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Halloween Town

Halloween Town is an eternally dark village featured in all three of the main Kingdom Hearts games. It is based on Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, a stop motion animated film released by Touchstone Pictures (an alternate film label of Disney's). The residents of Halloween Town are obsessed with their eponymous holiday and, each year, seek to outdo the last year's celebration. Though it has a mayor, the de facto leader of Halloween Town is the Pumpkin King, Jack Skellington. Sora, Donald and Goofy disguise themselves as spooky characters to blend in with the Halloween Town folk.[43]

Halloween Town's nexus is Guillotine Square, which has entrances to Dr. Finklestein's lab, Jack Skellington's house, and the graveyard. The graveyard is overrun by Halloween-themed Heartless and leads to the Moonlight Hill. A secret switch in Moonlight Hill allows access to Oogie Boogie's Manor, which had been constructed over the world's immense keyhole; to seal this keyhole, Sora had to aim the Keyblade's power at the moon, which scattered it over the keyhole. The back of the graveyard also houses a forest called the Hinterlands. Here, several trees with strange symbols lead to other holiday-themed towns. The most prominent is Christmas Town, where Santa Claus lives and has his workshop. In the Final Mix version of Kingdom Hearts II, Sora's Halloween outfit is replaced by an outfit with a mixture of both Christmas and Halloween themes. Donald and Goofy also receive new Christmas outfits, though are less oriented toward Halloween.