disney at christmas

[spacepixie2]

I would be interested in knowing if there are any X-mas Princess dresses from Bibidy Bobbidy Boutique. If not X-mas, how about Tangled>

TIA

 

[KCmike]

Crowds....

And then there were none...

 

[Sherry E]

Crowds....

And then there were none...

Great shots, Mike! NOS looks very pretty in that second photo, considering DLR has removed more than 50% of the NOS decorations this year and it is nowhere near as illuminated as it once was at night. What was left in NOS is lovely!!

I like seeing crowd photos because I'm very interested in people. I love to look at a big crowd scenes and see who is bundled up for the cold, who is wearing shorts (like that tall guy in the left-center of your photo), who looks like they are a couple as opposed to who is with family, who is wearing a particularly cool Disney shirt, who looks like they are having a bad day, who looks like they are having a great time, etc. There is so much to see in crowd photos!!

 

[PHXscuba]

SpacePixie, I will poke my head into the Bibbity Bobbity Boutique to see if they have anything Christmas-y (or if I see anything like that elsewhere in the park). I'd be very surprised if they didn't have Tangled because I read on the Disney Parks blog that they have a Tangled "makeover" with the Rapunzel wig.

PHXscuba

p.s. I remember from your other thread that you are leaving for DL while I am still there. I will still post what I find when I get home Sunday but it may not help you!

 

[Funball]

LAST CALL -- for anyone who wants me to take a picture of something specific or check the price/type on some merchandise. I'll check back in the morning before I leave.

So far Sherry is the only one with a request -- a tale-of-the-tape for the gingerbread cookies.

Of course I'll be taking loads of pictures and sampling all the goodies -- but without a request you're stuck with what my feeble brain can remember after my Disney high wears off.

... just found out my friend can't get us in until her break at 9:30 the first morning, so no rope drop. Oh well, free is free, and I don't have to wake up as early now.

PHXscuba,
who will be sipping cocoa in the GCH lobby this time tomorrow night

can you take a photo of the inside lobby of GCH in case i dont make it this weekend myself!! i just been dead sick with this cold... and uuughghgh its annoying me... funball is not a ball of fun right now..!

 

[PHXscuba]

Sure, Funball, I'll get a GCH lobby photo. I am planning to take Sherry's advice and spend some quality time in one of their comfy chairs tomorrow night.

PHXscuba

 

[lapdwife]

can you take a photo of the inside lobby of GCH in case i dont make it this weekend myself!! i just been dead sick with this cold... and uuughghgh its annoying me... funball is not a ball of fun right now..!

Aww, feel better! I had that two weeks ago I spent probably an hour in the lobby staring at the tree (and the crazy people walking through the lobby) on Sunday while the hubman was doing stuff backstage. I could have sat there all day.

 

[lapdwife]

I like seeing crowd photos because I'm very interested in people. I love to look at a big crowd scenes and see who is bundled up for the cold, who is wearing shorts (like that tall guy in the left-center of your photo), who looks like they are a couple as opposed to who is with family, who is wearing a particularly cool Disney shirt, who looks like they are having a bad day, who looks like they are having a great time, etc. There is so much to see in crowd photos!!

I had to at this comment. I do the exact same thing. Well that and looking to see if one of us are in someone's photo.

 

[Flitterific]

Hi everyone! It's been sooo long since I've been on DIS and posted on the Christmas thread but I just came back from DLR (DBF and I were there Nov 27-29). Contrary to what I was told, Thanksgiving weekend turned out to be a lot busier than I expected. I overheard a CM saying that it was the busiest Thanksgiving that she's seen in the past 13 years that she worked there! Still, Thanksgiving weekend was a lot more manageable than Christmas weekend when I went last year.

This trip, I spent a lot of time really looking in all of the holiday decor and noticed some really cool stuff that I missed during our last Christmas trip. DBF and I ended up riding IASWH and HMH at least 6x each Anyway, I took 1500+ pictures and cannot wait to share some Christmas magic and hopefully convert some of you into going this holiday season

Photobucket isn’t liking me much today and I’m having a lot of trouble uploading my pictures so I guess I will be sharing my photos in installments. First up…Main Street and the Castle:

 

[spacepixie2]

PHXscuba---thanks for the Tangled makeover info--my dd will be sooo excited. If there is a x-mas dress option that will really be a tough choice. Thanks for checking on my behalf. I'm probably going to be taking my computer along so I can clear off my camera cards each day--so if I can connect to internet from Fairfield (or other hotel, TBD) I can check back on the boards

 

[dizneedoll]

Santa gets around, dizneedoll!! He is hanging at the Round-Up, he is posing for photos in DCA, he is killing time at the 3 hotels...he is all over the place!!! There might not even be a Santa available to work the North Pole or deliver presents on Christmas Eve because all the Santas are at DLR!!

