It's Christmas in August! Celebrate with ten items from Walmart's closed convention

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the Colorado Convention Center, where Walmart is holding a closed-door Holiday Fair to prepare its employees for the big, big season ahead. The event has drawn close to 5,000 people to town to preview new merchandise in time (read: months early)...

By Westword Staff

August 24, 2012

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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the Colorado Convention Center, where Walmart is holding a closed-door Holiday Fair to prepare its employees for the big, big season ahead. The event has drawn close to 5,000 people to town to preview new merchandise in time (read: months early) for Christmas, and one of them supplied Westword with a sneak preview of what Santa might be delivering this year...if he shops at Walmart. Continue reading for photos of some of the fair's most notable goods.

10. Gladiator helmets 9. Big screens. Small screens. Really, all kinds of screens. 8. Enormous hunting blinds

7. Very small vehicles 6. Oh, Christmas trees 5. $1.25 mini bottles of Sutter Home

4. Scents and attractants 3. Rawhide canes as big as real ones 2. Camper Santa: exactly what it sounds like

Continue reading for the creepiest.

1. ~~Gremlins~~ Furbies

But wait! There's a bonus. This is already waiting in the wings:

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