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This is one of my favorite films, and I was pretty much obsessed with it as a teenager. I could talk for way too long about it, so I'll try not to. I was really into puppetery effects then, so it was like the pinnacle achievement to me, and I studied it dilligently. All that stuff is pre-animatronic, bicycle break technology. Even by the time they made Labyrinth a few years later there had been major advances in that kind of stuff. So it really is a wonder. Every little thing on screen had to be designed and made by someone. Letting one artist do most of the designing really lent a feeling of cohesion to everything. Froud and Henson delivered a world, not just a movie. To me it seems the film, the story, and even how much people would enjoy it are second to the portrayal of a fantasy world in such extreme detail. For me it's like watching an exquisite exercise in imagination, design and puppetry. It will always be associated with Labyrinth, and for good reason, but this stands more by itself to me. Since there are no people, and no pop music it can't be as easily dated. Also, I think the Skeksis are some of the coolest looking creatures in any film, period.

On another note, this is also one of the only movies I have a bit of a collection of. I have a framed theatre poster, a lobby card with a headshot of the garthim master, those detailed dolls they made of the gelflings about ten years ago, the World of the Dark Crystal book by Froud, and I used to have one of the issues of the Marvel comic adaptation, but unfortunately lost it when someone stole a lot of my old comics out of my cabin they were being stored in.

Well, it wasn't EXCLUSIVELY comic books, there was a lot of other crap in there too, including a lot of cool toys, but it burned down a few months back. I got all my books and comics that were left before that happened, but lost a lot of the toys and a few other things. I think it was an arson job by the look of it, probably a homeless person or some teenagers.