disney at christmas

[jnjusoioa]

I totally agree with you Sherry, I would want them to add something even more magical. I agree with that, if they charge $60 just to go in and see the same stuff they have been showing for years, that would be wrong, hopefully as time goes on, they will add more to the Halloween party too. However those fireworks were amazing last year from the videos I saw, and can't wait to see them someday hopefully in person.

 

[Kayla's Mom]

Kayla's mom - one more question for you: in many of the pictures there is NO ONE else around (except for the parade ). Was the park truly that empty or did your DH just wait for the right moment to snap the shot? (Sorry for all the off-topic questions, but on our trips, photography is my passion so while the "boys" ride over and over, I run around taking pictures.)

I think DH must have just snapped the shots at the right time -- we were there right at the start of the holiday season (mid-November) and while there weren't hoards of people there, it definitely wasn't empty. It looks to me like he zoomed in on a lot of the shots to where you couldn't see a lot of anything other than what he was shooting.

 

[Flitterific]

Flitterific your pictures are great!! Thanks for sharing. Now I want to go back too

Glad you like them...they're not the best pictures I have though...I was too excited about posting them and didn't have time to go through all my pictures carefully. I will post more later

Wow! I disappear for a few hours and then come back to see all sorts of new photos have appeared here! Thanks so much for posting, Flitterific (but if you end up going for HalloweenTime instead, you have to post your HalloweenTime photos over in the Halloween super thread!!)!! I have never seen those Pooh & friends holiday banners before, so you see? There is always something new to disciver at DLR during the holidays!

Yay! I am so pleased to see that people enjoy this thread and enjoy taking part in sharing their photos. Now...if DLR would only hurry up and release the exact date that the season begins, as well as the exact holiday agenda. Will they follow their own lead with Mickey's Halloween Party and decide to have a Very Merry Christmas Party? Will the "snow" suddenly become exclusive to a paid party? We have yet to find out!!

Lol...thanks, Sherry! I have to admit that the Christmas thread that you started last year was one of the main reasons that I decided to go then and I am sooo glad I did. I am still trying to convince DBF to renew our APs and hopefully will be able to go both Halloween and Christmastime this year Either way, I will definitely add my pictures to the holiday threads

 

[amamax2]

I think DH must have just snapped the shots at the right time -- we were there right at the start of the holiday season (mid-November) and while there weren't hoards of people there, it definitely wasn't empty. It looks to me like he zoomed in on a lot of the shots to where you couldn't see a lot of anything other than what he was shooting.

Thanks for the info!!! I think that is the trick - zoom in more to get those details rather than the big picture.

 

[Sherry E]

Lol...thanks, Sherry! I have to admit that the Christmas thread that you started last year was one of the main reasons that I decided to go then and I am sooo glad I did. I am still trying to convince DBF to renew our APs and hopefully will be able to go both Halloween and Christmastime this year Either way, I will definitely add my pictures to the holiday threads

Well, we have to give credit where credit is due - Stitchsclan was the OP in this thread, who asked a simple question or two about the holidays at DLR...and then disappeared after a couple of posts!! We never found out if Stitchsclan went to DLR for the Christmas season last year, and if so, was it successful? I wonder if Stitchsclan knows that their original question started a phenomenon - the super-popular, magical, addictive, immersive, all-encompassing DLR holiday super thread of this section of the DIS!! I think I have posted the most here so it probably just seems like I started it. I kind of just 'nurtured' it along for a little while (because I love me some DLR at Christmastime!!), then tried to bump it up during those slow moments when no one else had much to post, and then it kind of fizzled out right after the holiday season ended. But, soon enough, other folks began to bump it and jump in again with their photos too. And now we have new people joining in. But, really, it's been a massive group effort all along, and we have a lot of wonderful regulars here who have all contributed photos, questions and answers from the beginning.

Yes, either way - whether you end up at DLR for HalloweenTime or Christmastime (or Thanksgiving) again, you must photos in the appropriate thread!! Photos are always welcome and necessary to give these threads little bursts of color here and there!

