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It's that time of year again! Exccept someone hasn't told Mother Natures and its still like 80-90 degrees out @_@. But even though I can't trade in my hot girl summer wardrobe with my hot THOTumn wardrobe, I can get by on the yearly Halloween themed FunPacks from Dinosaur Dracula, starting with Eerie August!
Hey, a spooky girl's gotta get what she can get in these trying, overheated times.
I'll be starting with obviously August, so let's check this bad boy out.
Let's start with the snackies! Utz cheeseballs in a trick or treater snack pack and this full card of gummy insects/arthropod/ bugs of somesort. Totally reminds me of Creepy Crawlies, but edible. Though I'm fairly certain there was an edible kind once.
Hope the jingle got stuck in you head cuz its been in mind and it kicked out the previous tenant of the John Cena theme song. You're welcommmmmme.
Everything this month for Eerie August came in this cute cat treat bag, and it perfectly matches the kitty stickers that came in the set.
Now that I keep most of my stickers in multiple stickerbooks, it makes putting stickers on things a little less stressful. Since most of the stickers I get in funpacks are usually old/dead stock from places of yore like Woolworths or the depths of the smaller drug stores locally, they're not the nicer vinyl plastic or uv coated stickers you get now. I think that makes them a little bit more special. Its nice to have a sheet of the same sticker so you can put it in lots of places.
You know, maybe it'll ber nice to pay a bill with snailmail and slap one of these bad boys on it. Or a postcard. People still do postcards, right? >>
Here's my haul out of it, Its Graffiti Petey, and it came with tiny cards and a grossout parody of Bazooka gum. It's amusing to be honest and the tiny spray cans were actually kind of cute. I glued it to his hands so I wouldn't lose it. The line comes with variations of each figure, so it has some neat chasers (is that the term??).
I've gotten quite deeply into making miniature DIY kits so tiny things are still appealing to me. I put a bunch of the small items into a plastic ornament so I can hang it up, so my decoration count in the last couple months has definitely grown.
Cute green fake teeth, a teeny tiny tub of orange slime, a spooky bug eraser and a Garbage Pail Kid trading fig in an impressive little garbage can. While I wouldn't be first or even in line of GPK fans, it's neat to see the franchise still kinda around for new kids to discover.
Rare item! A pair of 3d glasses for the 6th (?) Nightmare on Elm Street movie. I haven't seen Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare in years, so this was a pleasant surprise. I have 2 so me and the husband can look so fly. XD What I also like about the cool packaging is the movie bill sticker on the box. It's cool to see contemporary movies of the time on there, like Prince of Thieves and Dead Again. Kind of takes you back if you were around that time. The bloodsplatter too is neat XD I'm easily amused by interesting packaging. I have this on my "halloween mood table" in the back, so I have to put a pic up soon. It's got a waifu figure, Isabelle (no not the same fig XD), a paper pumpkin in a bulbasaur plater and a mariachi miniature. I have quite an eclectic style. XD
The newsletter and essay of the month are in appropriate fall colors. I need to do the drawing challenge, which is to have Freddy Krueger taking a day off. I might have him enjoying a boba because of course I would XD.
The essay is about the first time he saw a selection of horror movies. As he put it, "you never forget your first", and he tells tales of his first times with movies like Bram Stoker's Dracula and Arachnaphobia, which are all really cool stories about the experience rather than the movie itself.
Can we talk about a cool poster here? The frank n stuff weenies sticker is pretty cool, but this Ghostbuster salad poster is neat! I had never heard of these and they seemed to be a collab with Hardee's and Ghostbusters 2. I probably wouldn't have ordered it because of the actual salad, but I know I prolly would have ordered it because of the collab. XD I'm easy like that. And I don't know about you, but those salads look absolutely massive for fast food! DId anyone ever have one? I doubt they looked as good as the photos, of course, but that's a lotta food and I need to know if they actually were that big.
