Everyone’s favorite mystery-solving gang is back! Grab your Scooby Snacks and get ready to go undercover as Warner Bros. Home Entertainment releases Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! on Digital October 4th and DVD on October 18th. In addition to the 72-minute all-new original animated film, the DVD release also includes three bonus classic Scooby-Doo! episodes.
Mystery Inc. has cracked the case to top all cases! They’ve tracked down Coco Diablo, the head of the notorious costume crime syndicate that colludes The Black Knight, Space Kook and the Ghost Diver. With Coco and her kitty in prison, Mystery Inc. thinks that they can finally enjoy a break. Wrong! Suddenly, menacing doppelgänger ghosts of the Scooby crew and favorite classic foes show up in Coolsville to threaten Halloween. Now it’s up to the meddling kids – and their unlikely new partner Coco – to unmask the latest scoundrel and save Halloween! For Shaggy and Scooby-Doo, with trick-or-treating on the line – this time it’s personal!
Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! will also be available on Cartoon Network and HBO Max during this year’s annual Scoobtober celebration.
A Geek Daddy received complimentary tickets to this event
My family had a TERROR-ific time attending the first night of 2019's annual Hallowe'en in Greenfield Village event at The Henry Ford. This year's festivities take place on the weekend evenings of October 11 - 13, 17-20 & 24-27, 2019 leading up to Halloween. You are sure to enjoy wandering through a haunting landscape filled with costumed characters and Halloween decorations illuminated by more than 1,000 hand-carved Jack-o-Lanterns. Don't hesitate to make advance reservations if you want to go because the dusk to 10 pm time slots for this ticketed event do sell out.
Children and parents alike are invited to follow a pumpkin-lit path that weaves through the historic structures that makeup The Henry Ford's Greenfield Village. There are ten stations doling out goodies to trick-or-treaters along the Jack-o-Lantern trail which takes about an hour to traverse. Candy including Dum Dums Suckers, Laughy Taffy, M&M's, Milky Ways, Skittles, Snickers, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, and Twizzlers are what is primarily given out.
My wife and I sorted through everything before the kids dove into their trick or treat bags to filter out what they couldn't have due to their food allergies and this dad blogger ate whatever wasn't safe. Sometimes you just have to take one for the team! We all agreed the favorite treat given out during the evening were the bags of Better Made Potato Chips. We love Better Made because their products don't have any issues for us to worry about for our kids' food allergies and taste great.
Ever wonder if any of the buildings in Greenfield Village are haunted? The ghosts and ghouls emerge from the shadows for Halloween fun! Scarecrows come to life, specters try to scare you, monsters go bump in the night, dancing skeletons provide some merriment and a headless horseman gallops around during Greenfield Village's Halloween festivities. Spirits even take over the classic carousel!
This year parts of the trick-or-treating trail had a Wizard of OZ theme. You could get your picture taken with Dorthy, Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion, Tin Man, or the Wicked Witch. A haunted forest filled with flying monkeys had to be walked through before you could get to the city of OZ for a chance to chat with the Wizard himself in his throneroom. Instead of following a yellow brick road for your adventure it was an orange path of pumpkins.
There were a variety of interactive elements to participate in during our evening of spooky fun at The Henry Ford's Green Village Halloween. The clairvoyant Madam ZaZa told our fortunes while she gazed into a crystal ball. We walked across a troll bridge filled with fog and lit up with black lights. Had a chance to try on Dracula's coffin for size. My daughter's favorite part of our Greenfield Village Halloween was the Broom Hilda's flying lessons. She had a good time jumping on a giant sized broom and getting some tips about how witches fly on them.
In addition to the scares and treats being given out for Halloween at The Henry Ford's Greenfield Village there was also plenty of entertainment going on throughout the evening. The Top Hat Side Show was amazing filled with magic tricks, sword swallowing and fire spitting. I could have spent all evening hanging out there but my kids dragged me away because they didn't want to miss out on trick or treating. My son's favorite part of the night, beyond getting candy, was watching 1930s era Halloween cartoons that were being shown on a silver screen near a Gobblin' Stop that was selling deserts and beverages. Those cartoons really were a treat to view!
At other spots they had Halloween themed musical performances by groups with names such as The Transylvania Trio and Potion Sisters. There also were sessions where spooky stories where being read by flashlight in the dark of night to audiences who braved these dramatic presentations of Hansel & Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood and The Tell-Tale Heart. Even the Grim Reaper got in on the action making an appearance at a bon fire.
My favorite part of the night though was The Pirate Revue. A rowdy bunch of drunken pirates were hanging around by Greenfield Village's lagoon. They were telling jokes, singing and engaging in some sword play. Ahoy mateys, if ur ever wanted be a pirate this was the place to be! Definitely a highlight of our Hallowe'en in Greenfield Village that this dad blogger really appreciated.
The best part of Hallowe'en in Greenfield Village though was seeing my children having a lot of fun while the whole family was having a good time together. This event at The Henry Ford is an evening out where everyone in the family can enjoy themselves. While there are some scary aspects of this Halloween event for the most part it is more light hearted spooky fun than horrifying so that all ages should be comfortable participating.
Have yourself a Happy Halloween with a visit to Greenfield Village! Tickets for Hallowe'en in Greenfield Village are $17 for anyone over 2 years old for general admission or members of The Henry Ford get a discounted price of $14. For more information, go to thehenryford.org
When out and about this Halloween, don't forget to include stopping by your local comic book store as part of your trick-or-treating. Participating comic book stores will be handing out FREE comic books on Saturday, October 31st to celebrate Halloween. Visit HalloweenComicsFest.comto find a participating shop near you.
