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Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas

It's that time again!!! Halloween is just around the corner and rolling out on the shelves are the new 2009 NMBC merchandise!. This year was also a big year for Tim Burton and Nightmare fans enjoyed "Coraline" and "9" while we wait in gleeful anticipation for the new "Alice in Wonderland"

What's new for this year? I absolutely adore the new Disney Store Nightmare Before Christmas Snack Collection, especially the snack dish! I haven't yet been to Claire's to see what new earrings and necklace goodies they have this year. Planning a trip this weekend to scope out the new stuff. We have decided that watching the DVD the night before Halloween is going to be our new family tradition.

Check out the link list below for some of the best Nightmare Before Christmas websites featuring news, information and some just plain fun.

Click below for very cool Nightmare Before Christmas merchandise at already great low prices year round! Keep an eye out for the new 2009 line in September! Also, Don't forget to shop Hot Topic, FYE, and Claire's too for all the newest merchandise.

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The teaser trailer tells us that the film was originally intended to by released under the Walt Disney Pictures banner, playing the movie heavily as the next generation of filmmaking following in the proud tradition of Walt Disney. By the time the theatrical trailer was released, the release label had changed to Touchstone Pictures, an alternate designation of the Walt Disney Studios. Michael Eisner, the then CEO and Chairman of The Walt Disney Company, found the film to be 'too dark for kids' and had it moved to their Touchstone Picture banner. In October 2006, the film was re-released in 3-D under the Walt Disney Pictures banner.

In the Italian version, Jack is voiced over by Renato Zero.

In the German version, Sally was dubbed by Nina Hagen

In the song, "This is Halloween," the lyrics "... tender lumplings everywhere..." refers to "Tender Lumplings," a song done by composer Danny Elfman when he was with Oingo Boingo.

Behemoth is based on B-movie actor/Swedish wrestler Tor Johnson.

Jack makes his first lengthy appearance in Beetle Juice (1988) on top of Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton)'s carousel hat towards the end when Beetlejuice rises out of the floor, after summoned by Lydia (Winona Ryder). Although this was Jack's longer appearance, he actually first appeared in Tim Burton's "Vincent" (1982), in minute 4:45, even if it is a very brief appearance.

The cat from Tim Burton's first film, Vincent (1982) is present in the beginning of the film. It's the cat that jumps onto the garbage can.

Patrick Stewart did the original introduction for the movie, which can be heard on the film's soundtrack.

Tim Burton has said the original poem was inspired after seeing Halloween merchandise display in a store being taken down and replaced by a Christmas display. The juxtaposition of ghouls and goblins with Santa and his reindeer sparked his imagination.

The snake seen in the movie, is the Saturn Sandworm from Beetle Juice (1988).

Two items were invented to facilitate the filming of the movie: One was a "light alarm" which would warn the animators if any of the stage lights failed to come on. The other was a system that enabled a puppeteer to seamlessly switch to a replacement puppet if a puppet broke during a shot. Prior to this, either situation, a light failing to come on or a puppet breaking would destroy a shot.

An excerpt from the Batman (1989) theme can be heard when the search-lights are looking for Jack.

Two toys that Jack delivers reference Batman Returns (1992), the film Tim Burton had directing commitments towards at the time. One is an evil duck on wheels, which is the vehicle that Penguin drives. The other is an evil cat doll, which has the same head as the mascot for Shreck's corporation.

This was the first movie to ever be fully animated using the stop-motion technique that was favored by Tim Burton for special effects in some of his other movies for its surreal quality. The animators received Oscar nominations for Best Visual Effects as a result, but lost to ILM who created the dinosaurs for Jurassic Park (1993)

Tim Burton had hoped to direct, but placed Henry Selick in the director's chair instead as Burton was busy working on Batman Returns (1992).

In the original Poem Written by Tim Burton the only characters that existed were Jack, Zero and Santa. All the other characters were made up for the movies, although he describes some of the presents which were given out including in some cases the names of the children.

