The Mini Bucket Craze: What Lowe’s $1.98 and Home Depot’s $0.98 Collectibles Actually Are
The viral Halloween bucket hunt has a smaller sibling. As shoppers chase the $2.98 Halloween trick-or-treat buckets at Home Depot, Petco, and Lowe’s, they keep
The viral Halloween bucket hunt has a smaller sibling. As shoppers chase the $2.98 Halloween trick-or-treat buckets at Home Depot, Petco, and Lowe’s, they keep
Target has removed a children’s Halloween costume from its Hyde & EEK! Boutique line and apologized after critics said the product and its promotional image
The Pokémon Center has opened its 2026 Halloween collection, and it stretches from the front yard to the closet. The lineup mixes new pieces with
Jack in the Box’s The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror menu has been in restaurants nationwide since September 10, led by a new Munchie Meal of
Ghost Face is getting his own hard cider. Angry Orchard has teamed with the Scream franchise for a 2026 “Thriller Pack,” a limited-edition, glow-in-the-dark 12-pack
Fortnite is having a big Halloween this year. Spirit Halloween has rolled out a lineup of officially licensed Fortnite costumes for 2026, letting fans drop
Hershey has announced its 2026 Halloween lineup, which the company calls its largest and most diverse to date, with more than 20 innovations across chocolate,
West Elm’s 2026 Halloween Shop is live, and two new collections stand out. The retailer’s in-house Frankenstein line turns ceramic and glass into a set
IHOP is bringing its pumpkin lineup back on August 24, 2026, and adding two new items. The returning Pumpkin Spice Pancakes are joined by a
Target has announced its 2026 Halloween assortment. The lineup covers decor, costumes, treats and family activities, with Hyde & EEK! Boutique decor starting at $5
Walt Disney World’s 2026 Halloween popcorn buckets and sippers add up to six designs across the parks, the water parks, and Disney Springs. Two are
Home Depot’s 7 FT Grave & Bones Animated LED Plague Doctor is a $199 animatronic in the retailer’s 2026 Halloween collection, and it has become
Krispy Kreme’s newest fall treat is Churro Doughnut Dots, eight cinnamon-sugar bites of its doughnut dough with a dulce de leche dip, in shops since

Gideon’s Bakehouse built its August 2026 menu around peanut butter and espresso, led by a new Peanut Butter Cold Brew Cookie. The gothic Orlando bakery,
Entenmann’s and Little Bites brought back their fall and Halloween treats for 2026, and the lineup has one new item: Entenmann’s Apple Cider Donut Holes.
Spirit Halloween’s 6-foot-8 Alien Xenomorph animatronic costs $449.99, holds a 4.94 rating from 90 ratings, and cannot be ordered from the website. Shipping is listed
Spirit Halloween’s 2026 Ghost Face collection runs from a $7.99 pack of mystery figures to a $279.99 animatronic that stands just over six feet seven,
Ghost cows, 6′ skeleton roosters, animated deviled eggs, and other farm-inspired items headline Tractor Supply’s 2026 Halloween collection. This year’s “Halloween Out Here” collection is
Build-A-Bear’s 2026 Halloween collection, dubbed “Spooky Stuff You Love,” stars a Jumping Spider plush. On August 28, Build-A-Bear grew the collection with a Sanrio Halloween
Regal will sell a popcorn container sculpted as the Lipstick-Face Demon, the red-faced character on the artwork for Insidious: Out of the Further. It reaches
Orlando, FL — Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights 2026 merchandise reaches stores over three weeks this month, and most of it lands in the parks rather
Osaka, Japan — A popcorn bucket shaped like a Licker went on sale at Universal Studios Japan on Wednesday, September 9, and the official product
The Disney and Starbucks fall collection is out at both American resorts, and the mug says the quiet part out loud: “enjoy pumpkin spice.” Starbucks
The Haunted Mansion’s Hatbox Ghost is becoming a popcorn bucket on both coasts. At Disneyland Resort, per Disney’s D23 Day announcement, the Haunted Mansion Hatbox
Oreo Ghosts have started turning up in Halloween aisles, and the thing worth knowing before you go looking is that they are not a ghost-shaped
