[Pen/Pencil Review] Halloween Rerun - Glowing Skull Halloween Novelty Blue Ballpoint Pen
Originally published at Rhonda Eudaly. You can comment here or there.
I’m doing a rerun this week - one because it’s going to be a weirdly busy day - hey, it’s Halloween - and two, because I snapped the head off this pen during a meeting that morphed into my annual review. So this is a REST IN PEACE post to a fun novelty pen…
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It’s Halloween week, and that means one last novelty pen. This one, I swear was given to me by my friend, Meredith Hines as part of a survival kit for FenCon. It’s a skull pen (because well, yeah) that only lights up on an impact. Which makes it not only awesome as a pen, but also a great source of amusement and stress relief.
This sucker is long. It’s 7.5″ inches long with the cap on and just under with the cap off. The grip is flared for a bit of ergonomic support leading to a slender barrel. This pen is top heavy with the white skull in a light bulb style base. The skull is a soft rubber that makes it impact resistant - which is what you need since the LEDs are triggered by impact. The LEDs shift through the color spectrum for a decent amount of time - but you do have to let the cycle run. Thwacking the pen again does not stop the light show.
The ink is a fine point blue ball point ink with a stainless steel point. The ink flows well and has a smooth action. It will be my pen of choice this week.
The Numbers.
1. How does it work? - 0.5 - It’s better than I expected. The flow of ink is nice. The ergonomic grip makes it more comfortable to hold than it might be.
2. Look and feel - 0.5 - It’s not bad for a novelty pen. It’s long and a little top heavy, so the balance is off but not as a huge detriment to the writing experience.
3. Material - 1 It’s a fun novelty pen. It’s mostly plastic but has a decent point and workable flashing lights.
4. Overall Design - 1 - It’s an awesome skull pen that is also a stress reliever by letting you hit something upside the head. That’s all there is to say.
5. Price Point - 1 - I have no idea how much these run, but considering how/why it was given to me, it’s probably in the $2-$4 range, which for the stress relief alone is worth it. But the fact it actually works pretty well, make it awesome.
4 out of 5 bronze pencils.
