Disneyland at Christmas/Holiday Season Superthread #4
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Misskitty3
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No photos to share but am loving seeing everyone else's pictures!
When the holiday parade is taped, is that usually just done over one day? Trying to think ahead about our trip in November....if we are in the park on Saturday, Nov 8 and the taping of the parade is happening...should we avoid DL and head over to CA? I would love to see the parade but maybe it would be less hassle to see it on Monday, the 10th instead of Saturday during the taping.
All that to say, if there are any Disney teen stars participating on Saturday for the taping, that would just MAKE DD's bday trip. Will we know who is in the parade prior to the day of?
Of course, I understand the parade may not even happen the weekend we are there too.
When the holiday parade is taped, is that usually just done over one day? Trying to think ahead about our trip in November....if we are in the park on Saturday, Nov 8 and the taping of the parade is happening...should we avoid DL and head over to CA? I would love to see the parade but maybe it would be less hassle to see it on Monday, the 10th instead of Saturday during the taping.
All that to say, if there are any Disney teen stars participating on Saturday for the taping, that would just MAKE DD's bday trip. Will we know who is in the parade prior to the day of?
Of course, I understand the parade may not even happen the weekend we are there too.
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I have to make a note to remind me to take more photos of BVS and DCA in general (excluding Carsland) this year! I could only find a few.
Carthay Circle Theatre Restaurant:
The Gingerbread House inside Carthay Circle Lounge:
The Santa Sign at Elias & Co:
A Close-Up of the DCA Tree Decor:
The Mad T Party entry:
Carthay Circle Theatre Restaurant:
The Gingerbread House inside Carthay Circle Lounge:
The Santa Sign at Elias & Co:
A Close-Up of the DCA Tree Decor:
The Mad T Party entry:
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I love your pictures! They bring back great memories and are making me so excited for our trip this November! What time of the month was your trip?
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Only have a few:
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yupikgal, I went on a solo trip to DL from Nov 23rd to Nov 29th/13. I had a wonderful time, although the crowds did overwhelm me a bit at first. However I learned quickly how to deal with them, and had a wonderful time. I'm still royally PO'D that my camera died, as I loved that digital camera and had it for many years. It took amazing pics, and replaced it with a similar, but newer model with better zoom. It's looking like the new camera holds promise of taking similiar quality pics, if not better. I figure I lost close to 200 pics over that trip and another trip I took less than 24hrs prior to the DL trip. I pretty well as much know what pics I've taken when, so it's really annoying to find alot of them missing.
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I don't have many either which means I'll have to spend lots more time there during this next trip.
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Phew, I didn't think I'd have any for the topic this week from our only Christmas-time trip in 2005, but came up with exactly one!
Such a beautiful picture---so sad those elephants are "no more!"
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BVS tree:
BVS Santa at Elias & Co
BVS Santa at Elias & Co
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Crystal, love the look on your little boy's face in the BVS tree picture---"patiently suffering" is what it reminds me of! The Santa pic cracks me up---is he running "to" or running "away" from Santa?
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Vintage Mousketeer and Jenasweetemotion each earned another entry into the gift card random draw for their posts to Theme Week 3 (IASWH-Fantasyland) on Sunday night.
I didn't have a chance to get back to the thread after I started this week's theme yesterday (Buena Vista Street and Hollywood Land is the theme for the week, for anyone just tuning in), and then I got caught up in watching assorted channels/checking various sites for news coverage of the very sad, tragic passing of Robin Williams. (All of the "Genie, you're free" posts/pictures on Facebook and Twitter were especially touching.)
I have now logged all of the entries into this week's theme so far (from Bret's post yesterday to crystal1313's' post today), and everyone has another entry into the random draw!! Awesome photos, everybody!!
Did anyone notice that I took the annoying, intrusive glare/reflection of the sun -- which many of us often encounter when trying to photograph window displays -- and made it work to my advantage in a photo? That composition was intentional! I was initially trying to get a shot of only the 'Twas the Night Before Christmas window display on Buena Vista Street. There was a huge glare and reflection in the shot, which would have ordinarily discouraged me from taking the photo.
Instead, I was determined to make it work for me. I positioned myself so that some of the wording could be seen -- enough to be able to tell that it was 'Twas the Night Before Christmas -- with the shadow/reflection of the giant Christmas tree (and a bit of the tower) in the background, as well as getting the 'bow' or whatever that is into the top of the frame. I decided to not let the glare and reflection ruin my shot, and I would instead embrace it and make it interesting!
