HALLOWEEN HALLOWEEN HALLOWEEN (Let's Play Oogie's Revenge)

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VoidBurger: Jul 18, 2008; A leap into the void.
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_{Thanks to KC Green of Gunshow fame for the header!}

Surprised aren't you? I knew you would be! You don't need to have another worry about Silent Hill this year. Consider this a vacation, guys - a reward! It's VoidBurger and Kamoc's turn to take it easy! I'll see that you're comfortable.

There's a Nightmare Before Christmas GAME?

Released by Capcom on October 21st, 2004 in Japan and a whole YEAR later in America and the UK, The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge is a action-adventure game set one year after the events of famous 1993 "claymation" flick, The Nightmare Before Christmas. Yes, the video game came out over ten years after the film. (I suspect it has something to do with Kingdom Hearts, which came out in 2002 and featured a Nightmare Before Christmas level.) Critics rightfully complained about its boring, repetitive combat, samey-samey fetch quests, and VERY irritating music and sound effects. But don't worry, I'll be replacing most of the annoying music with alternate music pretty early on, before the music really starts driving people.... batty.

Oogie's Revenge is surprisingly faithful to the spirit and mood of the film. Capcom recreated Halloween Town very well, using pictures of the original set and even movie concept art for reference, it seems. Many of the original voice actors reprise their roles for the game, also. Too bad the game is so annoying.

If you haven't seen or don't remember the movie very well, you should watch this video and I'll sum it up for you.

Without further ado, let's play The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge! :spooky:

Nice Work, Bone Daddy by Alex Rosetti (new battle theme)
Troublesome Trio by Alex Rosetti (new Oogie's Boys boss theme)
Fa La La Wah-Ha by Alex Rosetti (new battle theme)

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 05:57

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TyreForHyre helps me impart trivia with :nbc101:

miscellaneous14 robs our souls, then our hearts.

Geop bestows upon us the first gif of the thread!

GeneralYeti pimps their pumpkin!

jameson9101322 gifts a .gif

TyreForHyre gets swingin'.

Arkannoyed says that things got a little heavy in this game's sequel.

Wow. Much RedTeam. So fanart.

ElTipejoLoco uses forensic technology to decipher what Jack used to look like.

dijon du jour knows how to allure.

All work and no play makes @BeaPeaBear a skullboy.

'Tis the season for a :spooky:

Jack Hunt! :spooky:

Here's some of the best, weirdest, shittiest Jacks out there.

100Dachshunds posted:

Wacky waving arm inflatable tube man!

Wa11y posted:

Found this at my local Home Depot. The saddest Skelington!

clockwork chaos posted:

I'm pretty sure this is unofficial merch - a tshirt my dad has had for like five years. Apologies for the lovely phone picture.

GirlCalledBob posted:

I always completely forget it's NMBC related, but my grandma got me this jumper a while back for Christmas or something:

I think it might actually be offical merch, but the labels are tiny, it's hard to tell.

Meis posted:

Jack Hunt has found an imposter Jack hiding in Clinton Cards!

Pesky Splinter posted:

Spotted this walking past a cookie-decorating shop:

General Ironicus posted:

Jack is shilling for conventions now:

SgtSteel91 posted:

Found Jack chilling at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Gann Jerrod posted:

I wanted to show off the caramel apple that you can get at Disneyland.

The Divine Orator posted:

FOR SALE: 1 Jack Disco ball (orange), slightly dented w/scratch damage. Small overheating problem. Free to anyone who can pry it out of this sewer manhole. We've tried everything!

TwoPair posted:

Hey, it's fine, Jack's proven in the past that he's more than willing to work any season. Push it as far into November as you need.

Hirayuki posted:

Tuxedo Ted posted:

I think he's actually repainted Christmas merch. Check out the mittens.

jameson9101322 posted:

He screams like a wet cat when you rip his head off...adorable.

Silly Voodoo posted:

Gilchrist, you hack!

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# ¿ Oct 1, 2013 17:56

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Mr DJB posted:

I love how Oogie Boogie rolls in this game. Most video game villains stick to the shadows, have their henchman fight for them, and prepare for a dramatic reveal. Oogie on the other hand uses a PA system to announce "gently caress you! I'm in charge now! Fight me!" as soon as the gameplay starts.

