NEWS: Treatonimics - Guests Want Memorable, Not Cheap

0:07 Coming up your weekly roundup of news from around the haunt industry. Welcome to the show. I'm Philip on the Ahn Show. We bring you the haunt news, information and education you need to prepare for Halloween. On Tuesdays, we bring you a roundup of news from haunts worldwide. Read more about these stories and so much more in our free weekly newsletter. Subscribe at the link in the show notes, and as always for the news roundup, I'm passing it off to Darryl. This message is from Philip Pernandez, publisher of the Haunted Attraction Network. Welcome to August. Hershey has a name for the economy we've been describing all year, treatononomics, a consumer trend in which people prioritize joyful, memorable experiences and generosity over simply chasing the lowest price. That's the second Halloween survey in two weeks, both with findings that will sound familiar if you've been listening to this newsletter. We've covered who's still spending, the k shaped economy, and the case that a haunt sells memories, not scares Herchey's numbers put a bat on it. Forty one percent of parents expect to be more involved in Halloween this year than last.

1:19 Fifty five are in Halloween mode before October, and sixty seven percent already bought Halloween candy this summer. But the most interesting findings for us lie in the sentiment analysis. People may be pulling back on big purchases, but they're leaning harder into small, joyful one. Helloween fans aren't looking for the bargain Halloween. They're hoping to create and participate in the most memorable one. Guests are still spending on Halloween, and they're looking for memorable experiences to connect with, even if it costs a little more. Value matters this week. Eight Mickey's Not So Scary Dates sold out before the events even open on Friday. Guests aren't waiting for October, and they weren't hunting for the cheapest tickets. They're hunting for the best night. The report also settles the question I raised back in June when michaels Bett's whole collection on nostalgia. I read that as anxieties since people get nostalgic for times that felt better. While what could still be the case, As several economists argue, it can also be the transformation of Halloween into a tradition based holiday.

2:20 People aren't extending Halloween because retailers put products on shelves earlier. They're extending it because they're Rituals, flavors, traditions, and treats give them something joyful to look forward to. Nostalgia is a look. Tradition is a behavior that repeats. That's why this week's Retail News is one hundred year old company still printing die cuts from its nineteen twenties archive, a folk artist whose vintage style cats sells across three chains, and Monster Cereal turning fifty five. Guests aren't buying the past, They're buying the thing they do every year. And your haunt can be that thing which brings me to the IP wars. Sony landed at all five Holow Screen parks, Jason is coming to six Flags Parks, Ozzy completed an HHN lineup, and Jackson Wang is making a haunted house at Ocean Park. Now all the major theme parks have at least one IP based haunt. That seems inevitable with the trend, and since their summers were struggling, the IP investment seems like a safer bet to guarantee crowds. However, the supply side is the fascinating part. Licensed Global reports licensed products hit three hundred and thirty eight billion dollars last year, and forty five percent of brand owners now name location based entertainment a top priority for the next two years, ahead of publishing, streaming and video games. The licensers are shopping as hard as the parks are buying.

3:39 If you're big enough to license, the sellers have never been more motivated. But when every major event is licensed, there's a market in the zag Nether World announced its thirtieth season this week and marked the milestone by going deeper into its own mythology the same week Sony arrived everywhere else, every dollar isn't spending on fees and approvals goes into the build thirty years. Its characters are the ip original is about to become the differentiator, and treat anomics say that guest is paying for the memorable night either way. Also this week, Wild Waves runs its final freight fast before the park closes for good spirit. Halloween moved into eighty five former Party City stores, The Purge returns to Hollywood's water World venue, and Tully's adds a new Pumpkin Land. Here's what you need to know this week.

