lost & found vintage toys: nightmare before xmas

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nightmare before xmas

the nightmare before christmas

12/01/2012

now that it's december i want to fill some of these days before xmas with the nightmare before xmas ~

starting with these jack skellington snowglobes ~

this one is filled with tiny black bats instead of snow ~

it's about 6" tall & the base & jack's head glow in the dark ~

made in china for disney 2008 by neca ~

the box ~

& this one is only jack's head ~

it's only 3" tall ~

with sparkley snow ~

all characters are from tim burton's 1993 film the nightmare before christmas.. this film was an instant classic, not only for stop-motion animation or halloween buffs like me ~

special edition dvd ~

ghost & toxic

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11/02/2023

pendants & pocketwatches

while we're still in the glow of halloween ~

some cool pendants & pocketwatches ~

poor skelly ~

not unlike another i wore here ~

bat pendant ~

crow necklace ~

& keychain for raven ;) ~

skyrim :D ~

nightmare before christmas <3 ~

jack coffin watch ~

to go with my other standard style pocketwatch ~

cool collectibles i keep tucked in our altar of eclectica ~

if you like nightmare before christmas just click on it in the category list in the sidebar for much more anytime ~

we enjoy halloween yearround here ~

not just on the day itself :) ~

it'll be xmas before you know it!

bren

Posted at 06:22 PM in birds, christmas, ghosts, halloween, holiday, movies, nightmare before xmas, t shirts & antifashion, videogames | Permalink | Comments (0)

10/31/2023

haunted mansion halloween!!

welcome foolish mortals! ~

happy halloween!! ~

it's all haunted mansion theme today at the lost & found ~

check out my cool new haunted mansion journal ~

complete with hitchhiking ghosts :D ~

oh, but wait! ~

what's that in the spirit store box? ~

delivered this time ~

a haunted mansion projector ;) ~

based on disneyland's E ticket dark ride ~

try me ~

don't mind if i do :) ~

here's a couple of youtube shorts in my own stairwell gallery to give you an idea how cool this is, but they don't do it justice, hard to capture the projections on camera (note: the music is not included with the tabletop projector) ~

this one is filmed on a lower ceiling to show the projections better.. i've loved disneyland's haunted mansion all my life as a socal native ~

so we have a bunch of home movie youtubes of different runthroughs ~

if you enjoy these please visit my youtube channel & check out the other halloween youtubes i have up from years past :D ~

happy halloween '23 & be sure to keep your black cats safely indoors tonight!

bren/ghost

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10/13/2023

flashback friday ~ altar of eclectica

so i was commenting at my other blog about our 'altar of eclectica' ~

this wall unit that mr dad & i bought for $200 way back in the early 80s has come a long way with us ~

& over the years has become known fondly as the altar of eclectica :) ~

in its early days it held books & home taped vhs tapes, our old zody's stereo & the original evil jolly chimp (who i've posted about here) ~

it has always been there in the background through the different places we lived over the last several decades ~

& it has changed & evolved & had many different incarnations ~

all gumby mode for my appearance at collector's corner ;) ~

here's an old family get together down in socal with the a of e included ~

our kitties were always so good & left my collectibles alone <3 ~

i've always loved having it right over my shoulder to look at because every tiny treasure has an associated memory with it :) ~

i tend to stand in front of it whenever i'm getting photo'd ~

so the altar of eclectica basically is a bookshelf, there are art, poetry, horror & classic literature books in the back ~

with tiny treasures of all sorts in front ~

top shelf toys include american mcgee's alice, tolkien & tophats ~

one halloween of old ~

behind raven & sabrina are dedicated nightmare before christmas collectibles including a vampire shelf ~

there's a psych shelf, kids stuff shelf & one for collector card notebooks ~

the latest incarnation includes a wonderland shelf, a halloweeniana shelf & one for kitties & mystical items, as well as a stephen king & zombies shelf ~