The Mummy Boy is a character from the Nightmare Before Christmas (film) who appears within Haunted Mansion Holiday in Disneyland.
Description[]
Origins[]
The Mummy Boy is a resident of Halloween Town who seems to embody the horror iconography of Egyptian mummies. The mummy also only has a single, green eyeball showing from behind its bandages. The mummy seems to be a child, being very diminutive and frequently seen playing with explicitly young characters.
The mummy boy assists in the annual creation of Halloween along with the other residents of the town. In the main story, the mummy aids Jack Skellington in his takeover of Christmas, namely through making toys.
Appearances[]
Haunted Mansion Holiday[]
In the Load Area of Haunted Mansion Holiday, a depiction of the mummy can be found in the Scary Christmas display. The mummy boy can be seen holding what appears to be barbed wire decorated with Christmas lights which is in the shape of the Christmas tree. The boy stands atop a large Christmas present with an eye peeping out from its wrapping, mirroring the mummy boy; this is likely the eye of the cyclops from the film.
Live-Appearances[]
In 2003, a musical event outside of Haunted Mansion Holiday hosted by Ken Page would supposedly feature the mummy in one of its musical-sequences. However, the mummy in the show bore no resemblance to the mummy-boy, being large, covered in chains and having both eyes visible.
Trivia[]
- The classic Haunted Mansion has its own mummy who appears in the graveyard scene.
- The Mummy Boy being a child might be an allusion to arguably the most famous mummy, King Tutankhamen who died in his teenaged years.
- It is possible that the Mummy Boy's name is connected to Tim Burton's poem The Mummy Boy from his collection The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy (1997). The Mummy Boy in said poem having simply been born an Egyptian mummy reincarnated due to an Egyptian curse who winds up being killed by children at a birthday party, mistaking him for a piñata.