4:26 Halloween Horror Nite News. Ozzy Osbourne, Prince of Darkness comes to Halloween Horror Nights Orlando and Hollywood. Universal Studios Halloween Horrorites based tribute to pioneer heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne in original Haunted Houses coming to both Orlando and Hollywood, Ozzy Osbourne Prince of Darkness. Inspired by his prolific solo career, The houses invite guests to climb aboard the Crazy Train for a terrifying trip through his disturbing world of rock and roll. Created in collaboration with Osbourne's family, the houses will feature music from his solo albums. Both Orlando and Hollywood both use the same maze. They will run separate versions of the house, each built at opposite halves of Osborne's career. Universal Studios Hollywood runs the story chronologically. The house starts in Birmingham, England, home to John Michael Ozzy Osbourne, and opens on Crazy Train. Guests move forward through the decades into the Osbourne Asylum, a section drawn from the Diary of a mad Man album, and through the successive version of Ozzy persona mad Man, Ozzy, Werewolf Ozzy, and finally the Prince of Darkness, the name he earned in the seventies. Universal Orlando skips the origin story and goes to the heavier end of the catalog. Guests pass through ancient ruins and dungeons before boarding the crazy train into the realm. Built from Osborne's album covers, specifically Diary of a Madman, Mark at the Moon, The Ultimate Sin, and Black Rain. Universal describes it as drawing on the sound and imagery that defined the later years of his career.

5:54 HHN Orlando runs select dates August twenty ninth through November two, and HHN Hull Hollywood runs select dates September fourth through November two. Follow the links in our show notes to read the full story. The Purge Dangerous Waters returns to HHN Hollywood for its fourth consecutive year. The Purge Dangerous Waters returns to Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood in Universal City, California. This fiery stunt spectacular puts you in a world where laws won't save you, bringing the unpredictable terror of the Purge to life, complete with adrenaline, failed action sequences, stunts, spectacular lighting and laser effects, high fall, fire burns, and massive explosions. In other theme park news, the Halloween IP wars, licensers just named location based entertainment to top priority and parks are buying. License Global released its Top Global Licensers twenty twenty six report this week.

6:47 Licensed Consumer Products hit three hundred and thirty eight point three three billion dollars in retail sales in twenty twenty five, up ten percent in a year and sixty six percent since twenty twenty. Buried in the forecast section is the number that matters for our industry. Forty five percent of brand owners named location based entertainment, attractions and live events as top category priority for the next eighteen to twenty four months. That puts physical experiences ahead of publishing, TV and streaming and video games. Nearly half of the world's biggest IP owners are actively shopping for what parks are buying. This is what makes twenty twenty six different from every previous Halloween season. Supply and demand are surging at the same time. Parks need proven draws because fall is now load bearing. Licensers need physical experiences because that is where fandom monetizes. Next, both sides of the table are motivated, which means more deals, faster get every chain, and less time spent asking whether the deal actually fits. I Know What You Did Last Summer comes to Hallow Scream For the first time ever, the Fisherman Killer will be brought to life at a major Halloween event. I Know What You Did Last Summer? The Final Catch opens September eleventh at Hallowscreen in SeaWorld Orlando, Florida, SeaWorld San Diego, California, and SeaWorld San Antonio in Texas. The house is licensed from Sony Pictures and draws on the first installment of the franchise. Per United Parks, Guests wander through horrifying recreations of several unforgettable movie scenes and into the events that

8:19 unfold during the original Southport massacre. The company describes the walkthrough as a nightmare where every secret has a price and every corner hides the vengeful Fishermen. Anaconda gets two different haunted houses at Bush Gardens. Sony Pictures. Anaconda is coming with two Busch Garden parks on September eleventh, and the two will not have the same show. Bush Gardens Tampa Bay in Tampa Bay, Florida will receive anaconda fear has no escape, while Bush Gardens Williamsburg and Williamsburg, Virginia will receive anaconda dead on arrival. Both houses share a setup based on the nineteen ninety seven film. Guests are sent deep into the Amazon to search for a missing film crew, quickly turning into a fight for survival. From there, the parks split. The company describes them as two unique tales while honoring the legend of an iconic film. Splitting one license into two distinct builds is unusual. When a chain licenses a property, it usually runs the same house at every park it gets, which is what United Parks did the same with I Know What You Did Last summer across its three SeaWorld parks. Anaconda is the opposite approach at the two Bush Garden properties, and it means a guest who does both parks are not repeating a house will intellectual property save Helloscream. Hello Scream built its identity on avoiding ip original stories meant the licensing money went into the product instead, while Universal paid for rights before building a single set. That calculus is flipped in a market where guests gravitate to what they already know.