Oogie Boogie is inspired by Cab Calloway, who provided character voices and musical numbers for several Fleischer Bros. cartoons; he and Santas Claus quote dialog from the Betty Boop short "The Old Man of the Mountain", when Santa asks,(quoting Betty's line) "What are you going to do now?", and Oogie returns Calloway's(as the Old Man) "Goin' do the best I can..."

Danny Elfman did the singing voice for Jack because Chris Sarandon said he did not have a good singing voice.

It took a group of around 100 people three years to complete this movie. For one second of film, up to 22 stop-motion moves had to be made.

via IMDb

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We loved the movie and over ten years later we are still loving the character collectibles! In stock now: Jack hoop earrings, Jack Skellington Christmas stocking and look for the new 2009 merchandise to show up in early October.

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Halloweentown: Galleries, posts and forums related to The Nightmare Before Christmas and Tim Burton.
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The Tim Burton Collective - The Nightmare Before Christmas: News, articles, reviews, and multimedia related to quirky film director Tim Burton. With a nice Nightmare Before Christmas Page.
Nightmare Before Christmas Free Font: Download the free truetype Nightmare Before Christmas font by Filmfonts here at fontspace.com
The Nightmare Before Christmas Lyrics: Find all The Nightmare Before Christmas Lyrics here- The Nightmare Before Christmas Soundtrack - Lyrics On Demand
Which ''Nightmare Before Christmas'' Character are you?: Which ''Nightmare Before Christmas'' Character are you? Take this FREE and easy quiz to find out.
Bill Bam Collectibles Blog: Updates on their products, new in stock, restocked etc.
The Pumpkin Patch: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas fansite, with information and media, such as icons, cursors, fonts, music, DVD screencaps, avatars, wallpapers, images, ringtones, an Oogie's Revenge section with screenshots, videos, lyrics, walkthrough, and much more! We also take fan submissions
Nightmare Before Christmas Fan Club | Fansite with photos, videos, and more: Fanpop community fan club for Nightmare Before Christmas fans to share, discover content and connect with other fans of Nightmare Before Christmas. Find Nightmare Before Christmas videos, photos, wallpapers, forums, polls, news and more.

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PDP Mobile Brings Disney Mobile Accessory Range to Europe: The line-up includes legendary Disney characters including Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and Tinker Bell, Muppet characters ( Kermit, Miss Piggy and Animal) and modern classics like Toy Story and Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.
"Portal 2" meets "The Nightmare Before Christmas": (CBS) - Are you a fan of the movie "The Nightmare Before Christmas"? And are you also a fan of the video game "Portal 2"? If you said "yes" to both of these questions, then you are absolutely going to love the video above. The season for eggnog and ...
The Phantom Menace comes alive in 3-D: Disney has brought out The Nightmare Before Christmas, Toy Story 1 and 2 (the third instalment was already in 3-D), The Lion King, and Beauty and the Beast, with more to come. James Cameron is bringing Titanic back in 3-D, its release date timed to the ...
The Nightmare Before… Portal 2?: Remember The Nightmare Before Christmas? Great movie. Remember Danny Elfman's This is Halloween opening theme song for it? One man by the online moniker of Harry10UK has gone to great lengths to give it the Portal 2 treatment. It's amazing.

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Fun Cool Collectibles: The Nightmare Before Christmas

Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas

Contents at a Glance

Contents at a Glance

Quick Rundown of what is on this Lens

The Nightmare Before Christmas Trivia Facts

Did you know...

Nightmare Before Christmas Merchandise

Available and In Stock Now

All about The Nightmare Before Christmas

best places on the net for NMBC

Nightmare before Christmas Accessories

Key Chains, Magnets and more!

Who's your Favorite?

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Nightmare Before Christmas Merchandise still available

Get ready for Halloween

Sally Halloween Costumes

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Keep up to date and have some fun

Halloween Costumes for the Jack Skellington fans!

What Google saying now about The Nightmare Before Christmas

Keep up to date with all the news and happenings of TNMBC

The Nightmare Before Christmas on DVD

Choose your DVD edition

A little NMBC and Tim Burton

Enjoy the world of Nightmares

Holiday Sales and Savings at Fun Cool Collectibles

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