LED Christmas lights

THEMEPARKPIONEER

THEMEPARKPIONEER

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SaucyBoy said:
I had to replace some of my outdoor lights this year and the stark contrast between my older bulbs and newer ones is quite jarring.
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I wan to put some money aside and get all incandescent lights and put the best classic looking LED c9 I can put on them, it will save me allot in the years to come.
 
LittleBuford

LittleBuford

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Sirwalterraleigh said:
That’s what lead me here…

I like the look of the old style lights too…but I’m glad they’re almost gone.
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As multiple posters here have discussed, LEDs can be manufactured to mimic the look of coloured incandescents. At least two companies are already selling such imitations, though they’re not widely available yet. My very first post mentioned one of these companies, Tru-Tone, as an instance of how to do LEDs well.

At no point has anyone in this thread said that Disney should go back to using actual incandescents.
 
Bocabear

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YEARS (decades) ago I was working on a project and I needed a white tree with soft golden lights... The amber was too orance, the yellow too vivid... I took (incandescent back then, but could be done with WW LED lights)clear miniature light strings, Strung them up across my work space, and hand dipped each bulb with a stained glass colorant. It worked beautifully....but was a Huuuuuge pain.
 
yensidtlaw1969

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I'll have to see if I can find a picture - I've had success on small strings of LED lights spraying them with Walnut Wood Tone by Design Master. It's different from traditional spray paint because it sprays with translucency, in effect it's almost more like a Wood Stain than like a traditional spray paint. Made some of my multicolored Fairy Lights feel warmer and less intense with a few light coats and spared me having to treat each bulb individually:

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Smiley/OCD

Smiley/OCD

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I was just at Home Depot…they had CASES of SOFT WHITE LED lights…they’ve had them for the past 3-4 years…I personally hate white lights on the tree (but I lost that argument) lol, so I use the LED color lights on the outside…
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THEMEPARKPIONEER

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LittleBuford said:
Having returned to WDW last week after an almost four-year hiatus, I had a wonderful time! Christmas is my favourite time of year, and I can’t think of a more festive setting than the Disney parks. I do, however, have a major complaint: the multicolour LED Christmas lights that are plastered pretty much everywhere across the resort. They emit that horrible harsh light—the blue is especially offensive—that is typical of LEDs and instantly kills any sense of a warm, old-fashioned Christmas. The issue could be easily fixed if the LEDs inside the coloured bulbs were warm white, as are the filaments in traditional incandescent coloured lights, but for some reason, manufacturers don’t make them this way (with one exception I know of, a company called Tru-Tone); they insist instead on making the LEDs inside the bulbs coloured also, which is why the effect is an assault of pure electric colour.

I realise Disney doesn’t produce its own lights, and perhaps I’m alone in disliking the intensity and purity of coloured LEDs, but surely they could commission something that better replicates the warmth and charm of incandescent lights. Interestingly, I did not notice this issue at Disneyland last year, though there, they seem to have worked around the problem by not including blue among their LEDs. The other colours aren’t nearly as harsh on the eyes.

Do others feel as I do, or am I unusual in being so bothered by the effect of the lights in question?
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You’d think by now they’d have the ones where you can program around the parks, average homeowners have more advanced Christmas lights.
 
Skibum1970

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So, the LED's are fairly piercing on Disney's garlands and trees. The one thing that also jumps out to me is that, in a photo, the tree takes on a blue-ish look. As if the blues/purples overwhelm the other lights on photos/videos. I noticed it the most when watching videos on Youtube. In person, I thought that the lights were still pretty.

At Islands of Adventure, they also had the very crisp LED lights that blued out on pictures. To be fair, I'm just using my phone to take pictures and not a nice digital or DSLR camera.
 

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