9:47 The risk is the pattern other parks have followed. Pay for the IP out of the same budget, build less event, and blame the IP when attendance disappoints, guests buy the whole event, and while the event shrinks, one house cannot cover the gap. Anaconda is an animal attack story at a company historically sensitive about how animals are portrayed, and neither film carries the pull of a Halloween staple. The two Anaconda storylines suggests houses built to swap parks next year, the right instinct, since IP buying power only works at corporate scale, and the next step is infrastructure consistent enough to rotate shows between parks. One haunted house does not make a premier Halloween event. Bush Gardens, Williamsburg Hollis Scream twenty twenty six Everything announced so far. Halloscream returns to Busch Gardens, Williamsburg and Williamsburg, Virginia twenty five select nights September eleventh through November first. Like its sister event in Orlando, Tampa, and San Diego, it is included with a regular park admission rather than separately ticketed. As of July thirty first, the events has announced six haunted houses, including the IP based Anaconda Dead on Arrival, two new original houses Werewolves, There Will Revenge and Bloodshot, two revamped mazes Deathwater, Buy You mort and Kilarney Diner, Condemned, and one returning favorite Clowntown No Terrortories. The event's term for scare zones have been announced yet. Jason blood Rain Haunted Maze comes to three six Flags parks and all new Friday, the thirteenth Haunted Maze is coming to three six Flags parks this

11:20 Halloween season. Jason blood Rain, the iconic hockey mask wearing villain, is back and coming for guests at King's Island in Mason, Ohio, Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, and Caro Wins in Charlotte, North Carolina. Concept, storyline and per park specifics have not been released yet. Eight Mickey's Not So Scary dates sold out before opening night. Over twenty percent of the dates for Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party in Orlando, Florida, have sold out prior to opening night. As of August first, eight of the events thirty eight nights are sold out, including the event's first four dates August seventh, eleventh, thirteenth, and eighteenth, as well as September fourth and October ninth, thirteenth, thirty first, the lowest priced nights of the season, sold out first. Remaining dates run one hundred and thirty nine dollars to two hundred and twenty four per person. The fact that August dates are selling out before the event even opens is a clear signal of the season creep pattern. Recovered in our Halloween twenty twenty six trends report, the front of the calendar is no longer soft and summer is becoming the season's new shoulder. At Walt Disney World, Halloween decorp will go up in the first week of August and stay up until nearly November, when a Christmas overlay follows. That is roughly three months of Halloween, which is the point Helloween has expanded to fill a full season at the world's largest theme parks, Six Flags Saint Louis. Fright Fast twenty twenty six full lineup a new house and love at first Fright's final year. Six Flags Saint Louis in Eureka, Missouri has posted its complete Fright Fast twenty twenty six lineup the parks first under the new operator Enchanted Parks,

12:52 four haunted houses, including one new build, seven scare zones, and four shows, including two new productions. The event runs select night nights September twelfth through November first, and freight fast admission is included with valid park admissions, while the haunted houses require a separate wristband or May's Pass. The event's newest house, Gordie's Gruesome Revenge, operates as a fun candy trail during the day and turns into the Haunt, a gruesome pumpkin patch filled with diabolical pumpkins and pumpkin Patch residents at night, enacting a day to night flip on a single set. Two of the event's four shows are new for twenty twenty six. Blood Bank Cabaret, a vampire themed bar with performers singing some goulish tunes, and Monster mash Bash concert of Halloween hits packed with dancers, bog lights, and thrilling special effects. The returning show Love at First Fright, The Jack and Katie in Witchie's Castle production is listed as being in its final year. Six Flags Saint Louis rebrands itself as Mid America by Enchanted Parks for twenty twenty seven, so this is the last freight Fast under the six Flags Saint Louis name. Wild Waves freight Fest runs its final season. Twenty twenty six is the final season of fright Fast at Wild Waves Theme and Water Park in Federal Way, Washington, because the park is closing for good after the fall season. Freight Fast opens for fifteen nights Fridays through Sundays, October second through November first. The event will feature two haunted houses, two scare zones, a live DJ, and a twenty one and over vampire bar Booville. The park's daytime, family friendly

