Another LEGO The Nightmare Before Christmas project has raced to 10,000 votes on LEGO Ideas in under three weeks – and comes just in time for the classic movie’s 30th anniversary.
It’s no secret that the LEGO Group loves an anniversary, and more and more Ideas users seem to be latching on to this concept for their projects. Case in point: 2023 marks 30 years since The Nightmare Before Christmas arrived in cinemas, and Laurgo23’s Jack Skellington’s House is the second project based on Tim Burton’s animated film to reach the LEGO Ideas review stage in consecutive qualifying windows.
The first was Simon Scott’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, which just squeezed into the second 2022 review in September, after initially being rejected in the first 2021 review. While that project recreated a larger slice of Halloween Town as a shallower façade, Laurgo23’s build – which took just 18 days to reach the review stage – focuses on Jack Skellington’s house, with a deeper model that still captures the film’s most iconic visuals, including the spiral hill.
Built to minifigure scale, the model can light up using LEGO Power Functions elements, and stands almost 60cm tall. The creator concedes there’s room for improvement – the structure is apparently ‘pretty heavy’ and ‘could use some reinforcement’, while some of the elements used are not in production at the moment – but proclaims it’s ‘really impressive in person’.
It’s arguably facing an uphill battle with the LEGO Ideas review board, however: not only is there another The Nightmare Before Christmas build in the running before it, but by the time any subsequent set landed on shelves, we’d probably be into 2024 – or past the 30th anniversary of the film. Regardless, Jack Skellington’s House now joins 26 other projects in the third 2022 review.
Jack Skellington's House
Lover House
Cat
House of Open Shutters
Modular Arcade
Jaws
LEGO Zoo
The Old Western Train Station
The Neverending Story (40th Anniversary)
Community
The Architect’s House
London Underground
Sewer Heroes: Fighting the Fatberg
Cipher Machine
Golden Clifftop Temple
JWST
Classic Thunderbirds
The Wright Flyer
BOTW Temple of Time
Pixar’s Up House with Balloons
The Travel Suitcase
Japanese Courtyard Garden
The Lost City
Pac-Man Moving Display
Castle Dracula
This Is Fine
Ancient Roman Temple
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