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Freddy Fazbear’s animatronic officially launched in Spirit Halloween stores yesterday for $500
Early eBay sales are already clustering between $1,000 and $1,500, with some units reaching $3,000
The animatronics are sold first come, first served exclusively at Spirit Halloween stores
Spirit Halloween has a new prop that will make you say “har har har-har har”. Their Freddy Fazbear animatronics leaked online last month, and they officially launched in-store yesterday. Availability is spotty and limited, with many stores only having a handful to sell. Consequently, fans that showed up hoping to buy one were left empty-handed. Now these props are reselling for up to six times what they retailed for.
Five Nights at Freddy’s has built over a decade of merchandise-friendly horror around its cast of killer animatronics, and Freddy himself has always been the face of the franchise. Spirit Halloween’s version raises both arms, one folding a microphone inward while the other waves, with light-up eyes that track side to side and a body that tilts with the motion, all set to the game’s audio cues.
The prop leaked in factory footage back in December, then again in a photo from a corporate meeting in March, and Spirit teased it publicly on July 15 with a two-word post: “We’re watching you.”
The flagship store in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey opened yesterday with Freddy on the show floor, and local stores across the country are rolling it out through August. This is the first FNAF animatronic Spirit Halloween has ever put into production, and the dedicated Freddy Fazbear stage display built around it signals a real merchandising push behind the character rather than a one-off prop.
With the spotty in-person availability and quick sellout at many locations, Spirit Halloween’s Freddy Fazbear animatronics is becoming one of the most lucrative Halloween flip’s we’ve ever covered, well ahead of our expectations.
In the last 24 hours, we’ve seen numerous secondary sales for Spirit’s Freddy Fazbear prop for upwards of $1,000. A handful have sold for as much as $3,000. That’s a wide spread for a product barely a day old, and it points to demand outpacing the small number of units each store received.
Two things are stacking on top of each other here. First is the classic Halloween prop scramble: this is an in-store exclusive with confirmed spotty stock, so anyone who wants one without hunting stores has to pay a reseller.
Second is the FNAF fan base, which has proven for over a decade that it will pay real money for anything with Freddy’s face on it. That’s a different, more durable kind of demand than a typical seasonal decoration gets, and it’s a big reason the outlier sales are already hitting quadruple digits.
Viral Halloween decorations tend to follow the same script: a summer release, a sellout by early fall, and the real price spike in the weeks leading up to Halloween itself. If Freddy follows that pattern, current prices are closer to the floor than the ceiling. Add in the FNAF fan base, which will likely keep buying these well past October for display purposes alone, and this looks like a prop with value that outlasts the season.
The near-term play is simple: use Spirit’s store locator to find nearby locations and start calling or visiting to check stock before word spreads further.
If you can track one down at retail, this is shaping up to be one of the more lucrative Halloween props we’ve covered. Just know the risk profile going in. Spirit Halloween only allows animatronics to be exchanged online, not returned in physical stores, and units that have been opened and used generally aren’t returnable at all, so a final sale means exactly that if the resale market cools. Right now, though, every sold listing suggests demand is still well ahead of supply, and the window to buy at retail is still open.
Baseball
This is the latest MLB promo to explode online
Consoles
These will resell when preorders dry up
Trading Cards
These will resell for solid profits