Love the colors on these!

That isn't a pickup truck, it's a lowrider. It doesn't even really look like an El Camino or Ute lowrider (do they have lowriders down under?), either.

@Crux said:
"I'm guessing those black tiles are supposed to represent the pumpkin's mouth, but the end-result mostly looks like a glorious mustache to me.

And I am fine with that."

Yeah, it really does look like a mustache. A grumpy jaack-o-lantern frowning at the trick-or-treaters and wishing they'd get off his lawn works, though.

@gearwheel said:
"That isn't a pickup truck, it's a lowrider. It doesn't even really look like an El Camino or Ute lowrider (do they have lowriders down under?), either.

@Crux said:
"I'm guessing those black tiles are supposed to represent the pumpkin's mouth, but the end-result mostly looks like a glorious mustache to me.

And I am fine with that."

Yeah, it really does look like a mustache. A grumpy jaack-o-lantern frowning at the trick-or-treaters and wishing they'd get off his lawn works, though."

It's giving evil Mumbo Jumbo for me.

@alLEGOry_HJB2810 said:
"It's giving evil Mumbo Jumbo for me."
Mumbo? Perhaps. Jumbo? Perhaps not!

40822 Jack-O'-Lantern Pickup Truck reminds me of the beginning of the movie Hack-O-Lantern.

@woosterlegos said:
"Nice! I'll get several of the Alter of the Dead set just for the tiles!"

I think they are all stickers.

The truck looks fun

That truck is going in the year round Halloween display. And looks like the Christmas wreath will be allowed to take off Dec 26-Oct 31!

Lego is on a roll with door decor, after 10340 for Winter and 40638 for Valentines Day. 40825 is going straight on my office door in September.

I wa about to skip the Altar of the Dead until the backside was shown. If those tiles are actually printed instead of stickers I may need to buy a couple. The Wreath & Pickup are definite buys.

@karrit said:
"I wa about to skip the Altar of the Dead until the backside was shown. If those tiles are actually printed instead of stickers I may need to buy a couple. The Wreath & Pickup are definite buys."

They look like stickers. I would've liked it more without the backside tbh - just a solid lego skull would be so metal

If I were the type to decorate for Halloween, I'd definitely be picking up 40822 and 40825.

The Altar of the Dead and the Wreath are both pretty good. The pumpkin is a bit naff compared to 40697 from last year.

@GirlWoman said:
" @karrit said:
"I wa about to skip the Altar of the Dead until the backside was shown. If those tiles are actually printed instead of stickers I may need to buy a couple. The Wreath & Pickup are definite buys."

They look like stickers. I would've liked it more without the backside tbh - just a solid lego skull would be so metal"

I just looked at the pictures on the LEGO website & they do look like stickers to me too.
If it were a normal skeleton head I might be interested but I'm not really into the Dios de los Muertos stuff.
Guess it will just be the Wreath & Pickup for me.

Neat! Wish some of those new monster figs with the 31167 Haunted Mansion made it into these in some way, though.

The pickup truck gives me 2K-Racing vibes X)

4-stud wide car! Very weird that the pumpkin has a moustache and the driver isn’t a ghoul. Missed opportunity there

@TheOriginalSimonB said:
" @woosterlegos said:
"Nice! I'll get several of the Alter of the Dead set just for the tiles!"

I think they are all stickers."

Charlie Brown: ARRGH!!!

Altar of the Dead: Well executed (Ha Ha!) with vibrant colors. Wish those were printed pieces.
Jack-O'-Lantern Pickup Truck: Not a pickup truck. Mustache looks weird on a pumpkin.
Halloween Wreath: Too bright/cheerful. +600 pieces for $40 is a good parts pack. Buying on sale.

I LOVE Halloween and Day of the Dead. But, I'm not sure I love these sets. I'm going to need to think about it.

It's nice that Lego is finally embracing these traditions.

Loving each one. Picking up this season for sure. In addition to the 3in1 Haunted house. BIG WINS FOR HALLOWEEN !!!!

Eyebrows and a moustache are not holes in a pumpkin but without the vocabulary for immediate solutions, these are great releases.
I’ll personally lose any cartooned animal faces.

That day of the dead set looks *amazing*. I'm onboard!

@Crux said:
"I'm guessing those black tiles are supposed to represent the pumpkin's mouth, but the end-result mostly looks like a glorious mustache to me.

And I am fine with that."

Are you referring to the black butterfly?

The sets look decent enough, but I have had enough death in the family and with close friends in recent years, so the concept of celebrating death is really alien (and kind of disgusting) to me. Also I have never understood the fascination with Halloween. When I was a kid that whole festivity didn't even exist in Germany at all. Nether did Valentine's day by the way. Both useless inventions swept over from the US by companies trying to sell even more crap that nobody needs. Consumerism at its worst.
I really hate that time of the year and am always the happiest when it's over.

@twentythree said:
"Altar of the Dead: Well executed (Ha Ha!) with vibrant colors. Wish those were printed pieces.
Jack-O'-Lantern Pickup Truck: Not a pickup truck. Mustache looks weird on a pumpkin.
Halloween Wreath: Too bright/cheerful. +600 pieces for $40 is a good parts pack. Buying on sale.
"

I do wish they were printed (that way they’d show up on PaB) but hopefully I can just buy the sticker sheet for $0.50 because they look great.

