Show me your HALLOWEEN!

Hello,
Helloween is coming and something is spooky.
Benno.

this was my post this morning on the Animal Toy Blog:

that's wonderful ! I will NOT be putting my hand in there
well, maybe to rescue the pray mantis I will

I didn’t get any owl, rodent, insect, or arachnid toys recently, but there have been more than a few scares regarding some figures I planned to buy. I missed the PV langur and wanderoo, and an entire Nat Geo box set of lizards and crocodilians gave up the ghost (“Sorry, you missed out on this item”). Luckily, the seller of the monkeys had some parrots available. I sent a message to reserve the one that is currently up (the species name of which will not be mentioned) as well as some more PV figures, but only time will tell.

UPDATE:
I did successfully reserve the Black-headed Parrot. I also managed to reserve the following others:

PV:
Blue-Headed Parrot
Osprey
Hooded Seal
Lehmann’s Poison Frog
Ecuadorian Poison Frog
Muskox
American Bison
False Gharial (In the messages, this was stated to be the very rare Gharial from the so-called “Indian Animals” set. The photos show what looks like the light variant of the False Gharial from the Crocodilians set of 1996. Oddly, this variant is simply marked “GHARIAL”. This adds a lot of wrinkles to the mystery of the Chitwan NP Gharial. Was this the “Gharial” released in the Chitwan set? Was this the reason the False Gharial had a variant but the other crocodilians did not? Could it be a case of recoloring and renaming existing molds, like the Arctic Wolf? And if so, was the gharial pictured in the Wing Mau catalog an unreleased prototype? If anyone has a light 1996 False Gharial that is just marked Gharial?)

K&M:
SUPER RARE North American Cougar, Grizzly Bear, Bighorn Sheep, and Elk
Endangered Bulk Ring-tailed Lemur
Asian Animals Bulk Siberian Ibex

Hello,
more spooky animals you find on amscan.com.
Benno.

It should go without saying that these skeletons are inaccurate.
1: The bones in a cobra’s hood do not necessarily look like that.
2: Ears are not part of a bat’s skeleton.
3: Spiders are invertebrates that have no bones or endoskeleton at all.
These things are common sense (especially the last of these).

I don't actually celebrate Halloween, but I have ended up with one of Breyer's little Halloween horses, a gift from an American friend who helped me collect a lot of my older Stablemates.



He's printed with a skeletal pattern which glows in the dark, but I'm not sure how I'd manage to get a decent photo of that, so here he is just in the daylight being non-glowy

Really wonderful models on here perfect for this time of year!
This is my Halloween dog by Schleich:

Birdsage wrote:

It should go without saying that these skeletons are inaccurate.
1: The bones in a cobra’s hood do not necessarily look like that.
2: Ears are not part of a bat’s skeleton.
3: Spiders are invertebrates that have no bones or endoskeleton at all.
These things are common sense (especially the last of these).

Don't be so pedantic. These are novelty toys sold as Halloween décor.

Obviously. They were never meant to be realistic after all.

Birdsage wrote:

Obviously. They were never meant to be realistic after all.

But they are neat, huh? :)

Hello,
here are my animals for Halloween. the snake is marked with "amscan.com ..." some are marked with "CHINA" some are not marked. The materials are most plastic, some are made out of rubber, one spider (the white one) glow in the dark
Benno.

such a lovely green pray mantis ! and the ants are cute too
I hope they enjoy the sweets and nuts

Birdsage wrote:

It should go without saying that these skeletons are inaccurate.
1: The bones in a cobra’s hood do not necessarily look like that.
2: Ears are not part of a bat’s skeleton.
3: Spiders are invertebrates that have no bones or endoskeleton at all.
These things are common sense (especially the last of these).

About spider, I think that's the whole joke here Some time ago I've seen a figure of Mickey Mouse skeleton (with ears too). Quite funny

Hello,
thank you for your comment:
Georg, Bonnie, bmathison1972, bridsage, sunny, ana and ... someone forgotten?
Benno and Smokey.

Smokey is beautiful
and what a wonderful skin tight Halloween costume he? is already wearing

Such a beautiful cat that you have, so sweet! Perfect colour for Halloween!

Some of those insects shown by Babdo (large ants, grey spider, maybe the mantis) are knockoffs of old Bullyland figures. They show up here in the US on eBay and in dollar stores, too.