THANK YOU for being critical and not going easy on the props just because they're from Spirit. Lot of brand loyalty in this community and it's refreshing to see when someone still holds Spirit to high standards.
Straw man is weird uncanny creepy and perfect I love how his eyes glow in his mouth is stitched together I think it’s kind of funny the trick He tried to play
The bag-o-bones animatronic is so slept on. It scared literally everyone at the Spirit Halloween store in Chino Hills, CA that I was at while the clown and zombie ones everyone just walked by casually. I would definitely upgrade by putting him in an old wine barrel and changing the LED from green to red. Taking off the hands would add more to the scare factor. Thankfully they're just clip on and optional. I think a good thing about the animatronic is the speed and sound. Definitely more surprising than those sitting animatronics with the candy bowl. The skull and rib cage is very cheap. They definitely could've upgraded the body of the animatronic for sure and maybe age the skull a little bit.
I am actually impressed with Regan's audio. Even though it was Spirit doing it, I thought her phrases were chilling, especially the demonic howling part at the end of one of them.
Haha, I was real pleased too after watching a lot of his videos for the first time tonight despite the fact I already got Lord Raven as my first adult-sized animatronic in 2022 after 15 years of no Halloween celebration.
Me and my family rarely buy any props for any kind of holiday especially Halloween but on the rare occasion that my mom does get something that is actually scary she try’s to make it even scarier, she usually adds fake blood and some details that the prop lacks
@@thepixelatedpumpkin31why do you do videos on spirit if you don't like it. Like bro just shop and home depot or something. I can understand you disliking things like rat girl and Betty sharp, since they are trash and do no movement. So as tombstone terror and bag of bones. But if your sick of clowns props don't do halloween props anymore because clowns are literly one of the most scariest things about Halloween. And you like lord raven. You can't barely hear him. I mean he is cool but give some respect for spirit.
I actually like Mr. Punchy designs, But I seriously dislike the animation and voice as well. I would've loved it if it lunged forward at you. On that note, I actually think Lucky Bottoms and Mr. Punchy share similar mechanisms! Betty and Nozzles desperately need animation. Monty is one of my personal favorites on idea alone, but I agree with your comments I think Monty deserves some small design tweaks with pose and movement. I would've ranked Possessed Pumpkin way lower, it's literally just Crouchy with a goofier head sculpt. Bog zombie should be a smidge faster in my opinion. Your thoughts on the Widow really hit the nail in the coffin. Straw Man is perfect with the servos, I absolutely love it. LORD RAVEN NUMBER ONE Easily!
I agree on the clown thing. I grew up with Ronald McDonald and birthday party clowns (Gen X), so the fear of clowns expressed by my daughters (Gen Z) and their friends is a headscratcher to me. So every clown-based prop automatically gets a yawn. - But I get that scary stuff is almost like fashion. 'Big Foot' and space aliens were all the rage when I was growing up in the 70s. Plus, Halloween is really for the kids, so I try to look past my personal bias.
