Temu Halloween Building Block Scenery

 Not the best post title but when the item name is "258pcs Building Blocks Halloween Theme Set ABS Material Scary Bat Pumpkin Cemetery Christmas Halloween Gift STEM Children's Education Toys Holiday Decoration" you try to come up with something short and more to the point!

  

 

It's almost becoming a tradition at this point. For the past few years, I scope out Temu for a cheap Halloween-ish building block set. It's not LEGO, but it's also not as expensive. I got this 258 piece set for $15. 

 

Part of "passing the savings on to you" is the lack of any kind of presentation.

 

 Inside were three smaller bags of pieces. Each bag has everythng to build one section so there was no emptying everything on the table and having to search for what you need.

 

 My main issue with these is that the builds they have feel too cramped with too many things going on. Of course, you can always make changes! For this section, they have the street lamp on the left corner which obscures the pumpkin. 

 

The ghost is four clear cylinders stacked up with the sheet over them so it looks like it's floating and that's a chain on the ground. Can't have a proper ghost without a chain! I think that's supposed to be a skeletal dog? It looks weird using a humanoid torso but it's Halloween, I'm here for the weird!

 

 

The other side is pretty basic but again, a little too much set decoration. The reaper is really nice. I could see adding it to a graveyard as a statue. The set also comes with a pair of regular black legs in case you don't want to use the "dress/robe" bottom block. There's a skeleton torso that's supposed to go here also but I didn't like the way it looked and it overcrowds the scene.

 

By far, the best piece is, rightfully, the centerpiece to the set. There's a pair of odd gargoyles guarding the gate and then you have the ghost which is "floating" thanks to its hands holding on to the gate. If there was another reaper, I'd replace the gargoyles with them. As much as I complain about the overcrowding, I actually like everything going on here that gives it an overgrown, abandoned look.

 

Tune in tomorrow for more building brick goodness.

 

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