Embrace the glare, window display picture-takers! Embrace the reflections!
sgrap -- I'm glad you found a photo to use!
I don't think I realized that the Hollywood area of DCA even had any wreaths or anything in 2005, so that was very good thinking!
PHX --
Oh no! I could have sworn you took at least one photo in the BVS area in December, but it has been a while since I read your TR about it so I am probably thinking of your earlier 2014 trips.
I'm glad you reminded me of the peppermint hot chocolate at Award Wieners! When I do the 'Christmas-Holiday Season equivalent' of the list of seasonal foods and drinks I just typed up for the Halloween thread, I will be sure to include that item on it. It's great to know that the hot chocolate was available at AW too, as I suspect that a lot of folks wouldn't necessarily think to look there for peppermint drinks! Sometimes I wonder if some of these seasonal foods and drinks are available at more places in DLR than we realize.
Misskitty3 --
When the parade is taped it is usually done over 2 days -- most likely it will be 11/7 and 11/8 this year. I have the dates on which it was taped last year, as well as the expected/probably dates for this year in this post from page 1.
It would not be a bad idea to head to DCA on 11/8, as the parade taping will increase crowds -- especially on and any anywhere close to Main Street.
I think that the names of the celebrities making an appearance at the parade will be released beforehand, but I'm not sure if the info will be released via the Parks Blog or ABC. The Parks Blog did a piece about the parade taping last year -- with the names of all involved -- but it was after the fact, not before it!
I think that, unless there is some sort of crazy wrench thrown into the season -- like a new Christmas party that will affect the entertainment schedule in some way -- the parade should hopefully be happening on your weekend (as should the Believe in Holiday Magic fireworks).
If DLR is starting the holiday season (officially) on Friday, 11/14 -- which, of course, has still not been revealed -- it is possible that there could be some nights in between the parade taping and 11/14 that the Christmas Fantasy Parade doesn't run. However, if the official season start date is earlier in the week, like 11/10 or 11/12, it's possible that DLR may just decide to keep running the parade after the taping is done.
Of course, not only have we not yet gotten a confirmed official start date for the holiday season, but we don't know of any potential new holiday happenings that could affect the entertainment line-up for the whole season.
It's now August 12th -- we're past the time that the Parks Blog revealed the season start date last year. At this point last year we not only had the official, confirmed date of the holiday season, but we had learned about World of Color-Winter Dreams in July!!!! In 2012 we learned about the 20-night Candlelight Ceremony on August 15th.
(Get moving, Disneyland! We want dates! Official, confirmed season dates. Dates are important. Dates are necessary. We also want info about anything new that we should be expecting to happen this year in November, December and early January.
Even if there is not anything new, we need dates and info! What is with the delay??
)
Lori --
It could be either. Photobucket is constantly messing things up, so I wouldn't be shocked if they had a hand in the problems. I can view your photos. What are you seeing where there should be photos?
The problem that I am having is that, when there are a lot of photos on one page -- and many of them are very large photos -- the page doesn't want to load properly. It either takes too long to load, or when it loads there are blank white spaces in some of the places where there should be photos.
Speechphi --
You didn't miss much in Hollywood in 2011. Most of the Hollywood Land decorations in 2013 were brand new or repurposed in a new way, and there were no decorations at all during the ElecTRONica and Glow Fest days.
I didn't have a chance to get back to the thread after I started this week's theme yesterday (Buena Vista Street and Hollywood Land is the theme for the week, for anyone just tuning in), and then I got caught up in watching assorted channels/checking various sites for news coverage of the very sad, tragic passing of Robin Williams.
(All of the "Genie, you're free" posts/pictures on Facebook and Twitter were especially touching.)I have now logged all of the entries into this week's theme so far (from Bret's post yesterday to crystal1313's' post today), and everyone has another entry into the random draw!! Awesome photos, everybody!!
Did anyone notice that I took the annoying, intrusive glare/reflection of the sun -- which many of us often encounter when trying to photograph window displays -- and made it work to my advantage in a photo? That composition was intentional! I was initially trying to get a shot of only the 'Twas the Night Before Christmas window display on Buena Vista Street. There was a huge glare and reflection in the shot, which would have ordinarily discouraged me from taking the photo.
