mrsbicewdw
Passing Down the Magic
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- Mar 9, 2011
Commenting to subscribe. Love these threads. I'm ready to go to DLR for the holidays NOW and we have a year to wait!!
Just like that we are now on the 5th Superthread.
Lots of votes for Santa at Elias & Co. and for the life of me I'm drawing a blank....where is this in the parks?
Lots of votes for Santa at Elias & Co. and for the life of me I'm drawing a blank....where is this in the parks?
It's the main shop in DCA. As you enter the park, Elias & Co is the big shop on the left. It's made up of multiple rooms and Santa is in the last room (closest to the entrance to Hollywood Land.)
Bret --
Yeah. I would have preferred to just let the previous thread run through the end of the holidays -- and if we only had a few days left of the season I would have done that, even if it went to page 251 or 252 or something. But we have another 4 weeks until the season ends, and the whole Frozen Fun event is sneak peeking on December 20th (if not a media soft launch before that), which will probably generate some chat. The former thread could have jumped another 25 pages between now and early January, so I figured I might as well move us over to a new thread.
Fortunately, I had everything set up on page 1 of the previous thread, and all I had to do was to literally copy and paste everything from one thread to another. I had to reserve a couple of extra posts on page 1 -- which I can fill with photos in the meantime, but are really there in case a sudden Christmas party pops up (or some other new holiday thing for the 60th anniversary), which would deserve its own post!
The real thorn in my side is when the New Year begins and I have to comb through the posts on page 1 to change everything from "2014" to "2015" -- or simply revise/edit my text to say that I don't have the 2015 information yet!
Definitely. It would have been nice if the Superthread #4 still kept going till the end of the holidays especially with the talks about the Frozen Fun event. After reading all about it these last couple of days, I will have to see it sometimes these next few months. It would have been nice to see the sneak peek on December 20th. I remember the last three threads that you have started were in mid December and last years was on New Years day.
You always come prepare when starting up the new Superthreads. I saw that you were up very late last night while starting the new Superthread.
I got my D23 Magazine yesterday (Winter 2014 edition) and was reading it and I looked at the title "It's Beginning to Look A Lot like Christmas" which easily caught my mine and it talked about the holiday season at Disneyland. This article you will like if you have the magazine if not I would consider getting it.
bret --
Yes. Whenever i start these new superthreads (halloween time or christmas/holidays), i have to do it either late, late at night or reallllly early in the morning (before anyone is really awake and on the dis). If i start them in the middle of the day or early evening, then inevitably someone will see that a new thread has popped up and claim one of the spots that i need to keep open on page 1. There is no way to keep the thread closed for comments while i add posts to it -- it has to be an open thread for me to claim the spots on page 1.
In the case of the previous thread, i hadn't thought it through and realized that it would be good to keep all the posts on page 1 available for various additions, and for me to be able to have space to move things around and divide them up if i need to. So now i have those extra couple of posts handy on page 1, and i can add info to them if something major pops up.
I don't get the actual d23 magazine. I get emails from them, but at the lowest member status. I don't get all the perks because i have the free membership, but i do get access to some of the online content (like the video of candlelight, etc.). I'm sure i would enjoy the articles or bits about disneyland! If it involves disneyland resort and the holiday season, it's a winner!
That does make sense since you will have the whole first page to posts the different info. Now that you have all the whole first page on the Superthread, you are able to put links to all the different posts and you won't have to crowd everything on one post.
You will want to read that article. The one part of the article that I enjoyed reading was the crew that works on the Christmas decorations year round.
Bret --
I can imagine that a lot of the decorations and ideas for the holiday season have to be planned and set in stone very early in the year, and then worked on all year long. There must be constant creative meetings going on behind the scenes at DLR, as they have to have everything mapped out way in advance so that things can be built, supplies can be ordered, etc.
That's why I always find it funny when some people think that DLR should wait to put up holiday decorations until Halloween Time is completely over, or even wait until after Thanksgiving! It's not possible to wait unless DLR shortens the length of the holiday season -- and why on earth would they do that?!
Anyone who has seen the level of detail and work that goes into setting DLR up for the holidays knows that it is a massive undertaking. The horticulture has to be planned. Every Christmas tree and every window display has to be just right and theme-appropriate. Every strand of lights and garland has to be artfully hung. Every bit of entertainment has to be rehearsed and ready to go. The ride overlays have to be installed and then tested to be sure they are working properly. The designs for the holiday merchandise and the seasonal menus and food items have to be mapped out way in advance.
There's no way DLR could get away with starting after Halloween Time ends -- or after Thanksgiving!!!!!!! -- to begin the holiday transformation. And there is a lot of pre-planning and pre-construction work that has to be done all year long, to get ready for it.!
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Hi Sherry, I have a question about snow and Main Street - when does it snow? After the fireworks, I believe, but is there also an earlier "snowing"?
Hi Sherry, I have a question about snow and Main Street - when does it snow? After the fireworks, I believe, but is there also an earlier "snowing"?
Thanks very much Sherry and Figment! That information is just what I needed!
One more question - is there a schedule for the Dickensian carolers? I've seen them in the GCH in years past and they are outstanding. I think they carol through all the hotels and maybe the park too, but I can't find a schedule.