NOOOOO!
He must really be overworking those elves. Hope they get overtime pay.


All of a sudden the Christmas trip crept up on me and I've got nada planned. I was so on top of Halloween but Christmas has totally slipped by me. I don't even have any dining booked and totally forgot about booking the Holiday tour which I might skip now. I have to go back about 100 pages in this thread to get caught up and prepared. I'm just excited Fantasmic will be showing. I haven't seen the new dragon yet.

I'm sure holiday treats have been discussed up and down so what does everone think the #1 Holiday treat not to miss is?

 

[princess lovers mom]

will there still be Christmas merchandise to buy in the parks the week AFTER Chrismas (12/26-30) or is it pretty much picked over by then?

 

[funatdisney]

Tomorrow we are off to DLR for the weekend. We will be arriving very late (after 9pm) cuz DD(13) has a presentation on some art work she submitted. We will go into DL and stay until closing. Looking forward to IASW (didn't get to it last Sunday) and getting some kind of treat as soon as I hit the park. I have so many to choose from .

 

[dlander]

Flitterific - Thank you for your beautiful photos! It makes me want to cry with joy! I can hardly wait to be there in a couple of weeks. I haven't been since October and am having serious withdrawals

Funatdisney - I'm from Ventura as well! We can carpoool!

Funball - Get well soon

 

[Halloweenqueen]

One week to go!

 

[Goofy_Mom]

It hasn't even been a week since we came home from our last trip, I wanna go back.

 

[Sherry E]

I would say the same thing about the endless possibilities of the decorations around the WDW resort. The possibility of getting all the photos with the Holiday decorations around the resort at WDW is way difficult than DL. It would be nice if there would be a thread like this thread on the WDW thread.

I believe the samething of what you said about the Disney at Christmas thread. When I look at the WDW thread, there is few threads with at least 1000 posts. The threads over at WDW go by really fast and they do post a lot every single minute. It is so fast and I can't find the answer on the threads so I have to use the search engine to find my answer or if I started a thread I have to go back to other pages. I love this side of the thread more than the WDW side. Not only do I like the information here on the DL thread, the DISers here like you Sherry, Belle Ella, Funball, HydroGuy, funatdisney, etc. all are all very friendly with great information and provides great the pictures of the DLR. Everyone one of us on this thread provides us with great pictures that we barely see on the WDW side (no offense to the WDW side, I barely see any photos on those threads, I still like reading that thread).

Thx for doing a fantastic job Sherry and all the other DISers who provide great info and pics on the DL side. Can't believe we are three weeks in the Holiday season and we are finally in December.

Thank you for the kind words, Bret! And, of course, what would we do without you in this thread? You must not underestimate your contributions! Not only have you shared some amazing photos and videos with us, but you are one of the go-to people to provide info on the holiday tour. Lots of people on this thread have done the tour, but not all of them are available or here to answer a question when someone asks about the tour. You (and Tksbaskets) are usually here pretty quickly to provide information and answers to the tour questions!! That is very valuable!!

we have been during the holiday's but never during a CP time. Since we have been so many times and it's just me a the little tike who is 7 I have been racking my brain trying to think of something extra special? I'm considering the Holiday tour but I dont know if it will be exciting enough? but considering we will have an issue with crods anyway i figured what the hay! So if it have this right the tour everyone keeps talking about with the hot chocolate is the Holiday tour for 25.00 per person is this correct? I should know this stuff lol. I'm super duper excited as ive never gone to Disney ona whim like this we normally plan for 2-3 months not within the same week so im a bit nervous as if I don't know Disneyland lol

Rhonda, I haven't done the tour yet (I will eventually), but it sounds like a great experience - especially since it appears that the gingerbread man/ears cookie you get on the tour is larger than the one sold in the stores!! Also, you get free fudge samples and parade seats, as well as priority seating on IASWH and HMH.

In fact, honestly, if there were ever a year to do the tour I would say this is a good one. Next year we are not sure if there might be a Christmas Party at DLR(if the rumors pan out)...and if there is, chances are the parade would no longer be part of the holiday tour if it became part of a paid party/event. So this would be the year to do the tour and get those parade seats - just in case it is no longer an option next year!

Great photo. Is there a photopass photographer at the Reindeer Roundup for Santa??? Just wondered. We told my grandson he would see Santa at Disneyland. We'd like to get a nice photo of him with Santa that we could do with the Disney borders.

