We've started a blow mold page over on the OldChristmasTreeLights.com forum.

http://oldchristmastreelights.com/forum ... acd4f0eb5d

Here's my collection, courtesy of a Springfield Area resident cleaning out his garage:
Why don't I have more? Because I'm trying to clean out MY garage.

Recently spotted at the Springfield September Antiques Extravaganza. A little faded, but still smiling.

Mrs. Claus, also in Springfield.
Gripping the candy cane like a weapon. . . . ?

This snowman looks very Empirish? Sorry, I couldn't get to most of these to see the manufacturer - the room was very crowded and the booth was very full of stuff that was far more fragile than this fellow.

Santa has an odd expression. I think this is an Empire. Same show, same booth, same crowd.
If I had wanted to start a collection, I would have been in VERY good shape just from this booth.

Speaking of collections, this was all in one booth, of which the owner was not present when I stopped by, and whose neighbor didn't think I should be taking photos, much less poking through the stuff to see who made it. But I thought it might help somebody to see these in relationship to one another. Note the blow-mold santa face in the upper right hand corner, as well as the miniature blow-mold toy soldier and carollers.

My Blow-mold Santa and a rescued grapevine tree.

Spotted at the Urbana (Ohio) Flea market. A penguin. This is a new one on me. Saw several other unusual ones but the pictures didn't come out.

Easter Bunny blow mold, apparently designed by Don Featherston (?) produced sometime after 1993, photographed at the May, 2015 Springfield, Ohio Flea Market Extravaganza.

A tree in my back yard, which had my vintage blow-mold Santa glowing next to it, started blinking on and off in thirty second increments. I realized that the wind had blown the Santa on top of the light-sensor/timer that the lights and Santa were plugged into. So Santa's light would make the timer shut off. Then after a few seconds, the timer would realize it was dark and turn the circuit back on again. And the cycle would have kept repeating itself indefinitely had I not noticed. Just another Clark Griswold moment.
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No, I don't have a gif of it, but if you want to see what it looked like, stare at the photo and blink slowly.