This is Halloween. This is Halloween. And Christmas. Simultaneously. Somehow it works perfectly.
Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas arrived in 1993 as something the studio system had not quite seen before and has not quite produced since: a stop-motion animated film that belonged entirely to its creator's vision, set in a world so fully realised and so visually distinctive that it required no sequel, no expanded universe and no explanation. Halloween Town is complete in itself — a place of cheerful darkness populated by monsters who are frightening in the most affectionate possible sense, ruled by the Pumpkin King who has everything his world could offer and the particular melancholy of someone who suspects there must be more.
Jack Skellington is one of animation's great romantic figures: tall, skeletal, articulate in his dissatisfaction and genuinely moved by the discovery of Christmas Town and everything it represents. Sally is patient, perceptive and in possession of considerably better judgement than anyone around her. Oogie Boogie is magnificently awful. Zero is a ghost dog with a glowing nose and the film's most uncomplicated heart. Henry Selick directed. Danny Elfman wrote and performed the songs. Burton's imagination shaped every frame. The result is a film that has built one of the most devoted and aesthetically cohesive fandoms in animation history — one that spans Halloween, Christmas and everything in between, because The Nightmare Before Christmas has always refused to belong to only one season.
Our Nightmare Before Christmas collection brings together officially licensed figures, apparel, accessories, homeware and gifts — from Jack and Sally Funko Pops and collector's pieces to clothing, mugs, jewellery and homeware for fans of Halloween Town's finest export. For the goth who celebrates Christmas with conviction, for the Disney devotee who prefers their magic slightly darker, and for anyone who has always felt that the holiday season was missing something skeletal.
What is this? What is this? It's exactly what you've been looking for.