It reminded me of the first time I saw Blair Witch Project in theaters when I was in high school. Saw it in theaters with some friends and my then boyfriend. Shakey cam definitely hit me like Truck-kun with motion sickness but the storytelling was effective enough for all of us to start running when around dark trees for the next couple weeks. And I used to live near a creek with a considerable amount of trees and dark places. We did meme the hell out of "throwin that fuggin map away" XD. It did make us wary of the dark and woody places. Another movie that scared the hell out of me was The Ring. I turned our old CRT tv to the wall every night for more than a week, and when I saw Ju-On, I couldn't close my eyes during showers or sleep under my blankets. I don't watch horror movies often because I get weird nightmares or dreams but it doesn't stop me from watching them XD.
To fit all the watch components, they made it a lil thicc and its almost friendshaped. XD
Since I have 2, maybe I can open this one...not sure where it'd go though XD. Maybe have it guard the bathroom or the shower.
Let's move onto Spooky September, where we meet our new friend: this Alien Xenomorph watch! I think I have another one from a previous funpack somewhere so it looks like I'm building my little xeno army, albeit very slowly. XD
Look at this package! tall, dark and morally ambiguous, just how i like 'im.
Look at this cute treat bag!! I love the burlap texture, and the candy included is exactrly what I like. If its not Snickers or Reeces, I'm all about fruit snacks and candy, and sour is better. The Monster Mash gummies are quite soft and sticky but tasty.
The grey gent is warped to the extent he looks like he's surfing, and juggling knives or something. Wait, I think that's a leg. Or daikon. In any case, its time for him to Hang 10 with some other plastic gents for decoration. In recent years, I'd been including cheap and cute mini toys with halloween candy, like toy cars or mini puzzles. I think its nice to give kids things that aren't solely edible. This year I think I'm going to grab some erasers XD.
A tube of M&Ms, a pack of Hunchback of Notre Dame cards (these have some neat little games like puzzles or coin games included), and the coolest piece so far: a bottlecap for Monsters Meet Pepsiman, where classic monsters star with Pepsiman on top of plastic caps you can put on liter bottles. They were made in Japan, where I believe these are items you can find in promos and gatcha machines; in fact in the original Resident Evil 4, they had them as prizes for winning the shooting gallery, and they could be collected, having voice clips attached when you clicked on them.
Mine has Pepsiman doing the Dracula thing, resting in a coffin, and it's so fuggin cool. So cool in fact, here's the Pepsiman game theme.
There's a playlist, omg.
Mini poster for this month is a twist cone promo with Ghostbusters and Hardee's again, and while you may think "that's just a regular twisty cone", I say to that "NAY IT HAS GHOSTBUSTER PAPER WITH IT!" Look, it doesn't take much for me to be onboard with collabs. If it's themed or sponsored by something I like, I will buy the hell out of it. I went on a cross-city journey for a plush of the spider donut from Dunkin Donuts. (No one had them and they sold out the first day so I had to order off ebay ;.;)
Newletter includes the art challenge this month, which is to have a monster chugging Pepsi.
Hello Gojira, have a Pepsi. And a Snickers. You get a lil "destroy-tokyo" when you're hungry.
The essay is about halloween junk food, and if you were watching DinoDrac's youtube on his old XE articles on the food that came out, this essay was right up my alley. Cadbury Screme Eggs, the Halloween Whopper, the aforementioned Spider Donuts from Dunkin, the Nighmare King, so many cool tie in foods but the one I missed out on and have to get are the Witches Brew Kit Kat, since it seems to have a marshmallow flavor and I am allllll about marshmallows.
A good haul from the last 2 months, and I can't wait til I get the October box in my hot lil hands. Matt always does great with these boxes and having been subscribed since....uh the first year (not the first month though, I missed out), I love the treats that come every halloween season. So until the next box, Lunies, go have some treats and watch some spooky movies. We got a lil time left to cram it full of some creepy fun.
--Dio (10/20/23)
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