 

[amamax2]

Oh my gosh, that is huge!!! Help Sherry, how do I make it smaller?

 

[aussiegirls]

No need to make it smaller, it's gorgeous. I am getting soooooo excited now

xxx

 

[Sherry E]

Oh my gosh, that is huge!!! Help Sherry, how do I make it smaller?

It's a fantastic photo, actually - and I think the size of it contributes to that because we can see everything so much better. Anyway, yay! It worked.

Photobucket has a feature on its page somewhere (but they recently rearranged the layout of their pages, so I am still trying to figure out where certain things went) where you can resize each photo individually, or you can set the photos to be a certain size when you first upload them so that you don't have to go in and do it one by one. And then it will re-save the picture for you as a copy or replace the original, whichever you prefer. If you choose the "Tiny" or even "Small" options, it may be too small. Medium is sometimes even too small.

Actually, I don't think anyone minds the big pictures (I LOVE them!) - in fact, they really help to show the great colors and details. I guess the only problem may come in that some monitors are smaller than others and so certain photos may get partially lopped off on the side for some folks (I was told that my photos were getting lopped off on the side when I used to post really big ones). But I think we all enjoy the big pictures!!

If you decide to play around with the resizing on Photobucket, look for the Edit feature, and then under that you will see Resize.

 

[Sherry E]

No need to make it smaller, it's gorgeous. I am getting soooooo excited now

xxx

Same here! I can't wait for it to be November and for the season to begin - even though I don't have a plan in place yet, I still can't wait!!

 

[tksbaskets]

Oh my gosh, that is huge!!! Help Sherry, how do I make it smaller?

Great picture and what fun that you can post pictures now I make the pictures smaller in my photo program (Photoshop Elements) I choose the pics then export as a new photo .jpg at 1024x768

I like pictures big and small!

 

[amamax2]

Thanks everyone for the compliments and advice! I may fool around with making them a teeny bit smaller as I uploaded about 30 pictures (Halloween and Christmas) to post to the two threads

Yes, I am excited that I can post pictures now!!!!

I am out of town tomorrow so won't be able to do more till Mon.....but I have to say between the two threads I am getting that Disney obsession feeling. We get passes every two years and just use the heck out of them (sorry all those *upset* with SoCal APs clogging the parks). Halloween and Christmas are my two most favorite times at DL - it just seems so blah the rest of the year without all the decor. (Though doesn't stop us from going.)

 

[tksbaskets]

Thanks everyone for the compliments and advice! I may fool around with making them a teeny bit smaller as I uploaded about 30 pictures (Halloween and Christmas) to post to the two threads

Yes, I am excited that I can post pictures now!!!!

I am out of town tomorrow so won't be able to do more till Mon.....but I have to say between the two threads I am getting that Disney obsession feeling. We get passes every two years and just use the heck out of them (sorry all those *upset* with SoCal APs clogging the parks). Halloween and Christmas are my two most favorite times at DL - it just seems so blah the rest of the year without all the decor. (Though doesn't stop us from going.)

I love it that we have new DIS members helping grow our thread! (See Sherry, I said 'our' )

 

[Sherry E]

Thanks everyone for the compliments and advice! I may fool around with making them a teeny bit smaller as I uploaded about 30 pictures (Halloween and Christmas) to post to the two threads

Yes, I am excited that I can post pictures now!!!!

I am out of town tomorrow so won't be able to do more till Mon.....but I have to say between the two threads I am getting that Disney obsession feeling. We get passes every two years and just use the heck out of them (sorry all those *upset* with SoCal APs clogging the parks). Halloween and Christmas are my two most favorite times at DL - it just seems so blah the rest of the year without all the decor. (Though doesn't stop us from going.)

Woo hoo!! More photos on both threads! I can't wait!! Yay!

