r/GooseBumps

Heres mine!

Sorry about the writing on the hardcovers lol the librarians had made them

As soon as I picked up this Trick Or Treat Studios life-size Curly mask, I knew I was going to repaint it just a bit this October. I grew up with the original 1995 Calendar, his first real exposure to the masses, & he was always depicted as much more impressive looking as soon as they gave him the "totally rad 90s pink mohawk & shades". They also made sure to utilize his empty eye sockets & add just the slightest hint of red irises. Really made him stand out apart from "generic skeleton with eyeballs". While I do appreciate the work & sculpt that TOTS has given us, I felt his eyes could be made to look that much closer to the original imagery I adored. So I messed around with it, the eye pupils are unfortunately fixed in place, so had to paint around it as best as I could without making him look cross-eyed 🤣 But in the end, I like where this is going so far. You really have to layer on the paint, as one coat definitely won't do it. May end up doing more later, but wanted to showcase the process, before & after, & hopefully inspire anyone else that has this beautiful mask to alter it if they have felt the same way.

I recently started hunting for Goosebumps for my son for when he's older.

We have been to so many op shops over the last few months and have found nothing except for the new reprints.

I found a single copy last weekend that was in bad shape but it was still so exciting!

My son spotted this on a very bottom shelf at Lifeline today and It was like winning the lottery. We also had a $20 off voucher so it ended up costing us just over $20 AUD.

I'm guessing someone from the UK must have brought these over as some of the Editions I have never seen before.