Instead, I was determined to make it work for me. I positioned myself so that some of the wording could be seen -- enough to be able to tell that it was 'Twas the Night Before Christmas -- with the shadow/reflection of the giant Christmas tree (and a bit of the tower) in the background, as well as getting the 'bow' or whatever that is into the top of the frame. I decided to not let the glare and reflection ruin my shot, and I would instead embrace it and make it interesting!
Embrace the glare, window display picture-takers! Embrace the reflections!
sgrap -- I'm glad you found a photo to use!
I don't think I realized that the Hollywood area of DCA even had any wreaths or anything in 2005, so that was very good thinking!
PHXscuba
PHX --
Oh no! I could have sworn you took at least one photo in the BVS area in December, but it has been a while since I read your TR about it so I am probably thinking of your earlier 2014 trips.
I'm glad you reminded me of the peppermint hot chocolate at Award Wieners! When I do the 'Christmas-Holiday Season equivalent' of the list of seasonal foods and drinks I just typed up for the Halloween thread, I will be sure to include that item on it. It's great to know that the hot chocolate was available at AW too, as I suspect that a lot of folks wouldn't necessarily think to look there for peppermint drinks! Sometimes I wonder if some of these seasonal foods and drinks are available at more places in DLR than we realize.
No photos to share but am loving seeing everyone else's pictures!
When the holiday parade is taped, is that usually just done over one day? Trying to think ahead about our trip in November....if we are in the park on Saturday, Nov 8 and the taping of the parade is happening...should we avoid DL and head over to CA? I would love to see the parade but maybe it would be less hassle to see it on Monday, the 10th instead of Saturday during the taping.
All that to say, if there are any Disney teen stars participating on Saturday for the taping, that would just MAKE DD's bday trip. Will we know who is in the parade prior to the day of?
Of course, I understand the parade may not even happen the weekend we are there too.
Misskitty3 --
When the parade is taped it is usually done over 2 days -- most likely it will be 11/7 and 11/8 this year. I have the dates on which it was taped last year, as well as the expected/probably dates for this year in this post from page 1.
It would not be a bad idea to head to DCA on 11/8, as the parade taping will increase crowds -- especially on and any anywhere close to Main Street.
I think that the names of the celebrities making an appearance at the parade will be released beforehand, but I'm not sure if the info will be released via the Parks Blog or ABC. The Parks Blog did a piece about the parade taping last year -- with the names of all involved -- but it was after the fact, not before it!
I think that, unless there is some sort of crazy wrench thrown into the season -- like a new Christmas party that will affect the entertainment schedule in some way -- the parade should hopefully be happening on your weekend (as should the Believe in Holiday Magic fireworks).
If DLR is starting the holiday season (officially) on Friday, 11/14 -- which, of course, has still not been revealed -- it is possible that there could be some nights in between the parade taping and 11/14 that the Christmas Fantasy Parade doesn't run. However, if the official season start date is earlier in the week, like 11/10 or 11/12, it's possible that DLR may just decide to keep running the parade after the taping is done.
Of course, not only have we not yet gotten a confirmed official start date for the holiday season, but we don't know of any potential new holiday happenings that could affect the entertainment line-up for the whole season.
It's now August 12th -- we're past the time that the Parks Blog revealed the season start date last year. At this point last year we not only had the official, confirmed date of the holiday season, but we had learned about World of Color-Winter Dreams in July!!!! In 2012 we learned about the 20-night Candlelight Ceremony on August 15th.
(Get moving, Disneyland! We want dates! Official, confirmed season dates. Dates are important. Dates are necessary. We also want info about anything new that we should be expecting to happen this year in November, December and early January.
Even if there is not anything new, we need dates and info! What is with the delay??)Is the problem with photo Bucket, or DIS? Some pictures are not showing up!!!
--Lori
Lori --
It could be either. Photobucket is constantly messing things up, so I wouldn't be shocked if they had a hand in the problems. I can view your photos. What are you seeing where there should be photos?
The problem that I am having is that, when there are a lot of photos on one page -- and many of them are very large photos -- the page doesn't want to load properly. It either takes too long to load, or when it loads there are blank white spaces in some of the places where there should be photos.
Speechphi --
You didn't miss much in Hollywood in 2011. Most of the Hollywood Land decorations in 2013 were brand new or repurposed in a new way, and there were no decorations at all during the ElecTRONica and Glow Fest days.
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Oh how i miss DL side of the boards and this thread and Sherry and all the familiar names!! No xmas trip for us this year as we are headed for DW in February. But it was our absolute favorite time to go and was so much fun following this thread! As Im sure it is for you that are planning a trip this year! I dont have too many pictures without family in them but here is a few for this weeks theme. Have fun planning!