I know what you mean about Halloween and Christmas being your favorite times at DLR. I have also spoiled myself by making all of my last DLR trips during HalloweenTime and Christmastime. I have not done a 'regular' DLR trip in ages, which is odd. I grew up with regular Disneyland - no California Adventure, no Downtown Disney, only one hotel, no HalloweenTime stuff and the Christmastime stuff was not on the level that it is today. And I loved DL. I still wanted to go back every year. That was the best place ever. It was my favorite place, ever since setting foot in it in 1972. But at some point I discovered that my favorite place could get even more magical and my trips could be even better during Christmastime. I decided I like DLR during the holidays best, and now it is hard to even conceive of going at another time!!

So I am still enjoying my favorite place - just in a whole different way and with a new set of (adult) eyes, I guess you could say - meaning that my priorities as a kid at DLR were quite different than my priorities as an adult. As a 4-year-old, or an 10-year-old, or a 15-year-old, I wouldn't have been saying, "I want to get photos of all the weather vanes around DL, and all the details and hidden gems." Now I have all the years of DL experience under my belt, and many childhood memories of my favorite place, but now I can enjoy it with a whole new perspective and appreciation as an adult - and preferably during Christmastime and HalloweenTime!!

I love it that we have new DIS members helping grow our thread! (See Sherry, I said 'our' )

 

[MaiynaMouse]

Did someone say "Womanly Looking Santa"?!!!

Really????? I'm not sure why this is so funny. He doesn't seem "womanly" to me.....he just seems like a guy dressed up in a suit, with a fake beard.....all for OUR pleasure, not his own.

 

[Kayla's Mom]

Really????? I'm not sure why this is so funny. He doesn't seem "womanly" to me.....he just seems like a guy dressed up in a suit, with a fake beard.....all for OUR pleasure, not his own.

I didn't really think much about it until a couple of other DISers mentioned earlier in the thread when I originally posted the picture that he was a little feminine looking and I can see that...certainly wasn't trying to be mean, heck, I certainly don't want to be put on the naughty list.

 

[tksbaskets]

I think ribbing the Santa was all in good fun. Being a jolly old elf and all he'd probably laugh with us. That Santa beats one we visited years back at a local mall that was actually kind of scarey looking.

Of course this is my FAVORITE Santa at DCA:

 

[Sherry E]

I never thought we would be called in to explain why we were giggling about Santa!

Another DIS-er mentioned something about this Santa to Kayla's Mom quite a while back (when the photo was first posted), to which Kayla's Mom replied. And then I added in that I noticed the exact same thing (and if 3 of us noticed it, chances are someone else did too, even if they don't say anything). I was not there in person to hear this specific Santa's voice or see the body language to know for sure, but just at a glance, looking at the photo, the eyes and cheeks look female to me. The features don't look like that of a man, in my opinion. To me, it appears to be a woman in a Santa suit. Hence, a "womanly" Santa....which is not out of the realm of possibility at DLR, where females sometimes dress up in 'male character' costumes (like Mickey or Donald), and males dress up as female characters (some of us on the DIS call the Queen of Hearts "manly" because it's a man in the costume).

So that's all. Nothing more than that. I can't speak for anyone else, but as I said, at a glance, without seeing or hearing this Santa in person, just looking at the facial features in this one photo it appears to be a woman to me. In person, it would probably be a whole different story. And the idea of a woman being Santa is amusing to me, just as the idea of a man being the Queen of Hearts at DLR is amusing to me.

 

[Sherry E]

I think ribbing the Santa was all in good fun. Being a jolly old elf and all he'd probably laugh with us. That Santa beats one we visited years back at a local mall that was actually kind of scarey looking.

Of course this is my FAVORITE Santa at DCA:

Now you see...the Goofy in this picture above looks like I would expect him to look. But I have pictures of Santa Goofy from years and years ago (maybe at Goofy's Kitchen), and he had very long eyelashes, for no apparent reason. When I posted the photo, someone on the DIS even commented on the long lashes. That would be a "womanly" Goofy to me!

 

[amamax2]

 

[tksbaskets]

BEAUTIFUL! Where was this lamp post?