Member's Mark 6' Pre-Lit Oversized Spider

This spider is so much fun because it can be used for spooky or for goofy fun. I love spiders and I've been trying to teach the neighborhood kids about them so they might be less scared, and this decoration lets me set up for spooky season and also help teach kids thats spiders aren't only scary. It's very soft, and the little lights all along it give a fun vibe that the kids in my neighborhood love. It has lots of hooks on the end of each leg, and multiple holes you can hang the spider from on the abdomen. The arms are flexible but stay in place once you get them into position. Overall it's a lot of fun to set up and very well made.

First off– I was sent this one to review, and it's June, so no, I'm not faking a whole Halloween scene here. I just temporarily hung it up in my entry room to get a good look at it. And honestly, picturing one of these hanging in a doorway like this during Halloween party? That be pretty cool! Here's the thing about this spider: it's big! 6 feet across, and it actually looks the part. The body is a wire frame wrapped in a fabric fur coating, with stripes of fluffy gray fur running across the body and all of the legs. The white lights inside have a twinkling effect that I really enjoy, and the red eyes are the part that my whole family keeps pointing at. Great touch! Set up couldn't be simpler. Legs fold right out of their store position and that's basically it – unfold, hang, done. No wrestling with it. The arms are opposable too, so you can bend them however you want and really set the pose. Design is great! Underneath the belly, there are two eyelids cut into the fabric, and that fabric is a netting that's tougher than it looks. The holes feel beef up – almost like they were melted or cauterized into a little plastic ring instead of just cut through, so they shouldn't tear out on you. There is one on the head side and one on the tail side, so you can hang it heads up or heads down. And every leg has a little eyelet on the end for ringing it whatever you want. It the weather cooperates this Halloween, I want to nail this thing to the back of our storage shed – we like to decorate the shed for the holidays. Low power draw is always a bonus! It's all LED, so the draw is basically nothing. The tag on the cord says indoor and outdoor use, so you got options either way. Storage is genuinely one of my favorite parts. The whole thing collapse is back down into a ball, so it drops right back into the box – or honestly any holiday tote you've already got lying around. The materials feel solid out of the box– the netting, the fur, the frame all seam will put together. Id expect it to keep for at least one season, and hopefully several, though I can't really speak to that yet since I'm just taking a first look at it. I'll update this once I get it out on the shed for the real Halloween run.