Disneyland at Christmas/Holiday Season Superthread #2 (Closed)

[mvf-m11c]

Just like you said Sherry, we need some more photos from the Holiday season and I can't wait in less than 8 months until it is all decorated.

CALIFORNIA Candy Cane Letters (I'm going to miss the letters and it won't bet the same later this year)

IASWH at Night

Christmas Tree in PP at DCA

The Pioneer Mercantile store with some Holiday merchandise in the windows.

The Christmas Tree right in between the DLH and DTD

NOS at Night (It's okay, but I like when there was the string of light above the walkway)

Golden Gate bridge all decorated for the Holidays.

Nice picture of SB castle at night Liza.

 

[Sherry E]

I wanted to pop in here earlier to thank everyone for the fabulous - and much needed - photo contributions, but my stupid Internet keeps crashing. I don't know how long I have right now before it crashes again. I was having trouble with both Explorer and Firefox.

(And speaking of crashing, little did I know there was a plumber standing underneath the trash chute in my building, making a repair, when I sent a heavy bag of garbage plummeting downward onto his head!)


spiderdust - Love the picture with Pooh - and great shirts! It reminds me that I didn't spend enough time in Critter Country on my last DLR trip. I felt like I covered a lot of ground in December, but really I missed quite a bit.

Liza - I never get tired of seeing the Winter Castle lit up at night! It is truly one of the most beautful sights to behold at DLR, and not just because it's part of the holiday season. It never gets old. Somehow, I could have seen it a dozen times the previous year, and when I get to DLR again for the next holiday season, I will look at it with awe and wonder as though I've never seen it before!

Bret - When I saw your photos, I squealed with delight! Each year it takes a while for me to get back in the mind frame where I am eager for the holidays to get here. Usually someone posts some photos and it just 'clicks' with me, and I realize I am anxious to see the beauty of the season again! That's what happened when I saw your photos! I love the photo of the CALIFORNIA sign with the rain-soaked ground. The IASW Holiday photo is just stunning. The photo of the DCA tree is gorgeous. Really, they are all wonderful!

And as you know, yes, I agree about NOS - it's great the way it is and the different masks on the lampposts are a very beautiful addition to the decor, but I wish they could add the light canopy back in. They don't have to get rid of the masks or anything else that was there in December - just simply put that light canopy back, so that the area is more illuminated at night like it used to be. It made a huge visual difference.



If I can get my Internet to stop crashing and stay on long enough for me to get into Photobucket, I will try to add some photos here too. We are all good at giving out the info, but we need to bring some color into the thread!

 

[funatdisney]

Sherry, I have the same reaction every year. It is a guarantee jaw dropping, wide eyed, breathtaking moment the first time someone sees the Sleeping Beauty's Castle. What is so lovely is that it is one of the few things in life that the reaction is the same as the first time every year.

I can't wait to see what you will post. I'm sure you haven't posted all 1500 2010 Christmas photos here on Disboards.

Bret, I love how your pictures give an glance of all of DLR. A little look at everything is such a teaser and I love it! Keep them coming.

 

[Sherry E]

Sherry, I have the same reaction every year. It is a guarantee jaw dropping, wide eyed, breathtaking moment the first time someone sees the Sleeping Beauty's Castle. What is so lovely is that it is one of the few things in life that the reaction is the same as the first time every year.

I can't wait to see what you will post. I'm sure you haven't posted all 1500 2010 Christmas photos here on Disboards.

Bret, I love how your pictures give an glance of all of DLR. A little look at everything is such a teaser and I love it! Keep them coming.

Hey, my Internet hasn't crashed again yet! Woo hoo! It was crashing repeatedly earlier. How long will this good fortune last, I wonder? Long enough for me to venture over into annoying Photobucket and copy some IMG codes?

Well, I actually took over 1600 photos on the December trip. But I am deducting a bunch of them because I am allowing for those 'throw away photos' that were not acceptable, like they were way too blurry or they were terrible for some other reason. So, let's say I have a good 1500 left that can be posted at some point (probably more than that, but let's say 1500). Most of those I posted in my Trip Report, so you've seen all the important ones. But most people in this thread did not follow my Trip Report, so the photos will seem new to them!

Also, what I may have done in some cases was take a bunch of photos of a certain thing - for example, maybe I shot 15 photos of a holiday window display or whatever - but only posted 10 of them in my TR. So what's left is just similar stuff, or stuff from a slightly different angle or whatever.

And it's always fun to group photos together and post them or present them in a certain way, like gather all the NOS pictures together and post them, all the ToonTown photos, all the Round-Up photos, etc. It adds variety!

 

[funatdisney]

1600 or 1500? Whatever, just post them! I'm sure I'll enjoy each and every single one of them.

