I should have known things wouldn’t be this<\/i> easy.<\/p>\n
The Collectibles section had come through. Lots of products. Interesting products, like a whole line of things based on A Christmas Story<\/i> — a film I’ve never, ever seen.<\/p>\n
The Nightmare Before Christmas<\/i>, the bane of existence? Nary an item in sight. Oh, there were some Jack Skellington dolls, but that was it<\/i>.<\/p>\n
The text was passed to proofing, passed to purchasing, and finally passed to layout.<\/p>\n
And then! “Oh, here’s a bunch of Nightmare Before Christmas<\/i> stuff we need to add.<\/p>\n
LEGO Darth Vader screaming “Nooooo!!!!” seems apropos. Shake arms up and down. Make little LEGO robots break apart with my voodoo Force powers. Yeah.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, there were virtually no<\/i> keychains this time around. I think there might’ve been one or two. Mainly it was other stuff — plush Jack Skellingtons, candleholders, fuzzy dice.<\/p>\n
Fuzzy dice? Someone needs Jack Skellington fuzzy dice? That’s whole new<\/i> levels of fannishness…<\/p>\n
The write-ups got done, the problems were fixed. But one of these days, methinks Jack Skellington and I will have a throwdown. \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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