Haha, it's funny you say that the main villain usually "sticks to the shadows" because what we fought in this first episode was not Oogie himself, but literally his shadow. He brags about it in the lyrics of the boss battle, and the figure we get at the end of this episode is "Oogie's Shadow." ~~_{I need a version of this emoticon that is Jack instead of that smiley.}~~

Fixed! Yay, TyreForHyre!

I talk a little bit more about Oogie's shadow in the second episode. Trivia ahoy!

VoidBurger fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Oct 1, 2013

# ¿ Oct 1, 2013 18:54

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Meis posted:

This LP is spookier than a skeleton gif; here's hoping my delicate nerves can handle it!

I have a friend who was a big NBC fan, I think I remember her talking to me about this game way back when. What console(s) was this thing on?

It came out for PlayStation 2 and Xbox. I'm playing an emulated PS2 PAL version.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2013 19:22

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TyreForHyre posted:

Here ya go:
Always wondered how this game was but never picked it up, really cool to see ya doing it.

I'm keeping this forever :3:

Holidae posted:

Using a whip-like device to take down spookyscary skeletons and other badnasties? The Belmont family will surely sue.

~~Capcom certainly sticks with what it knows!~~ Whoops I mixed up Castlevania with Devil May Cry HURRRRRR.

General Ironicus posted:

This is going to be a great LP and I loved the movie recap video. Is the camera always fixed in such awkward positions?

Thank you! The camera is slightly awkward, but I'm kinda used to that in PS2-era games, personally. It rarely gets BAD enough for me to consider it a major flaw of the game (especially in light of the other, more obvious flaws in the game: music/SFX, pacing, etc.)

VoidBurger fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Oct 3, 2013

# ¿ Oct 1, 2013 20:24

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MGN001 posted:

I knew there was a GBA game, but I didn't know that there was a Nightmare Before Christmas console game. You learn something new every day.

The GBA game (The Pumpkin King) came out simultaneously with Oogie's Revenge, oddly! I'll probably talk about that game at some point in the LP. (I haven't played it though, never had a GBA...)

Prokhor Zakharov posted:

I've always loved that there's a 4 leaf clover door, implying that there's some sort St-Patrick's-Day-Town, which one can only imagine as an infinite meadow with nothing but leprechauns drinking, fighting, and puking all over pots of gold.

I like how Nightmare has a Thanksgiving door and the game adds an Independence Day door... I guess that means that Halloween Town is in the USA?

Smoking Crow posted:

Will this LP contain a trip to Hot Topic? That way it will be comprehensive.

Probably not, but I am going to be in DisneyWorld in early December, which is when they haul out ALL the Nightmare merch. Maybe I'll make an on-location video? DisneyWorld does far less Nightmare poo poo than DisneyLand, but I'm hoping I'll be able to meet their terrifying version of Jack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eISEn8kGJoU
I might cry.

By the way, I want to have a :spooky:

Jack Hunt! :spooky:

Even those unfamiliar with the Nightmare Before Christmas film are probably aware of Jack, due to Disney finally wising up and marketing the poo poo out of the film way too late in the game (so that it's nostalgic now!) I want you guys to find Jacks in the wild and post them in the thread! The weirder the merchandise, the better! I'd especially like non-official, rip-off merch and copyright-dodging Jacks. For example, this magazine I saw in the supermarket:

'Tis the season!

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# ¿ Oct 2, 2013 03:04

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GeneralYeti posted:

So we had "Pimp your Pumpkin" night at my college.

That's not the only one on the pumpkin, but it's the only one that's Jack related.

Oh mannn

This thread is already so wonderful, oh shucks~

I can't believe it's only page two and we already have a thread in-joke type thingy, that's a record for me, I think!

# ¿ Oct 3, 2013 01:23

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MyNameIsAlex posted:

I know Burton didn't direct it, but how much did he actually have to do with the film?

DID SOMEONE ASK FOR TRIVIA??