14:24 Halloween celebration run Saturdays and Sunday September twenty six through November first. Moouville sits in kitty Land and is a scare free zone for ages twelve and under with trigger treating, a hey Maize base painting, costume contest at three pm and five PM, a bubble show, and a magician. It closes each evening at six pm as the park transitions to the scarier fright Fest. Wild Waves announced the park's closure on December tenth, twenty twenty five. Kieran Burke, who owns operator Premier Parks, said the park has run millions and losses since reopening after the COVID shutdown, which forces us to discontinue operations at the end of our twenty twenty six season. While the event shares a name with a six Flags Halloween event, six Flags does not operate a park in Washington and has no affiliation with Wild Waves Theme and water Park. Jackson Wang is building a haunted house at Ocean Park. Jackson Wang, the acclaimed rapper, singer and songwriter, is building an original haunted house at ocean Park Halloween Fest twenty twenty six in Aberdeen, Hong Kong, which runs September fifth to November first. The house is based on Under the Castle, a horror ip Wang co created, and follows a string of Halloween events Wang produced across Asia.

15:34 The Haunts debut at Hong Kong marks Wang's return to the very place it inspired his horror ip. He has said he walked Ocean Park's Halloween Haunted Houses as a teenager with his childhood friend Henry Chung. Now Team Wang Designs chief executives, and those visits gave him an ambition to build a haunted house of his own. He has since built one in Shanghai, won a Universal Studio Singapore, and one in Bangkok. The castle goes up at the summit. The Hilt half of the park reached by cable car and runs on select dates in October rather than the full season. Ocean Park describes an ancient castle environment built around the brand's signature dark gothy esthetics, with a walk through a gloomy nightmareescape where every corner is perfectly designed.

16:16 Photospot limited edition versions of the character Pumpky and Spooky debut at the fest. The park says more experiences weight beyond the castle, with details to come in Attraction News. It comes to Cosms eighty seven foot domes. It opens in Cosms eighty seven foot led Domes on August twenty eighth, playing Los Angeles, Dallas, and Atlanta. It is the first horror titled Cosmis programmed. Cosms Shared Reality format puts the film on an eighty seven foot dome that wraps overhead and into your peripheral vision. Rebuilt for the dome rather than projected bigger in a seventeen hundred guest room with a full bar. Tully's Farm adds a new land to its Pumpkin Festival. A new area is coming to the Pumpkin Festival at Tully's Farm and Sussex, UK, Pumpkin Valley, running September nineteenth through October thirty first. The Farm builds the event as Europe's largest pumpkin festival, and it shares a site with sh October Fest, the Screen Park Tully calls Europe's largest. The Pumpkin Valley sits inside the existing festival footprint. In it, guests wander along winding paths with wooden bridges leading across gentle streams and peaceful ponds. It includes giant pumpkin sculptures, a pumpkin farmhouse and a hobbit house with chrysanthemums planted throughout the area. Pumpkin Nights returns un select evenings from September twenty six through October thirty First.

17:35 Guests pick pumpkins after dark, walk illuminated woodland trails, and get live music across two stages, plus seasonal cocktails and street food. Running a day event and a separately ticketed night event on one footprint is the same economics that pushed US Haunts towards daytime festivals and Halloween adjacent programming. Tully's is doing it on a site that already hosts a screen park, pree, separate seasonal festivals and an escape room business. Nether World announces their thirtieth season themes. Nether World in Stone Mountain, Georgia has announced the two haunts for its thirtieth season of Screams, Curse of the Collector and Beyond Oblivion Legacy of Evil. Nether World frames the season as a celebration of the mythology that has deflined nether World for decades, reuniting legendary villains, towering creatures, monstrous battles, and cinematic environments inspired by the attraction's original storytelling. The Haunt was founded in nineteen ninety seven by Billy Messina and Ben Armstrong, both film and television veterans, and has never run on licensed film properties. In a week where United Parks put Sony licenses into all five Hello Scream Parks, a thirty year Haunt, marking the milestone by going deeper into its own mythology is the counter programming. Additionally, this is the opposite of how the seasons usually split. Philip and Scott argued on Green Tagged in June that Halloween and Christmas run on different engines. Halloween needs novelty, Christmas needs tradition. A thirtieth anniversary season built for returning monster arriving the same year Universal fronts its own anniversary with returning icons. Is Halloween borrowing Christmas? Playbook nether World runs