Disgram23kids - I'm not sure if anyone answered you. Even though I have not met the Santa at the Round-Up yet (that's on the agenda for this year), as far as I know, there IS a PhotoPass person there with him, just as there is a PhotoPass person at the Grand Californian Hotel with Santa. But Santa takes breaks from all of his posts, so you have to be sure to time it so that he is there when you get there.

I think the Santa in California Adventure also has a PhotoPass person.

In fact, it might only be the Santas at the Disneyland Hotel and the Paradise Pier Hotel that do not have PhotoPass people...and that could always change.

LAST CALL -- for anyone who wants me to take a picture of something specific or check the price/type on some merchandise. I'll check back in the morning before I leave.

So far Sherry is the only one with a request -- a tale-of-the-tape for the gingerbread cookies.

Of course I'll be taking loads of pictures and sampling all the goodies -- but without a request you're stuck with what my feeble brain can remember after my Disney high wears off.

... just found out my friend can't get us in until her break at 9:30 the first morning, so no rope drop. Oh well, free is free, and I don't have to wake up as early now.

PHXscuba,
who will be sipping cocoa in the GCH lobby this time tomorrow night

Woo hoo!! Can't wait to see the tour cookie photo side by side or right before/after the Marceline's cookie photo!!! I know that at least one or two other DIS'ers have seen the cookies sold in the candy stores and agreed that they are smaller than they used to be in the last couple of years. It's just a matter of how much smaller they are (or aren't) than the tour cookie that is the true mystery!! Maybe the tour cookie just appears bigger than the 'general public' cookie! The mystery must be solved!!

Sure, Funball, I'll get a GCH lobby photo. I am planning to take Sherry's advice and spend some quality time in one of their comfy chairs tomorrow night.

PHXscuba

Those chairs sneak up on you! You don't expect them to be so comfy, but an hour later, when your body is molded to the chair and you don't want to move, you realize their deceptive powers!! I hope you get there in time to see the carolers and Santa, the guitarist, etc. Such a festive environment!!

Aww, feel better! I had that two weeks ago I spent probably an hour in the lobby staring at the tree (and the crazy people walking through the lobby) on Sunday while the hubman was doing stuff backstage. I could have sat there all day.

lapdwife - I agree! Once you get a good place to sit in that lobby, right in the heart of the action, it's hard to leave it. It's a very nice mood and atmosphere - great for people watching in general, but especially fun during this season because you can watch all the happy families getting their photos taken with Santa or just by the tree. Sometimes kids curl up on the carpet to listen to the carolers. It's just a very nice, mellow, yet very holiday-esque thing to do if you want to enjoy the season while still having some relaxing down time.

I had to at this comment. I do the exact same thing. Well that and looking to see if one of us are in someone's photo.

lapdwife - I do the same thing - I look for myself too. But I also look at the faces to see if anyone else is familiar. Have you ever had that happen, where you see someone else's photo and notice a friend of yours in the background, or maybe you spot a family that you had seen the previous day at Plaza Inn or something? (I always see the same people over and over again while I am at DLR.) You just never know who might turn up in a photo, so I always scan the faces for anyone I might recognize. And if it's not someone I know personally, I like to be able to look at the photos with CM's in the background and say, "I've seen that CM before! He(she)'s there every time I go!" It's nice to see faces that you recignize, as well as study strangers' expressions to determine if they are having a miserable time!!

Hi everyone! It's been sooo long since I've been on DIS and posted on the Christmas thread but I just came back from DLR (DBF and I were there Nov 27-29). Contrary to what I was told, Thanksgiving weekend turned out to be a lot busier than I expected. I overheard a CM saying that it was the busiest Thanksgiving that she's seen in the past 13 years that she worked there! Still, Thanksgiving weekend was a lot more manageable than Christmas weekend when I went last year.

This trip, I spent a lot of time really looking in all of the holiday decor and noticed some really cool stuff that I missed during our last Christmas trip. DBF and I ended up riding IASWH and HMH at least 6x each Anyway, I took 1500+ pictures and cannot wait to share some Christmas magic and hopefully convert some of you into going this holiday season

Photobucket isn’t liking me much today and I’m having a lot of trouble uploading my pictures so I guess I will be sharing my photos in installments. First up…Main Street and the Castle:

Flitterific! I can't believe your holiday trip came and went already. Some folks' trips I can keep up with, and others I lose track of. I totally forgot yours was happening so soon!

I hope you had a wonderful time despite the crowds!! I've mainly heard that the parks do not clear out until after Thanksgiving weekend is over, not right after the holiday itself. I would always expect a 4-day holiday weekend to be busy, but what I've heard is that it supposedly becomes blissfully uncrowded after that weekend ends and everyone goes back to work. So this week I would think would be nice, based on what people have said. And next week may be okay. And then it's busy, busy, busy after that!!

