Trick Or Treat, Dig Six Feet: Living Dead Dolloween 2024 Finale

Phew. That was a lot!

Leftover Candy: A Living Dead Dolloween Encore

Halloween never ends that quickly or easily for me, and I have to let myself savor. I'm ready to keep on with the year's events and festivities, but it's always hard to let go and cut off the spooky season right on the last day.

But what am I doing here? I've already combed through the Halloween history, and you already know these characters in the cover image. But not quite. These dolls you're seeing are their variants!  

Happy Halloween!

Final posts wrapping up this project are coming soon! For today, enjoy the celebration! 

A Living Dead Dolloween, Part 7: A Vintage Halloween Custom!

The Living Dead Dolloween is almost over, but I had to throw in one last short new entry before the finale.

A few months ago, when reviewing Grace of the Grave, I discussed how her bumpy, pitted, mouth-cut head sculpt was a total one-off, and speculated on potential other use cases it could have been applied to were it chosen to be repurposed. While the head sculpt had no time to be reused before the switch to ball-joint bodies shut the door on several unique sculpts in the very next series, I still thought maybe some creativity could have given it more life, and the holes and bumps made me think of a character themed around the Moon. This idea came back to me closer to Halloween as I realized I could customize a Grace into a vintage Halloween moon fit to add to the Series 32 cast. 

A Living Dead Dolloween, Part 6: Honorary Halloween Living Dead Dolls Roundup (Roundup #8)

Now that the series and exclusive history of LDD Halloween has been looked over...who says we have to stop there? Why not look at other offerings fit for the holiday?

A Living Dead Dolloween, Part 5: A New Exclusive Era

The same year Series 32 was released, Living Dead Dolls debuted a new format of Halloween exclusive dolls, starting with Jack O Lantern. These dolls were all themed heavily on the holiday, and have the same deathdate as that year's Halloween, like the first Halloween exclusives Hemlock and Honey. Each of these dolls was a solo release, though, and had three regional color variants available in different parts of the world. I imagine this string of Halloween exclusives could have continued for more than three annual dolls if the classic era of the brand had not collapsed to this very day, but with such a small selection of this phase of LDD Halloween, my choices were more narrow and easy. I have some appreciation for the first doll, Jack O Lantern. I like that he's based on the legend of Stingy Jack, who is the very namesake of the carved veg, and his orange/black UK variant looks really good. I was also briefly obsessed with the black-and-white variant of Vesper, a girl in a bat-winged hoodie. She has a very classic old-LDD 1960s-dolly faceup with a lot of classic-horror camp about her, but I felt like she might be a doll better suited by a classic dolly dress outfit in the same colors, and I was iffy enough about the effect of the painted fangs in her face paint that I let her be. To look at this collection of Halloween LDD, one little ghoul was the answer.

A Living Dead Dolloween, Part 4: A Vintage Halloween Viewing

Time to look at the last LDD Halloween series!