Disneyland at Christmas/Holiday Season Superthread #3!- HOLIDAYS BEGIN 11/12/13!!

[Sherry E]

Corinna was so close -- and had the correct list, from what I can see, but....

KATHY IS THE CODE WORD CHALLENGE WINNER
(OF A $25 DISNEY GIFT CARD)!!!!!!!!​

I wish I could give everyone a gift card. I really do! But Kathy has won this contest for being the quickest person to get the correct answer in. And we still have yet to see who will win the random draw next Monday!





Kathy -- Be sure to PM me your mailing info, although the gift card won't go out until early next week (when I send out the random draw winner's card too).

 

[ksromack]

KATHY IS THE CODE WORD CHALLENGE WINNER
(OF A $25 DISNEY GIFT CARD)!!!!!!!!​

I wish I could give everyone a gift card. I really do! But Kathy has won this contest for being the quickest person to get the correct answer in. And we still have yet to see who will win the random draw next Monday!

Thank you!!! Thank you, Sherry! That was very close....and now I can breath. And go to the bathroom. And get some coffee.

This will definitely come in handy as I really think a Mickey nutcracker is in order for our trip that is coming faster than I imagined......and I will think of this group everytime I look at it!

 

[pattyduke34]

few of my favorites..

 

[Sherry E]

Thank you!!! Thank you, Sherry! That was very close....and now I can breath. And go to the bathroom. And get some coffee.

This will definitely come in handy as I really think a Mickey nutcracker is in order for our trip that is coming faster than I imagined......and I will think of this group everytime I look at it!

I imagined that you and Corinna (neither of whom PM'd me earlier with a not-quite-complete list) were sitting right there at the computers, waiting for the post to come through!

It was very close, and a round of applause goes to Corinna for almost getting in there first! Corinna, thank you so, so much for following along and participating! As I said, I wish I could give everyone (who stuck to the rules!) a gift card, but I can't, sadly. If I had a stash of them sitting around, I would do it.

In this case, the other card has to go to one of our photo contributors, and he/she will be determined next Monday!

Group hug, everyone!


Oh, I will mention that the person who PM'd me this morning actually had the correct list and song too (I'm going to have to make that challenge more difficult next year, with a much tougher song choice!)...but was missing the final code word. And that final code word was crucial to have in order to count in the challenge entry.

Kathy --

I don't know which Mickey nutcracker you have your eyes on, but if it's the Santa one I'd snap that up as soon as you get to DLR. Check in the gift shop in the Grand Californian -- which you will see when you pass through the GCH lobby when coming from/going to the PPH -- they carried it last year, as did the China Closet on Main Street. By the time I got to the parks in early December, the Santa had sold out in both of those stores, but it was still available at the Showcase store on Main Street. The other Mickey nutcrackers were seemingly available in all 3 shops.

Be sure to PM me your mailing info so I can send the card out early next week.

 

[dolphingirl47]

Congratulations, Kathy.

I had great fun playing along over the past weeks.

Corinna

 

[Autty40]

Theme 1: Trees and Wreaths
Code Word: Christmas
Theme 2: New Orleans Square & Haunted Mansion Holiday
Code Word: Merry
Theme 3: It's a Small World Holiday and Fantasyland
Code Word: Season
Theme 4: Main St and Sleeping Beauty Castle
Code Word: Sleigh
Theme 5: A Christmas Fantasy Parate & Believe....In Holiday Magic Fireworks Code Word: Reindeer
Theme 6: Toontown Code Word: Bright Theme 7: Hotels Code Word: Yuletide Theme 8: Frontierland & Jingle Jangle Jamboree Code Word: Toys
Theme 9: Holiday Treats & Treasures Code Word: Fly
Theme 10: Holiday Characters, Photopass & Santa Clause Photo Code Word: Sleep
Theme 11: Buena Vista Street & Holywood Land Code Word: Child
Theme 12: Carsland Code Word: Eyes Theme 13: Disneyland Resort...Holidays Gone By! Code Word: Goodies
Theme 14: Candlelight Ceremony and Processional Code Word: Tiny
Theme 15: Holiday Flowers & Plants Code Word: Mistletoe
Theme 16: Critter Country and Grizzly Peak Code Word: Choir
Theme 17: A Bug's Land Code Word: Simple
Theme 18: Pacific Wharf & Paradise Pier Code Word: Spy
Theme 19: Downtown Disney Code Word: Kids
Theme 20: Holiday Cornucopia Code Word: turkey
Song: The Christmas Song

Awe! I was posting as you were announcing the winner! Congratulations!

 

[Sherry E]

pattyduke34 --

I think you picked some excellent choices for your Holiday Cornucopia contribution! I love every one of those photos you posted, but for different reasons. One thing they all have in common is that they all capture the true essence of the fun and joy we all experience at DLR during the holiday season.

By the way, I will have to double check but I think you are the only person to contribute to all 20 themes (and you stuck to the rules!) this year!

 

[blue888]

I love all the photos!!

Bought my park tickets last night! This trip is really happening!

 

[ksromack]

This is a little collage of one of my favorite Christmas-time events at WDW and that is the Holiday Stories at Epcot's World Showcase. I love hearing about how other cultures celebrate the holidays. We are such a big wide world.....and I think if we learn about everyone we'd understand one another better. And yes, IASW is my favorite ride too



Last year at MVMCP one of the big draws was the ability to have time with these guys as they are a very rare find in the parks. I love this pic of us with the 7 Dwarfs. It was our Christmas card last year.

