Another LEGO The Nightmare Before Christmas set races to 10K on LEGO Ideas

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’.

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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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I like to think of myself as a journalist first, LEGO fan second, but we all know that’s not really the case. Journalism does run through my veins, though, like some kind of weird literary blood – the sort that will no doubt one day lead to a stress-induced heart malfunction. It’s like smoking, only worse. Thankfully, I get to write about LEGO until then.

Chris Wharfe

I like to think of myself as a journalist first, LEGO fan second, but we all know that’s not really the case. Journalism does run through my veins, though, like some kind of weird literary blood – the sort that will no doubt one day lead to a stress-induced heart malfunction. It’s like smoking, only worse. Thankfully, I get to write about LEGO until then.

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