Aldi's Spooktastic Halloween range review

As I discovered last year, buying cute-scary Halloween costumes for young children is no problem but once they turn into teens and start getting adult-sized, it's not so easy. Sophie was therefore over the moon to receive this Spooktastic Halloween dress from Aldi.

The dress is a perfect fit - not bad going as she's the same height as me (and she's only 12!) - but the gothic collar was too tight. As soon as I'd taken the photos, she said she felt like it was strangling her and took it off. I may sew on an extra piece of ribbon or add some extra Velcro to make it bigger or she could just wear the dress without.

I was really impressed with the prices too. (This is Aldi, I shouldn't be surprised any more !) The adult costumes cost just £7.99 and you can pick up a kids' outfit for a bargaintastic £3.99.

They also sent through a pack of Glow Sticks, which retail at £2.99. As well as being great fun for the kids, these are actually great for keeping the kids visible and safe when you're out trick or treating.

If you fancy heading over to check out what else Aldi have on offer for Halloween, make sure you click through to their Halloween recipe section. They have some great ideas, including Eyeball Spaghetti, Pumpkin Muffins and Goblin Grins !

for more information : https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/product-range/exclusive-to-aldi/halloween/

Disclosure : We received the products in order to write an honest review.

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Giveaway #328 : Win a Pom Bear Halloween Prize Pack - closing date 25/10

To celebrate the return of its frightfully tasty limited edition Halloween themed Pickled Onion flavour snacks (you can read our review here), Pom-Bear are giving visitors to the Bauer Radio website the chance to take the horror out of organising a Halloween party, with everything you will need from decorations to costumes and of course great tasting snacks!

With a full selection of things to make and do, this prize will keep your little monsters entertained from day break until sun set. The prize includes Halloween themed items, such as a children’s spooky fancy dress costume, face paints, eye patches, balloons, table decorations and more. Better still the prizes are packaged in a super spooky black witch’s cauldron, perfect for storing all your Halloween tricks or treats in.

Knowing that Mums and Dads struggle with ideas to make their terrifying gatherings both scary and fun, Pom-Bear has created a dedicated tab on its Facebook page (www.facebook.com/pombearuk) to offer hints and tips to cover decorations, fancy dress, games and of course nibbles for hungry witches and wizards to enjoy.

Whether you’re holding a monster gathering of friends and family or just getting into the ‘spirit’ of things at home, there’s something for everyone and chances to win further prizes!

If you want a Halloween party that you can remember for all the right reasons, then simply answer the following question:

What flavour Pom-Bear snack has returned to shelves for Halloween?

a. Prawn Cocktail

b. Pickled Onion

c. Smoky Bacon

Enter your details in the Rafflecopter widget to be in with a chance of winning.

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Terms and conditions from Pom Bear: Prizes may vary from those shown in the image.

UK only. Closing date : 25/10/13

T & C's : Entries close at midnight on the closing date. Winners will be selected with a random number generator and announced on facebook, twitter and in the giveaway post subject line. Please note, you will be contacted by email and/or twitter and if I haven't heard from you after a week, I'll have to pick another winner. Prizes will be sent out by the companies or their PR directly to winners.

Other giveaways you may be interested in :

Giveaway #327 : Win 3 copies of The Big Wedding on DVD - closing date 28/10

Giveaway #326 : Win a £10 Tesco gift card - closing date 16/10

Giveaway #325 : Win 1 of 2 Kenson Kids Parenting Aids - closing date 15/10

Giveaway #324 : Win 3 copies of Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Cracking Contraptions Manual - closing date 14/10

Limited Edition Halloween Pom Bear review

Just in time for Halloween, Pom Bear have brought back their Limited Edition Pickled Onion flavour snack, featuring a special vampiric (but still very cute) Pom Bear on the packaging !

The snacks have kept their iconic teddy bear shape - I was wondering if they'd have gone ghost-shaped in honour of Halloween, but I suppose they just wouldn't be Pom Bear if they weren't bear-shaped - and have adopted a pickled onion flavour. Pickled onion flavour crisps instantly make me think of the Monster Munch ones that I used to eat in my youth, but the Pom Bear ones have a much less acidic, more subtle flavour. 