However, it's getting to be that it's more and more crowded at times when it used to not be, while still being super-crowded at times when it's always been crowded. Its very hard to pin down the uncrowded times now. If last year was the busiest holiday season as a whole in 10 years, from November to early January, then the fact that you heard a CM say it was the busiest Thanksgiving in 13 years doesn't sound encouraging as far as crowds overall for 2010. This year will probably be a busier holiday season than 2009's was, when all tolled.

Eventually, people will just get so sick of the crowds and have to stay away from DLR for a while, or go at times of year when it's not as festive. Lord only knows what things will be like when all the work at DCA is complete.

Photobucket hates me, so I understand the issues with loading photos! But when Photobucket starts liking you again, I can't wait to see more of your photos!! These last ones were lovely!!

NOOOOO!
He must really be overworking those elves. Hope they get overtime pay.


All of a sudden the Christmas trip crept up on me and I've got nada planned. I was so on top of Halloween but Christmas has totally slipped by me. I don't even have any dining booked and totally forgot about booking the Holiday tour which I might skip now. I have to go back about 100 pages in this thread to get caught up and prepared. I'm just excited Fantasmic will be showing. I haven't seen the new dragon yet.

I'm sure holiday treats have been discussed up and down so what does everone think the #1 Holiday treat not to miss is?

I know what you mean, dizneedoll - my trip has crept up on me too. In the past, I have been very prepared. Not this year. I think, for so long, I didn't think it would pan out. So, mentally, I didn't start really 'planning.' I expected that it wouldn't go smoothly in terms of plans staying on track, and that everything would fall apart. And all of a sudden, it's almost here and I have no lists made, I am still crunching numbers to make sure of exactly how much money I have vs. how much I will need, etc. I'm not prepared.


Do you like peppermint? I say, if you do, go for the peppermint goodies (like the ice cream!). If you like gingerbread cookies, get the ones with mouse ears at the candy shops.

will there still be Christmas merchandise to buy in the parks the week AFTER Chrismas (12/26-30) or is it pretty much picked over by then?

princess lovers mom - There will still be some merchandise when you get there. It's true that much of it does disappear, never to be seen again, or that some of it is picked over as the season goes along, and what's left isn't all that appealing. Some things they sell out of and get restocked before the season ends, and other things they sell out of and never get again.

My suggestion is - especially if you get to DLR when you will be there, post Christmas - to hit the stores that are not along the main thoroughfares. Everyone goes into the Emporium and World of Disney because those are right there, on the pathways that everyone walks. Head to stores way in the back of ToonTown like the Gag Factory, or go to the stores in Frontierland or Adventureland - where someone might not expect to see many Christmasy things - and often times you will find stashes of souvenirs that are sold out in the other stores. Also stop in some of the small shops on Main Street or in New Orleans Square that typically don't have a lot of things, because people may skip those, assuming they don't have a wide selection of collectibles...when, in fact, they might have exactly the thing you want!!

Flitterific - Thank you for your beautiful photos! It makes me want to cry with joy! I can hardly wait to be there in a couple of weeks. I haven't been since October and am having serious withdrawals

Funatdisney - I'm from Ventura as well! We can carpoool!

Funball - Get well soon

dlander - you and Liza (Funatdisney) should carpool together!! That would be so fun for you guys!! I think Liza would like to get to DLR more often than she does - that would awesome if you guys hooked up and could go together through the year!! You're neighbors!!

 

[mvf-m11c]

Thank you for the kind words, Bret! And, of course, what would we do without you in this thread? You must not underestimate your contributions! Not only have you shared some amazing photos and videos with us, but you are one of the go-to people to provide info on the holiday tour. Lots of people on this thread have done the tour, but not all of them are available or here to answer a question when someone asks about the tour. You (and Tksbaskets) are usually here pretty quickly to provide information and answers to the tour questions!! That is very valuable!!

Thank you Sherry.

I wish I have done the Holiday Tour this year when I was in DL last month. Since I am going to WDW next week, I have to save up for my trip next week so I couldn't do the Holiday Tour this year. I also wouldn't feel comfortable of going on the tour just by myself with no family members. But maybe if I have met a DISer who is doing the tour with me, it would made me do the tour just by myself. When I go back to DL during the Holiday season, I'm possibly going to do the Holiday tour next year.

 

[funatdisney]

Funatdisney - I'm from Ventura as well! We can carpoool!

Hey that's great! Not very many of us Venturians around these parts. Sherry E is right. I'm always looking for a buddy to head down with to DLR. So if you need a DL fix, give me a buzz. I am always up to seeing Mickey

Liza

 

[Goofy_Mom]

I have something for you SherryE