19:08 select ninth September eighteenth through November seventh. Hel Billy Hollow, the Alabama haunt that became a horror movie. Hell Billy Hollow and Vincent Alabama, a haunted attraction that has operated since twenty twelve, is the shooting location and namesake of a horror movie opening in select theaters on Friday, September twenty fifth. The film hel Billy Hollow is directed by Kevin Wayne and Starles Kurt Deemer, a rock musician turned actor and producer. The story follows a team of paranormal YouTubers who drive to the Alabama backwoods to film at a haunted attraction the night before Helloween. What they find is Tickles, a disfigured childlike clown played by Wayne, and his manipulative caretaker brother Bull played by Deamer. One by one the investigators in the group of local thrill seekers fall victim to this Siblings Games production shot entirely on location at the Haunt. Executive producer and production designer Mike Denard built practical carnival set pieces for the shoot, including a whacka troll, eye striker, acid darts, and a car dunk.

20:07 Tickles and bull originated in the shoot and the property, rather than arriving as a licensed horror name attached to a maze, and Deemer is describing the attraction as the basis for more films. We came up with a slate of outrageous, never before seen kills, Deamer said. From day one, we knew this would be the start of something bigger, a series of films built around a place, two complex, deranged siblings and the culture they inhabit. Before the film reaches theaters, The Haunt runs hell Night across two nights in August, August fourteenth, and fifteen. It is an eighteen and over event, with the operators explicit that nobody enters without an id L. Billy Hollow's twenty twenty six season runs September nineteenth through November two. The Halloween season is almost upon us, and haunts around the country are announcing their dates, new additions, special events, and more. To help you manage the myriad of updates, the Haunted Attraction Network has compiled comprehensive guides to the top haunts in the US and top theme park events around the world. Bookmark the following important pages for reference by following the links in our show note, and check back often for updates as new information is released. New this week. Spirit Halloween Locations twenty twenty six, Every store or state by state, nether World Haunted House date, tickets, and what to know before you go. Also previously mentioned When do Haunted Houses open?

21:23 In twenty twenty six. The best and scariest Haunted Houses in America. The Top Haunts List, Halloween Horror Nights twenty twenty six, Dates, tickets and lineups for every park, Disney Halloween twenty twenty six, Every park worldwide, Bright Fast twenty twenty six. The complete guide to Six Flags Halloween events at every park, Hello Scream twenty twenty six. The complete guide to all five United Parks locations Orlando Halloween Events, Every park party and haunt Halloween Time at Disneyland twenty twenty six. The complete Guide Haunted Houses in California twenty twenty six, Dates, tickets and what's new Halloween Horror Nights twenty twenty six, Hours, costume policy and no before you Go Haunted Houses in Texas twenty twenty six. Dates, tickets and what's new Halloween Horror Nites Tickets twenty twenty six.

22:10 Complete guide to all Universal Parks Halloween twenty twenty six, Trends, Season Creep, the food Gap, and where Guests Find You. MARS has released its annual Tricks, Treats, and Trends Report, featuring eleven slides summarizing a morning consult survey of three thousand and one US adults bielded online June first through fifth of twenty twenty six. Waited to be nationally representative, with a stated margin of error of two percent. Four of the report's findings particularly speak to haunters, the food opportunity. MARS found that seventy one percent of US adults want sensory or textual experiences from treats, actively seeking out seasonal flavors, colors, or shapes when snacking runs highest with the youngest buyers seventy four percent of gen Z, seventy two percent of millennials, sixty one percent of Gen X and forty five percent Baby Boomers audit your food against seasonal text rule and specific not more food, one item that is unmistakably yours and unmistakably October. Fewer than ten percent of haunts do food at all, so the bar for standing out is all the way on the floor. The season is stretching, and not only at retail. Mars found that fifty seven percent of US adults believe Halloween is no longer one day, but a full season, and that sixty six percent would buy their favorite Halloween candy year round. Use the fifty seven percent when you negotiate with a landlord, a city, a sponsor, or, a partner venue. Fifty seven percent of US adults believe Halloween is a full season is a citable line from a nationally represented survey. It is a stronger argument for a longer permit window than anything this industry has previously been able to point at. Adults still

23:43 want to trick or treat. Mars found that seventy two percent of US adults agree certain candy brands feel like Halloween and the holiday would not be the same without them. That seventy five percent say a shared candy bowl builds community, and that seventy one percent believe the candy they hand out says something about them as a house. Strip out the brand framing, and what is left is a finding about ritual and reciprocity. People want to give and receive treats and they attach identity to it. The events already selling that to adults are among the most reliably sold out things we cover. Put a treat in the guest's hand on the way out. The seventy two percent and seventy five percent finding say the exchange itself carries weight, and that is the lowest cost item on the list.

