Spooktacular 2025 Event Overview and Schedule

Are your shelves collecting dust and cobwebs? Is the devil in the details of your pop culture collection? It’s time to stir up the spirits in your haunted house, because Spooktacular 2025 is here!

Join Sideshow online from Thursday, October 23 through Friday, October 31 for the annual fall event that really puts the eek in geek! Expect spine-chilling new product reveals, ghoulish giveaways, mischievous deals, and more. And be warned — Spooktacular activities can happen at any time, day or night. You’ll want to keep your many eyes peeled, watching our social media channels, social groups, emails, and website to catch all the tricks and treats we have in store.

Registration Perks

FREE event registration is open now and will score you $5 in Sideshow Rewards for your account. Plus, you’ll receive email notifications and updates about the Spooktacular event essentials, as well as registrant-exclusive opportunities. Sign up for Sideshow SMS alerts for even more ways to creep track of the fun. You might want to boo-kmark our Spooktacular event page while you’re at it.

Learn more about the event below … if you dare!

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Daily Activities Schedule

CAUTION: Schedule can change without warning! Bwahahaha…!!

All listed shows take place in the Sideshow Social Network /Let Your Geek Sideshow Group unless otherwise noted.

Thursday, October 23

• 12 AM PT – Kick-Off Show
• 10 AM PT – Spooktacular Showcase on YouTube
• 1 PM PT – Bingo
• 5 PM PT – Wrap-Up Show

Friday, October 24

• 9 AM PT – Morning Show
• 12 PM – Trick or Trivia
• 5 PM PT – Wrap-Up Show

Saturday, October 25

• 10 AM PT – Spooktacular Ambiance on YouTube
• 12 PM PT – Cobbled Cosplay

Sunday, October 26

• 12 PM PT – Fandom Feud

Monday, October 27

• 9 AM PT – Morning Show
• 12 PM PT – Win, Lose, or 💀
• 4 PM PT – Spooky Sculpting Livestream on YouTube

Tuesday, October 28

• 9 AM PT – Morning Show
• 12 PM PT – Drawtacular
• 5 PM PT – Wrap-Up Show

Wednesday, October 29

• 9 AM PT – Morning Show
• 11 AM PT – Booth Tour Live on YouTube
• 5 PM PT – Wrap-Up Show

Thursday, October 30

• 9 AM PT – Morning Show
• 1 PM PT – Posers
• 5 PM PT – Wrap-Up Show

🎃 Friday, October 31 – HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃

• 9 AM PT – Morning Show
• 12 PM PT – Sideshow Cinema
• 5 PM PT – Wrap-Up Show

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Sideshow Live on YouTube

To kick off the first day of the event, join us on YouTube for the Spooktacular Showcase at 10 AM PT on Thursday, October 23, as special guest hosts Zoran Gvojic (Dead Meat Productions, LowCarbComedy) and Tiffany Smith (Masters of the Universe: Revelations, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3) reveal exciting new collectibles and give you a closer look at the most recent horror finds.

Looking for even more ways to enjoy the Spooktacular booth? Tune in at 10 AM PT on Saturday, October 25 on YouTube for a special Spooktacular Ambiance stream. You know those cozy holiday fireplace videos? This is just like that, but make it spookier! Perfect for haunting your home.

Join sculptor Adam Dougherty and host Kirk Thatcher for a LIVE Spooky Sculpting session on YouTube from 4 PM – 6 PM PT on October 27.

Additionally, we invite fans to join us on YouTube at 11 AM PT on Wednesday October 29 as hosts Guy Klender and Amy Chase, plus artist Anthony Mestas, take a deeper dive into the very latest collectibles by Sideshow and Hot Toys, answering fan questions and chatting live from the studios.

And as an extra treat, enjoy this Behind the Scenes look at how the Spooktacular Showcase was filmed!

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Giveaways

Website and Livestream Giveaways

Check out our Contests & Giveaways webpage during the event for a chance to enter our website-based giveaways. Our Spooktacular 2025 Grand Prizes are…

• The Frankie Reborn Statue by Sideshow and Olivia De Berardinis. This giveaway will run on our site from 10/23/25 to 10/31/25 at 11:59 PM PT.
• The Man-Bat™ Premium Format™ Figure by Sideshow. This giveaway will run on our site from 10/23/25 to 11/2/25 at 11:59 PM PT.

Additionally, tune in to all of our event livestreams (only some of which are in the schedule above) for a chance to enter to win prizes presented by our hosts.

