TheBreadsmasher: 2022

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

ParaNorman Huckleberry Action Figure Prototypes

Vombie Amelia Wilcot

Vombie Will London

Zombie Judge Hopkins

Zombie Lemuel Spalding

Norman In Pajamas

Norman In Pajamas (unused)

Norman Babcock (Unused)

Alvin

Saturday, April 16, 2022

Kubo and the Two Strings Props

Mr Monkey Charm Prop

HollywoodHistoryOnline

Kubo Hero Hand Prop

HollywoodHitoryOnline

ParaNorman Replacement Face Prop

ParaNorman Replacement face 3D Printed Prop

HollywoodHistoryOnline

I suspect this was originally a Cast & Crew gift, mounted on a plaque that has since been removed.

Boxtrolls Props

Fish Test Mouth replacement Prop

HollywoodHistoryOnline

Baby Eggs 3D Printed replacement Head Prop

HollywoodHistoryOnline

Coraline Other Wybie 3D Printed prop

Pre-production 3D Printed head of Other Wybie

Auction here. Photo by jackjackhailey

Originally sold by ThePropStore.com

The Nightmare Before Christmas Skeleton Reindeer Blueprints Prop

Original Plans for the Reindeer made by Dr Finklestein

Auction here. Photo by fourdoormafia

Plans measure approximately 10.5" x 7.5"

Original listing on ThePropGallery

Coraline Slugzilla Puppet Prop

Wybie's Slugzilla stopmotion puppet prop

Auction Here. Photo by jackjackhailey

Original HollywoodHistoryOnline listing

Second change to own a prop from the movie Coraline. Stretching slugzilla. The rings on both sides are connection points between Wybie's fingers as he pulled it away from his nose

The Nightmare Before Christmas Jack & Sally Replacement faces

Unpainted Jack and Sally Stopmotion Replacement faces

Auction here

The Nightmare before Christmas used the method of replacement animation for Jack and Sally's speech and expressions. Several hundred, if not thousand replacement faces were cast in resin for the production. Several of these faces where never finished after being casted. That is the claim for these two particular castings. I however, have my doubts. The resin color looks too new to have been casted 30 or so years ago. For example:

Here is a photo from propstore.com

of original, unused replacement faces and the color in the resin is obviously different. This is due to the age of the resin. In addition to the color of the resin, there are no markings on the back of Sally's face. Even the unused faces above, show that each face was still marked.
All that to say, I believe the replacement faces in the auction are re-cast replicas (molds made off originals to create replicas), and not production made. At best, they are casts made from production molds, but done sometime after the movie was completed.