News Disney Jollywood Nights - Disney's Hollywood Studios Holiday Season ticketed event

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jpeden

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This is the first year my TA has offered to handle buying our MVMCP tickets for us. Is this a a new thing Disney is allowing? In the past our TA has said they can’t purchase those on our behalf and charge the card on file.
 
JohnD

JohnD

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Joel said:
Any WDW event where the list of offerings leads off with "there's gonna be a DJ!" is an automatic "lol no" from me just out of principle.
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Remember the DJ hired for entrance to a party at MK? Talk about cringe inducing. (Don't blame the DJ. He was hired for the gig they wanted. Can't blame the DJ for taking the job. That was all on Disney, not the DJ.)
 
JohnD

JohnD

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Disone said:
It's decent. IOA has ginchmas and Studios has Macy's Christmas Parade offered throughout the season. The decor is standard.

Sea World has
Very heavily decorated park, millions of lights at night and the decor does not follow the Disney ( giant tree, garland, wreath and a few smaller trees) standard.

Mostly* included with daily park admission.

Major shows:
O Wonderous Night
Winter Wonderland on Ice
Elmo's Christmas Wish
Sesame Street Christmas parade
Holiday reflections Fireworks

Additionally:
Rudolph's Christmas town.
Santa Claus meet and greet
Snow flurries
Holiday themed Streetmosphere acts
Sea of Trees

*Extra cost offerings:
Sesame Street holiday character breakfast
Dinner with Santa Claus.
Their own version of Epcot's Holiday kitchens all around the central lagoon.

All in one park.

I only stress it because there are so many people who really scratch their head at SeaWorld's Christmas. They can't wrap their head around that this is the park that actually does the most for Christmas in Central Florida by a country mile. There's just no way they can accept that. And then they go. And the reaction is always the same. Wow, That is a lot of Christmas.

I will say Disney has improved from a few years ago. The holiday menagerie at animal Kingdom Park is definitely a nice addition. The Magic kingdoms Main Street USA is always wonderful. I just wish there was more decor going beyond Main Street USA. Disney's Hollywood Studios has really up their game and I really do feel that is the best decorated park at Walt Disney World.

It is Epcot's holiday offering that I take the most issue with. Epcot feels so barren for the holidays. Even with the holiday kitchens the end result still feels like they decorated the front of the park, they put a Christmas tree at the World Showplace transition, and then a few booths around the lagoon. It feels barren and dark. A decor does not have the warmth and joy of the holiday season. It could be because the park is so big it's so hard to put enough decorations in it to make it feel good, but I'm not here to make excuses for them. Whatever they're doing it's not working. Epcot feels like a holiday void.
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Uni also has (or had) Mannheim Steamroller. They'll probably be back. Not hard to rotate in different performers for known music.
 
JohnD

JohnD

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dreday3 said:
Holy pants.

You don't have to be religious to enjoy the Christmas season, let's be real.
I grew up Catholic and I enjoy the non-religious parts of a Christmas celebration (anywhere, not just theme parks) more because frankly, it's more fun. Personal choice, but the last thing we'd do if we went to Disney for Christmas is the Candlelight Processional.
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Agree the religious aspect is celebrated every year with the Candlelight Processional, although I could quibble with several watered down elements. Judaism is also represented with a Hanukkah storyteller throughout the day at the American Adventure.
 
JohnD

JohnD

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Touchdown said:
Not even close Dollywood and Silver Dollar City are better than DLR. Sea World Orlando is better. I’ll let you know about BGW after this December. I would still argue that WDW Resort does Christmas better than DLR.

With the exception of one weekend, DLR fails to highlight the entire point of the holiday, Sea World, Dollywood, SDC, and Epcot have elements that highlight all aspects of the holiday. DLR doesn’t for a vast majority of its run.
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I keep hearing a lot about SW. I'll be at WDW over the weekend in December where I'm blocked out of parks with my PD AP on weekends. Who knows? I may make it over to SW. Comsidering Uni too.
 
