Last year, I was glad to see a couple of new spider-legged heads on the market, especially this freaky blood-weeping doll head. In 2025, the same plastic spider legs return carrying several times the fun!

First, this new version from Michael's sports a human skull done up like a clown, which also makes a nice copyright-friendly "IT" reference!

There's even a larger size version, with the classic hairy bendable-type spider prop legs! Otherwise, they differ only in that the small one has red pom-pom clown hair, while the big one instead gets a clown nose.

Another arachnoid comes from "The Gothic Collection," sold at a few different places including our party store, Lippman! Its legs are painted a woody brown, and its head is a pumpkin!! We fleshed out the idea of head-spiders last year, but I think this one is obviously something else, some living pumpkin-spider hybrid.

Pumpkin-spider, or Pumpider, has eight "spider eyes" of various sizes, the two largest made of multicolored glass, as well as a pair of jagged, black plastic mandibles. Yes, it's clearly cobbled together from a bunch of craft parts, and even still has strands of extra hot glue hanging off it, but that only adds to the charm, even if spiders do not have ant-like chomping mandibles. Pumpiders might.

Then of course there's an EYEBALL SPIDER! AT LAST. I was once excited enough to find a spider-legged eyeball just sculpted onto a fake pumpkin, lamenting only that I'd love a stand-alone example. Later, when Michael's put out some spider sculptures with eyeball abdomens, I said I'd just rather see some simple plastic ones that aren't so fragile. There was also that time I asked for any little plastic eyeball critters at all, too, because this simple and obvious trope is nonetheless incredibly hard to find in spooky decor form.

So yes, as cheap as it is to just screw a generic plastic eyeball to generic plastic spider legs and as easy as it would be to do that yourself at any moment, I am still thrilled to bits that you can now just buy a perfect, veiny, naked eyeball with eight skittery limbs. Why didn't that happen years, even decades ago, if it was that easy?!

Eyeball spiders are obviously their own special thing as well, not just a head-spider that picked up an eyeball!

...And while the eyeball is my personal favorite, I feel like some may be more intrigued by the one with the little statue-child head. Like a marble cherub head. Its expression is SO hilariously morose, too.