Tim Burton wrote the Nightmare Before Christmas as a poem while he was working as Disney animator on The Fox and The Hound _{AKA: The saddest Disney movie ever made and don't even argue with that because it is a FACT*.}

Here's the original poem animated all fancy and narrated by Christopher Lee!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbPCwc_Cdz0
Click here if you'd rather hear Sir Patrick Stewart narrate the same thing!

Tim was only a producer on the project, as he was busy directing Batman Returns and dealing with the pre-production of Ed Wood (you know, that Tim Burton movie no one ever saw. _{No, not Planet of the Apes.})

As a result, he was present on the Nightmare set only about 8 days in the entire 3 year shoot! So really, Nightmare as we know it isn't due too much to Mr. Burton's influence. Henry Sellick did all the directing, Caroline Thompson did the screenplay, and Danny Elfman did the entire score (Which actually came before the scriptwriting phase of production! Elfman called it "one of the easiest jobs I've ever had," he loved it so much), so I'd vet them as the true people behind Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.

_{*Pixar doesn't count in this statement}

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# ¿ Oct 3, 2013 03:46

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100Dachshunds posted:

Wacky waving arm inflatable tube man!

Is calling it part of the "Dan Alexander Collection" supposed to make inflatable yard ornaments sound classy? Haha. I also like the shittily photoshopped jack-o-lantern designs on those regular, non-carved pumpkins. And this is official Disney merch!

Kgummy posted:

Why the PAL version?

It just behaves better with my emulator/recording setup for some reason!

Waffleman_ posted:

What's this?

Also this is great.

# ¿ Oct 3, 2013 04:37

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Heck yeah, I'm down for seeing some NightmareMerch from other countries! Especially nonofficial and weird stuff!

Samizdata posted:

And I saw Oingo Boingo live back in the day.

I am the most jealous personnnnnnghhhhh.

# ¿ Oct 3, 2013 17:27

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Ben Kasack posted:

VoidBurger, I'm asking you directly if this is okay because I'm not sure.

My folks are HUGE NMBC fans and have lots of figurines and statues that are really cool, but most, if not all, are official Disney merch. So before I go and put in effort to get good pics of them all, I want to make sure your okay with me showing it all off.

Heck yeah, why not? Collections are cool! My only suggestion is that you make an imgur (or something) gallery of it for easy viewing.

# ¿ Oct 3, 2013 19:15

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Geostomp posted:

Why's Oogie using an army of skeletons, ghosts, and a living shadow? I thought he was all about bugs (and deadly casinos, but mostly bugs)?

There's some spiders a bit later, but I think he used up all his bugs in the GBA game (Pumpkin King), which came out at the same time as Oogie's Revenge. All the enemies in that were bugs, I've read. If they were in development at the same time, I guess it's plausible that one of the games got "dibs" on buggies, but I'm just completely guessing. v :shobon:

ThatPazuzu posted:

I have a friend who works as a character actor at Disney World and she posts a lot of pictures on facebook of her hanging out with a Jack Skellington. I wonder if it's the same dude.

Oh my goddd.

I gotta research where Jack hangs out at DisneyWorld so I can meet him in December. :neckbeard:

# ¿ Oct 4, 2013 02:40

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jameson9101322 posted:

I'm excited this LP has started! I've been looking forward to it for a while. I come bearing really hideous photoshop gif.

Nice! Thanks for the gif art!

Fish Of Doom posted:

They also just added an Oogie Boogie costumed character that they had out during the Friday the 13th villains event. His costume actually looks pretty good, even though he's just a bag with arms and a head.

Holy crap, he looks completely adorable for some reason, like Winnie the Pooh or something. He looks all cuddly. I think it's partially because his mouth looks like an extended version of this mouth: :3:

Trivia: Oogie Boogie is one of Disney's most popular villains, despite having less than 10 minutes of screentime! Ken Page has voiced him in not only the movie and the game, but also in Kingdom Hearts.

Wa11y posted:

Found this at my local Home Depot. The saddest Skelington!

Holy poo poo, now THIS is what I'm talking about with this :spooky:

Jack Hunt! :spooky:

An excellent find!

