2011 New Products

This year’s stock of new products are here!! While most of our new products are now in stock, we do expect a few more to arrive over the next week or so. For the most up-to-date list of new products, take a look at our New Arrivals page.

Zombies are big this year. Are you prepared for the coming Zombie Apocalypse? If not, check out our new Zombie Nation theme page. It’s chock full of all things zombie – zombie body parts, zombie decorations, animated zombies, and much, much, more.

Also big this year are affordable animated props. We’ve purchased a wide selection of animated props to fit just about any budget. Be sure to check out the 36 in. Animated Slashing Zombie, Animated John Doe Prop, Death Dealer Animated Prop, and all our animated props here.

Last, we’ve gotten a lot of good feedback on our Skeleton Corpsification project. Fans have asked if we would make them available as items for sale. We are working hard to get some ready for sale, so stay tuned. We should have picts. and pricing information of our custom skeleton corpses, as well as other custom-made props and decorations posted soon.

As always, if you have any questions, please, feel free to e-mail us at customerservice@skeletonfoundry.com.

Happy Halloween!!

Featured Products

Here are a few items we thought you might find useful in your 2011 Halloween decorating plans. But, there are many, many more located here.

Halloween Fact - Pumpkins

Pumpkins have been around for thousands of years. Their origins are in Central America and they are a food crop. Over time, pumpkins spread across North and South America. When Europeans came to the New World, they found pumpkins were plentiful and used in cooking by Native Americans. They took seeds back to Europe where they quickly became very popular.

Today, growing humongous pumpkins is a big time hobby. And, breaking the world record has become an annual event. Top prize money for the biggest giant pumpkin is as much as $25,000 at fall festivals. The current world record for giant pumpkins is 1,810.5 lbs. Chris Stevens of New Richmond, Wisconsin, brought his 1,810.5 pound pumpkin to the Stillwater Harvest fest in Stillwater, Minnesota, on October 9, 2010.

Pumpkin chucking (or Punkin Chunkin’) is a competitive activity in which teams build various mechanical devices designed to throw a pumpkin as far as possible. Catapults, trebuchets, ballistas and air cannons are the most common means of chucking pumpkins. Over the past decade, pumpkin chucking has become more and more popular. It is now a televised sporting event shown nationwide around Thanksgiving.

Pumpkin trivia:

• Pumpkins are a fruit that originated in Central America.
• The name "pumpkin" comes from the Greek word "pepon" meaning a large melon.
• 90% of the pumpkin is made up of water.
• It takes a pumpkin vine approximately 110 days to produce mature pumpkins
• The yellow-orange flowers that bloom from a pumpkin vine are edible.
• Using pumpkins as lanterns at Halloween is based on an ancient Celtic custom brought to America by European immigrants.
• The largest pumpkin grown was recorded on October 9, 2010 weighing 1,810.5 lbs.
• Pumpkins, and their seeds, were a celebrated food of the Native American Indians who treasured them both for their dietary and medicinal properties.
• Illinois grows more pumpkins than any other state in the U.S. followed by California, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
• According to the University of Illinois, 90 percent of the pumpkins grown in the United States are raised within a 90-mile radius of Peoria, Illinois.

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