Saving Original Puppets from The Nightmare Before Christmas

Adam Savage’s Tested · 12:52

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In the collection archive of Cinema Relics, Adam encounters some of the surviving miniature Halloweentown sets from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas! Collector and prop historian Dan Lanigan shows Adam stop-motion puppets from the film, which he's had restored from deterioration and preserved on newly sculpted bases. They take a look at an armature from the Santa puppet to marvel at the…

In the collection archive of Cinema Relics, Adam encounters some of the surviving miniature Halloweentown sets from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas! Collector and prop historian Dan Lanigan shows Adam stop-motion puppets from the film, which he's had restored from deterioration and preserved on newly sculpted bases. They take a look at an armature from the Santa puppet to marvel at the…

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