Finding The Great Pumpkin//October 45th, 2020

 One thing I’m pretty proud of when it comes to this blog, is that it hasn’t just become a collection of hauls. I tried Halloween blogging several years ago (on LiveJournal...) and never felt like I had much to talk about if I wasn’t showing off something I’d recently bought. It actually got to the point where I think I may have been buying things just for the sake of having something to talk about on that blog. That was something I promised myself wasn’t going to happen again, once I had the idea to make a new blog.

However, sometimes there are things that you get that you just have to talk about!

When I was working on my post about my childhood belief in the Great Pumpkin, I ran across a decoration I’d never seen before, the Telco Motionettes Pumpkin Ghost! This guy literally was the epitome of my childhood vision of the Great Pumpkin, and he instantly became a grail item for me! I took one look at him and suddenly I was the child who couldn’t sleep the night before Halloween again, as I waited for the Great Pumpkin’s arrival. 

This pumpkin turned out to be relatively rare. I recall the witches from the Telco Halloween line being around in abundance in my youth (and I will probably buy one someday, because the nostalgia is real) but I never knew there was a pumpkin. It took me a long time to finally find one in a price range I was comfortable with, but just before leaving for my trip to Sleepy Hollow, I finally did!

Fun fact, my lens was a little blurry when I took this but I think it makes him look quite ethereal. Appropriate for a Great Pumpkin, isn’t it?

You may notice the skull he’s holding isn’t his original one, but honestly, I like the addition of the little treat pail more. This brings him closer to my childhood vision of the Great Pumpkin, carrying treats for true believers on Halloween Eve. I know some people are very particular about the condition of their vintage Halloween pieces, but I love running across things that have an extra little bit of character to them. I feel like this pumpkin, the only one of his kind to hold a treat pail instead of just a tiny skull, is the one that was truly meant to be mine and bring my childhood story to life. 

If you want to see this guy in action, I have a little video on Instagram. My fellow 90s Halloweenies, was that not the soundtrack to our childhood Halloween experiences? I feel like every decoration made during a certain time period made that noise. I even had a watch with the same sound. 

It’s an interesting feeling, all these years later, to look at my shelf and see the Halloween icon of my childhood staring back at me. Pumpkins with ghost bodies (Or maybe they’re ghosts with pumpkin heads?) will always, always have a special place in my heart thanks to my childhood depiction of the Great Pumpkin, but I think this particular one will always be the most special of all for me.

Stay spooky, my friends.