If you could design a Halloween toy...

[Nostalgiascape]

If you could design a Halloween toy for market beginning September 15th, what would it be. Descrive it. .

[DemonSlayerMau]

Hm. How about a cute cat plushie that's irresistable, but then when you press a button the eyes glow all red and it the fur stands up on end it starts to yowl in a really creepy fashion.

[Pumpkin_Man]

I'm a bit more 'gadget crazy' when it comes to things like that. I would design a model electric chair that would be small enough to put on any 'nick nack" shelf or table, sort of like these little 'haunted houses' people buy. A skeliton would be seated in it, and it would run on two "D" cell flashlight batteries. It would have a coil in it simular to the one found in most cars, only smaller. The bones of the skeliton in the chair would be painted with a luminous paint that reacted to ultraviolet light, and then I would place light imeting diodes that gave off ultraviolet or "bladk" light so the skeliton would glow. The truely curious part would be that if some ont picked the chair up to look at it, and did it the wrong way, they would get an electric shocl, sort of like a "joy" buzzer.

Mike

[Nostalgiascape]

I would want to make a limited edition Boris Karloffs Frankenstein Vs Bela Lugosis Dracula rockem sockem robots game.

Let me think on a totally original idea and i'll post it.

[Pumpkin_Man]

I had a Rockem Socke, rotobs game, and it was one of my favorites. Unfortunately it was used so much that both robots blocks got damaged to the point that they would not stay on, so I ended up throwing it away.

Mike

[Nostalgiascape]

I would want to make a board game based on Halloween and all of its iconic figures. Little pewter figurines that you can paint. Landscape with hills, cemeterys and haunted houses and town streets. Even a mad scientist tower high atop the highest hill.

[Pumpkin_Man]

Another great toy would be a toy ghost ship. It would be modeled after one of the famous old time steam powerd ocean liners. Only it would be all depcrpit looking. There would be skelotons at the helm, and it would have that mournful sounding whistle.

Mike

[Nostalgiascape]

That sounds cool. Would it be remote controlled on water?

[Pumpkin_Man]

It could be,or it could just sit on top of a table or shelf, and make mournful ghostly sounds, and have strang flashing lights inside it.

Mike

[DemonSlayerMau]

Oh! What about a pirate ship full of piratey skeletons? Maybe the skeletons could have little swords and you could either display them...or they'd make great action figures for kids.
A lot of things like that are "Display only" but what if they used kid friendly materials so it could be used as both a toy and a display item? Maybe it could make eerie glows as well...

[Pumpkin_Man]

That's a good idea, too, DemonSlayer. Pirate ghost ships can be quite scary, sort of like "THe Pirates of the Caribean," but what I had in mind was more modeled on the movie "Death Ship," which is a film about an old Nazi war ship that by it's own evil, prouls the ocean in search of unsuspecting vacationers, and traps them on board, or the movie "Ghost Ship," which is about a group of salvagers who come upon an old time ocean liner that disappeared years ago, and is haunted by the spirits who were killed by other spirits who were "condemed" as it were to roam the seas with the gold that they obtained through brutality and murder.

Mike

[DemonSlayerMau]

I like your idea too Pumpkin Man. I've seen ghost ship but I havn't seen death ship.
Pirates are great for halloween, it's a popular costume, plus the jolly roger with the skull and cross bones. Pirates once struck fear into the hearts of sailors.
Actually, an entire dock of different "halloween themed" boats would be cool. Maybe a haunted island, it could be a "sea" themed Halloween display. We could even include the bones of dead fish and what not.

[Pumpkin_Man]

"Death Ship" is a great horror flick. Some day when you have a couple extra bucks, you might want to go to Netflix and see if you can rent it.

My nephew was a pirate several years in a rows for Halloween. He even had this battery operated skull that had eyes that let up and it would say "Dead men tell no tales." It was pretty neat. My youngest niece was completely terrorfied by it, though.

Mike