I was very impressed to see that each 19g pack contains under a hundred calories : 96 calories, 0.4g of sugars, 5.1g of fat of which 0.5g saturates and 0.3g of salt. That makes them a pretty guilt-free snack for adults watching their waistline, as well as kids. They're also gluten-free and suitable for vegetarians.

The Halloween Pom Bears also have an on-pack promotion. A ghostly code will be hidden on the packs with opportunities for those who find and scan it to win a selection of great prizes, while also receiving hints and tips from the brand's Facebook page.

Speaking of prizes, I'll be back in a second with a fab Pom Bear Halloween giveaway right here on my blog too.

star rating : 4.5/5

RRP : £1.39 for 6 x 19g

Disclosure : We received the product in order to write an honest review.

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NYCC Halloween Exclusives are LIVE!!

The last bits of the NYCC Halloween Exclusive Canne'boid wave is now available for purchase!! Just send an e-mail to me at bahglenncreations@gmail.com and specify which one canne'boid you would like. We only have a few left to pick from:

Canne'punks

Each Canne'punk is $30.00 and comes with real metal chains around their wrists, a box and bio card. Their leader Spykkbite is also available for sale at $65.00.

Electrical Canne'boids

Each Electrical Canne'boid is $30.00 and comes with a box and bio card. Their color yellow goes well with the new Glyaxia command Yellow Axis joints on sale at Glyos.com

Canne'trickers

Each Canne'tricker is $30.00 and comes with a cardboard miniature Halloween mask for the canne'tricker to wear, a box and bio card.

Happy Halloween everybody!

-Bah'glenn

NYCC Halloween Exclusives go up for sale tonight!

The remaining NYCC Halloween Exclusive Canne'boids will be going up for sale at 6:30pm EST this afternoon/evening. There really aren't many left so this isn't a full release, more of a "if-you-didn't-go-to-NYCC-now-you-can-buy-them" kind of release.

Also, since I have so few of these left I'm going to have to limit them to 1 per person. There will be more canne'boids coming in the future, I have a few things in the works, so we'll have to see what we can put together. I don't like to talk about upcoming releases until I have finished products to show. This way I don't get bummed out when I can't release something, and you all get bummed out because you can't own that something. I'm working on a few sculpts now and they're shaping up to be pretty cool. I'll see if I can post teaser pictures when I get enough of it done.

Stay tuned here & on the forum for the drop!

-Bah'glenn

Bah'glenn Creations: Post NYCC

The con was a freaking BLAST this year. Beth & I had a ton of fun and we both extend our sincerest thanks to Matt Doughty & Co for again allowing us crash-space at their booth, in addition to letting us sell some Canne'boids there. It was great to meet so many forum members in person, as well as speak with new customers who were just getting into canne'boids & Glyos due to seeing them for the first time at the show.

We still have some Canne'boids left for sale which should be going up for sale via my Etsy.com account in the next day or so. We're going to try using this method as it reduces the work my GF Beth has to do and allows the customer to pick exactly which canne'boid they want.

My thanks also goes out to Phil Reed over at battlegrip.com for posting some photos of the canne'boids during NYCC including an exclusive first-look photo of the Canne'lanturn head sculpt. I had planned on selling some hand-sculpted canne'lanturns at the con but due to time constraints and not feeling that they came out 100% right, I held back on them. The head on the far right should be the final head-sculpt, but I might take another crack at it to see if I can't make it even better. Even though Halloween will odds are be over by the time that head-sculpt get's cast and available for sale, I'll still release it anyway so people won't have to wait until next year to buy it.

Okay, now to pass-out as I'm still not 100% fully recovered from this past weekend. I look forward to Friday when I'm off of work and able to sleep late...

-Bah'glenn

NYCC Canne'boids Sneak Peek #3- Canne'geist & Packaging!

My friend Andrew & I sat down on August 23rd and threw some ideas around regarding the packaging for NYCC. I wanted to make this release Halloween themed as having NYCC in October is just prime territory for spooky glyos toys. So, Andrew worked out this doodle of the packaging concept:



I took that sketch, went on my old iMac and drew the following box over his original template, got it printed at Staples and this box is the result. We wanted the box to look like an old Halloween scene, so the whole box depicts this. Once this idea was created, we had a problem: if it's a scene, how do we have the canne'boid look out of the box?? Then, Andrew came up with the brilliant idea of having a crumbling brick-wall with a hole in the center of it for the canne'boid to peak out of. Here's some shots of it, check it out:









The box was a blast to make, and we're already thinking about the design for the next release. We hope everyone who gets one enjoys it.