Congratulations, Kathy.

I had great fun playing along over the past weeks.

Corinna

Thank you, Corinna.....it was a lot of fun and now I have quite the awesome word file with all of Sherry's themes and her verbage.

Sherry, I love all your old pics....I had those same style of glasses back in the day too Oh, and I'll take any Mickey Nutcracker.....but of course, if the santa one is the hardest to find, then that's the one I want

Pattyduke, Is your first name Patty? Anyway, where was Sully in the parks? I love that big furry guy........

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

I will be back on later with some pictures, but I just wanted to congratulate Kathy on her win! And now I am on the hunt for a Mickey Nutcracker (or any Disney Nutcracker!).

Made our grocery delivery reservation today and got the window I wanted (the date just opened up today). Sometimes it's the small things!

 

[Orbitron]

We went many times to Disneyland Paris, but only once during Christmas season, that was back in 2002. Here are some pictures!

A few photos of Disneyland Paris in the snow!

 

[dolphingirl47]

I finally have some photos to share. Here are some holiday photos from the other coast.

Magic Kingdom:










Epcot:









Animal Kingdom











Hollywood Studios

 

[funatdisney]

Two of my favorite shots of Sleeping Beauty Castle:






My favorite Christmas Tree pic (also my favorite DLR Christmas Tree)



And one of my favorite It's A Small World pic (I can't find the other one):

​

 

[u2pixi]

Congratulations Kathy!!! And thanks Sherry for your time and hard work putting the code word challenge together - it was fun to follow along- the time difference got me in the end but I really enjoyed keeping track!!
Happy last countdown week- how exciting!!!
Amy

 

[deejdigsdis]

I love all of these pictures!

Sherry, I absolutely love those trees in the water by the castle. I've never seen pictures or heard of these before. I would love to see those come back.

Orbitron, I've never seen pictures of Disneyland Paris before. I especially loved the snowy pictures. I bet that was so beautiful! (But probably hard to move around in. It looked very icy.)

I wish I had more time to pop into this thread. Thank you all for your contributions. I have a bit of time to share a few right now...DS7 is home sick today, so I'll post what I can while he is resting.

When I returned to Disneyland in Nov. 2009 (after a 13 year absence!), I bought a Christmas ornament for our tree. I thought that might be our only trip and I chose a tree ornament as my souvenir.



Fortunately, that wasn't the end of our Disneyland trips. Here are a few more ornaments I picked up over the last few years, not necessarily during holiday trips:









And one that DS12-at-the-time made for me for Christmas.

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

I love seeing the pictures from the other Disney parks, especially the snow ones from Disneyland Paris. I'm not sure I'd want to be out in it, but it just looks amazing & magical.

Here are mine, starting with a few favorites






And not a picture, but the video of the castle lighting of course


And then for something new - this is the tree at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom


Sherry, thank you so much for doing this! It has been so much fun and I can't wait for all the "new" things I get to discover this trip that I had bypassed before. Your work is very much appreciated.

 

[deejdigsdis]

I missed most of the theme weeks, so I'll share some that could have been shared during past weeks.

 

[egritz]

Anyway, where was Sully in the parks? I love that big furry guy........

His entrance/exit is next to the Monster's Inc ride, he usually is around the corner from it at the T where you can take pictures in front of the city-scape. Sorry, I'm not positive on the street names! (When you walk in the park and take a left to go down towards the Animation Studio, etc, where that street T's, look to the left).

 

[pattyduke34]

Kathy Yes my name is Patty, and yes Sully is usually by the back entrance where they have the Mad Tea Party...Now they have a photo op there for the new Monsters movie... I think Monster University...

 

[Sherry E]

Thank you for the nice comments, and you're welcome, everyone! Even before I added the contests into this Countdown, it was quite the project in the past two years (as Bret, TK and Deej will probably recall) -- especially when dealing with a temperamental computer and a frustrating Photobucket.

And then when we started this new thread at the end of last year, I knew it was going to be a huge undertaking putting all the posts on page 1 together (although I think the end result is a good one, and now it is set up so that when it's time to move to a new thread I can just copy everything over into new posts and still maintain the integrity of the set-up and info).

So somewhere along the line I decided to create even more work for myself by adding in the contests to this year's Theme Week! Seems only logical, right? It's only worthwhile if people actually participate and follow along, however, so that's where you guys all deserve a round of applause and a as well! (I haven't even posted the majority of my photos from September in my Halloween Superthread...because they all seem to have forgotten that I exist over there!!! I'm an outsider in my own Superthread!)


I have loved seeing the "Holiday Cornucopia" contributions that have come in today from Kathy, Orbitron, Corinna, Liza, Deej and Jamie (I already mentioned pattyduke34 earlier, as she is the only one to have contributed to every single theme this year!)! I enjoy seeing what people either pick as their favorites, or the shots that they choose to display, new and old. I will be very eager to discover who ends up winning the random draw next Monday, but we still have time for a lot of contributions between now and then!




Deej --

It is interesting what the Castle used to look like in holiday seasons past, isn't it? I guess that once the snow appeared, the Disney masterminds decided to get rid of the little trees. I liked them, though. I don't think the white trees would be entirely out of place in front of the icicle-laden Castle of today. I wouldn't want to replace the icicles with the trees, but why not have both, I say!


I am particularly interested in what becomes of the New Orleans Square tree this year. Since it is no longer going to be in the Court of Angels, I'm not sure if I can think of another location for it that would work.