Update later today, guys!

vvv It's probably mostly made of very lightweight foam, like how they do the larger Disney costumes. Fans would make noise, which would ruin the Disney Magic!� vvv

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# ¿ Oct 4, 2013 15:19

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TheOneTrueKing posted:

I bought this game on a whim when I was in high school. I bought it with birthday money because there simply wasn't anything else to buy but I wanted to buy SOMETHING.

I remember there being no games out that I was interested in at the time! The only games I got that Christmas were this game and Ratchet: Deadlocked (which I ended up not liking very much at all...)

Youtube! (full commentary)
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The videos might still be processing, so sorry if they look like crud at the moment.

# ¿ Oct 5, 2013 02:03

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Maremidon posted:

The main thing I want to know is why corpse kid's eyes appear to be toothy mouths.

Were they like that in the movie?

They're sewn shut, actually.

# ¿ Oct 5, 2013 02:55

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Crabtree posted:

Oogie's song revised

Haha, I like that you included the cut lyrics about snake and spider stew

Nice!

Choco1980 posted:

I had a Jack sighting today at an outdoor streetfair, but didn't have a chance to take a picture. A guy I saw had a "three Jack Moon" shirt on. Jack was scraggily drawn all three times like the previous poster's dad's shirt.

Oh my god, that sounds ludicrous. (I hope the moon had Oogie's silouette on it, or else it's a missed opportunity.) "I am the shadow on the moon at night" from... that one song... about Halloween... you probably know the one.

kalonZombie posted:

This on the other hand is cool as poo poo. It's filled with concept art, set pictures, interviews, etc etc. I love seeing stuff like this get made and I'm sad more stop-motion stuff isn't being made. I understand it takes a long rear end time, but it really is super fascinating.

I have this book! It's where I've learned a good heap of the trivia I'll be yammering about during this LP! It's a really amazing book.

Kumaton posted:

Jumping on the Jack Crap bandwagon, I found this at the supermarket today;

According to the wrapper, it's official NMBC merch, but it certainly don't look the part. I'm a bit afraid to eat it, honestly. It certainly doesn't look all that good.
I also managed to fish this out of my closet;

I'm pretty sure I got it at a Disney store. It looks really badass, or at least I thought it did when I bought it.

Whuuuh that candy looks horrific (and I don't mean that as a Halloweentown-style compliment.) The hoodie is a surprisingly messy affair, which is funny especially compared to....

GirlCalledBob posted:

I always completely forget it's NMBC related, but my grandma got me this jumper a while back for Christmas or something:

I think it might actually be offical merch, but the labels are tiny, it's hard to tell.

I love this. This hoodie doubled-down on Jack's angry face, as if they couldn't figure out how else to design the drat thing! "gently caress it, just put TWO angryJacks on it and let's call it a day." This impressive laziness earns it a spot in the Jack Hunt despite probably being official merch.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2013 00:20

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Terrible news, folks!! The worst tragedy of our time!!

There's probably not going to be a new episode this week.

This is because the only days I can work on it this week are Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. And I just got decently sick, so my voice is all sorts of screwed up. I'm being pessimistic and not expecting that to clear up by then. Bummer!

# ¿ Oct 7, 2013 15:40

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Meis posted:

Jack Hunt has found an imposter Jack hiding in Clinton Cards!

I had to explain the fact that I was taking a photo of a card shop for an internet forum to my parents for this. I hope it is worth it.

Now THIS is what I'm talking about. Are those more bootleg Jacks on the shelf in the background, too?

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# ¿ Oct 9, 2013 17:03

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Oh my goodness, I can't believe Nightmare is 20 years old.. and that it took Disney around 10 years to wise up and merchandise it to within an inch of its life.

Here's a Jack I found at NY ComicCon today!

I saw an Oogie Boogie too, but he was going up an escalator, so I couldn't catch him. Anyway, ComicCon is why there's no update til probably Tuesday or Wednesday.

Sorry for the delay!

# ¿ Oct 12, 2013 00:32

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Youtube! (full commentary)
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Sorry for the delay, guys!

_{Major giant huge thanks to Alex Rosetti for the replacement music!}

Choco1980 posted:

Bootleg Jack Hunt? Well I found This video recommended to me after watching something unrelated. I think it fits right in with things, as I don't know whether to be amazed or horrified.