Thank you for posting this! Ik it’s 2023, and there’s something wrong with Spirit Halloween. They stopped making scary props, and I don’t know what’s wrong with Spirit.😢
For Monty the fact that he is an animatronic of a creepy toy is just great And I also think that he is standing on the box like he’s the biggest thing in the world because they could at least have his feet on the block
Great review! I personally felt the Regan Exorcist Prop was their Best this year and actually bought it. When I watch the exorcist, I Always felt that one of the Scariest parts of the film was when the white face of the demon Pazuzu flashes for a split second. That Always Creeped me out and now that spirit brought that effect to the Regan Exorcist prop, I had to get it. It just brought that prop to another level and was an incredible idea! I do agree with you that it would have been nice if they would have added a little more detail with “vomit” on the clean blue nightgown. It would have been great if they could have added her legs, like on the previous exorcist prop and maybe some movement in the mouth when she speaks and eye movements would have been incredible! But, thats just my opinion on my favorite Spirit Halloween Animatronic this year. Great review and thanks for doing what you do my friend! 🎃🎃🎃
I used to love Spirit Halloween as a kid but I started to dislike spirit more and more every year. It could be because I’m an adult now and I’m growing out of it, but it’s also because I seen the quality and creativity go down and the prices go up like never before. Idk what happened to spirit at this point we should just make our own props😭
It had been 15 years of no Halloween celebration for me back in 2022 when I saw online videos of Spirit Halloween’s line-up, so I wanted to go all out with scary Halloween animatronics and I went to 3 different Spirit Halloween stores in my area; I was so disappointed by Possessed Pumpkin, Bog Zombie, Monty, Widow, and Straw Man that were on display, but what I really wanted for my first adult-sized animatronic was Lord Raven (wasn’t on display for some reason), which was the very last one in stock and when I explained to the store manager that I wanted to use Klarna’s 4-biweekly split payment plan that didn’t work on their website, he immediately applied a 50% off coupon code and I snagged Lord Raven for only $150!!! 😱🤯🤩 Personally, Lord Raven is still easily Spirit Halloween’s best animatronic ever despite more expensive ones by them even in 2024; it reminds me of RE8’s Samcă and Dark Crystal’s Skeksis if there were a grim reaper variant. I also bought a Bluetooth soundbar to hook up to Lord Raven’s audio output jack, so it’d be louder and more distinct with its multiple voice lines, which turned out to be a smart move after comparing Lord Raven’s default speaker with the soundbar alternative; btw, I thought his red eyes were way too bright and seemed obvious they were LED lights, so I put matte black masking tape over the lights, which not only reduced the brightness, but also diffused the apparent LED nature, which made the eyes more believable thanks to my quick DIY fix. Along with the brown Jumping Spider, I had to also get the last Fogging Skull Pile to enhance Lord Raven’s spooky vibe, but I used my own fog machine with built-in colorful changing lights I got from Amazon, which worked wonders for making Lord Raven much more visible and menacing along with the fog swirling around! What I did was to set the Skull Pile in front of Lord Raven a few feet away with the fog machine between the two, so I could bounce the lights off the flat white back of the Skull Pile back up at Lord Raven, which was my lighting design I already devised before buying the Skull Pile. 😎 In my hunt for something that caters to my taste for the Gothic aesthetic (for example, the castle in RE4), I still can’t believe I was so lucky that I managed to snag Lord Raven as my very first adult-sized animatronic in the same year as its release after my 15-year span of no Halloween celebration. 🤩
You’re right about the mouth animation nozzles nose just looks so ugly like a witch nose and I just don’t understand why they put a witch nose on a clown instead of putting like some sort of weird red nose
@@thepixelatedpumpkin31 I put The Widow first because I think it's the only one that looks pretty scarey, is worth the price, and would work well in my haunt! Do u know how tall she is?
This is what the Spirit Halloween 2022 lineup should have been: 1. Gerry 2. Dr. Illume 3. Spike 4. Rat Girl 5. Smoldering Skeleton 6. Lucky Bottoms 7. The Other Mother 8. Arachnida the Clown 9. Spider Striker 10. Betty Sharpe 11. Evil Scientist 12. Barnyard Butcher 13. Strawman 14. Monty the Monkey 15. Convulsing Nurse 16. Regan (The Exorcist) 17. Lord Raven
@@gizmomuppet4666 I really wanted to see Arachnida the Clown, Spider Striker and the Other Mother from the Coraline film instead of Nozzles, Young Crouchy and Mr. Punchy!
I have to disagree with you regarding Strawman’s appearance. Out of curiosity is there another scarecrow that you think has a more “menacing look”? In my opinion the burlap face, scars, piercing eyes … give him a very scary look. Which I think is not easy given it’s a scarecrow.