Fall officially arrives at Starbucks on Tuesday, August 25 with the return of the Pumpkin Spice Latte. Alongside it come three new pumpkin spice beverages,
The Monster Cereals have made it to the Halloween tree. Old World Christmas, the Spokane, Washington ornament maker hand-blowing glass since 1979, is selling Boo
Disney Store’s Halloween Shop is up for 2026 with 537 items across costumes, apparel, plush, ornaments, pins, and home decor. That is a lot of
The short answer for anyone typing this into a search bar: no. Hobby Lobby does not carry Halloween decorations, and the company formally discontinued the
Old Navy has launched Haunted Harvest, a Disney collaboration built around Mickey and Friends in fall and Halloween mode. The collection page lists 45 items
Much of the American vintage-Halloween look, the grinning die-cut jack-o’-lantern, the arch-backed black cat, the honeycomb tissue witch crossing a moon, was drawn for one
Buc-ee’s has its 2026 Halloween line on shelves. It is called Quick Bites Spooky Nights, it runs 13 items, and Buc-ee is a vampire this
Pottery Barn’s 2026 Halloween collection is online. Unlike Grandin Road and At Home, Pottery Barn’s Halloween is tabletop and entertaining: dinnerware, lit ghosts, and terracotta
Target lists 73 Michael Myers items for Halloween 2026. The cheapest is a $13.08 mask. The most expensive Michael Myers product of the season is
New Hampshire has 7.86 Spirit Halloween stores per million residents, more than any other state in America. California, which has the most stores of anywhere
Spirit Halloween’s locator lists 1,587 stores for 2026: 1,497 across all 50 U.S. states and 90 across 10 Canadian provinces. Nearly all were open by
Spirit Halloween is opening 85 stores this season in buildings that used to be Party City, the party-goods chain that liquidated last year. It is
Funko’s stitched-up Coraline Pop is on sale now for $14.99, and so are the Beetlejuice, Corpse Bride, and Wednesday figures from the same Patchwork set. All four can be ordered at Funko.com, and Amazon sells three of them.
Johanna Parker’s new Halloween ceramics are in stores now, and the collection is spread across multiple stores. The 2026 collection spans three dozen new designs,
Grandin Road released its Halloween Haven 2026 collection online, with some items already showing a low stock warning. Unlike Home Depot and At Home, Grandin
The most expensive animatronic in Halloween retail this year is HalloweenCostumes.com’s 13.75-foot Lord of the Rings Balrog, at $24,999.99. The most expensive piece in Distortions
The Halloween bucket hunt has been the retail story of the month, and it is no longer a one-store chase. Home Depot’s $2.98 printed bucket
Count Chocula, Boo Berry, and Franken Berry hit shelves nationwide in late July, marking the trio’s 55th anniversary. General Mills is running the Jim Henson
Mondo’s Over the Garden Wall Chapter 2 Figure Set is sold out. The $120 standard set, which brings the Pottsfield Pumpkin People from Hard Times
LEGO has approved a Universal Monsters set, and it comes with six monster minifigures: Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, The Wolf Man, The Bride of Frankenstein, The
LEGO’s Halloween 2026 sets are out, including a $29.99 jack-o’-lantern that lights up when you press its stem and a $19.99 skull candle with swappable
Your dog can be Art the Clown this year. That is the single most useful thing to know about the 2026 pet costume aisle, and
Lemax’s Spooky Town village line has eight pieces for 2026 that you can only buy at Michaels, and they run from a $59.99 table accent
At Home has launched its biggest Halloween assortment ever: more than 1,000 items across five collections, all available now online and at all 228 stores
Monster High’s Michael Myers doll is sold out at Mattel Creations, and sealed ones start at about $118 on eBay, $48 over its $70 price. Two Skullector drops are left this year, both $70: Oogie Boogie goes on sale to Fang Club members on October 29 and to everyone on October 30, and Krampus follows on December 3 and 4.
The bucket hunt is on again. Home Depot’s $2.98 Halloween-print bucket – the 2-gallon orange utility bucket wrapped in ghosts, jack-o’-lanterns, bats, and spiders –