Next is a picture of one of the Canne'geists, Beth did a top-notch job painting the teeth & eyes on this head, it almost looks like I made it out of sculpey. You probably can't see it, but around the eyes is glow-in-the-dark paint that frames the eyes adding an eerie glow when put under the light. I tried to show this in the 2nd photo, but I don't think it's very visible.





More pics coming soon as we count down the hours until NYCC. This will be my first con selling my toys, so here's hoping the furry little buggers sell well. ^_^

-Bah'glenn

NYCC Canne'boids Sneak Peek #2- Canne'bats & Arctic Canne'boids!

Each Arctic Canne'boid & Canne'bat have hand-sculpted, one-of-a-kind heads. The arctic canne'boids have cast resin hands. Some quick pics:

Arctic Canne'boids-Cryo'nokk Pack
"Cryo'nokk is an alpha canne'boid whose territory consists of the cold northern mountains of Slauria. His pack are suitably adept at living in an arctic environment; they are immune to cold and a can never freeze to death. Their tusks are harder then diamond and rarely break, enabling them to stab into prey and bleed them out onto the snow. Cryo'nokk fears nothing, except the insane canne'boid called Gnarrltooth."







Canne'bats


More photos of the rest of the NYCC release coming soon!

-Bah'glenn

List of Canne'boids for NYCC!! O_O

Okay, here's the run-down on what I should have at the show:

x6 "Canne'geists"- (Ghost-like Canne'boids) Neon green cast canne'boid heads & hands, on a GitD body with white fur.

x6 "Canne'punks"- (1980's Style Punker Canne'boids) Dark purple cast canne'boid heads & hands on a black body with GitD arms/legs. Each have mulitple colors painted onto each finger nail & will have real metal chains on them made by my GF Beth. Their fur is also multi-colored as the canne'punks all dye their fur in different colors.

x6 Yellow Canne'boids- (Electrikill Pack)- Yellow cast canne'boid heads & hands on a black body with red fur. These canne'boids aren't Halloween related, they're just the pack members for Electrikill, an Alpha Canne'boid with electrical powers.

x6 "Canne'Trickers"- (Trick or Treater style canne'boids)- Dark/Light Orange cast heads & hands on a GitD body with black arms/legs & black fur. Each one will come with a tiny cardboard mask for them to wear while out rounding up candy.

x3 "Canne'Bats"- These have hand-sculpted heads on a buildman body with black cloth wings and a dark brown fur. Each have GitD eyes and white painted toenails.

x4 "Arctic Canne'boids"- Each canne'boid has cast white hands with metallic purple fingernails, but each of their heads are hand-sculpted & original. All have eyes that GitD blue and pearl colored teeth and white fur.

There should also be some stuff available online after the con as I ran out of bodies & the Canne'Lanturns (canne'boids that are part jack o'lanturn) got bumped out of the NYCC release. Pictures are coming soon, I'll show off the Canne'bats & Arctic Canne'boids first as they're 100% done, so stay tuned.

-Bah'glenn

Welcome to October!

Hey gang, it's October once again and that means one thing: Halloween. Halloween is one of my favorite holidays and I wanted to make sure the banner for the blog looked extra spooky this month.

(EDIT on 9/9/2011: Putting the photo into this entry, as it's long since been removed as the banner due to changes of the seasons. -Bah'glenn)



The scene depicted above shows Luminon (the one in front with the glowing eyes) lighting the path while he and Rd'eys Pheyden are walking through a dark and dingy swamp. Suddenly, 3 Jkk'Olurntrns reveal themselves from the darkness and prepare to attack! The Jkk'Olurntrns from left to right are: Kackle, Slack'jaw & their leader Fryte.

OH and the picture that I showed for September's banner was a panel from another project I have in the works called "Alien Mercenaries: Episode #0" in which we see the 'Mercenaries before they go off on their voyage to look for the shipwreck. When it's completed, it should lead right up to the 1st panel of Alien Mercenaries Episode #1, bringing the story full circle in a sense. It's quite a project involving lots of different sets so I'm not 100% sure when I will finish it...but hopefully before the new year. Stay tuned...