Look out! Inflatable season is here!

[DawnStorm]

Saw a couple of small ones today. Soon yards all across America will have them.

Dawn--got a pin?--Storm

[Wild Redhead]

Er, what is this thread about?

[Tantei Kid]

I'm guessing those holiday themed, giant, inflatable lawn decorations that have become so popular lately.

eta: We endure a rather dreadful Santa down the street every year.

[Just Jocko]

Have you seen the newest Halloween one -- it's a pirate ship with IIRC a skeleton and a mummy on board. The sucker is HUGE -- like as wide as our townhouse!

[FrogFeathers]

They've been up a few weeks around here. The popular Halloween one in these parts is the inflatable carriage with a skeleton for a driver and some stuff inside I can't make out as I drive by.

[Starla]

Every year Mr S campaigns for one and I say they're too expensive, too tacky, and will kill our grass. It's also too windy around here this time of year. Our neighbor's inflatable oddities are often found on their sides.

[CSGirl]

We tend to get more Christmas ones than Halloween. Our neighbors had a huge snowglobe one, with a little carousel rotating inside. Except that it would get really foggy inside when it got cold, and you couldn't see, so it was just a huge white ball.

[lynnejanet]

They're just becoming popular around here. I'm always a wee bit amused at how the most run-down houses seem to have the biggest inflatables. I've just seen my first Halloween one. It was like a snow globe, with stuff blowing around inside of it, with graves and such, in black and purple.

[Lainie]

Originally Posted by Starla

Every year Mr S campaigns for one and I say they're too expensive, too tacky, and will kill our grass. It's also too windy around here this time of year. Our neighbor's inflatable oddities are often found on their sides.

They seem to deflate quite frequently, too.

[finger stutters]

I would typically agree with all of this anti-inflatable speech except for the fact that I have the coolest one ever--Homer Simpson dressed as a skeleton.

It wins.

I saw a yard last Christmas that must have had a dozen or so inflatables in it. It was weird because there wasn't space for anything else in the yard.

[candy from strangers]

Originally Posted by Lainie

They seem to deflate quite frequently, too.

When I still lived with my mom our neighbour across the street had a snowman holding a candycane that used to deflate and bob in the breeze just enough so that it looked like the snowman was making a stabbing motion with a red and white knife

[FrogFeathers]

Originally Posted by candy from strangers

When I still lived with my mom our neighbour across the street had a snowman holding a candycane that used to deflate and bob in the breeze just enough so that it looked like the snowman was making a stabbing motion with a red and white knife

Wait... you never lived across the street from my parents.

My dad has that one and after the second year of exactly that, he stopped putting it up.

[GalateaDancer]

Originally Posted by FrogFeathers

They've been up a few weeks around here. The popular Halloween one in these parts is the inflatable carriage with a skeleton for a driver and some stuff inside I can't make out as I drive by.

Our neighbors have that one - it's got glowing skulls inside.

[Dr. Winston O'Boogie]

Originally Posted by finger stutters

I would typically agree with all of this anti-inflatable speech except for the fact that I have the coolest one ever--Homer Simpson dressed as a skeleton.

Nope. MY Count Homer wins.

[Wicked Tinkerbell]

I saw one I really liked last Halloween. It was a purple & black inflatable toothy arch for a doorway.

[Gayle]

I've never really grasped the popularity of these in some places. They're not popular in my part of town; can't say for everywhere else. I just can't fathom spending that much money on something that just begs to be screwed with.

[CSGirl]

They seemed vastly more popular- for all holidays- in WNY than there are around here. We'd drive through middle-of-nowhere towns, and every single house would have them, and the really huge ones too.

[Simply Madeline]

Originally Posted by lynnejanet

It was like a snow globe, with stuff blowing around inside of it, with graves and such, in black and purple.

Originally Posted by Wicked Tinkerbell

It was a purple & black inflatable toothy arch for a doorway.

Total hijack, but when did we decide that purple was a Hallowe'en color? This seems to be fairly recent, no?

Target has (or had, back in July when the Hallowe'en stuff was first out) orange and purple string lights and lots of purple decorations.

[FrogFeathers]

Originally Posted by GalateaDancer

Our neighbors have that one - it's got glowing skulls inside.

Theirs is more like this one, but I don't recall it being a "hearse". I'll take a look (and maybe a pic) when I go pick up Ceej from school. Either way, their big, take up too much room and still get blown around and deflated.

Our front yard is way too small for anything inflatable. My Halloween decorations are so lame this year. I can't do my usual stuff (ladder-climbing and such) and the kids have been too busy with stuff to do it for me.

[PallasAthena]

I had a neighbor in TX who had one for every season. The bobbing, partially deflated easterbunny was downright disturbing. It looked almost demonic.