Oogie Boogie's Lair

Oogie Boogie's Lair is a location featured in Tim Burton's 1993 animated film The Nightmare Before Christmas. It is an underground area ruled by Oogie Boogie.
==Background==
Oogie's lair is an underground area located in the outskirts of Halloween Town below Lock, Shock, and Barrel's treehouse. Most of the elements featured within the lair are torture devices for victims who are placed within with the layout itself having a casino-style gambling theme such as slot machine robots themed after Western outlaws armed with pistols, blade traps themed after king cards, or dice that Oogie uses in addition to the large spinning platform resembling a roulette wheel surrounding a small magma pit. Food sent to Oogie Boogie by Lock, Shock, and Barrel can consist of food (such as live insects) or sometimes victims falling down a chute.
==Appearances==
===The Nightmare Before Christmas===
During the musical number "Kidnap the Sandy Claws", Lock, Shock, and Barrel devise a plan to capture Santa Claus and send him to become Oogie Boogie's prisoner, thanks to their devious plans. Later, Lock, Shock, and Barrel captured Santa at Christmas Town and later bring him to their treehouse via chute leading to Oogie's lair, which they push him into the chute leading him to the lair. Oogie approaches Santa where he sings the musical number "Oogie Boogie's Song", wanting to have a little fun before devouring him, much to Santa feeling worried of what Oogie has done to him.
Meanwhile, Jack's close friend, Sally, realizes the trouble that's been caused and rushes to Oogie's lair to rescue Santa. As Oogie begins the process of turning Santa into his latest meal, Sally arrives and uses her detached leg to distract a lustful Oogie. With Oogie distracted, Sally and Santa try to make their escape, only to be caught before they can do so. Furious by being made a fool of, Oogie captures the two and sentences them both to painful deaths. As Halloween Town mourns the apparent loss of their king due to the military forces who shot down Jack for causing trouble by delivering Halloween-themed Christmas presents, the Mayor announces the tragedy throughout the town on his megaphone, which catches the attention of Oogie, Sally, and Santa who are inside the lair.
Believing there's now no one capable of rescuing his victims, Oogie continues onward with his scheme, while Jack (who survived the attack) awakens in the human world and quickly rushes back to Halloween Town after coming to a realization that Halloween is his rightful holiday. Without wasting any time, Jack arrives at Oogie's funhouse after learning his friends were kidnapped and successfully rescues Sally and Santa just in time before they fall in a magma pit. A shocked Oogie cowers at the sight of a survived Jack, but instead of surrendering, he triggers his various torture mechanisms to battle the Pumpkin King. As Jack avoids Oogie's attacks one by one, the latter attempts to make an escape, just as one of his threads loosens. Noticing this, a furious Jack grabs the thin thread and unravels Oogie's sack, causing a majority of his bugs to fall into the fiery, molten pit, while one, seemingly his brain, is crushed by Santa stomping on it ending his threat.
With Oogie defeated, Jack then apologizes to Santa, who scolds Jack for his actions - explaining to him that Sally is the one who is trustworthy. Jack then asks Santa if there is still time to fix the mistakes he did, which he replies to him that there is always time for him to fix the problem, which he later manages to return to the real world to fix the mistakes Jack did, which he leaves Oogie's lair via chute where he was dropped within. Jack asks Sally who asks her of how she arrived here and as she explains that she was trying to save Santa, the conversation becomes interrupted when the Mayor and Lock, Shock, and Barrel realize that Jack is alive, rescuing him and Sally from Oogie's lair, followed by Santa setting things right undoing all of Jack's mistakes.
==Disney Parks==
===Disney California Adventure===
During the Oogie Boogie Bash at California Adventure during Halloween events at the Disneyland Resort, the Disney Animation Building becomes themed after Oogie's lair, where guests can meet Oogie within the area with the building itself themed after Oogie's lair since 2017.
==Trivia==
*There is a deleted scene featuring almost an entire sequence removed from the finalized version of the film after it went into animation, which showcased Lock, Shock, and Barrel grabbing candies, popcorn, and soda in a plan for them to take a peek on Oogie interacting with Santa, only for Jack to scare them away just before entering Oogie's lair to confront him."Deleted Scene - Lock, Shock & Barrel (The Nightmare Before Christmas Special Edition, 2000, DVD).
*Alongside Oogie Boogie himself, this location was not present in Tim Burton's original poem.
*During the climax of the film where Jack is faced by slot machine robots themed after Western outlaws armed with pistols and then Oogie yells "Fire!", one can see that the symbols the slot wheels have aligned to, all of them facing Jack's head.
*According to the Nightmare Before Christmas-inspired comic The Battle for Pumpkin King, it was revealed that this lair was Edgar's former home before Oogie took over it.
==References==
==External links==
*Oogie Boogie's Lair on The Nightmare Before Christmas Wiki.
Category:The Nightmare Before Christmas locations
Category:Villain's lair
Category:Kingdom Hearts locations