 

[Sherry E]

1600 or 1500? Whatever, just post them! I'm sure I'll enjoy each and every single one of them.

Well, you've seen most of the ones I have because you followed the Trip Report (as did Bret and a few others here). That's where the bulk of everything is/was. So nothing will be that new to you.

But all of our photos will be new to other people who are new to this thread and to the DLR holiday season in general, I suppose! Everything is new to someone, right?

Unfortunately, there is no quick way to post multiple photos for me. The other night I was having Photobucket trouble, so I gave up. Then today has been the Internet crashing issue. One thing after another!

 

[funatdisney]

I know I have seen them before, but I would like to see them here anyway. Can you quote yourself on your TR and copy the links that way? I know you having computer issues, but that would bypass Photobucket when your computer is more cooperative.

 

[goldies 5]

spiderdust-very cute kiddos.
funatdisney-love those shots. The one at the Pioneer Mercantile is my favorite, I would of never thought of that. Awesome. I too really missed the white lights in New Orleans this year. It seemed quite a bit darker, and not as Chrismassy.

 

[funatdisney]

spiderdust-very cute kiddos.
funatdisney-love those shots. The one at the Pioneer Mercantile is my favorite, I would of never thought of that. Awesome. I too really missed the white lights in New Orleans this year. It seemed quite a bit darker, and not as Chrismassy.

Oops, Bret/mvf-m11c took those pictures. I took the one of the Castle. Bret was smart and took the Pioneer Mercantile at night. I have always taken those during the day. I think the windows really show better at night. I'm going to try to take shop window pictures at night this Christmas.

 

[Estella]

Hello all - I'm getting excited for Christmas! I think we've decided on a Christmas trip 12/18-12/22. Now that spring break is almost over, do you think Disney might offer some winter deals?

 

[goldies 5]

Sorry about that. All of the pictures are wonderful. I can't wait to see the castle either. I just need to make sure to actually get a good shot of it this time.

 

[mvf-m11c]

Bret - When I saw your photos, I squealed with delight! Each year it takes a while for me to get back in the mind frame where I am eager for the holidays to get here. Usually someone posts some photos and it just 'clicks' with me, and I realize I am anxious to see the beauty of the season again! That's what happened when I saw your photos! I love the photo of the CALIFORNIA sign with the rain-soaked ground. The IASW Holiday photo is just stunning. The photo of the DCA tree is gorgeous. Really, they are all wonderful!

And as you know, yes, I agree about NOS - it's great the way it is and the different masks on the lampposts are a very beautiful addition to the decor, but I wish they could add the light canopy back in. They don't have to get rid of the masks or anything else that was there in December - just simply put that light canopy back, so that the area is more illuminated at night like it used to be. It made a huge visual difference.



If I can get my Internet to stop crashing and stay on long enough for me to get into Photobucket, I will try to add some photos here too. We are all good at giving out the info, but we need to bring some color into the thread!

I sucked for me today since I didn't have Internet until I was at work today, but right now I am back on and bout to write the post that Sherry and Liza have written.

Just like you Sherry, I can't wait to get back to the Holiday season and enjoy another great time at DL. Thank you for the nice comments on my pics. I can't wait to see what dates you are going to have for your Holiday trip. Just like you said about the light canopy, it would be nice to have them back up again, but we will wait and see and hopefully they will put them up this time.

Sherry, I have the same reaction every year. It is a guarantee jaw dropping, wide eyed, breathtaking moment the first time someone sees the Sleeping Beauty's Castle. What is so lovely is that it is one of the few things in life that the reaction is the same as the first time every year.

I can't wait to see what you will post. I'm sure you haven't posted all 1500 2010 Christmas photos here on Disboards.

Bret, I love how your pictures give an glance of all of DLR. A little look at everything is such a teaser and I love it! Keep them coming.

I also agree with you Liza that watching SB castle during SB Winter Castle is so amazing to watch when it lights up. The music is so fun to listen and watch it snow during the show. I need to put my picture up to of SBWC.

I will post some up shortly when I go through everything and I might put up some WDW Holiday pics so we can compare to each one.

1600 or 1500? Whatever, just post them! I'm sure I'll enjoy each and every single one of them.

I also agree with Liza, just take as many pictures as you can with a Holiday overlay and we will still enjoy any picture if it is okay or great, we always like to see Holiday pictures at the DLR.

Sorry about that. All of the pictures are wonderful. I can't wait to see the castle either. I just need to make sure to actually get a good shot of it this time.

It's np, I just love seeing everyone photos during the Holiday season.

 

[mvf-m11c]

Here are some more pics during the Holiday season.

The Omni Bus all decorated during the Holiday season.

