ToTBellHop
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I always thought it was cool that the entertainment park had two nighttime spectaculars but I guess only Disneyland is capable of doing that any more.
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News Walt Disney World holidays 2021
- Thread starter wdwmagic
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It’s costly enough for its absence to be seen as a worthwhile cost saving.
Disneyland doesn’t schedule them so you have to chose one or the other.
Disone
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Andy is away in college now so the backyard is not decorated.
Good News / Bad News at DS...
The Christmas trees are pretty good. Remember how we mocked the original tree trail for using 6 foot trees from Wal*Mart? Well, almost all the trees are at least 10 foot and decked out nicely (no more decorations that looked like interns with glue guns made them). The tree trail map with stickers are fun.
The bad news: When you fill up your map with the stickers, none of the redemption sites have the Tree Trail holiday pin in stock!!
The double bad news: DS discovered more Pentatonix Christmas albums and are playing them constantly. You'll hear 10 Pentatonix songs and then 3 old-timey gimmicky Christmas songs, then back to Pentatonix. I just don't comprehend how an entertainment company can't curate a Christmas loop for a merchandising center that amounts to a 4-CD changer with three slots given over to Pentatonix.
The Christmas trees are pretty good. Remember how we mocked the original tree trail for using 6 foot trees from Wal*Mart? Well, almost all the trees are at least 10 foot and decked out nicely (no more decorations that looked like interns with glue guns made them). The tree trail map with stickers are fun.
The bad news: When you fill up your map with the stickers, none of the redemption sites have the Tree Trail holiday pin in stock!!
The double bad news: DS discovered more Pentatonix Christmas albums and are playing them constantly. You'll hear 10 Pentatonix songs and then 3 old-timey gimmicky Christmas songs, then back to Pentatonix. I just don't comprehend how an entertainment company can't curate a Christmas loop for a merchandising center that amounts to a 4-CD changer with three slots given over to Pentatonix.
castlecake2.0
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The Pentatonix also just add to the stress when that place is busy. Disney Springs is supposed to be historic Florida, why not use music that fits that theme?
UNCgolf
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I believe almost all good Christmas music was recorded sometime between the 1940s and the 1960s (maybe late 1930s). Just play that.
cslafferty
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We were there this week and we didn’t like the trees as much as when they had them all in one area. It seemed like they weren’t as full of “stuff” or maybe because they were taller and some were displayed in such a way that you couldn’t get as close, it was harder to see the details. We were also traveling with my sister who has some mobility issues, so having them all together like before would have been SO much easier than walking all over DS.
Centauri Space Station
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DL only has fireworks at one park and that’s if the wind isn’t blowing what so ever
They have that at DHS. Best Christmas loop in all the parks.
UNCgolf
Well-Known Member
Makes sense considering the park's theme.
Or at least the original theme, which the front of the park still clings to in some fashion.
SoFloMagic
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If I remember from two years ago, lots of fire effects, still quite a bit of rooftop of pyro, and lots of snoap. So they cut it to save what, $80k in December? Absurd
ToTBellHop
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Absolute truth. Best Christmas decorated and Christmas sounding park (for me).
nickys
Premium Member
This ^^^ a thousand times.
It’s the 50th, DIsneyland gets the full works it seems and WDW is left with a poor man’s Christmas.
There's no excuse to not have the resort, the entire resort, decked out for Christmas.This ^^^ a thousand times.
It’s the 50th, DIsneyland gets the full works it seems and WDW is left with a poor man’s Christmas.
ToTBellHop
Well-Known Member
It’s outrageous. WDW kept the parks segment afloat during the pandemic and they take it for granted. It would make more sense to skimp at DLP.
Instead DLR gets treated like the prodigal son, with tons of entertainment returning, complete with 50th anniversary celebration for a parade.
SoFloMagic
Well-Known Member
Their fans throw a fit if anything goes away. WDW has 25,000 newbies a day dressed in matching t-shirts who have no idea what festival of fantasy is. Unfortunately.
Sure. That's to be expected during normal times. But during WDW's 50th anniversary it's just over the top.
Besides. The dynamics are shifting at DLR as well. APs have been cut back in favor of more day tickets in the crowd.