24:24 Where discovery happens and where it doesn't. Mars found that fifty three percent of gen z use TikTok to discover Halloween or Halloween candy trends, and forty nine percent use YouTube, but that when they buy, they buy in person, forty three percent at large retailers, forty one percent at supermarkets, eighteen percent online from a retailers site, and ten percent through TikTok shop. Split your social measurement. Stop asking whether TikTok sold tickets, and start asking whether guests arrive already knowing your characters, then put something on YouTube because half of gen Z is there and your competitors are not well. The report is a useful snow slapshot of consumer sentiment. It is important to note that it is a sample, not a massive industry study. Marssell's Halloween candy in a report concluding that Halloween is bigger, longer, and more emotionally significant than you thought is report that serves mars. Read it that way. Use it as directional support for decisions you were already making. Do not build a season on it alone. Spirit Halloween has moved into eighty five former Party City stores this year. Halloween City is opening up eighty five stores this season in buildings that used to be Party City, the party goods chain that liquidated last year, and is not the biggest number on the list. Joean accounts for one hundred and thirty seven Spirit Store locator went live on July twenty ninth, and most listings quietly named the business that was there before. We pulled all twelve hundred ninety nine locations listed that day, eleven hundred and two of them, eighty five percent named the former tenant.

25:53 Party City is the one worth sitting with it was the closest thing Spirit had to a year round competitor in costumes and party goods. It went under, and Spirit is now selling Halloween out of eighty five of its buildings. California has ten of them, New York nine, and Texas, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Illinois six each. Fifteen of the chains Spirit replaced have fully liquidated or wound down, totaling five hundred and eighteen stores, which is forty seven percent of the eleven hundred and two locations that name a former tenant and thirty nine point nine percent of all twelve hundred ninety nine listed. New Hampshire has more Spirit Helloween stores per person than any state. We read all twelve hundred and ninety nine Spirit Halloween location listed on the company's store locator on July twenty ninth, and divided each state's store count by its population. New Hampshire has seven point eighty six Spirit Halloween stores per million residents, more than any other state in America. California, which has the most stores of anywhere by a mind margin of one hundred and forty two stores, ranks twentieth. Montana is last in America. With point eight nine stores per million a single store for a state of one point one million people.

27:00 Our analysis has two caveats. This is a single day snapshot taken hours after the locator went live, and Spirit says it is opening fifteen hundred and seventy five stores this season, so the rankings will shift as the map fills through August. Additionally, Spirit puts stores where it can lease space cheaply and quickly, so a high per person figure says as much about the state's vacant retail as about how much anyone there likes Halloween. Michael Myers Halloween twenty twenty six every product and what it costs, from masks to collectibles to a seven foot tall animatronic. The iconic Michael Myers from the Halloween franchise is everywhere this season. Target lists seventy three Michaels Meyers items for Halloween twenty twenty six. The cheapest is a thirteen dollars and eight cent mask. The most expensive Michael Meyer products of the season is a three hundred and forty nine to ninety nine animatronic that's Spirit Halloween. Much of the American vintage Halloween look, the Grinning Diecat Jack o' lantern, the archbacked black cat, the honeycomb tissue which crossing a moon was drawn for one company in Shippen's, Pennsylvania. The Bestel Company has been printing Halloween decorations since the nineteen twenties and is still printing them from the same archive today. Which is what makes dating a piece or real question? With our real answer, there are three eras of Bastel originals, twenty twenty three Party Partners reissues and twenty twelve in house reissues. The price is very widely between originals and reissues.