This year's promotion will be providing trick-or-treaters with a selection of 13 full sized Halloween themed comic books and 8 mini comics to choose from. What you can take varies from store-to-store with some allowing 1 comic book per person, others letting people take as many as they like and yet others setting a quota somewhere in between. So you may want to contact comic stores in advance to confirm their participation and make sure you understand what the rules are for this Halloween giveaway.
There is a nice selection of comics here that has something for everyone from early readers to teens to parents so trick or treaters young and old are welcome to participate in this year's Halloween Comics Fest. Which of these selections do you think your kids, or you, would most want to add to their goody bucket this Halloween? For our family its nice to see Disney characters back in the pages of comic books again after a few years absence so we'll go with Donald Duck's Halloween Scream.
If you want to check out these comics in advance to see if they may be age appropriate for a child or of interest to you the links above all provide a preview of the first few pages of each comic book. For more information, you can also go to HalloweenComicFest.com.
Have fun, be safe, don't let the vampires or werewolves bite, and don't forget to pick up some FREE comic books this Halloween!
Of course kids can load up on candy to eat for free while trick or treating but there are also lots of opportunities get a real meal for free to on Halloween. Check out some of these great deals for free and discounted meals taking place on Friday, October 31, 2014:
CARRABBA'S: Kids eat FREE with an adult entree purchase not just on Halloween but for the whole entire weekend 10/31/14 to 11/2/14. They are even providing a special "spooky" menu for kids during this special promotion.
IHOP: Children can get a Scary Face Pancake for FREE on 10/31/14 ... No purchase necessary! Plus as readers of A GEEK DADDY BLOG know we are always cautious about taking my kids out in regard to peanut/tree nut allergies and IHOP is food allergy friendly in that regard. Check out their Allergen warning list by CLICKING HERE
OLIVE GARDEN: Children eat FREE @ Olive Garden on 10/31/14 with an adult purchase AND a coupon. Don't forget the coupon! CLICK HERE to print out your coupon. I personally hate it when a restaurant requires a coupon for a deal - but I'm not a big fan of Olive Garden anyway.
OUTBACK STEAK HOUSE: I love Outback Steakhouse and anytime I can get an excuse to go by telling my wife we can get the kids to eat free to save money we're going to go. So we'll be having an early dinner at Outback Steak House than returning home to get ready for the trick or treating festivities before it gets dark. Kids eat FREE with the purchase of an adult entree on 10/31/14.
KRISPY KREME: Show up in costume and get a FREE donut on October 31, 2014.
Plus here are a few other Halloween promotions that aren't free but still a good deal:
CHIPOTLE: Show up dressed in a costume after 5pm on 10/31/14 and get a burrito for $3. This deal is for kids and kids at heart. Chipotle is donating proceeds from these sales up to $1 million to its Cultivate Foundation which has a focus on promoting sustainable and equitable food production and distribution.
SONIC DRIVE-IN: Corn Dogs are just 50 cents each all day long on Halloween. No costume required and no age limits.
ARBYS: Say "Trick or Meat" and get free bacon on anything on their menu.
STARBUCKS: Get a "Franken Frappuccinos" which is a green beverage with a chocolate mint flavor to it for $3 after 2pm on Halloween
On Saturday, October 25, 2014 local comic book stores across the United States and Canada will be giving away FREE comic books for the industry's HALLOWEEN COMICFEST. Participating retailers will be handing out 12 full size comics and 7 mini-comics to kids, and adults, who stop by and say "trick or treat" while supplies last. CLICK HERE to see if there is a participating location near you.
Don't miss out on the fun! Make sure you swing by a participating comic book store on Saturday, October 25th. They'll probably be out of the freebies by the end of the day so don't wait until later in the week to try and pick these up or try to actually trick or treat on Halloween at these stores.
During the Halloween season we often skip out on many of the trick-or-treat type events hosted for children because of my daughter's severe peanut allergy to avoid the risks and hassles involved with the candy and goodies that go along with them. One thing that we do do every year to enjoy the Halloween atmosphere with our kids, and it has become somewhat of a family tradition for us, is take a trip to the local zoo to enjoy their Halloween decorations.
The Detroit Zoodoes a nice job of creating artistic Halloween displays made out of pumpkins that you can appreciate as you stroll around the zoo grounds. With the purchase of an annual pass to the zoological park it also doesn't cost us any extra money to take my minions on a special outing just to spend an afternoon enjoying the decorations. The changing fall colors often add a nice pallet of reds and oranges as a backdrop to enhance the decorations on display that really helps boost our Halloween spirit.
Here are a few of our favorite displays from this year's visit:
Cinderella's Carriage
The Lorax
Christmas in October
Butterflies
Where the Wild Things Are
Witches Brew
Sesame Street
Detroit Sports Teams
In addition to the pumpkin art work, my kids always want to run up and hug the giant inflatable jack-o-lantern on display. Yes Charlie Brown there is such a thing as the Great Pumpkin!
The DETROIT ZOO is located at 8450 W. 10 Mile Road in Royal Oak, Michigan. During the month of October it is open 7 days per week (10am - 5pm/Weekdays & 10am - 4pm/Weekends). For more information, visit: www.detroitzoo.org