Horse-Drawn Streetcars decorated

Big Thunder Ranch

Goofy's House decorated

Some Holiday lighting and decorations in the DTD windows

SB Castle at Night

Cinderella's Castle during MVMCP

Holiday Merchandise from the Greeting from California Window

Just like we have talked about awhile ago Sherry, I missed the canopy lights over NOS last year.

 

[spiderdust]

(And speaking of crashing, little did I know there was a plumber standing underneath the trash chute in my building, making a repair, when I sent a heavy bag of garbage plummeting downward onto his head!)

spiderdust - Love the picture with Pooh - and great shirts! It reminds me that I didn't spend enough time in Critter Country on my last DLR trip. I felt like I covered a lot of ground in December, but really I missed quite a bit.

Thanks! We love wearing those shirts in the park, it makes it hard to lose each other (especially the kids!). I'm hoping Chickadee's will fit for one more trip.

 

[DizNee Luver]

Throwing my hat into the ring.........we're tentatively talking about going December 5-9 (4 nights, 4 days)!!! If we can financially swing it, we'll be going for our first holiday trip!!!!! (it's Sherry's fault for getting me all excited about planning a 2nd trip this year)

Really enjoyed all the pictures!!!! Thinking I'll have to go back to the motel mid-day just to upload pics off my camera......can see me taking mega-mega photos if we go!!

 

[Sherry E]

Throwing my hat into the ring.........we're tentatively talking about going December 5-9 (4 nights, 4 days)!!! If we can financially swing it, we'll be going for our first holiday trip!!!!! (it's Sherry's fault for getting me all excited about planning a 2nd trip this year)

Really enjoyed all the pictures!!!! Thinking I'll have to go back to the motel mid-day just to upload pics off my camera......can see me taking mega-mega photos if we go!!

Woo hoo! Welcome, Laurie!

Laurie, I'm so glad to see you finally joined us here on the dark side! I was going to post the link to the thread in your TR and say, "Come to the dark side..." But you already found us!!

As you can see, in the very first post (the Welcome post), I included a link to the very first Christmas thread (which was wonderful and magical, but very disorganized!). That was the one that really started the snowball rolling for lots of folks. So I put together this thread for the sake of getting it more organized. We now have a Table of Contents for photos in Post #2, and there is all-encompassing Information in Post #3 that covers park hours, weather, crowds, holiday food and treats, and all kinds of other good information.

I do hope you are able to make it this year! If not, at least you can start planning early for the following year and you will know what you have to look forward to.

Yes, lots and lots of photo-taking will be mandatory! Either bring tons of memory cards with you, or go back to the room during the day and load the pictures to the computer! Knowing how many photos you take during a non-holiday trip, I can only imagine what you will come up with for a Christmas trip!

 

[DizNee Luver]

 

[Sherry E]

Oh, and until I get more photos posted here (getting into my TR is no faster for me than it is to get into Photobucket, by the way, so I may as well just deal with Photobucket!), and in case people think I am not contributing to this thread, remember Page 12: http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2612827&page=12. There are a few posts on Page 12, full of my photos, covering a wide range of colorful holiday stuff.

I don't want to duplicate anything I've already posted in this thread YET (since this thread is not very long so far), so it takes time figuring out what I haven't posted here! I don't post one photo at a time - I like to post a bunch at one time!

I've probably posted more photos in this thread than anyone else so far, but because they are way back on Page 12, everyone forgot about them!!

 

[Ihaveamickeymousekid]

Well i got all my quotes and we are booking it and paying the deposit on Monday
So we will be in Anaheim from 26 Nov till 20 Dec, nice long holiday i cannot wait.

Can i ask you all, we want to get the premium AP, is that something we can buy when we get there or do you have to buy it off the internet?
We werent planning on buying any park hoppers and upgrading we were just going to buy the AP..is that possible? Do you just purchase them from the ticket window?

So excited now, just hope 8 months goes fast

 

[Sherry E]

Well i got all my quotes and we are booking it and paying the deposit on Monday
So we will be in Anaheim from 26 Nov till 20 Dec, nice long holiday i cannot wait.

Can i ask you all, we want to get the premium AP, is that something we can buy when we get there or do you have to buy it off the internet?
We werent planning on buying any park hoppers and upgrading we were just going to buy the AP..is that possible? Do you just purchase them from the ticket window?

So excited now, just hope 8 months goes fast

Woo hoo!! Yay! All booked and ready to go (well, not quite - there are still 8 months to go!)!

Yes, you can definitely, absolutely get your PAP's at the ticket booths if that's what you want to do. You just pay and give the necessary information, and then they send you on to the AP processing place in DL or DCA where you will get your photos taken. And then the AP's are ready to use immediately for discounts!! Or you can order them online and then get them activated, photos taken, etc. when you arrive at DLR.