28:22 For collector, here are the differences. Originals or anything predating the reissue program beginning in two thousand and three be still licensed. The firm called Party Partners to reissue a limited number of classic designs. Collector Mark B. Leeddenbach, who wrote the standard identification Guide, has indicated that these are the hardest pieces to identify. Although the packaging was clearly marked denoting the item as new, the actual items were not, so collectors had to rely on their knowledge of highlight colors, paper stock types, and size to differentiate new from old. Once the packaging is gone, there is nothing printed on the new item to give it away, and Leadenbach writes that the association caused confusion in the marketplace. At the time, twelve in house reissues announced themselves. Each piece contains two copyright dates, an original and an updated one, and market as a modern reissue. Johanna Parker Halloween twenty twenty six.

29:11 Who she is and where her designs actually land. If you've picked up a grinning black cat mug or a blush cheeked ghost shaker in the past few years without knowing whose art it was, it was probably Joanna Parker's. She is one of the most widely sold Halloween artists in American retail and one of the least recognized by name, because her work reaches stores through multiple manufacturers and none of them put her name on the shelf tag. Joanna Parker's new twenty twenty six Halloween ceramics are in store now, spanning three dozen new designs across Home Goods, Marshalls and TJ Max. The main twenty twenty six collection is made by Transpac Brands and covers teapots, mugs, canisters, candy bowls, and salt and pepper shakers. Transpac also makes a handful of smaller items such as tea towels, ornaments, and soap dispensers that land at both Michael's and Targets, which is the one place in her catalog where you can price shop up the exact same product. For pieces that look most like Parker's studio work without paying original prices, check out the Bethany Low's Design's folk art figures sold at Michael's.

30:09 Parker also sells originals directly on her own shop, Granden Road Halloween Haven twenty twenty six the thirteen best pieces from sixty nine dollars to six hundred and ninety nine dollars. Granden Road has released its Halloween Haven twenty twenty six collection online, with some items already showing a low stock warning. Unlike Home Depot and at Home, grandon Road is the premium end of retail featuring sculpted resin, life sized figures and lint yard pieces. We at the Haunted Attraction Network have pick thirteen of our favorite pieces, ranging from sixty nine dollars to six hundred and ninety nine that are worth checking out. Follow the links in our show notes to learn about all thirteen. Bucky's twenty twenty six Halloween collection Halloween is landed at BUCkies, the chain of travel centers and convenience stores located largely in the southern US.

30:54 The chain's twenty twenty six Halloween collection, called Quick Bites Spooky Nights, includes thirteen items fee saturing the chain's mascot, Bucky, is a vampire and a purple cape outside of a Haunted House version of the store. The catch is that none of it is on BUCkies dot Com. Bucky sells the merchandise exclusively in its stores and nowhere else. Pottery Barnes twenty twenty six Halloween Collection is live. Pottery Barnes twenty twenty six Halloween Collection is online, featuring tabletop and entertaining staples, dinnerware, lit ghosts, and terracotta pumpkins. The Haunted Attraction Network has highlighted twenty three of our favorite items, ranging from fifteen dollars to one hundred and ninety nine, from Lit Ghosts, Terracotta Pumpkins, Midnight Manner, and Scary Squad to IP favorites like The Nightmare Before Christmas and Mickey and Friends. There's a wide variety of items to elevate your Halloween dinner parties. Coraline Beetlejuice, Corpse Bride, and Wednesday get new Halloween Funko. Pops Punko has four new Halloween pop figures on their way, each from the Patchworks subline Pop Coraline, Pop Beetlejuice, Pop Emily, and Pop Wednesday atoms.

31:55 Coraline looks similar to the Other Mother's rag doll with her yellow raincoat, blue yard and hair and holding her feisty black cat. Beetlejuice gets two mismatched button eyes, one black and one red, and a split suit featuring black and white stripes on one side and the red wedding tucks on the other with visible thread running through the seam. From Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, Emily's left eye as a black button and the green maggot is climbing out of it. Her gown is rebuilt out of mismatched panels, blue swirls and one leg and butterflies on the other, and she carries the bouquet in her skeletal hand. Finally, Wednesday is split vertically rather than stitched at the limbs. One half of her is in the Nevermore Academy blazer with a crest and the other half as gray and webbed seems straight down the center of the face and body. She comes with her trusty companion thing. All four are listed in funkal Sight is coming soon. When available, they will retail for fourteen ninety nine each. Disney Stores Halloween Shop is live with five hundred and thirty seven items. The Disney Stores Halloween Shop is up for twenty twenty six with five hundred and thirty seven items across costumes, apparel, plush, ornaments, pins, and home decor. The full shop runs deep into apparel, halloween ear, headbands, a woman's sleep set, a sequence split jersey, a Mickey Mouse Halloween hockey jersey, a Glow in the Dark Mickey pin, and kids PJ pals. We've highlighted five picks worth the click. The Mickey Mouse Halloween twenty twenty six plush is a Disney Store exclusive at twenty nine ninety nine, dressed in a skeleton costume with an orange bow tie, and it carries a posted promo twenty dollars