THIS COST $3000+, WHAT THE gently caress.

# ¿ Oct 15, 2013 23:53

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Oh, here's the download of the new battle theme if anyone wanted to listen to it without jack WHAAA-HAAAHing all over it.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2013 01:18

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RedTeam posted:

Table breaking delight! ( [timg] that poo poo! ) Thanks for doing the thing I forgot to do at the end of the video, haha.

By the way, is the ghosting in the video very noticeable on characters that aren't Zero? I'm not tech-savvy, and I'm half convinced that the ghosting is simply part of the game. :\ There are definitely certain glowy affects that seem to ghost on purpose (Besides Zero, there's a glowing pumpkin light in Town Square that looks ghosty like that all the time, for example.)

Also, POLL TIME! Do you guys want me to....
(A) Grind money and upgrade the Soul Robber offscreen, so battles won't take as long. (And maybe make a sped up montage video of that.)
(B) Don't grind, but instead fast-forward through most of the battles, only slowing to show new baddies.
(C) Keep doing what I'm doing, the repetitive combat amuses you somehow.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2013 16:21

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Grinding it is! I'll upgrade the Soul Robber once and we'll see how that works for us.

While you're waiting for a new update, sign this petition to get Sally considered for Disney Princesshood. :3:

# ¿ Oct 18, 2013 21:00

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Bloodly posted:

Does upgrading Soul Robber get you new moves?

Sort of! If you look in the videos so far, you'll notice that Jack strikes only twice with the Soul Robber before having to stop. Every time you upgrade it, another strike gets added. So, Soul Robber Lvl 2 gives you three hits, Lvl 3 gives you four. I believe it caps at four hits.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2013 02:01

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Pesky Splinter posted:

Spotted this walking past a cookie-decorating shop:

Holy poo poo, his nose-holes are GIGANTIC AND DISTURBING. He looks like he's smelling something very unpleasant because of the nosehole emphasis.

(I would have bought this if I saw it. Cookie-cakes are delicious.)

cool kids inc. posted:

Also this is cute as heck. It almost makes me wish I were girly enough to give a poo poo about my nails and do it myself. _Almost

Update tomorrow, I think! Having a busy week so far...

# ¿ Oct 23, 2013 01:14

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Aww, awesome book! :3:

So, who has $20,000 and no sense of taste?

What's really crazy (besides the price tag) is that this may be Disney-approved in some manner, judging by that watermark in the corner. :gonk:

# ¿ Oct 23, 2013 05:23

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Youtube! (full commentary)
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This episode is GAME PADDING! S'bad.

# ¿ Oct 24, 2013 17:40

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General Ironicus posted:

I am enjoying OogieBoogieloves Adventure.

E: This just landed in my inbox. Jack is shilling for conventions now:

When your skull is made of paper mach�, your soft spots never heal.

# ¿ Oct 24, 2013 18:21

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Boss time!

Youtube! (full commentary)
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(Featuring more awesome music by Alex Rosetti!)

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# ¿ Oct 27, 2013 18:04

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ThatPazuzu posted:

Rocky Mountain Horror Show. That sounds like a joke a highschool ecology/geography teacher would make and then be sad a bunch of 17 year olds didn't get.

I like how Kamoc ignored me when I questioned that, haha.

death .cab for qt posted:

That Minnesota/Canada accent you did was way too scarily close to perfect, it was almost exactly like my great aunt's voice. It spooked me a little bit.

I learned from the best!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CAXbOEE1zA

# ¿ Oct 27, 2013 18:56

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SgtSteel91 posted:

Found Jack chilling at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Holy poo poo

# ¿ Oct 27, 2013 19:28

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Bobbin Threadbare posted:

I really hope those dance icons didn't blend together the way they do in the video, because they were almost impossible to read fast enough.