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ashnjam!
Welcome back! It's good to see you here again.
It's funny -- I just referenced you the other day (though not by name, as I wasn't sure if I should) in a thread about a celebrity sighting at DL (in the DL Community section). I mentioned that another DIS'er (you) had met Kurt Russell at Minnie & Friends in December! (I remembered!)
It's sad that there is not a holiday trip on the horizon for you this year, but the February WDW trip should be amazing!
I'm so glad you posted your lovely photos for this week's theme! (And now you have an entry into the random draw for the $25 Disney gift card I am giving away when the Countdown ends.) We're on our 4th theme of this year's Countdown, and we have 18 more themes to go (all the way up to Monday, November 3rd)! I hope you post again for other themes.
Welcome back!
It's good to see you here again.It's funny -- I just referenced you the other day (though not by name, as I wasn't sure if I should) in a thread about a celebrity sighting at DL (in the DL Community section). I mentioned that another DIS'er (you) had met Kurt Russell at Minnie & Friends in December! (I remembered!)
It's sad that there is not a holiday trip on the horizon for you this year, but the February WDW trip should be amazing!
I'm so glad you posted your lovely photos for this week's theme! (And now you have an entry into the random draw for the $25 Disney gift card I am giving away when the Countdown ends.) We're on our 4th theme of this year's Countdown, and we have 18 more themes to go (all the way up to Monday, November 3rd)! I hope you post again for other themes.
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ashnjam!
Welcome back!
It's funny -- I just referenced you the other day (though not by name, as I wasn't sure if I should) in a thread about a celebrity sighting at DL (in the DL Community section). I mentioned that another DIS'er (you) had met Kurt Russell at Minnie & Friends in December! (I remembered!)
It's sad that there is not a holiday trip on the horizon for you this year, but the February WDW trip should be amazing!
I'm so glad you posted your lovely photos for this week's theme! (And now you have an entry into the random draw for the $25 Disney gift card I am giving away when the Countdown ends.) We're on our 4th theme of this year's Countdown, and we have 18 more themes to go (all the way up to Monday, November 3rd)! I hope you post again for other themes.
Yes i did meet Kurt Russell the morning after his CP at M&Fs i cant believe you remember that!! How do you do it?? LOL I will definitely follow along with this thread as Im a big christmas fan and can get my fix in August hehe!!
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Yes i did meet Kurt Russell the morning after his CP at M&Fs i cant believe you remember that!! How do you do it?? LOL I will definitely follow along with this thread as Im a big christmas fan and can get my fix in August hehe!!
ashnjam --
I have a good memory, and always have (though it is dulling a bit with age)! Plus, I pay attention to what people say/write. So often on the Internet I see that people don't really pay attention to articles or news stories they supposedly read, and in the process they miss out on pertinent details. I'm detail-oriented, so certain specific details stick out in my mind -- not every single thing, of course, but a lot of things!It's a good idea to follow along with the thread even when you're not planning a holiday trip in the near future. With the 60th anniversary of DL coming next year, it is highly likely that the holiday season entertainment schedule could change. It may change only in 2015, or it could change indefinitely. For example, we could suddenly see a Christmas party popping up, and that would affect the Christmas parade, the holiday fireworks, etc., in some way or another. Eventually you will do another holiday trip to DLR and will want to know what to expect from any possible changes.
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Crystal, love the look on your little boy's face in the BVS tree picture---"patiently suffering" is what it reminds me of! The Santa pic cracks me up---is he running "to" or running "away" from Santa?
LOL Karry! My oldest wouldn't even get in the photo! Then my youngest looks like he's being tortured!!
Youngest DS is not quite sure about Santa. That Santa at Elias was wonderful with him. He took lots of time with both boys and even got youngest DS to bring him a candy cane....but that's about as close as youngest DS would get. LOL. That was two years ago. This year he got a little closer, and really loved the Elves at Elias, but still not so sure about Santa
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Crystal, he is darling, no matter what his expression is!!!
We absolutely loved the Santa, at Elias & Co. last Christmas---very fun and personable! He was so sweet, and was even able to coax my Hubby into a picture!
We absolutely loved the Santa, at Elias & Co. last Christmas---very fun and personable! He was so sweet, and was even able to coax my Hubby into a picture!
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Kylie, I think that is the first time I have seen you without a poncho! 
And, how come I can't send you a private message??:
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