33:26 Mickey Mouse Halloween Plush with any twenty five dollars purchase per their product page, which makes it the easy add on once everything else is in your cart. A Mickey Mouse jack o' lantern Stoneware Halloween candy bowl is thirty four ninety nine, and it is the piece from the set most likely to come out of the cabinet every October for the next decade. From Lilo and Stitch, the Stitch as Mummy Halloween ornament is twenty six ninety nine, with Stitch grinning through the wrappings and holding a Jack o Lantern candy bucket. The Mickey Mouse Happy Halloween ornament is also twenty six ninety nine for anyone building a Halloween tree. The Mini Mouse as Which Halloween minifigure is the priceiest pick at thirty nine to ninety nine and the most shelt display of the five. Old Navy's Disney Halloween collection, Haunted Harvest. Old Navy has launched Haunted Harvest, a disney collection built around Mickey and Friends and Fall and Halloween mode. The collection page lists forty five items covering women, men, kids, toddlers, babies and pets, priced from seven ninety nine cru socks to forty nine to ninety nine adult flannels and sweatshirts, with Old Navy pitching it as pumpkin patch bound in Mickey and Friends fits. Does Hobby Lobby sell Halloween decorations. No, and the company said why does hobby Lobby sell Halloween decorations? The short answer for anyone typing this into the search bar, no, Hobby Lobby does not carry Halloween decorations, and the company formerly discontinued the line. In a statement provided through his corporate customer service and reported by Snopes, Hobby Lobby said, the decision what to offer our customers are based on many factors, including customer interest and what sells well. Our seasonal merchandise

34:56 assortment carried a Hobby Lobby is always constantly changed, and we evaluated annually. Due to the need to find additional space for some of our stronger categories as well as our newer ones. The decision was made over the last couple of years to discontinue several seasonal product lines, including Mardi Grass, Helloween, and Hanukkah. For that report, the decision was made before Christmas twenty twenty two, so the chain did carry Helloween before dropping it. Although there is no Helloween department, the Christian owned chain does stock Fall twenty twenty six essentials featuring decre pumpkins, tabletop de core candles, pillows, and throws, decorative lighting outdoor to core, rugs and doormats, wreaths, scarecrows, party supplies, crafts, apparel, and more so a fall porch, a Thanksgiving table, or a neutral autumnntle is fully buildable.

35:40 Here. A jack o lantern, a witch, or anything that says the word Helloween is not. Convention News Midsommer Scream takes place this weekend. Helloween and Horror Convention Midsommer Scream takes place this weekend August seventh to ninth at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California. Midsummer Scream is the Helloween and Horror convention that kicks off the season in southern California each summer. The show floor packs more than three hundred exhibitors selling props, masks, art, and haunt merchandise, alongside panels and presentation from major theme parks and haunts, live entertainment workshops in the Hall of Shadows, a convention floor dark zone where so Cal home haunts and professional groups build working walkthrough experiences. The twenty twenty six convention theme is Horror Musicals, and this year's guest list include John carpenter, eight members of the screamcast and crew, and Dee Wallace. Some upcoming events this August through October twenty twenty six, Midsummer Scream from Long Beach, California August seventh through ninth, and Creep at Real OC Expo in Santa Ana, California from September eleventh through thirteen.

36:43 And that's all for the news this week. Today's episode was produced by me Philip Hernandez, with reporting by Daryl Plunky post production by David Swope. This Haunt News Update is a production of the Haunted Attraction Network and you can sign up to our weekly newsletter at Hantattrastion network dot com. Support for this episode comes from Guantum Mighty and controls. Until next time, Hunters Stay Scary. This is a Haunted Attraction Network production.