Personally if bag of bones had mouth movement with ORIGINAL audio I might have said it was passable. As with rat girl I like the pose but there should have been a lot of rats not just one. Also Mr punchys design is really cool imo I hate that it's a half head also he desperately needs tension springs. I also have a theory about why Betty Sharpe has blood they might have purposely made a bad prop with blood on it so that way when people ask why there's no blood anymore it's so that they can say "bloody props don't sell well" so that way parents won't get mad and they can keep their younger fan base. My final thought is with scelly bones he's pretty cool and all but they should have used little Nester cuz if we really think about it Skelly bones was a reskin of little Nester and more people want a pumpkin nester prop but idk
I honestly don’t think there is any retailer with a great lineup I think Home Depot is very lack luster beside the 12 ft witchc and I really don’t understand the hype with party city because they probably have the weakest line up half their stuff is good there have is so bad
I personally think that this years lineup was amazing with a few exceptions. Alot of slept on animatronics. In my opinion, this year was 12x better than home depot’s lineup
Bob zombie in my opinion is one of the worst it’s already used in Scooby Doo like seriously they could’ve used a normal zombie for this and it would’ve looked way cooler and the arm that goes forward I just don’t get that how was like a missing limb they could’ve used it as a missing limb as a zombie!
They havent been doing too good over these last couple of years. Theres 2 Animatronics this year that are the same character and theres just a crouchy reskin. Honestly home depot did better this year
The spider looks really cool to be honest and I think that’s my new favorite animatronic Mr. punchy looks pretty cool actually although those lights could give people seizures and Lucky bottoms is a little bit weird but I like the mouth movement tombstone tear it’s not even terrifying they might as well just name it a tombstone skull it’s not even that terrifying to be honest it’s just boring and bland It’s kind of ridiculous in my opinion I think one of the worst props of the year has got to be the tube zone tear the best prop I would say would either be the bog zombie or Marty I really like that big monkey prop and I’ve never really had any of the symbol monkeys They’re basically making the symbol monkeys in real life pretty much it makes it look extremely lifelike and I really like that I love Monty and I can’t wait to see him in the stores plus I will probably be working at a spirit
i actually like possessed pumpkin (the name doesn't really make sense to me, though), since my mom and i are going for a haunted pumpkin patch theme for our yard this year, and he'd be perfect if we could afford him.
awsome video bro! i dont think this is the best year but betty sharpe and swing rat girl are in my top 10 in my opinion mainly because im a fan of the evil kid props especially since you dont know if they secretly killed there parents or not but heres my top 10 10 rat girl 9. mr punchy 8 nozles 7 lord raven 6 monty 5 skelly bones 4 straw man 3.betty sharp 2 .widow 1 regan
I absolutely love lord raven I'm planning on getting him tomorrow but one I'm very displeased with is nozzles and possessed pumpkin no much animation to them and very pricey for their quality
I just like me like in the most movies they make it like childish and you make like a smile but PPIs so it makes it look like it’s about to come toward you are any second
Worst 18 Rat girl 17 Screaming girl 16 Ragen 15 lil Skelly bones 14 Tumb stone of terror 13 bag o bones 12 Guy with stick in his head 11 Straw man 10 Mr Punchy 9 Betty Sharp 8 Spider Best 7 Bog zombie 6 Nozzles the clown 5 Possessed Pumpkin 4 Lucky Bottoms 3 Young Crouchy 2 Lord Raven 1 Monty
I personally love love love love love love the Reagan Pratt from the exorcist I really wanna get the action figure of it made by territories or tear tunes it sounds really cool and I want to pick that up I actually want to buy that Reagan animatronic
Spirit probably made young crouchy to be a substitute for the original crouchy because he is sold out every year edit: I actually like young crouchy considering original crouchy is my favorite animatronic
Peekaboo for little Skelly bones has already been used in better ways for peekaboo clown and an Easter egg I found in the background is there is a swing with a skeleton on it so that means little Skelly bones lost a hand!!!
11:15 Honestly the bag animation is kinda stupid when you think about it, because it would honestly be a lot creepier without it imo. It implies that whoever’s in there is still living. Honestly though, I really like the colour scheme of nozzles
@thepixlatedpumpkin i respect your opinions but honestly HOW IS LIL SKELLY BONES BETTER THEN NOZZLES HOW!!!! ok let me chill i respect your ranking but not everything no hate bro love the vids
I am a lot upset yet just a little for you putting Mr. punchy that low because Mr. punchy looks really cool yet kind of ugly I kind of like his phrase with his voice yet I don’t at the same time
Is it just me or in 2022 the overpricing ones aren’t that good they should of been 200 300 150 125 100 because like they look cheap enough and there not even cheap this would look like it would be in a cheap Halloween store or a dollar store
