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This Year’s Halloween Treats from LEGO Include a Haunted Hayride

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The Halloween season is, believe it or not, right around the corner, which means you can expect a whole lot of Halloween-related content in the coming months here on BD. For starters, this week brings with it a preview of Halloween 2020’s offerings from LEGO.

Set for release on August 1st, the “Halloween Hayride” set (#40423) comes with 148 pieces and includes buildable entrance arch, vintage tractor, hay cart and lots of decorative details.

The set features 2 minifigures with Halloween costume decoration – a tractor driver dressed as a mummy and a girl with skeleton costume – and a skeleton figure for creative role play.

Releasing on the same day is “Pumpkin & Bat Duo” (#854049), a 131-piece set that features a brick-built pumpkin and bat with adjustable wings. Both buildable models have scary face stickers and strings to hang them up, and they come housed in Halloween packaging.

Many thanks to All Hallows Geek for the heads up.

Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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Alice Cooper Joins the “Music Maniacs” Line from McFarlane Toys

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When you hear the label “Music Maniacs,” a few names probably come to mind. And we’re willing to bet that one of them is Alice Cooper, who is indeed joining McFarlane’s toy line.

McFarlane Toys has announced that their Music Maniacs: Alice Cooper action figure will launch for pre-orders on March 22, and you can get a first look at the upcoming toy below.

The “Music Maniacs” line is a spinoff of McFarlane’s popular “Movie Maniacs” line, which returned to life last year – though the focus is no longer squarely on horror movies.

Alice Cooper is most definitely a Music Maniac but he’s also a Movie Maniac too. As Luiz H.C. wrote on Bloody Disgusting back in 2017, “Cooper’s love of the horror genre goes far beyond his music, as the artist has been involved with several scary movies as well. From John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness to Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, it’s easy to see why the rocker is so iconic in the world of blood, guts, and ghosts. Hell, even Tim Burton’s charming yet lackluster Dark Shadows features an Alice concert as sort of plot point.”

Luiz’s article continued, “However, my favorite of Cooper’s contributions to the world of scary movies was his involvement with the soundtrack for Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives. The main attraction was obviously the hit single He’s Back (The Man From Behind The Mask), which was written as a catchy homage to the hockey-mask-wearing killer.”

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