWorld’s National Halloween, Costume & Party Show was collocated with the National Haunted Attractions Show Featuring The Dark Zone at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Ill. March 4 – 8...
3/1/2005
The Halloween Hoopla for 2005 According to the experts, the boys of the Thames family of Penn Wynne, Pa., are typical Halloween consumers. Twelve year-old Alex and his 9-year-old brother, Daniel, don’t start thinking about costumes until the day before All Hallow’s Eve...
3/1/2005
Traditional Terror Time This Halloween There’s nothing like a good, old-fashioned scare. In recent years, many have felt the more realistic and gory, the better. Yet, as people recall simpler and less offensive times, this year’s Halloween fare will lean toward finding the fun in fright...
3/1/2005
Halloween Pumpkin Masters, Inc. Carve out spooky Halloween designs in your pumpkins using the Silhouettes Pattern Book by Pumpkin Masters, Inc. This book contains eight Halloween silhouettes to choose from, ranging from a witch’s head to a howling werewolf. Position the patterns against your pumpkin and carve it out! Then...
HOLIDAY PRODUCTS Bleyer Industries Ltd. Bleyer Industries offers the Christmas Metalized door panel that features two different designs, “Santa’s List,” and “Season’s Greetings.” These Metalized door panels can be used on the interior or exterior of any door. They are 31” by 5’ tall and are printed on durable waterproof plastic. Blinky...
Customers Set Trends for Costume Play Whether costume manufacturers provide the tools necessary for children to become fairies or the President of the United States...
Cool & Spooky Games for Halloween These games are sure to add a dose of mystery, spookiness and good ol´ fashioned fun to any Halloween party or gathering...
