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The Attractions Podcast: Harry Potter, ‘Home Alone’ part of new ICE! Experience, plus latest theme park updates from Attractions Magazine.
Hansel & Gretel’s Halloween is an upcoming horror fantasy feature film from Devilworks that puts a trick or treat spin on the classic Grimm fairy tale. We recently gave you a taste of the Halloween horrors that await horror fans when we shared the exclusive teaser trailer premiere. Now, we're back with a new clip […]
Johanna Parker’s new Halloween ceramics are in stores now, and the collection is spread across multiple stores. The 2026 collection spans three dozen new designs, and is in HomeGoods, Marshalls and TJMaxx. If you have picked up a grinning black cat mug or a blush-cheeked ghost shaker in the last few years without knowing whose […]
Grandin Road released its Halloween Haven 2026 collection online, with some items already showing a low stock warning. Unlike Home Depot and At Home, Grandin Road is the premium end of retail, featuring sculpted resin lifesize figures and lit yard pieces. Prices on our picks run $69 to $699. Here are the 13 worth your […]
Mattel has revealed the latest additions to its Monster High Skullector line of collectibles, including an officially licensed Halloween II
Halloween is coming to Mossy Bottom Farm. After nearly a decade away from the big screen, Shaun the Sheep returns […]
The upcoming horror-comedy Bad Karaoke is set to make its world premiere at Tubi FrightFest on August 30, 2026, bringing a blood-soaked twist to an activity that’s already terrifying for some. Directed by Chris Lightbody and Robert J. Steinmiller Jr., the independent feature will screen at London’s ODEON Luxe West End as part of the ... Read more
The most expensive animatronic in Halloween retail this year is HalloweenCostumes.com’s 13.75-foot Lord of the Rings Balrog, at $24,999.99. The most expensive piece in Distortions Unlimited’s entire 2026 collection is an 11-foot gorilla called Kong, at $8,890. The most expensive thing Poison Props sells is a $6,910 animatronic toilet. Both companies build for professional haunted […]
The Halloween bucket hunt has been the retail story of the month, and it now has a second front. Petco is selling Halloween-printed buckets in two sizes starting at $1.50, they ship, and the cheap one undercuts the $2.98 bucket everyone has been chasing at Home Depot by nearly half. Here is what Petco is […]
The annual Tricks, Treats and Trends report from Mars confirms a lot of what we have been tracking in the haunt industry: the season is stretching well past a single night, there is real appetite for intense and textural Halloween food, adults still want to trick-or-treat, and discovery has moved to social while purchase has […]
Count Chocula, Boo Berry, and Franken Berry hit shelves nationwide later this month, marking the trio’s 55th anniversary. General Mills is running the Jim Henson Company puppet designs again, on all-new box art. The new part: every box doubles as a build-your-own puppet. The cardboard is printed with cutout designs that turn the empty box […]
Mondo’s Over the Garden Wall Chapter 2 Figure Set is available now, and it brings the Pottsfield Pumpkin People from Hard Times at the Huskin’ Bee into plastic. The standard set is $120 and ships in August 2026. Before you go looking: of the five Over the Garden Wall figure sets Mondo has put out, […]
LEGO has approved a Universal Monsters set, and it comes with six monster minifigures: Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, The Wolf Man, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, and The Phantom of the Opera. They live in a gothic castle. The concept runs about 2,250 pieces. The castle exterior, with lightning rods over the laboratory tower. […]
LEGO’s two small Halloween sets go on sale August 1, and taken on their own they are exactly what they look like: a $19.99 skull and a $29.99 jack-o’-lantern. Taken next to what LEGO announced eleven days later, they look like something else. As of this fall LEGO’s Halloween lineup is a three-rung ladder — […]
Dade City, Fla. — SCREAM-A-GEDDON opens its 12th season on Saturday, August 29, one day after Halloween Horror Nights, and it is arriving with the largest capital project in park history: a $2.5 million rebuild of the midway, renamed Bonzo’s Bizarre. That August 29 date is worth pausing on. Central Florida’s theme park events open […]
Los Angeles — Delusion’s 2026 show, Den of the Mosquito, will run at the Beckett Mansion in West Adams. That is the building where Jon Braver staged the first Delusion in 2011 and the Neil Patrick Harris co-production in 2012. Fifteen years and roughly ten shows later, the longest-running immersive theater series in the country […]
Pittsburgh — One of the most acclaimed haunted attractions in the country is returning this October after two seasons dark, and the thing it is best known for will not be part of it. ScareHouse and The Plaza at North Shore announced Halloween Hangout, a month-long takeover of the outdoor venue across from PNC Park […]
Brunswick, N.Y. — A July 20 fire destroyed three of the five haunted houses at Field of Horrors, and owner David Mulinio told the Times Union the buildings carried no insurance. He plans to rebuild in time to open in September regardless. The cause was electrical, and the circumstances will sound familiar to anyone who […]
Your dog can be Art the Clown this year. That is the single most useful thing to know about the 2026 pet costume aisle, and it is the thing none of the big retailers will tell you, because only one of them carries it. Six retailers have their 2026 pet Halloween costumes live right now, […]
Lemax’s Spooky Town village line has eight pieces for 2026 that you can only buy at Michaels, and they run from a $59.99 table accent to a $219.99 animated mausoleum. Every one is on sale right now at 20 percent off. If you build a Halloween village, this is the part of the Lemax range […]