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Nightmare Before Christmas By Euphrates
Well kids, for my money Hasbro's 1993 celebration of the movie Tim Burton's Nightmare Before
Christmas are probably the coolest PVCs made since Matchbox released it's ill-fated Pee Wee
Herman line in the '80s. The packaging is gorgeous, the colors are beautiful and the
caricatures are dead-on. Hasbro truly captured the spirt of the movie.
Like the Pee Wee Herman line, Nightmare Before Christmas or, NBC as collectors call it, enjoyed only a brief stay on toy shelves. Retailers were a little nervous about the monster/Christmas/Halloween marraige and the film wasn't exactly rivaling Star Wars at the box office so the orders for toys were fairly low. As the movie picked up steam the demand for the figures rose dramatically and now fans need to work 2-3 days to make enough money to buy a carded Jack and Sally. There are two different figure-types in the Hasbro line; the PVC and the larger cloth and vinyl dolls. Most of the PVC figures came carded with the exception of the boxed Lock, Shock and Barrel. The larger figures were sold in window boxes. The earlier PVC figures were sold with their accessories loose on the card while the later figures were sold with their accessories still on the plastic trees. Hasbro's PVC
Jack Skellington as Santa with stand, gift, hat and beard Hasbro's Dolls
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