Detective Mystery Giveaway

From October 23 to November 2, Let Your Geek Sideshow Facebook members are on the case in our Spooktacular Scavenger Hunt! Become a spooky sleuth and decode encrypted info each day leading up to Halloween. Solve the daily puzzles to collect words almost like a scavenger hunt. On the final day, head to side.show/sideshowCSI25 to input the phrase in the correct order for your chance to win the Howard the Duck Premium Format™ Figure by Sideshow.

Group Giveaways

Oh, you thought we were going to list all the Spooktacular contests here? That’s cute! Better join our Facebook groups if you want access to the slew of prizes headed their way.

Social Media Giveaways

Flash Giveaways are quick contests held on Sideshow’s official social media accounts. You will only have a limited amount of time to follow the prompt given on the social post for a chance to win. A winner will be selected from qualifying entries.

Giveaway Challenges are contests held on the Crowdpurr platform at sideshow.live. A social media post will go live directing you to Crowdpurr with a special hashtag and access code for that challenge. Once the contest begins, you will have a specified amount of time to complete the challenge described and submit your entry for a chance to win. A winner will be selected from qualifying entries, and all entries have the potential to be showcased in Sideshow’s wrap-up livestreams.

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Spooktacular Sales

We’re slashing prices like we’re John Carver during Spooktacular! Collectors can take off 30% on select in-stock products starting 10/23/2025 at 12 AM PT. Use code SPOOKYDEAL to redeem this promo in your shopping cart.

Super Secret, Extra Special Promos

Stay tuned to our social channels, because 100% off promo codes and reward point drops could creep up at any moment! If you spot one of these extra special promotions, head over to sideshow.com/code to check its eligibility. Redeem ASAP because these codes go quick — and once they’re gone, they’re gone for good.

Read more about promo code redemptions here.

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Universal Monsters

In an exciting reveal, Sideshow returns to its roots with the very first license that it explored as a fledgling collectibles company over 30 years ago – Universal Monsters! Three decades later, Sideshow’s artists have returned to their first love, releasing a series of new tributes to the classic horror, fantasy, and science fiction icons of the silver screen. RSVP HERE to be the first to know about this exciting release as it unfolds across the collecting community.

To celebrate our Universal collab, we’re showcasing new items and inviting fans to participate. Learn how to get in on the cinematic action in person as well as via social media.

See Sideshow in Person — Sideshow x CODA Universal Monsters Event

Starting on October 24, two exhibits will open simultaneously in Los Angeles, CA, and Austin, TX. Fans can stop by Celebrity Authentics at Universal CityWalk in Los Angeles, CA from October 24 to November 2 to get a look at new Premium Format™ Figures and movie posters coming soon from Sideshow and CODA.

At the same time in Austin, TX, fans can visit Canopy Gallery to see a curated collection of alternative movie posters and limited-run screenprints, with event-exclusive editions available for purchase.

Finally, on October 31, the world-famous Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, CA will host a special screening of The Mummy (1932). Attendees will have a chance to purchase an event-exclusive screenprint poster by Ken Taylor. Check out the full event page for further details about these exhibits and exclusives.

Drawloween Challenge

Can’t make the trip? Never fear! We’d actually love to see your artwork online. This October, join our chilling Drawloween Challenge. We’re asking you to immortalize these cinema legends with illustrations and other unique artistic creations for a chance to be featured on our social media channels. Additionally, a select few participants will be chosen to win fa-boo-lous prizes. Entries will be judged on creativity, spirit, and overall presentation.

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Ser Sideshow and Phoney Phantoms

Longtime Sideshow fans will be very familiar with Phoney Phantoms, the retro arcade-inspired mobile game made by Sideshow Staff. Phoney Phantoms features real-world rewards which collectors can utilize as shopping credit on Sideshow.com.

The Phoney Phantoms game is a Spooktacular tradition that returns each year with new rewards and new challenges – and this year is no different! Phoney Phantoms will have Daily Challenges in Arcade Mode every single day of Spooktacular. These rewards are bigger than normal, and a great way to get introduced to all the Ser Sideshow games.

Plus, you can now wishlist Palace Perils, the latest Ser Sideshow sidescroller coming soon on Steam! Palace Perils has gameplay and story developed by Sideshow team member Andrew Ceco and hand-drawn original enemies, backgrounds, and cutscenes by artist Aidan Casserly.

Fans will also want to keep an eye on our social media for the latest news about Ser Sideshow’s adventures.

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• Let Your Geek Sideshow
• Let Your Statue Sideshow
• Sideshow Social Network

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Get all the horror and haunts your wicked heart could want during Spooktacular 2025. Register now to get exclusive access and benefits. Then get excited with other fans at side.show/geekgroup or in the Sideshow Social Network. And don’t forget to Let Your Geek Sideshow!