Lego’s Nightmare Before Christmas Set Comes With a Perfectly Long-Legged Jack Skellington

When Lego archetypal confirmed that it would beryllium taking a fan-designed Nightmare Before Christmas transportation from its “Lego Ideas” crowdsourcing platform and turning it into an authoritative set, determination were immoderate absorbing questions arsenic to however the brick-builder was going to instrumentality the unsocial shapes and aesthetics of Henry Selick’s animated classic and render them successful artifact form. Well, present we know, and the effect is beauteous genius.

Today Lego revealed the archetypal look astatine the last plan for its Nightmare Before Christmas set, based connected the pitched plan by Lego instrumentality Simon Scott. Clocking successful astatine 2,193 pieces, the acceptable contains a trio of builds inspired by Halloween Town: the Town Hall, Jack’s house, and of course, the iconic Spiral Hill, implicit with the satellite floating perfectly successful the background. The shapes of the builds truly bash a batch to seizure the kooky, stylized designs of the buildings from the 1993 movie—even Spiral Hill is done with immoderate clever techniques to make its unsocial curvature successful Lego.

Of course, the acceptable besides comes with a ton of caller blocky characters inspired by the movie arsenic well. There’s six modular minifigures, including Jack—who’s been fixed massive, stilt-esque legs to recreate his spindly proportions successful the film—Sally, Santa Claus, arsenic good arsenic Lock, Shock, and Barrel. Joining them are a mini replica of Zero the Dog, shaped to seizure his ghostly quality successful the film, and a brick-built mentation of the Mayor, who comes with 2 faces. Check retired a ton of pictures below!

Lego Ideas Nightmare Before Christmas

The Lego Ideas Nightmare Before Christmas acceptable volition deed shelves from September 1, for a hefty $200. That’s the aforesaid time arsenic the Lego Legend of Zelda set, truthful apologies to your wallets successful advance. Maybe see it a associated Halloween and Christmas acquisition to yourself?

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