Disneyland at Christmas/Holiday Season Superthread #4

[rentayenta]

It's hard to tell these are during the holidays but pinky promise they were.

 

[Sherry E]

Jenny --

I love the cute expressions on your little ones' faces in that second photo above ^^. They all seem to be conveying something different.

 

[tksbaskets]

Is anyone else having trouble deciding on where to stay? We stayed at the GCH last time and I have booked the DLH for our December trip but I keep wavering back and forth. My kids are 7 and 9 and thought DLH would be fun but GCH was amazing last time.

Any advice? We are staying Sunday - Friday...would it be crazy to split it? My DH thinks I'm nuts!

We love the GCH for it's location and wonderful holiday decor. If you can swing it I'd stay there

Sherry mark me as another DISer who's never taken a single photo in Toontown. I've been there to pick up my Holiday Tour hot chocolate but that's the extent of my family's foray into TT.

TK

 

[KCmike]

I'm with Lori for this week. Unfortunately the two times I've been at Disneyland for Christmas I never walked into Mickey's Toontown. So sad. I knew this week was coming and was hoping you would pair it with another area but no such luck. I'm still enjoying everyone's images though very much!

 

[Sherry E]

TK --

I could have sworn you posted something for Toontown week last year? Oh well! This is one you will have to sit out!



Mike --

There wasn't really anything I could pair Toontown with that made sense to me this time around. I've already got a lot of things grouped with other things, and I was driving myself nuts trying to figure out the themes to cover, over however many dates, and didn't want to spend anymore time on it. So this one you will have to sit out too!

 

[KCmike]

TK --

I could have sworn you posted something for Toontown week last year? Oh well! This is one you will have to sit out!



Mike --

There wasn't really anything I could pair Toontown with that made sense to me this time around. I've already got a lot of things grouped with other things, and I was driving myself nuts trying to figure out the themes to cover, over however many dates, and didn't want to spend anymore time on it. So this one you will have to sit out too!

No worries. I love this thread and appreciate all that you do Sherry!! Your a rockstar.

 

[kylie71]

At least I'm in good company on the bench! Hiya Mike!
and TK!

--Lori

 

[tksbaskets]

At least I'm in good company on the bench! Hiya Mike!
and TK!

--Lori

Howdy! Your post made me smile. Good company indeed. We can sit on this bench on the thread and look at the other DISer's pictures.

 

[Misskitty3]

Sherry - I already shared these once so I may not qualify for an entry into the drawing this week. Either way, here are my Toontown photos....!

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Love how you framed this one!

 

[Sherry E]

Well, as I explained in my response to Lori on the previous page (which I am guessing was not seen), I wasn't really expecting Toontown to be a "hot' theme this week (for which many people would have photos), because it wasn't a hot theme last year. However, as I said, I wanted to get it out of the way now rather than later.

In any case, all of the 2013 Toontown photos that I posted were never-before-seen, with the exception of one (remember, I haven't done a DLR trip report since my December 2012 trip, and there are many photos I haven't posted on this board), so I figured that, worst case scenario, I would just post my own photos (assuming no one else had any)! That's why it helps to take photos of anything and everything -- for those 'down times' during the Theme Week Countdown!

Fortunately, several people have come through with some beautiful Toontown photos, and I expect we will see more of them before the week is over!!





Misskitty3 --

Those photos absolutely qualify!

I've mentioned in the past that some photos will work for more than one theme, and it's fine to re-use them for whatever the theme may be. That's allowed, and you've got yourself another entry into the random draw!

 

[Speechphi]

Yay! I have pictures again this week

First, the crew in front of the tree at city hall



Cutie pie dd3 in front of Minnie's house



and big sis dd5 there too



one of my favorite photo spots



can't remember...is this Mickey's house? I got a ton of pics in 2011 in Toon Town, none in 2013 (we didn't even go there!), and a bunch more this summer. But none of the outside of Mickey's.



I know this is Donald's boat



and a photo from the opening ceremony when they did Toon Town Morning Madness

 

[Sherry E]

That's Goofy's House!

 

[pattyduke34]

Here are a few I have from ToonTown. I did notice that my daughter and I did not make it back there last year..

 

[Luisa]

I think Toon Town was one of the weeks I had nothing for last year, so I purposefully went there last holiday season to get some for Sherrys countdown! Only thing is I've just found I haven't uploaded them to photobucket yet- something to do when I get home from work. Love the pictures everyone has put up for this week so far!

 

[Sherry E]

Speechphi, Misskitty3 and pattyduke34 have each earned another entry into the random draw!!

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I think Toon Town was one of the weeks I had nothing for last year, so I purposefully went there last holiday season to get some for Sherrys countdown! Only thing is I've just found I haven't uploaded them to photobucket yet- something to do when I get home from work. Love the pictures everyone has put up for this week so far!

Luisa --

I remember the same thing -- I don't think you had any TT photos during that Theme Week last year. I'm glad that it prompted you to go back there and take some pictures for the Countdown! I look forward to seeing them!

 

[Jenasweetemotion]

These are from 2012 & 2013. I love the decorations in this area.













Another view of Goofy's

 

[Speechphi]

That's Goofy's House!

Thank you Sherry . I knew someone would recognize it.

 

[rentayenta]

Jenny --

I love the cute expressions on your little ones' faces in that second photo above ^^. They all seem to be conveying something different.

They're all so different now too.


I'm sad. I swear I had some good Toontown tree pics and cannot find them.

 

[DLmama]

I have a whole one photo from Toon Town at Christmas! I thought I had more, but this is what I could find. At least it's of the pretty tree and not the weird plastic ones.

 

[Sherry E]

Jenasweetemotion and DLmama have each earned another entry into the random draw! I think I forgot to mention that Jenny/rentayenta had earned another entry too, after she first posted her photos!

I'm glad to see that this theme is not a lost cause, and that people actually do have holiday photos from Toontown!

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Jenasweetemotion -- I agree. I really love the decorations in Toontown too! I think that Toontown suffers from being a place that no one wants to go to unless they plan to ride Car Toon Spin, or unless they have kids with them. But, just setting aside what there is to do there or not do there, as far as themed holiday decorations go, Toontown is one of the best places! There is so much detail in the wreaths and garland (like the watch springs, the coins and the little presents that I showed in my intro post). I really think that Toontown is underappreciated during the holidays.





Speechphi -- You're welcome! Goofy's house is wacky, and the decorations are filled with crazy things, like random bowling pins, or strawberries, or pencils -- things that make absolutely no sense together in a wreath or a strand of garland! As I said in my intro post to this week's theme (on page 77 of this thread), "Things are delightfully askew at Goofy’s House…"




DLmama -- Very true (about the pretty tree)!! The weird plastic trees are just awful, compared to the trees that used to be there. I've said before that if the weird plastic trees had been part of Toontown's holiday décor all along (ever since DL started decorating it for the season, years ago), I probably would have accepted them as being part of the whole cartoonish look of the land and wouldn't have thought twice about it.

The problem with the ugly cartoonish trees now is simply that they were not there all along, and there were better trees there at one point. It's hard to accept these horrible newer trees when I know that the previous ones were much better.

Another issue that I have with the trees is that they don't mesh well with the assorted wreaths and garland around Toontown. The wreaths and garland look like actual branches and pine or whatever they are supposed to look like, speckled with various details and odds and ends. The trees should look like that too, for continuity and consistency of the theme, but instead they are...plastic. Or whatever that material is that they're made of. The plastic, solid trees don't look right with the garland and wreaths (which are not plastic).

Good grief...let's hope that DL doesn't decide to replace all of the themed wreaths and garland with plastic wreaths and garland!