Blood feud - North Shore Sunday- Topic: Halloween News
Tropical Products makes about a million orders of the costume blood every year, and now they’re producing a line to benefit the city of Salem. Officials were on board with the idea and plans began to roll out to design the label with the Haunted Happenings logo and pitch it to local vendors, especially tourist shops where the product would best sell. The blood, however, has struck a nerve — or a vein — because the bottles they’re being packaged in bear the Haunted Happenings logo, which includes the image of a witch flying on a broomstick. Kate Fox is the director of Destination Salem, the city’s public-private tourism agency, which has been involved in planning the rollout of Haunted Happenings Costume Blood. The only reason a witch is pictured on the bottle is that it’s part of the Haunted Happenings logo, and it’s a Haunted Happenings product. The blood is intended mostly for tourists, who he believes will buy it not because of a correlation to the past, but to enhance a costume and take home a souvenir. More Halloween News