I'll have to doublecheck my non-emulated PS2 version to compare, but they definitely look exactly like that when I'm recording on the emulator. They're also not QUITE synched to the music, and you have to hit them a tiny bit before you have to.

vv Dang, I shoulda waited three more seconds to post! So far as I know, only one song-with-lyrics in this game is an original song not from the movie, and we'll be hearing it in a few episodes. vvv

# ¿ Oct 27, 2013 23:35

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Hey guys, I was hoping to have an episode ready for HALLOWEEN, but life has decided to throw some really impressive monkey wrenches in the works, so we're gonna have a bit of a delay for the next episode, maybe a week.

Sorry for the scheduling issues, y'all.

# ¿ Oct 30, 2013 23:28

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Sorry for no Halloween update, but please enjoy this fun little imgur infodump about The Nightmare Before Christmas while I record a gigantic backlog of episodes.

And here's some fun facts not mentioned in that infodump:

Jack puppet talk: A typical stop-motion puppet is short and squat with huge feet for balance. Jack is impossibly tall and thin, with tiny feet, thin ankles, and extremely long arms. There was much trepidation about turning Tim Burton's drawing of Jack into a puppet... and yet the puppet-maker pulled it off pretty well. He turned out tall and thin enough to appear graceful and not clunky. The animators remarked that Jack was a dream to work with, with an unexpectedly large and smooth range of motion.

Oogie puppet talk: He was the largest puppet with the heaviest armature (metallic skeleton) of any character in the movie, weighing in with a 6 pound, two foot high metal skeleton made of 175 parts - gigantic for a stop-motion puppet. He was twice as tall as almost all the other puppets in the film. "You could tow a truck with Oogie's armature" commented one of the movie's sculptor's. Animator Mike Belzer said "I had to dig in with my feet and physically push the Oogie Boogie puppet. He's so huge and there's so much foam [filling the space between his armature and the surface], therefore the armature has so be very tight; it's literally wrestling with the puppet."

Another interesting fact is that there was an alternate ending considered for the Nightmare Before Christmas, wherein Oogie is revealed to have been Dr. Finklestein all along in some sorta harebrained passive-agressive plan to somehow get back at Sally for not appreciating him� I'm glad they dumped that, because it dumb as hell. You can see that deleted scene's storyboards at 1:40 in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MWXc3YNSOU&t=1s

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# ¿ Nov 1, 2013 18:01

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Technical difficulties are over! Life difficulties still ongoing, though! Here's an update finally, sorry for the wait. Hopefully there won't be another dry spell for awhile.

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# ¿ Nov 9, 2013 06:42

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Waffleman_ posted:

Are you going to release the soundtrack to this LP when you're done? Because I am digging these tunes.

Check the OP! There's music downloads!

# ¿ Nov 9, 2013 15:37

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ThatPazuzu posted:

The Disney Wiki is the best and it has a page on Jack. It's pretty great: "Appearance: Handsome, Skeleton, Animated Skull, Bony Fingers. Fate: Hugs and kisses Sally on Pumpkin Mountain."

And in the comments there is, paraphrased: "Is the Pumpkin King in charge?" "No, Pumpkin King is a title like Miss America."

Whoa whoa whoa, I guess I missed the wedding invitation because she's now called Sally F. Skellington according to this wiki.*

_{*SOURCE: The loving Bleedman comic? Also from a mention of Jack having kids years down the line in a prologue on the soundtrack.}

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# ¿ Nov 10, 2013 01:07

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TwoPair posted:

Actual question about the Pumpkin King though, how does Jack suddenly get flame powers by putting a pumpkin on his head. Is that a thing he does? I actually don't really know poo poo about Nightmare Before Christmas.

BAM! (a bit after 3 minutes in)
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Bob, you're supposed to be asking these sorts of questions!

# ¿ Nov 10, 2013 07:22

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heenato posted:

The best part is [Bug Day] is actually true. I believe it's the basic plot of the gameboy game.

Yup, it was the plot of Pumpkin King for the GBA, released around the same time as Oogie's Revenge. All the enemies were bugs in that game, which might explain why there's almost no bug enemies in this game.

HEY, how about another update to make up for that hiatus thingy.

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# ¿ Nov 10, 2013 18:29

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 05:57

VoidBurger: Jul 18, 2008; A leap into the void.
The burger in space.

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# ¿ Nov 16, 2013 18:25

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