@StyleCounselor: sorry to be a downer in that regard, but if you had experienced what I did over the last few years, you wouldn't want any more reminders of the finite nature of life, and certainly no celebration of it.

And as for Valentine's day, if that's the only reason then I really pity those who need it for that.
I am happily married, I can have "Valentine's day perks" any day of the year and don't have to buy a "pretend to love you once a year" present like flowers, sweets or other meaningless items.

@Mister_Jonny said:
"I know older Lego fans aren’t typically a fan of sets like the pumpkin pick up, but I think it’s kind of neat. It feels very Lego-y, if that makes sense."

will work great for pumpkin patch... at least could be used many things

@ol_bubba said:
" @TheOriginalSimonB said:
" @woosterlegos said:
"Nice! I'll get several of the Alter of the Dead set just for the tiles!"

I think they are all stickers."

Charlie Brown: ARRGH!!!"

It was "AUUGH," not "ARRGH."

That skull is cool, but quite morbid!
Very un-LEGO like, as they generally avoid adult topics such as death!
Might pick it up from the local LEGO store, if I need to reach some purchase threshold for a GWP, and I’m just below it.
Pumpkin car is kind of cool, but weird.

Alter of the dead is just beautiful. I too would prefer printed tiles - but it’s 231 pieces for $15 so I can understand why they’re stickers.

As soon as Lego steps away from licensed sets, they really can deliver high value sets with great designs, licensed sets seems to go the opposite way in a hurry.

@lemish34 said:
"That skull is cool, but quite morbid!
Very un-LEGO like, as they generally avoid adult topics such as death!
Might pick it up from the local LEGO store, if I need to reach some purchase threshold for a GWP, and I’m just below it.
Pumpkin car is kind of cool, but weird."

They have skeletons, and all sets are kinda funny looking. they have had ghosts haunted houses for a long time now. Halloween and day of the dead is real popular and holidays. They would be nuts to not get involved in that big money market.

It's not like lego is making horror sets or anything.

and alter of the dead has flowers all over it, kinda cute. It is not all bloody or scary.
People dress up also as princess's on halloween, used to be dress up to scare spirits away for most people.

not sure why it seems most think halloween is all about death.

here in the U.S. they have pumkin contests where get prizes money ect. of who grew the biggest pumkin for the farmers. that car with the pumkin I think is the best thing they have made for halloween in a very long time.

that car with the pumkin I think is the best thing they have made for halloween in a very long time.Pickup truck.
sorry if I'm ranting a bit, my favorite holiday or time of year

@gearwheel said:
"That isn't a pickup truck, it's a lowrider. It doesn't even really look like an El Camino or Ute lowrider (do they have lowriders down under?), either.

@Crux said:
"I'm guessing those black tiles are supposed to represent the pumpkin's mouth, but the end-result mostly looks like a glorious mustache to me.

And I am fine with that."

Yeah, it really does look like a mustache."
It looks like a moustache to me, too. It would be super easy to mod to make it look like a mouth though: just rearrange the moustache and/or eye tiles, possibly removing some. There are a few configurations that would work. You wouldn’t even need any additional parts.

@AustinPowers said:
" @missedoutagain and @PurpleDave : thank you for the explanation, but I am well aware of the ROOTS of Halloween festivities. The problem imho is that these days, the vast majority who are having Halloween parties or go trick-or-treating have absolutely no clue what it is that they are celebrating.
Actually, the kids who go from door to door here simply say 'trick or treat" (well, the German equivalent of course, which is "Süßes oder Saures") and expect to get lots of sweets. In the end they present and compare their "hauls". So over here it's simply a "collect as many sweets as possible while being dressed like on Carnival" event. For the parents it just means having to spend a fortune on sweets you normally wouldn't buy all year (or at all), and on costumes you can only use once (ok, maybe twice) a year.

@StyleCounselor : I hear you too. As for the happily married part, I had to smile at the term "babysit". Time flies. By now our daughters are 17 and 13. The older one just passed her driving licence test (which is a huge thing for teens over here, since it's one of the events that mark the entrance into adulthood). Also more often than not she spends times with her boyfriend, partying and staying over night. And the younger one often has teen sleepovers with her girlfriends, either here or at one of them.
As for the love bit, funnily enough the latest thing I did was to buy a LEGO set my wife set we should get (21349). She's generally not much interested in LEGO other than the Botanicals, but we have had cats for about eight months now, and ever since she found out about the above set, which looks like one of ours, she said that we have to get it. "

Ha, ha! Love that. Congratulations!

Yes, I, too have reached the freedom zone. My kid is out of the house and off to college in 44 days, but who's counting? ;)

In fact, we're celebrating that fact by going to Europe. He's spending 10 days in Germany with schoolmates. Mrs. StyleCounselor and I are in France and meeting up with him in Berlin to spend another week as a family.

Got a little ahead there.

@StyleCounselor: sounds awesome.
Have a safe and enjoyable trip and a great time over here!

