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In 1987, stop-motion animation legend Will Vinton released A Claymation Christmas Celebration into the world, and some point not too long after that, my grandmother taped it off television. That meant it found its way into the regular rotation of Christmas programming in our family, which of course means I now have several hyperfixations built around it.