69 Jack Skellington, Disney

Jack Skellington

Day of the Dead

 Is from the stop motion movie The Nightmare Before christmas. The story is about Jack and his plans to celebrate Yule in Halloween town. This version is decorated like a candy skull.

  Jack Skellington is the 69th figure in the Funko vinyl pop Disney line. This figure is titled Day of the Dead Jack Skellington on the back of the box.

This figure is obviously Jack Skellington and the candy skull designs are easily noticed.

Beautiful candy skull designs adorn Jacks head. His mouth and nose holes are molded in but his eyes are painted on.

He wears his striped suit.

It has the same nice tail design.

He is in the same pose and has the same body sculpt as Jack Skellington 15.

Candy mobile anyone?

Jack Skellington, Santa Jack Skellington and Day of the Dead Jack Skellington.

The Day of the Dead:

 The day of the dead is a holiday celebrated throughout Mexico and around the world in other cultures. The holiday focuses on gatherings to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died. The celebration takes place on October 31, November 1 and November 2 in Mexico. The holiday is very similar to the pagan Halloween or Samhain celebrated on 31 October – 1 November in the Northern Hemisphere and 30 April – 1 May in the Southern Hemisphere.
Many southern hemisphere pagans usually incorporate it into their Samhain celebrations in April-May.
Though it is becoming popular as the shops and media try to enforce celebrating Halloween at the wrong time of year in Australia, for Pagans to celebrate The Day of the Dead in October-November. As pagans are known for their acceptance of others ignorance, most people celebrating Halloween at the wrong time are not even aware it is a seasonal holy day and how offense they are being celebrating it on Beltane.

15 Jack Skellington, Disney

Jack Skellington

 

Is from the stop motion movie The Nightmare Before christmas. The story is about Jack and his plans to celebrate Yule in Halloween town.

 Jack Skellington is the 15th figure in the Funko vinyl pop Disney line.

Its  easy to recognise who this figure represents.

 He has a nice molded smile, though its different to the one on the box. His eyes are indented and he has holes for a nose.

He looks quite dapper in his striped suit.

The "frayed" tail looks cool.

The collar is a nice touch.

Do we want a Halloween mobile for him to drive, yes i think we do.

 The perfect gift for an undead fan.

Jack Skellington, Santa Jack Skellington and Day of the Dead Jack Skellington.

 About the holidays:

christmas is a christian holiday believed to have been incorporated into the christian calender to help convert the pagans, it is heavily based on Yule, the pagan holy celebration of the winter solstice. Yule is celebrated 21 or 22 December in the northern hemisphere and 21 June in the southern hemisphere.

Halloween or Samhain is a seasonal religious holy day celebrated on the 30th of April–1st of May in the Southern Hemisphere, and as it is a seasonal festival it is celebrated on the 31st of October –1st of November in the northern hemisphere.

At Samhain the veil between this world and the spiritual world is very thin, as such it is a time to communicate, honor and pay respect to those who have died.

Preview: Horror Movie Pop!

Horror Pop!

 
Funko are about to release more Horror figures for there Funko Pop! vinyl figure movies line.

Chucky

 

Chucky from the 1990 Childs Play 2 movie. Chucky is actually,  Charles Lee Ray a serial killer called "The Lakeshore Strangler". He has possessed the body of a doll, but wants to transfer his soul to a human once more. A good movie franchise, have a Chucky movie night and see them all.

As for the figure itself, i would have much preferred for him to be one of those smaller sized Funko pop figures, that would have been cool. Still a nice figure for any Horror movie aficionado.

Ghost face

 

Ghost face is actually a Samhain costume that several serial killers have worn since the 1996 Scream movie. The costume is based on The Scream a famous painting by  Edvard Munch. Though a human wears the costume, the Ghostface persona seems to posses inhuman endurance, strength and stealth, as well as the ability to teleport!
The figure looks cool, and who wouldn't like a Ghostface in their collection. 

Sam

I hadnt seen this movie until now. It is kind of cool. Sam is a short Trick or Treater who goes out on Samhain and reminds people of the spirit of Halloween.
As with Chucky im wishing this guy was much smaller, but he may in fact be short, will have to wait and see. He kind of reminds me of Sackboy which isn't very scary.

Preview: Disney Yule 2013

A spooky Yule

 

Jack Skellington looks quite cool in his Yule costume. A great decoration for Yule and Samhain!

 

Zero the ghost dog pet of Mr Skellington, with his glowing Samhain pumpkin nose.

Available 5th September 2013

03 Michael Myers

Halloween's Michael Myers

 

Halloween (the movie) was one of the first slasher films and created a lot of the standard horror movie rules. The franchise went on to create ten movies, comics, novels, games and changed horror movies forever.

 Michael Myers is the star and killer in the Halloween movies. He is a supernatural slasher and even if killed he just keeps coming back, death seemingly being a minor inconvenience for him. He is the 3rd figure in the Funko pop Movies line.

The back of the box states "they'll thrill you!" which is appropriate because back in the day a Thriller movie was not just what you called a boring horror. 

Here is Michael Myers in all his stabby glory. He is easily recognisable by any fan of horror.

One thing that struck me was the dark brown around his eyes. At first i thought it was mistake as this was a different colour to his skin. However it is accurate to the movies as he wore dark eyeliner.

He wears his white mask and has both a cute nose and mouth.

Here we see Michaels overalls, considering his penchant for eyeliner, he doesn't seem to put much effort into his wardrobe.

Michael Myers would be caught dead without his signature weapon, the humble yet successful kitchen knife. It is shinny and silver with blood from his last victim, or it could be jam, he has to eat too you know.

Here he is a member of the big three horror giants. With Freddy Krueger on the left and Jason Vorhees on the right, a horrifying threesome to be sure.

Here we see Michael, Jason and Freddy being mean to Leatherface. Bullying and bigotry are wrong and these pops are going to be in serious trouble unless they change there evil ways.

What is Halloween: 

Halloween or Samhain is a seasonal religious holy day celebrated on the 30th of April–1st of May in the Southern Hemisphere, and as it is a seasonal festival it is celebrated on the 31st of October –1st of November in the northern hemisphere.
At Samhain the veil between this world and the spiritual world is very thin, as such it is a time to communicate, honor and pay respect to those who have died.

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