Dead pets in a LEGO set is WILD. They could've easily just included minifig pictures.

@AustinPowers said:
"The sets look decent enough, but I have had enough death in the family and with close friends in recent years, so the concept of celebrating death is really alien (and kind of disgusting) to me. Also I have never understood the fascination with Halloween. When I was a kid that whole festivity didn't even exist in Germany at all. Nether did Valentine's day by the way. Both useless inventions swept over from the US by companies trying to sell even more crap that nobody needs. Consumerism at its worst.
I really hate that time of the year and am always the happiest when it's over. "

Halloween comes from European Christians. The tradition of carving faces into vegetables and using them as candle comes from Ireland, though originally turnips were used. Variations of lights being lit to "guide the lost souls" on All Hallows Eve also can be found in Bavaria, Tyrol and Italy. Costumes also already were worn to ward off "evil spirits".
This was centuries before anyone even colonized the Americas. Of course theres even older Pagan festivities predating those.

Those stickers are SO PRETTY

@AustinPowers:
People know exactly what we’re celebrating over here. For kids, it’s the wearing of silly costumes, and the collection and consumption of dangerous quantities of candy. For adults, it’s the wearing of silly costumes and the consumption of dangerous quantities of alcohol (seriously, Halloween is a bigger party holiday than St. Patrick’s Day or Cinco de Mayo, and the latter is a Mexican holiday that Americans invented so they’d have an excuse to throw another boozy party, with tequila, and beer that’s called cervesas). They do educate kids about the origins of Halloween (at least my schools did), and if not you can always listen to the Halloween episodes of Little Steven’s Underground Garage, and listen to him explain about the turnips and whatnot. But the idea that Halloween (especially modern Halloween) is about celebrating death is like saying Oktoberfest is about celebrating alcoholism. It’s certainly tangential, but not the focus. Unless you’re rebellious teenagers going through a Satanist phase, but everything is about death for them.

@PurpleDave said:
"But the idea that Halloween (especially modern Halloween) is about celebrating death is like saying Oktoberfest is about celebrating alcoholism."
I thought that's exactly what the latter was about.

"Oans, zwoa, gsuffa!" is all I have to say. After all, beer in Bavaria isn't considered an alcoholic beverage, but a staple food.
;-)

@TheOriginalSimonB said:
" @woosterlegos said:
"Nice! I'll get several of the Alter of the Dead set just for the tiles!"

I think they are all stickers."

Yes, but I don't care. They're still awesome--that sticker sheet and the assortment of flower pieces are worth the cost of the set by themselves.

I don't need and don't plan to get the Halloween Wreath, but it's certainly distinctive!

@sklamb said:
" @TheOriginalSimonB said:
" @woosterlegos said:
"Nice! I'll get several of the Alter of the Dead set just for the tiles!"

I think they are all stickers."

Yes, but I don't care. They're still awesome--that sticker sheet and the assortment of flower pieces are worth the cost of the set by themselves."
Seriously?
A sticker sheet is worth next to nothing anyway, let alone one with such ugly designs, and those flower pieces? There's five larger ones on the front, the rest are of the type you usually get as spares in loads of sets.
The whole thing looks like you had a pirates set (the skull), and then your little daughter got hold of it and decided to decorate it with pieces from her Friends spare parts bin.
At least the wreath has a kind of consistent design. The skull just looks like a totally random assortment of parts was stuck on to it with no sense of design whatsoever.
Lastly, didn't LEGO decide to not do religious sets? This one literally has "altar" right in the name.

@AustinPowers said:
" @sklamb said:
" @TheOriginalSimonB said:
" @woosterlegos said:
"Nice! I'll get several of the Alter of the Dead set just for the tiles!"

I think they are all stickers."

Yes, but I don't care. They're still awesome--that sticker sheet and the assortment of flower pieces are worth the cost of the set by themselves."
Seriously?
A sticker sheet is worth next to nothing anyway, let alone one with such ugly designs, and those flower pieces? There's five larger ones on the front, the rest are of the type you usually get as spares in loads of sets.
The whole thing looks like you had a pirates set (the skull), and then your little daughter got hold of it and decided to decorate it with pieces from her Friends spare parts bin.
At least the wreath has a kind of consistent design. The skull just looks like a totally random assortment of parts was stuck on to it with no sense of design whatsoever.
Lastly, didn't LEGO decide to not do religious sets? This one literally has "altar" right in the name. "

I really like how you use one post to extol the virtues and rich cultural heritage of Oktoberfest, and in the next, you flat out disparage other people's traditions as "random crap". What a look. What powerful look.

You keep finding new and exciting ways to disappoint your mother and I.

@Crux: my post about the Oktoberfest was, while quite factual, not meant seriously. There's no "rich cultural heritage", it's a festival that only exists to extoll as much money from beer-thirsty tourists as possible. Have you seen what a "Maß" costs, let alone everything else there?

That 'truck' looks....WAAAAIIIIIIT FOR IIIIIIIIIT.....
Squashed.

@Modeltrainman said:
"That 'truck' looks....WAAAAIIIIIIT FOR IIIIIIIIIT.....
Squashed. "

That was a gourd one.