JohnD

JohnD

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Touchdown said:
Minnie’s mops the floor with Believe, heck every castle firework show currently showing at both parks, it is so old. I think OUACT is also better than ACF. I get you beef with paying for MVMCP, but I don’t really care, not when you add in the stuff at Epcot, and the few other things at DHS and AK. I do love iasw holiday, HMH is great as is Vic’s Navidad but without a component highlighting the religious aspect it rings hollow. Candlelight is amazing and I love it, but it wouldn’t need to be that, a day show would be fine too. I’m not looking for it in everything nor require it for the whole year, but if you are going to celebrate a religious holiday you need to make it a part of the celebration, otherwise it reeks as a false attempt.
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I beg to differ about Candlelight. The fact that it is a special offering and with VIP dining, and religious at that, twice in the evening makes it stand out more not less. People may observe there are no day time storytellers about Christmas unlike Hanukkah until you remind them of the prime billing that the CP gets.
 
JohnD

JohnD

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Disone said:
Sorry. I get that You like Minnie's more than Believe. I do not. There's something magical about the way Believe ends with a transition into a snowfall. There's a moment there that is just still effective even for how old that show is. More than that is that you have completely dismissed the point that this is included in the nightly park operations, no special ticket involved. You're not going to see Minnie's holiday fireworks unless you buy a very Merry Christmas party ticket or you go at the busiest week of the year, Christmas week. Outside of those two opportunities you do not have an opportunity to enjoy that show at Walt Disney World whereas with Believe you have almost every opportunity to enjoy the show nightly.

The rest of your opinion comes across a little bit as Bible thumping. (Sorry).

For me I'll save my religion for church. If I go to church and they don't have Jesus, I'll be upset. But I can go to Disney without Jesus/religion. I'm okay with that. Not having the candlelight processional does not in any way shape or form take away from my enjoyment of all the other multiple holiday offerings the Disneyland resort offers that Walt Disney World just does not. Likewise I've never looked at the Dream Lights at Walt Disney world's Castle, or taking it way back and looking at the lights of winter that Epcot used to have, and think " these are so much better because of the candlelight procession of Epcot"
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I differed with @Touchdown now I'm going to differ with you. Everyone expects any representation of Hanukkah to be "religious" with the menorah and the 8 days. It gets the storyteller and I'm glad. I mean, you don't see Hanukkah Harry anywhere. So why should Christmas have no religious representation at all! It gets that with the CP. Before the closure of the Osborne Lights, there was a crèche there too. Santa and company get plenty of representation in the parks. As they say, Jesus is "the reason for the season" and I'm glad they still have the CP to remind us of that.
 
Disone

Disone

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JohnD said:
You knew exactly what I was saying and that I wasn't trying to be exclusive. Jesus is the reason for the Christmas-Christ mass-season. Hannukah is another religious holiday that falls at the same time. No one suggests it should get the non-religious treatment. It gets a storyteller at multiple times during the day explaining the meaning of the menorah, etc.. So why can't the CP be represented twice nightly at Epcot among all the other non-religious representations?
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You seem offended. Sorry. None was intended sir.

I am saying I do not dismiss Disneyland's holidays celebrating as inferior to WDW's because Disneyland does not have a nightly CP.

At no time have I suggested or advocated for WDW to stop its nightly CP.
 
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DCBaker

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Here's a look at a new casting call for The Nightmare Before Christmas sing-along during Jollywood Nights.

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MickeyCookies

MickeyCookies

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I was pretty convinced on buying tix to Jollywood Nights tomorrow, but anymore I’m not so sure. We are locals, so while the low crowds and Muppet show is enticing, is it really worth $159+? I’m a little lost on the overall value here.

On the other hand, I love MVMCP, and you at least get free hot cocoa and cookies. Anyone else in a similar predicament?
 

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