Castle Christmas Lighting!

cooleo

cooleo

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I know this has been talked about, but I don't recall any confirmed reports of exactly what would be done. I just watched a video on the WDW website regarding the lighting of the castle for Christmas time. The entire castle will be draped in Icicle lights. During the day, these strings of lights will turn the color of the part of the castle it is covering (Blue roof, etc.) so as not to be seen. This looks like it will be pretty cool. To check it out you will need to log in & go to the section called My Vacation. There you will find the link at the bottom of the screen called Disney's Backstage Pass HELLO! That is the video update. :cool:
 
csm

csm

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cooleo said:
I know this has been talked about, but I don't recall any confirmed reports of exactly what would be done. I just watched a video on the WDW website regarding the lighting of the castle for Christmas time. The entire castle will be draped in Icicle lights. During the day, these strings of lights will turn the color of the part of the castle it is covering (Blue roof, etc.) so as not to be seen. This looks like it will be pretty cool. To check it out you will need to log in & go to the section called My Vacation. There you will find the link at the bottom of the screen called Disney's Backstage Pass HELLO! That is the video update. :cool:
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I logged in, went to my vacation, clicked backstage pass and see no video. Pointers?
 
utrythinkinof1

utrythinkinof1

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The video plays after a video about the Osborne Spectacle of Lights. It all looks really cool. I don't see how you won't be able to see all those lights in the daytime, even with the matching colored cables, but I'm sure it will look great.:xmas:
 
fizzle75

fizzle75

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Wow, that's gonna be awesome! I had no problems finding it by the way. We are hoping to try to fly down for a long weekend in early December but I don't know if our schedules and finances will permit. :(

Thanks for telling us about the video. The other vids were awesome too!
 
wdwpooh1027

wdwpooh1027

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Wow!!!

Wow..I wasn't aware of the castle looking like that. How exciting. I will be looking forward to that when I go there. Dec. 7th here I come. :xmas:

DECEMBER 7TH-10TH @ CONTEMPORARY RESORT!!!!
 
3girlswdwdreams

3girlswdwdreams

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bummer. I must not have something on my puter 'cause it doesn't work for me either. Just gives me the Hello screen with a message.. never goes to a video or anywhere to click for one. :shrug:
 
csm

csm

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fizzle75 said:
Wow, that's gonna be awesome! I had no problems finding it by the way. We are hoping to try to fly down for a long weekend in early December but I don't know if our schedules and finances will permit. :(

Thanks for telling us about the video. The other vids were awesome too!
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I didn't "have problems" finding it. For the record, not to justify myself to you but instead to help others who may enounter a similiar issue - it turns out the website defaulted itself to the low-bandwidth version, even though I have a very much high-bandwidth connection.

To anyone that follows the above links and gets nothing but a static graphic of the word "hello!"... look at the top of the page; See if there is a link that says view high-bandwidth site, and then click the same links again and a video will play.

I suppose this is why Disney is known for their theme parks and animation and not for their websites :brick:
 
sweetpee_1993

sweetpee_1993

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Oh wow! I'm so psyched!!! I can't wait! Thanks soooo sooooooooo much for posting that. I went right to it and watched all the stuff about the upcoming holiday stuff. :wave:
 
3girlswdwdreams

3girlswdwdreams

Member
Thanks csm. That was my problem here. changed the bandwidth and worked like a charm. watching them now. Didn't think I could possibly be more excited than I already was. The castle is going to be spectacular!!

:xmas:
 
josh_e_washie

josh_e_washie

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Yes thank you very much! This seems like a huge undertaking, but I'm sure it's going to be amazing...! Disney never lets us down for the holidays!
 
S

Spyne

Member
Wow, that looks like it's going to be awesome looking. Can't wait to see a pic and/or video of it with the lights on and in action. :D

Do you think this is a permanent thing now? Like, the lights will be put up every year starting this year?
 
ToGreen78

ToGreen78

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:sohappy: It looks awesome!! Next Nov will be my first time going for xmas and I can't wait:xmas: the castle is going to be gorgeous:wave:
 
cooleo

cooleo

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Glad I could let everyone in on a little info. I generally post on everyone else's threads & never start any myself. Just so happened I got an e-mail to register to renew my Backstage Pass HELLO. When I did, there was the video. I immediately thought of a recent thread where there was some discussion regarding holiday lighting, buy nothing was solid info from what I had gathered. I am always very cautious about posting bogus info & thought what could be more solid than this. :lol:
 
polarboi

polarboi

Member
Big goof

Slightly off-topic, but if you watch the rest of the videos there, the fourth one is about PhotoPass, and it has a pretty major goof. They display the address www.photopass.com as the URL to view your photos, when in fact the actual address is www.disneyphotopass.com. Disney (much to their dismay, I'm sure) doesn't own photopass.com.

Oops!

-p.b. :cool:
 

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